Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. This could include customers, partners, suppliers, or other ecosystem participants.

Agile 130

Agile Design Innovation System 130

Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a new partnership with OmniStrada , a digital consultancy based in Singapore advising businesses across Asia on areas including digital transformation, omnichannel, and more. About OmniStrada OmniStrada is a boutique digital consultancy based in Singapore, advising B2C and B2B businesses across Asia.

Culture 98

Culture Technical Review Software Review Roadmap 98

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

Wazoku

MAY 6, 2020

Communication and engagement with employees are an essential part of business at any time. The benefits of an engaged workforce include improved employee retention and loyalty, a happier and more motivated workforce and better general well-being. Most observers feel that employee engagement is a key pillar of the future of work.

Idea Management 52

Idea Management Engagement Management Collaboration 52

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keep reading to see how successful executives are achieving results in their everyday business through incorporating agile methodologies like SCRUM! The agile mindset. Before we get into the agile mindset, we need to remember that it is linked to Agile Philosophy. continuous delivery of quick results. High quality.

Agile 40

Agile Project How To Software Review 40

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First, make sure to properly engage your employees at every step of the way. Remember, only around 41% of employees were actively engaged during 2020. To keep staff engaged going forward, you’ll need to make sure you’re constantly communicating with your teams, offering recognition, and responding to their needs.

How To 147

How To Crowdsourcing Trends Innovation 147

Cris Beswick

APRIL 24, 2024

Despite pouring significant resources into innovation initiatives, these organisations are frequently outmanoeuvred by more agile, unconventional competitors from unexpected quarters. Failure to move with speed and agility can render even the most promising concepts obsolete before reaching their full potential.

Agile 59

Agile Disruption Culture Innovation 59

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. By taking a more outward action, even we can get re-engaged to influence and change things that can make a difference. The Big Recognition Innovators All Need.

Artificial Inteligence 263

Artificial Inteligence Innovation Agile Engagement 263

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation? Innovation will be central to this; it will be based more on agility, being highly adaptable, flexible and acting at speed.

Innovation 189

Innovation Design System Software 189

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility. Behavior Analysis Machine Learning Quantitative analysis of user engagement patterns. This automation not only accelerates the research process but also enhances its accuracy by reducing human error.

Design Thinking 140

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

It’s a task that’s typically both strategic - aligning R&D investments with corporate goals and market opportunities - and cultural, as the organization embraces more agile and responsive budgeting practices. This transition involved a reevaluation of budgeting processes for the new organizational context.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Innovation Resources 72

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

Change 52

Change Technical Review Agile Creativity 52

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

AccelIQ Digital is a global consultancy based in Houston, Texas, with a mission to help enterprise businesses unlock the benefits of this outward-looking, collaborative approach to innovation. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

Open Innovation 105

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 105

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new partnership between Qmarkets and boutique management consultancy SteepConsult will enable enterprise companies across Europe to benefit from a 360-degree service combining SteepConsult’s extensive innovation expertise with our own innovation management software solutions. But it doesn’t have to be so hard.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Software Innovation Programs 40

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

turns HR into its own agile consulting organization that focuses not only on delivering services, but also practices design thinking to push innovative solutions, tools, and transparency into the organization. Build and apply capabilities in agile and design thinking (more on this below). Invest in the new role of leadership.

Study 98

Study Design Thinking Agile Survey 98

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

LEAN 195

LEAN Industry Agile Analysis 195

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

AccelIQ Digital is a global consultancy based in Houston, Texas, with a mission to help enterprise businesses unlock the benefits of this outward-looking, collaborative approach to innovation. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

Open Innovation 94

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices. Sentiment Analysis AI measures the mood and engagement of team members. Optimizes team performance.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There are solutions for how to revive your business, be it a Fortune 100 company, a non-profit, or, a one person consultancy. The time to invest in innovation agility is now. My consultancy has been maxed out during Covid19 with two primary engagements. To supply chain logistics, to rising sea levels, to sales, etc.

Roadmap 98

Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I set out to engage 100% in innovation work, it has been quiet a journey of discovery and then translating the parts. Let me illustrate this by a screen lift of their two separate “main menu’s: HOCA International Consultants. Agility Innovation Specialists. Many executives engaged in innovation are time-starved.

