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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

That group should possess a deep understanding of the existing organization’s strategy, business models, operations and culture and a wider appreciation of the innovation landscape, the “fields of opportunity” and the emerging practices of innovation management.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Briefly, I summarize what these have been bringing into innovative thinking.

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The Path to Innovation: Implementing Effective Team Collaboration Practices

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Organizations with strong collaborative practices often see improvements in productivity, efficiency, and agility. For a deeper understanding of enhancing business through teamwork, explore our insights on innovative team collaboration. Agile Teams Adopt iterative processes and frequent communication.

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Technology leads, innovation exploitation is lagging

Paul Hobcraft

There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming business case, for transforming the innovation management structure. The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. Mashing up for explosive change.

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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. We need to be highly adaptive and that comes from a greater technology understanding. Digital and technology matters, in its raw innovating power and its potential business impact.

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What goes around, comes around, in Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

By not adopting a common set of innovation reference points you can remain often unproductive, consistently re-adapting, re-working and plugging gaps that could be better invested in managing the many aspects of complexity you always find in a better thought-through innovation management structure, one that focuses on advancing your activity.

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Building the Core Competencies for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

For my final post of the year, I went back to some of my thinking through around the building blocks needed in the core competencies for innovation we need to have in place. For me, the bedrock of innovation is built upon competencies, capabilities, and capacities and all these involve people as well as technology.