Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Embracing Flexibility and Agility In a rapidly changing business environment, staying nimble is more than a virtue—it’s a necessity.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

As automotive companies navigate this transformative landscape , the need for end-to-end visibility in production processes becomes increasingly evident. Acquiring such comprehensive skills presents a formidable and resource-intensive endeavor. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporate venture studios offer innovation teams the freedom to operate with the spirit, passion, and resilience of entrepreneurs, all while leveraging organizational resources. However, building successful innovation teams in this context requires careful consideration. What are the key ingredients?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was reviewing the website of a strategy consulting firm recently, and their focus on strategy and team alignment felt like the same old, same old. I also want to shift from the idea of "change management", which I think is an oxymoron, to change acceleration, which is where I think companies need to be. Like change? Dislike change?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If diversity of thought is lacking, you’re left looking outside the company for varying perspectives — a likely reason why accelerators have grown in popularity. The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Another study by PMI unveils that poor project management leads to a staggering $97 million wastage per $1 billion invested. Now, this begs the question: what if the PMO and the Innovation Team were not extraterrestrial to one another?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies issue arrived Saturday. It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. The fact is, many large companies use anachronistic methods to bring new products to market, resulting in failed product launches.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . There is so much to consider yet so few resources that can ensure success. This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. In this post, we dive deeper into the5 step framework that can help you structure your marketing team for success in 2021. .

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Be-novative

APRIL 26, 2019

Whether a company has ten or hundred thousand employees, it has access to an untapped resource of unique, diverse and broad perspectives and insights that employees of these companies don’t share effectively. Truly innovative companies don’t just design for customer experience.

Design 52

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. We know you simply grow a business by choosing a mix of investing in innovation, merger, and acquisitions or releasing your resources into more profitable activities. Source: [link].

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Compels Leaders to Stay Focused on Short-Term & Long-Term Growth.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

They'll become products and services when the product or service development process in their organization provides resources for the new ideas, and spend time developing, validating, testing the new products and finally launching them. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

As a newcomer to Planview with fresh eyes, here is what jumped out at me: The top-performing segment (eight percent of companies) crosscuts company age, size, industry, geography, and regulatory requirements. This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2021

Project management must be part of the day-to-day activities in every company. ” Whoever works in the area must develop skills to face the critical moments of the project. This is why management emerges to support teams to achieve the desired goals through a series of tools and knowledge. Integration management.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Applying these principles or methodologies throughout an enterprise helps mitigate the risk of producing products or services no one wants , and allows the allocation of capital and resources to ideas that create value.

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Be-novative

APRIL 26, 2019

Whether a company has ten or hundred thousand employees, it has access to an untapped resource of unique, diverse and broad perspectives and insights that employees of these companies don’t share effectively. Truly innovative companies don’t just design for customer experience.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter. Contact Us.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Who were exploiting the convergence of trends catalysed by the expansion of the internet and by the fast pace of exponential technology development making gamification accessible to everyone. At the same time, this period has also created incredible opportunities for expanding our knowledge, developing new mindsets, behaviours, and skills!

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Here is a collection of the most popular innovation management system questions we have been asked over the years, and what best-in-class companies believe are sound strategies and operating models to address them. These ideas should follow an agile innovation approach that allow you to run as many experiments as possible.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

In order to remain competitive, companies must continually develop new products, services, and processes that meet the needs of their customers. Time and Resource Most organizations are committed to making their processes more efficient, which leads to more rightsizing and outsourcing.

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

A significant portion of my strategic facilitation work is with internal functions, a click or two below corporate and business unit strategy: marketing, human resources, purchasing, and even internal strategy groups. There is good news and bad news in this. The company operated far more effectively with that deletion.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Would that be so bad? Whatever your company size, if you are not fast enough, someone else will beat you. The most successful and innovative companies did not even exist ten years ago, and they are redefining the global competitive landscape (note #3). And Agility For All. Say, you are not an agile organization.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Healthcare leaders must guide their team members through patient care, equipping them with the right knowledge and tools to protect the well-being of their patients.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 7, 2023

Political parties, media outlets, companies, and individuals want a share of it, and if they can have it, they want it all. Become resilient Because we don’t know if companies will ever return to their pre-pandemic-like worlds, and what new technologies will emerge, we need to become resilient to be future-fit, in this new world of unknowns.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“The strength of the team is in each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” A large, global company was reconstituting its corporate innovation team after a period of massive and intense reorganization involving all aspects of corporate governance and business unit operations.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive. You also need your internal champions for innovation - the coaches - to educate and guide teams on how to work in this new way, and the systems in place to support their continuous development.

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Be-novative

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

To uncover the techniques that connect individuals, teams and organisations with a sense of purpose we involved best practices from our partner organisations. Many companies conduct surveys among their employees about their engagement and motivation. TEAMS CAN GEAR UP THE ORGANIZATION TO DELIVER ON THE IDEAS.

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ITONICS

JULY 26, 2019

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. The idea is simple, you have to focus on your core responsibilities to get the company running, but if you do that all the time, you never evolve or innovate. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon is one of the most innovative companies on the planet – launching successful, bold new products and services on a regular basis. If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive. Just like monkeys with grapes, companies also have limited resources.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Companies like Amazon have built real empires from customer needs – paying specific attention to constant satisfaction monitoring. Even in the face of this reality, it still takes a good deal of convincing to make all the stakeholders of a company understand the impacts of UX projects. Is UX worth the investment? This is crucial.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. Often it is present in the existing, as commonly referred too as “weak signals”, these are often hidden amid the noise of delivering on today.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. But, without having regular customer empathy , companies miss out on collecting valuable insights from the people they are aiming to serve. Certified internal coaches are now mentoring other teams.

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