The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2023

image source Introduction Companies rely heavily on hiring talented tech professionals to gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving technology-driven world. However, finding and hiring the right tech talent can be daunting. A company’s success often hinges on the quality of its tech talent.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems. Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies. At these gates, decision-makers review progress and determine the feasibility of moving forward to the next stage.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era In an age of rapid technological advancements, companies everywhere are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to modernize their operations. As AI and sophisticated systems become the norm, it’s essential for organizations to retain their creative spirit, agility, and grit.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The work undertaken is often seen as a drain, not repeatable, and poor on the efficient definition of understanding we have in place today as the work undertaken, not yielding the returns if the concept is more radical due to time horizons or business model constraints. Today we live in a more connected world, technology has enabled this.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Agile: you do not make Agile; you become Agile.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Marketplace Design can drive bottom-up Ecosystem designs. Do Marketplace designs drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems? Marketplace designs can indeed drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems. So, do Marketplace designs drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

There has been an awful lot to absorb when it comes to skills and how organizations need to be designed for the future. This report has been part of a broader ‘agile’ series from them but this one specifically gave me my necessary anchor point, to move forward with my own design thinking for agility and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. Are we leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning enough from the explosion of data to identify patterns and insights leading to emerging concept creation?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. Consumer Insights AI can analyze consumer data to uncover hidden preferences and needs.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Stages and Gates Process Explained The Stages and Gates process, a cornerstone of innovation management, is a framework designed to guide new products and services from conception to launch. AI technologies include machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and computer vision.

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Planview

JANUARY 17, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and dynamic world of technology, the adoption of Agile methodologies has undoubtedly transformed the landscape of how technology teams function. Efficiently handling WIP and promptly addressing bottlenecks are not mere options, but imperatives, for agile teams.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. A Squad is nothing more than a team formed by people with different technical and academic skills to solve a problem or perform a project. The practice is very common within agile logic.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. We stack them and they interlink.

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Acuvate

APRIL 12, 2023

But before that, let’s understand where the manufacturing world is with Smart Factory today and where this technological intervention is headed. In addition, the increased efficiency of these technologies has made it possible to keep up with rising consumer demands and shorten production timelines.

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Acuvate

APRIL 12, 2023

But before that, let’s understand where the manufacturing world is with Smart Factory today and where this technological intervention is headed. In addition, the increased efficiency of these technologies has made it possible to keep up with rising consumer demands and shorten production timelines.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It is no coincidence that data visualization has gained such relevance in recent years. Let’s start with what the data-driven mindset is! Data Culture goes far beyond a strategy that simply guides a company’s data. Don’t think that the data mindset is the result of infrastructure alone.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 15, 2021

What is Azure Well-Architected Review and How It Helps Organizations. As a result, businesses accelerated the adoption of AI, automation and became data-driven. That’s what the Azure Well-Architected Framework & Review offers. Digital Transformation is a term that has been around the market for a good couple of years.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2024

Misaligned Work Misaligned work occurs when tasks are not directly aligned with an organization’s highest priorities, often due to unclear communication or poor understanding of these priorities. This helps avoid the accumulation of unmanageable work due to multitasking. It is recommended to keep WIP (Flow Load) at about 1.5

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

It examines anonymized data from over 3600 value streams, representing over 38K individuals across the value chain from ideation to value. To my knowledge, we are the only organization with access to such a large and complex value stream data set. It’s hard work to get buy-in across supporting functions of a value stream.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

Unlike traditional manufacturing processes characterized by tangible endpoints, software development for vehicles is inherently iterative and demands agility to keep pace with evolving technological requirements. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness.

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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. We need to address this incompatibility, we need to integrate and harness the innovation management system and bring it completely up to date and integrated in design and function.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

In a recent episode of the Tech Leaders Unplugged podcast, guests Rameshwar Balanagu, Chief Digital Officer at Intangles.ai, an expert in enterprise architecture, discussed the role of enterprise architecture in enabling the circular economy.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Part of CBTW, a global tech & business solution, SteepConsult is a consultancy with a particular expertise in innovation management and strategy, among others. Their approach combines deep industry insights with a broad range of services designed to deliver results for their clients. But it doesn’t have to be so hard.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. Collaborators can achieve solutions only by being “fully” connected up, comfortable with their data, understanding and contribution, both within their knowledge and insights. trillion in value to global manufacturing.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Hence, it has all the technology, governance and structure to enable the group to communicate, exchange and build the (emerging) solution to work and then have the structure for it to (rapidly) scale. The marketplace actually becomes the most valuable part of any newly designed value proposition. Imagine a real market where you shop.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 17, 2022

In today’s global market, with its rapid technology diffusion, disruptive and constant change with an emphasis on servicing the work to be done is more important than the work done and intangible assets are fundamental to this. We can, through data and exchanges, link up the real world and relate the physical and data worlds.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 9, 2020

In this article, you will reflect on the challenges of remote team management and how agile practices can help you make the transition efficiently. This can cause a generational shock; Millennials and Centennials, steeped in technology and more prone to remote work, are often misunderstood by their leaders from other generations.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Cloud adoption is imperative in today’s data-driven, remote access environment. Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure is an industry-recognized methodology designed by Microsoft to help organizations define and implement their cloud adoption strategies optimally. What is Azure Cloud Adoption Framework? Define Strategy.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? AI, Analytics, IoT, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Social Media, Sensors, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Voice Recognition… and the list goes on. The elephant in the room is that the new technology requires a truly different approach.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 16, 2019

Agile practices transform business in multiple directions, providing powerful models of product and service creation, project management, and much more. In this article, you will understand what agile practices are, what benefits this approach offers to your company. What are Agile Practices. Check it out! How Sprint Works.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. How can the CEO be sure that these people contribute their ideas, designs, work, to the company strategies? Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. The same is true for Engineering.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. How can the CEO be sure that these people contribute their ideas, designs, work, to the company strategies? Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. The same is true for Engineering.

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