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.

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Innovation Design Agile System 178

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 1, 2018

Director-Level Consultant. Executive-level consultant and C-level positions including Head of Business Units, Head of Strategy and Head of Innovation. Special area of interest: Innovation in Practise, how to make innovation a recurring activity in the organisation. Innovation management. Innovation process.

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Ideation Agile Analysis Innovation Processes 40

Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 3, 2017

Director-Level Consultant. Executive-level consultant and C-level positions including Head of Business Units, Head of Strategy and Head of Innovation. Special area of interest: Innovation in Practise, how to make innovation a recurring activity in the organisation. Innovation management. Innovation process.

Ideation 40

Ideation Agile Analysis Innovation Processes 40

PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Given this emphasis on innovation, the findings from Boston Consulting Group’s Most Innovative Companies 2023 report come as no surprise: this year, two-thirds of companies ranked innovation as their number one priority. The best part?

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Innovation Management Resources 97

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. The culture within organizations still is rather more closed-up into the silo mindset and not encouraged to be more open, engaging across functions in collaborating ways.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

It is highly reliant on manual systems with people often disconnected from the real innovation engagement making decisions on inadequate data or insights. The balance in innovation activity is changing. What needs changing is the innovation process to accommodate these changes that are occurring all around us.

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Technical Review Technology Internet of things Innovation 100

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Progressive employee engagement. At this moment, the enterprise world is buzzing with new technological advancements influencing employee engagement and experience in the workplace. Take the time and make the investments needed to balance employee expectations with business needs to ensure they are equally satisfied and engaged.

Trends 90

Trends Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Data 90

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

Clients in partnership with advisors can build from this basic common platform of understanding by the more effective use of applying people with the right skills and capabilities to focus and accelerate the job-on-hand: the need-to-deliver innovation consistently to final clients needs.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Innovation 166

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

H1 initiatives tend to be larger in scale, and can be pushed through a rigid stage-gate process. H2 and H3 on the other hand, often require a more agile, explorative and iterative process with different returns, different capabilities and different people on the projects.

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Product Development How To Ideation Project 52

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The session is engaging, highly kinesthetic, intense, fun, demanding — and highly productive. The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The best practices that we’ve developed indicate that the very first choice you make should be to select a strategic objective for the innovation project — one that is directly linked to the growth strategy of the organizations leadership. Blocker # 2: Lack of Purpose. Motivation and productivity go hand in hand.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Engaging the staff.

Innovation Programs 56

Innovation Programs Software Review Technical Review Innovation 56

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Some of the most important principles of Design Thinking are: Use of analytical, intuitive, and empathic thinking Problems are examined very precisely Interdisciplinary collaboration Failing fast Rapid prototyping Thoughts are visualized to promote a common understanding There are no good or bad ideas, only starting points for innovation. ?

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

Going forward, our customers and other stakeholders will be more receptive to change in how we engage with them and what we offer. Although FS organizations tend to be well-capitalized, they can be slow to deliver, and may have ineffective development processes and/or performance issues driven by offshore supply chains, etc.

Industry 40

Industry Radical Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Engaging the staff.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Software Review Technical Review Innovation 40

Qmarkets

MAY 26, 2017

Civic innovation is closely allied to the concept of Digital Democracy which seeks to use digital platforms to engage citizens and create ideas that are capable of aligning governance and policy with actual needs, such as Qmarkets' Q-city. While this might seem like an obvious approach, it’s much easier said than done. Looking Forward.

Innovation 64

Innovation Collaboration Culture of Innovation Resources 64

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Unless we create a strategy to transform, how can we re-imagine our innovation processes? We talk so much about “innovation is critical” today and in our future, but is rarely achieved. This does require a transformation of how we design, structure and bring together all the relevant part of the innovation process.

Change 100

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Civic innovation is closely allied to the concept of Digital Democracy which seeks to use digital platforms to engage citizens and create ideas that are capable of aligning governance and policy with actual needs, such as Qmarkets' Q-city. While this might seem like an obvious approach, it’s much easier said than done. Looking Forward.

Innovation 40

Innovation Collaboration Culture of Innovation Resources 40

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. Finding and engaging the innovators within, those employees with an entrepreneurial outlook and the right “personas”, are key to driving innovation initiatives across the organization.

Leadership 40

Leadership Artificial Inteligence Technology Culture 40

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed. His experience as an entrepreneur and product inventor sets him apart from most innovation trainers. Why innovation?

Design Thinking 9

Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Technology scouting is when companies assign part of their staff or employ outside consultants to systematically gather information in the field of science and technology to facilitate external technology sourcing. Boost Innovation Outreach by Adding Tech Scouting to your Internal Innovation Process.

Innovation Processes 40

Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Technology scouting is when companies assign part of their staff or employ outside consultants to systematically gather information in the field of science and technology to facilitate external technology sourcing. Boost Innovation Outreach by Adding Tech Scouting to your Internal Innovation Process.

Innovation Processes 40

Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

That’s why we see a growing number of coworking spaces and accelerator programs, as part of a collective effort to figure out what we’ve all been wondering when it comes to 21 st century business: Can companies be both large-scale and agile? Hackathons are a fun and energetic way to push boundaries and think laterally.

Change 49

Change Agile Innovation Culture 49

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

In this case, the term can refer to a whole suite of tools that are used to drive innovation within companies. Innovation solutions used to drive internal innovation can range from consulting services to software automation that allows teams to advance, scout, discover and accelerate innovation. And much more!

Software Review 45

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Technical Review 45

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Studies show firms that treat innovation as a science and manage and measure it like any other business function are more successful. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it. Guest innovator.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation 40

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

So, it covers a twenty-five-year period but recognizes that the last five years have seen a very different set of innovation accelerants. The second post , coming next, focuses on how organizations have become more collaborative, open and agile and deal with ideation and what tools and technologies seem to have emerged as the leading ones.

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Artificial Inteligence Collaboration Ideation Innovation 147

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 17, 2015

Equally, we are constantly moving from managing in linear innovation processes and making these more adaptive, constantly looping back when new information or data is being discovered, increasing this knowledge and insight in highly dynamic, constantly evolving and informing ways. Loops are replacing the linear.

Innovation 100

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Industry 100