Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach.

Innovation 190

Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 190

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. These collaborative partnerships allow us to test in an organized way the latest advancements in technology and tap into the entrepreneurial spirit of startups.

Open Innovation 94

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

Customer co-creation is becoming more co-jointly involved in innovation , gaining insights into customers’ deeper needs and preferences. It emphasizes the ability to leverage and combine existing resources, knowledge, and technologies in novel ways to drive innovation.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. coming from industry 4.0

Industry 290

Industry Collaboration Innovation Design 290

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nine Stages of Building Dynamics I built out and have used a nine-stage journey for building dynamic capabilities for innovation, and now I want to extend this and apply it to building steps of a dynamic innovation ecosystem. I chose to stay with the nine stages in their step approach to link the two.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

Innovating4Energy

MARCH 17, 2024

The importance of innovation at the front end of the Energy Transition For me, the front end of the Energy Transition is vital. What I mean by the front end is that link where innovation, ingenuity and creativity get created.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Technical Review Creativity Innovation 52

Innovation Walk

JUNE 14, 2019

These are generally known by their agility and fast implementation of their products or services, giving them a great growth potential. The major challenge is then for large companies, usually built on cumbersome processes and lack of agility. As a matter of fact, today it is very difficult for a company to innovate individually.

Open Innovation 40

Open Innovation Innovation Agile Trends 40

Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I see four main components within innovation ecosystems that must be expanded to give this framework meaning. You see emerging value-creation levers that can generate fresh impact and growth potential through a collaborative learning effect. Collaborations form the basis for the resolution of complex and challenging problems.

ChatGPT 64

ChatGPT Technical Review Collaboration Competition 64

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. It adjusts and you learn.

Design 233

Design Technical Review Innovation System 233

ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”.

Agile 52

Agile Collaboration Crowdsourcing Learning 52

100%Open

JULY 3, 2023

Today, we delve into inclusive innovation, where diversity and collaboration drive remarkable outcomes. In today’s world, the leading edge of innovation is becoming a collaborative and inclusive process, benefiting from user involvement s and collective intelligence.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Crowdsourcing Innovation Ideation 52

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Techniques such as Lean manufacturing and automation play a pivotal role in driving process innovation, enabling businesses to maintain operational excellence and agility. Business Model Innovation Business model innovation is all about rethinking how companies create, deliver, and capture value.

Radical Innovation 52

Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

Integrative Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Little have released an interesting report, titled “ The Age of Collaboration “ The study does a good job in synthesizing the global state of play of corporate-startup collaboration and latest findings on success requirements for its implementation. out-of 10 having engaged in a corporate accelerator/ incubator or 2.5

Engagement 40

Engagement Collaboration Report LEAN 40

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Looking to achieve better visibility and flexibility, extending collaborations and advancing concepts through technology and structured approaches. Adaptive learning (leads more to incremental innovation). Relational learning (collaborative linkage, networking for open innovation). Cut the crap.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 148

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy. #2 Throw open innovation to encompass perspectives from throughout the organizations AND outside the organization. 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

Strategy 151

Strategy Strategy Culture Strategic Thinking 151

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. In my view, we must go way beyond “open innovation” as we practice it today. Where is innovation within this?

Design 138

Design Innovation Agile System 138

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Qmarkets and Wise Ocean have partnered to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy. We chose to partner with Qmarkets to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy.” transformation.

Software 52

Software Innovation Management Management Agile 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Qmarkets and Wise Ocean have partnered to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy. We chose to partner with Qmarkets to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy.” transformation.

Software 52

Software Innovation Management Management Agile 52

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

You do get tired of hearing “we are looking to become a value-creating solution provider”, yet the willingness to really create collaborative networks is still stuck in the “us and them” mentality. The thinking through on the contribution around innovation needs to be changed. We need to engage differently.

Collaboration 138

Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Industry 138

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. The monetization needs greater understanding, security and vested interests need greater collaboration and increased connections.

Crowdsourcing 113

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 113

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. The monetization needs greater understanding, security and vested interests need greater collaboration and increased connections.

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, the development of Amazon Custom offers a particularly insightful example of an open innovation initiative that has reaped the benefits of both incremental and disruptive methodologies. A report from BCG highlighting the critical importance of development times for securing innovation ROI.

Examples 53

Examples Disruption Crowdsourcing Agile 53

Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2019

However, the development of Amazon Custom offers a particularly insightful example of an open innovation initiative that has reaped the benefits of both incremental and disruptive methodologies. A report from BCG highlighting the critical importance of development times for securing innovation ROI.

Examples 40

Examples Disruption Agile Crowdsourcing 40

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 25, 2015

If they get the factors right, hit the needs of customers in their design, understanding, agility in responding to learning and adapting, ability to be fast to market and capable of scaling up really fast, then they transform spaces, leaving the established players desperately struggling to find answers and catch up. Control still dominates.

Industry 100

Industry Technical Review Collaboration Technology 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

In opening up to managing within ecosystems you begin to see your ability to contribute and tackle societal problems within a collaborative system. You begin to see the power, scale and strength of having the collective collaborative ability to extend beyond more traditional thinking design. No easy task. In Summary.

Innovation 100

Innovation Collaboration Disruption Design 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 130

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”.

Innovation 133

Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”.

Innovation 133

Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Even North and South Korea walked under a united banner at the Winter Olympics.Things have been no less epic on the corporate innovation front. Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. Let’s dive in!

Trends 74

Trends Disruption Software Review Technical Review 74

100%Open

MARCH 12, 2018

In this previous post, Mind the Gap – Part 1 , we shared the top three challenges of collaboration between corporates and start-ups, based on our experience of facilitating many partnerships over the years: The Time is Money Gap – Firstly, collaborations fail due to a lack of momentum and unclear objectives.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Video Data Culture 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

As a result, we moved from initially offering solutions limited to the back-end of innovation (project portfolio management and Stage-Gate™ project governance), to the front-end of innovation, where collaborative and open innovation offered very efficient ways to feed the innovation pipeline with more innovative ideas and concepts.

Innovation Programs 56

Innovation Programs Software Review Technical Review Innovation 56

hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

Include every employee in the process of innovation. Tip: Conducting internal engagement activities such as hackathon helps. Tip: Having an innovation/idea management software can be of great help especially for large enterprises. A successful innovation program requires operational changes and cross-functional collaboration.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Guidelines Crowdsourcing Innovation 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Since its introduction to the general public in the 70’s, the video game industry has become one of the most popular and engaging forms of entertainment, estimated to be worth $113 billion by 2018. Similarly, the agile start-ups of the gaming industry are the ones which are able to unleash creativity by taking risks and making innovations.

Video 40

Video Innovation Management Industry Management 40

100%Open

JUNE 1, 2017

Intellectual property (IP) is often the first thing people want to discuss when exploring open innovation. It’s something we at 100%Open know quite a bit about and we have developed a range of tools to effectively manage IP (e.g. innovation airlocks ). Copying is at the heart of all creativity and innovation.

Open Innovation 40

Open Innovation Creativity Agile Design 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Since its introduction to the general public in the 70’s, the video game industry has become one of the most popular and engaging forms of entertainment, estimated to be worth $113 billion by 2018. Similarly, the agile start-ups of the gaming industry are the ones which are able to unleash creativity by taking risks and making innovations.

Video 40

Video Innovation Management Industry Management 40

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60