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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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Low-skilled, repetitive labor is being automated, while skills like innovation and creativity are more and more in demand.

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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. Also, I have a huge amount of respect for leading people strategist Josh Bersin who I know is also a strong proponent of human-centred leadership.

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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. Boundary-Spanning Leadership: Cultivate leaders who can span organizational boundaries, fostering collaboration while respecting the autonomy of individual participants.

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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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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet not every intrapreneurship program leads to successful outcomes beyond innovation theatre. During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions.

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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. Conversely, the leadership for ISO 56001 isn’t as clear-cut. The best part?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Carla Johnson’s June 2021 new release features practical advice on how to tie individual abilities with innovation techniques to drive business outcomes. Sustainable innovation requires following a simple framework and living innovation within organizational culture, but it doesn’t need to be scary.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance. Measuring innovation becomes a key focus, with an emphasis on balancing leadership’s need for certainty with employees’ concerns about potential consequences.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

nd There are multiple “stretching and straining points” that make the life of the innovator increasingly uncomfortable. These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. So much around innovation is not optimal. So why is that?

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2023

. #8 – Innovation as a Response to Market Changes The ability to innovate in response to market changes is a critical competitive advantage. 7 – Continuous Learning and Adaptation Innovation is not a static process; it requires continuous learning and adaptation.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Time to consider a Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) to load up that innovation punch. Speed and momentum matter in innovation, even more so to smaller firms. Leverage the innate agility.

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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. Cultural Shift Action Steps Innovation Mindset Encourage idea-sharing and creative problem-solving.

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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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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Instead of only rewarding people who shared great ideas, recognize and incentivize the innovation challenge owners who bring people together to identify the opportunity and implement the results?—?this this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change. This is how the original idea will evolve sprint by sprint.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Culture of experimentation (and speed). Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intensified use of (rapid) prototyping. Interactions are complex and unpredictable. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. There is also a lot of yakking about culture. Understanding your purpose is the first step to building a culture of innovation.

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Commodore Innovation

MAY 13, 2020

Changing approach to innovation, e.g., a greater emphasis on lean/agile and the experimentation-based approach those imply, which will enable faster learning about a dramatically changing landscape. Communicate changes to innovation strategy early AND often. Your measurement system gets critical feedback to leadership.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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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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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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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

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? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your culture supporting innovation?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". This is mainly due to the engineering culture that is embedded in many companies and which drives the decisions at the highest levels. Organizing the evaluation and decision process.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

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. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. The importance of radical innovation. Readiness for Change?

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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. Or they simply are not inspired because they don’t see the larger picture.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". This is mainly due to the engineering culture that is embedded in many companies and which drives the decisions at the highest levels. Organizing the evaluation and decision process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

Measuring more of the ‘health’ of innovation within established organizations. Shown below are a list of the factors I feel can be major contributors (far from exhaustive), firstly into the soft side of our balance sheet that is made up of culture, climate and environment as our creative and engagement capacity.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. Thus, you stress that ‘ forward-looking organizations are adopting a new, more agile organizing principle. The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In fact, Bezos constantly adjusts Amazon’s culture to ensure that the company never slows down and loses its entrepreneurial and nimble approach to finding future business success. The latter requires speed and agility. Third parties can help you with the process, but they can’t do the work for you.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. Thus, you stress that ‘ forward-looking organizations are adopting a new, more agile organizing principle. The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Culture of experimentation (and speed). Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intinsified use of (rapid) prototyping. Interactions are complex and unpredictable. Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

Stakeholders Competitors Trends Technologies Regulation Culture List all external drivers that you think will impact the way your company will do business in the “digitally transformed” future. New leadership was hired, with a focus on leaders who would embrace risk and failure.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, there are more effective ways to innovate, as you will see further down this list. Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. The challenging part of this is that culture is a very personal thing, which will vary between companies, industries and regions.

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