Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. It focuses on collaboration, interconnectedness, and shared value creation within an innovation ecosystem.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've been writing an occasional series on some of the fundamental building blocks for innovation success - at least those that I think are critical, intangible and often overlooked. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 208

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. So, how do you build a lasting innovation competency in any business, of any size? First, make innovation important to the CEO and the executive team.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, also play significant roles in the innovative process. Furthermore, innovation is influenced by various external factors, including social, cultural, economic, and technological contexts.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

For companies, embracing incremental innovation means fostering a culture of continuous improvement where even the smallest changes are valued for their cumulative impact over time. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. Traditional methods and approaches to innovation are completely breaking down, hence my total belief we are in the new era of innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How much does a business organization spend on its ERP system compared to its innovation system? 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? How feasible is this?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Design 130

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

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. Sentiment Analysis AI measures the mood and engagement of team members. Optimizes team performance.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JUNE 9, 2023

This necessitates a strong orchestrator to navigate the challenges, cultural biases, and the need for adaptability in the face of new dynamics. Continuous Performance and Improvement: Successful ecosystem management involves fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and improvement.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders. Agile Innovation Processes: Implement agile innovation processes that allow for rapid testing and iteration of new capabilities within the dynamic ecosystem.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Outlining the benefits of adopting a business eco-system accelerates the innovation process, reduces the risks inherent in innovation, and engages the entire organization as “co-ideators” and broader ecosystem in the innovation effort. Continue reading →

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways. Thus, open innovation is a faster way for traditional companies to innovate, so we offer to scout and facilitate productive engagements deploying that process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

I have always been a fan of the book “ The Medici Effect; breakthrough insights at the intersections of ideas, concepts and culture ” by Frans Johansson. I like to think I am often colliding at the innovation intersections where I keep finding lots of synergies that feed my research and innovative curiosity to support others.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire. Agile Stand-Up.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

A good innovation management system will include the templates, a communication and engagement strategy, and processes and rules to quickly launch new activities. Executives want to receive a demonstrable benefits, or ROI, and easily track the progress of the innovation program.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2023

10 – The Power of Employee Engagement Employee engagement is a goldmine of innovation. When employees at all levels are encouraged to contribute ideas, it not only leads to a diverse array of innovations but also fosters a sense of ownership and pride in the organization’s achievements.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways. Thus, open innovation is a faster way for traditional companies to innovate, so we offer to scout and facilitate productive engagements deploying that process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are several underlying actors that contribute to the creation of innovation blind spots. One of these is organizational culture. If an organization values tradition over innovation, or if it encourages conformity and discourages taking risks, it's likely that innovation blind spots will develop.

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How To Technical Review Innovation Trends 78

Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For more than a decade now, the fundamental challenge around driving real growth and value from innovation is tied to many companies low focus on organisational design and culture. Our core challenge when we need innovation as a company is building an ecosystem where innovation can thrive.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Think of it as a set of practices ingraining innovation deep within the fabric of the organization. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. Cultural Development: Fosters a culture that supports innovation and creates awareness of its importance.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These companies report a clear business impact from their innovation efforts, repeatedly- measured in revenues and/or transformation outcomes. Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities.

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System Innovation Management Management LEAN 59

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

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Where is innovation within this? Horizon Two – the zone of conflict to resolve and work through.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This growing complexity to manage is increasingly moving organizations towards the very traits innovation also requires. Those of dealing with greater ambiguity, of building in the needs of agility, higher levels of flexibility, curiosity and the willingness to explore and experiment and take increasing risk.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As more and more organizations evolve, innovation will continue to transform work culture and have a deep impact on today’s digital workplace environment. Progressive employee engagement. Modernizing your employee culture to match progressive work environments helps maximize productivity. Digital workplace trend #1.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative. 3 rd sign: The emergence of emotional intelligence and good character values to balance the historical bias towards the mental side of innovation. 2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

As an enterprise scales and its culture solidifies, it becomes increasingly challenging for innovation and creativity to flourish. Speed and agility have never been more critical in today’s digital world, where globalization and technology have increased competition tenfold. Hacking your HR Department.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

We need to engage differently. For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. We need to engage differently.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Industry 138

Values Centered Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Over the last 75 years, the field of corporate innovation has dynamically evolved from the 1950s-60s’ NASA innovation process models and the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving process to today’s popularity with Design Thinking and Agile Development. Yet, as the saying goes, “There’s still more East to go.”.

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Innovation Design Thinking Engagement Innovation Processes 52

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Culture is key.

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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

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

’ Is this tapping into the increasing desire to be part of creating something new, to grab back the engagement needed, that sense of identity and a growing sense of ownership? It is tapping into an internal need for everyone involved, to innovate in different and more radical ways. Driving impact, delivering to scale.

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