Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this post, I provide different industries’ challenges that lend themselves to Ecosystem thinking and Design. Benefits: Alternative thinking can drive innovation in renewable energy, smart grid technologies, and energy storage solutions. Manufacturing: Challenges: Industry 4.0

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. Recognizing complex acknowledges the volatility and disruptions that are constantly occurring. We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

The world of innovation-based competition, price/performance rivalry, increasing returns, and the ‘creative destruction of existing competencies constitutes rapid change are all rapid and changing constantly, and we need the ability to respond, be agile and fluid to seize the new business opportunities that come with this evolving environment.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

This innovation disrupted traditional media consumption, shifting from physical rentals and purchases to unlimited on-demand digital content, and significantly impacting the cable TV industry. This theory underscores the importance of focusing on simplicity, convenience, accessibility, or affordability to disrupt an existing market.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. Encouraging your team to think outside the box and challenging the status quo are central themes that innovation speakers address.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital transformation has created a seismic shift that has reshaped industries, disrupted traditional business models, and left no corner of the world untouched. At some level, events like these have always occurred, but were often localized disruptions. But, as with any wave, the real power lies beneath the surface.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. Corporations are increasingly looking to pioneering new technologies to increase employee engagement and expand their market base. Let’s dive in!

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 26, 2020

Businesses and organizations are transitioning away from “crisis” mode and into “the new normal” with the understanding that we live in a VUCA world where disruptions are part of the norm. Contact us online to get started designing your training session, or browse through our online courses today.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

The aim was to build an innovative solution that both disrupted the status quo and created a huge barrier to entry for competitors who might attempt to copy it. Building an innovation stack on a platform increases business agility through interlinking innovation across a company’s infrastructure, culture, and employee base.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 21, 2021

The increased complexity and endless disruptions of the modern world brought on by the transition to the digital age means uncertainty is everywhere. They may be design thinkers, agile developers, or people who have worked in startups before. Some people call it agile. Here are 5 jobs to get you on the path. .

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

Who apply their collaborative and collective intelligence towards initiating open innovation initiatives to ultimately co-create future-fit organisations – that are human-centric, adaptive, engaging, inclusive, collaborative, innovative, accountable, and digitally enabled.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Can we go that route in our organization design? So going a step further in my own design within this new innovation era.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Then the last in a long list of legacy problems we never achieve the potential of organizational agility and efficiency. The theory of disruptions raises itself. Customer Engagement Apps are a good point in case. We can begin to apply the three horizons thinking to legacy complexity. We constantly sub-optimize.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

It goes without saying that innovation beyond incremental innovation requires new and different approaches, concepts, tools, and ways of thinking. Efficiency Optimization Organizations have eliminated risk and variance in their operations through rightsizing, outsourcing, lean, and agile. A famous study says children are very creative.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It enables agile responses to internal and external changes, ensuring the organization can navigate uncertainties effectively. This interconnected resilience becomes a shared asset, safeguarding or reducing the impacts of disruptions and uncertainties.

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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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IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

For organisations, this means being prepared for future changes and disruptions. Disruptors vs. Disruptive : There is a distinction between genuine catalysts and those who are merely disruptive. Genuine catalysts are collaborative and open-minded, while disruptive individuals may be egocentric and focused on their own ideas.

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Technical Review Innovation Artificial Inteligence Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” One where we are capable of designing and engineering far more so as to deliver and have a more desirable end.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging them in appreciating their needs is leading us to recognize the value and power in the seamless customer experience. As we learn the value and power of these tools we become more fluid, more flexible and agile but equally more influenced.

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Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Software Review 100

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Disruption. Manage it with DevOps and Agile. During this trajectory, two of our expertise areas were fundamental in keeping operations on track: DevOps and Agile Methodologies. Business Agility. We could just talk about Agile here, but that’s old news. Disappointment. I’m growing exponentially.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. This is the best way to inspire people and drive high-levels of engagement with the overall innovation initiative. Handle the noise, Avoid disruption. Innovation can generate noise and become disruptive (not only to the market but also to the company).

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We do know we need to re-equip ourselves for constant disruption; we are really beginning to see a shift from the classic bell curve into more of a shark fin for adopting change. Suddenly this ‘process’ is getting challenged by novel, agile, adaptive concepts stealing the growth out of ‘our’ markets.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. The shifts taking place around innovation have been significant in their impact. Other real changing forces influencing innovation.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Engage employees. Re-design the organization. As a starting point, if large scale transformative change is the necessity of the day, then HR is pressed to transform how it approaches all its internal functions, including leadership development, employee engagement, culture change, and organization design. For example….

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Depending on the companies’ objectives, these innovation centers are mostly autonomous, designed as corporate accelerators, incubators, Digital Labs or in a blended form.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

That industry tries to convince companies that they need to stave off disruption that is inevitably coming for them. So, you must do breakthrough innovation, or what Clayton Christensen called disruptive innovation. We need to be agile.” You're trying to get your stakeholders engaged, right? We need to move faster.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Identifying and Eliminating Conformity, the Enemy of Innovation. Conformity abhors change.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The shifts taking place has been hugely shaped in how digital transformation continues to grow in its importance and influence much surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways where it deconstructs and then we need to reconstruct our innovation thinking.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We call this part ‘ Scaling-Up ‘ Typically, companies have little problems in generating ideas for adjacent, radical or even disruptive innovation and in validating the most promising ideas. They observe that the pace of change accelerates, and that Digital opens a new world of opportunities and disruptive risks.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In a world where Wall Street gives a premium to companies that are considered ‘innovative’, the incentive to engage in innovation theater is sometimes irresistible. It abounds in actions, but they are actions without substantial or lasting impact. But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth.

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