Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts. They can more effectively respond to market dynamics, experiment with new ideas, and integrate diverse perspectives and inputs into the innovation process.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

Why Command-and-Control Culture Fails Stifles Creativity and Innovation A command-and-control culture tends to stifle creativity and innovation, as it leaves no room for employees to contribute their ideas or think outside the box. Result: This empathetic redesign led to increased market share and strong customer loyalty.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. This will ensure you have a comprehensive team that is equipped to support every facet of the marketing needs of your SaaS company. . At the core, any high-performance team has one similarity.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Set goals around your innovation pipeline.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. Innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. How can I apply design thinking to my business?

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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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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 10, 2023

In doing so, business leaders can then develop an Anticipatory mindset that more easily overcomes what they are afraid of before it tears them down. Failure to pre-solve problems – Problems always start as something perceived and then quickly develop into a reality. Waiting for the problem to occur leads to failure.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. Building An Innovation Capability: Limits To Overcome Innovation is about bringing something new to the market that has value for customers and (hopefully) generates profit for the business.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. Do people get on with each other?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Here’s why adaptation is crucial: Sustained Relevance: Staying in tune with market changes ensures that your business remains relevant to your customers’ evolving needs. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics. You must recognize the signals of change and prepare to navigate through them.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers. Design itself is a product.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. A world where others, far more nimble and agile, are able to respond as they are more laser-focused.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 22, 2018

Reflecting on the nine-month bewildering & illuminating learning & profound change journey & innovation roller coaster ride that occurred, there is a lot to share, in what we appropriately developed & name The ImagineNation Manifesto. Our key challenge. However, very few businesses really know what it means to be innovative.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? We need to innovate, to evolve, to sustain ourselves and maintain our market positions in a rapidly evolving world.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. Check out some tips to acculture your team around Design Thinking!

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management. Most big companies struggle to compete in existing markets. To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. While middle management can keep the company strong in the near-term, the stifling of innovation makes the organization weak in the long-run. Conformity smothers creativity.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. 10 Bad Reasons to Change Strategy. 16 Employee Idea Killers Your Management Team Could Be Committing. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful. Don’t Overthink It?

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hackerearth

AUGUST 10, 2017

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. CEO Marissa Mayer offered the same opinion writing for Businessweek in 2006: Some of the most innovative ideas have come from marketing and advertising.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

This is despite CEOs repeatedly state that creativity is one of the most important capabilities they want from their staff. There is no way to ensure that customers are going to see the same value in what you are developing as you do, and most companies are terrible at actually being able to execute on an idea.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. This is commonly referred to as Product-Market fit.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. When it should be used: Very seldom!

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

development of existing business) and exploration (i.e. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development [and Lean Startup]. Teaming up with small firms or startups.

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The Human Factor

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Confusing creativity with innovation. Creativity involves coming up with new ideas, connections, and ways of looking at the world. Turning creativity into innovation requires accomplishing three important objectives: Getting focused. Pushing the envelope is good, but not when it stretches you too thin or doesn’t fit your market.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Today, digital products like apps and sites require marketing. This is also a great opportunity to do market research. Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. A marketing page is one version of the minimum viable product. The process.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. We are headed towards a co-creative platform economy. Interactions are complex and unpredictable. Network effects, inducing strong monopoly tendencies. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Functions are partitioned into R&D, Marketing, Operations and other disciplines. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2023

Effective tech talent screening is crucial for companies looking to build a strong, innovative, and agile workforce. They may exaggerate achievements or miss weaknesses, making it difficult for hiring managers to assess their abilities. However, they may not capture work experience, can work in a team, or learn new skills quickly.

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