Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

In short, innovation is the engine of change and in today’s fiercely competitive environment resisting change is dangerous. New needs of combining different stakeholders are pushing higher expectations to get winning products or services to market on time, which are exciting, new, engaging and often transformational.

Innovation 147

Innovation Competition Resources Technology 147

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

We have the shape and structure we can continuously iterate and improve, a different innovation engine that works for that problem or challenge. Building an innovation stack on a platform increases business agility through interlinking innovation across a company’s infrastructure, culture, and employee base.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Design 130

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. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position. These are the foundation to build innovation capacities.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

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?” We are then moving back towards the desirable to then push harder for our ‘engineered’ solution.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Design Software Review 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Will they demand it, stay engaged, and recommend it to their friends and family? Delivering on your social mission requires just as much ambition, rigor, and agility as creating a thriving business.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

Values Centered Innovation

JULY 24, 2018

As one example, over the past 5 years, IBM has consciously shifted its strategy and culture from being a top engineering firm that “develops a new product that we believe customers will want to buy, and then trying to sell it.” Even the name “design thinking” has morphed into “human centered design.”.

Design Thinking 40

Design Thinking Agile Innovation Design 40

Values Centered Innovation

JULY 24, 2018

As one example, over the past 5 years, IBM has consciously shifted its strategy and culture from being a top engineering firm that “develops a new product that we believe customers will want to buy, and then trying to sell it.” Even the name “design thinking” has morphed into “human centered design.”.

Design Thinking 40

Design Thinking Agile Innovation Design 40

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. You can stumble and fall, screw up, etc.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

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. In a software context, these could be Senior Architects or Engineers with extensive prototyping and/or agile product development experience.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review How To Software Review Ideation 68

Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I started my career as a software engineer in the ’90’s when waterfall was our go-to project method. An Agile Business Strategy. Agility and the ability to iterate, test and refine strategic direction is the key to success. Agility and the ability to iterate, test and refine strategic direction is the key to success.

Learning 40

Learning eBook Agile Software Engineering 40

Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Some of the methods that are more frequently used also include Design Thinking , TQM , Agile , DMAIC , Theory of Constraints , and Lean Supply Chain. Employee engagement also made the list with 54% of respondents saying their CI programs also act as employee engagement tools.

Survey 45

Survey LEAN Report Agile 45

Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Some of the methods that are more frequently used also include Design Thinking , TQM , Agile , DMAIC , Theory of Constraints , and Lean Supply Chain. Employee engagement also made the list with 54% of respondents saying their CI programs also act as employee engagement tools.

Survey 40

Survey LEAN Report Agile 40

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Examples include salespersons being tasked to handle all customer service calls, product designers being tasked to handle all of the manufacturing engineering and quality assurance tasks, and so forth. Maybe there's new life yet for the Lean consultants. Long live Lean.

LEAN 40

LEAN Agile Analysis System 40

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Engaged support for strategic and tactical innovation initiatives developed by others. The engineers went crazy looking for any possible reason why the chips were below quality. — and their jobs.

Training 45

Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 6, 2021

According to data from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), more than 1 trillion dollars are invested annually in IT projects. Design Thinking can help a lot in this mission. The acronym stands for: H – happiness E – engagement A – adoption R – retention T – task success.

Underperforming Technical Team 59

Underperforming Technical Team System Design Project 59

Boxes and Arrows

JULY 17, 2018

In the early days, designers came to the field with years of diverse and highly specialized professional experience. The thrill of the computer era drew people from all backgrounds, proffering a brave new world for engineers and social scientists alike to join. It’s time to look at how we design just as closely as what we design.

Design 76

Design System Training Collaboration 76

IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

00:47:38] Adapting to Change – Challenges engineers face with transitions and adapting to change. [00:48:24] During his engineering career, Ed has researched AI, worked on Microsoft Office, and democratized parallel computing. She has a natural and engaging style and her refreshingly candid approach makes her a popular speaker.

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence Leadership Project Strategy 52

Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The fusion of Force Field Analysis (FFA) with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) can be likened to the gears of a well-oiled machine, where FFA reveals the mechanics behind a company’s current state, and OKRs serve as the blueprint for engineering a desired future.

Analysis 48

Analysis Leadership Culture Collaboration 48

IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

During his engineering career, Ed has researched AI, worked on Microsoft Office, and democratized parallel computing. He has led company-wide change management programs in innovation, design-thinking, and agile methodologies that have helped over 25,000 employees earn raving fans for their products.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Innovation Artificial Inteligence Leadership 52

Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 19, 2012

So in response to this I propose a new way of thinking about our practice. Set your iPhone lamp to ‘on’ and let it illuminate the darkness of agile prototyping methodology toward a shining new revelation: h3. Portfolio-Centered Design. Demand polished wireframes (think ‘scamps’) to colour in.

Design 86

Design System Project Agile 86