Innovation 154

Innovation Engagement Collaboration Agile 154

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

If you expect your organization to make the kind of changes required for it to succeed, long-term, know this: the outside consultant as prescriber model (referred to in the OD world as "sage on the stage") has got to go. This is the primary difference between our approach and traditional "sage on the stage" consulting.

Roadmap 26

Roadmap Collaboration Agile Culture 26

100%Open

JULY 3, 2023

They engaged with us to convene a diverse group of professionals through the “End Migrant Homelessness” Crowdicity platform. And last but not least, an agile mindset is essential for continuous learning, adaptation, and improvement, ensuring that the end result is being fruitful.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Collaboration Innovation Ideation 52

Acuvate

JUNE 5, 2022

In today’s highly disruptive and digital-driven world, governments and public sector institutions at all levels are leveraging newfound opportunities to use data and emerging technologies to empower citizens and build more transparent, efficient, agile, and cost-effective services and programs.

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence Data Agile Survey 52

ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A double-edged sword This perspective is further complimented by a recent Boston Consulting Group article “How people can create-and destroy value- with generative AI” where they found that the adoption of generative AI is, in fact, a double-edged sword.

Generative AI 59

Generative AI Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 59

Flying Fish Lab

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To master both of these branding strategies, you can engage the services of a ,, brand identity agency. Digital Adaptability and Responsiveness It is crucial for brands to possess the agility to adapt and remain relevant amidst the ever-evolving trends and technologies in order to prevent the brand's message from being overshadowed.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Trends Agile Engagement 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I have been spending some significant time on questioning the current innovation business model, from both the customers (clients) perspective and the innovation consultants’ one. In my research I certainly felt also the innovation consultant is struggling. The innovation consultants’ dilemma. It simply pisses the employee off.

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Processes 100

mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. Increases motivation and engagement.

Management 59

Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Acuvate

JUNE 22, 2022

“Digital banking,” “super apps,” “hyper-personalization,” “customer experience,” and “agility” — are the terms redefining the BFSI industry today. The pandemic has fast-tracked digital behaviors, redefining how customers want to engage with their banks. Infusing agility in banking operations with legacy system modernization.

Industry 52

Industry Artificial Inteligence Agile System 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a partnership with the consulting firm Wise Ocean. Qmarkets and Wise Ocean have partnered to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy. transformation. It’s exciting to open up our solutions to a whole new untapped market.”

Software 52

Software Innovation Management Management Agile 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Qmarkets’ are pleased to announce our partnership with the consulting firm Wise Ocean. Qmarkets and Wise Ocean have partnered to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy. transformation. It’s exciting to open up our solutions to a whole new untapped market.”

Software 52

Software Innovation Management Management Agile 52

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

At the same time, they are seeking how to keep their people and teams engaged and moving forward in a world, where the work environment and the nature of work is going through unprecedented change, and the only way to navigate it is by effectively dancing at the edge of your comfort zone. Mindset matters most.

Agile 59

Agile Creativity Learning Resources 59

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2023

This posting site, paul4innovating.com and my business advisory service, Agility Innovation , were deliberately set up to help in this: advising, coaching, researching and consulting work to help you in your innovation focus.

Innovation 130

Innovation Roadmap Agile Disruption 130

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

I’ve integrated my experiences to advance clients’ agenda in three areas: Creating value from information assets – next generation systems, business engagement platforms, data management, analytics. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management. Agile Engineering Practices. Consulting. DevOps Practices. DevOps Practices.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Roadmap Agile Strategic Thinking 40

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. The current state of technology can tell us a lot about how effective innovation strategy can drive consumer (and employee) engagement. Simply put, employee engagement matters. Establish change leaders.

Engagement 20

Engagement Agile Trends Strategy 20

Planview

JANUARY 10, 2022

Engaging customers, while increasing system connectivity starts with our dedication to connect services. This includes various points of the engagement lifecycle such as CRM systems for customers and opportunities, HCM systems for personnel, and ERP and Financial systems to report and record revenue.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review System Resources Engagement 98

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

The sad part is that many of our existing consulting firms offer solutions that are unfit for todays need or ill-equipped for offering advice on tomorrow’s purpose and the designs necessary. It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile.

Innovation 178

Innovation Design Agile System 178