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

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. We relate this specifically within our Executive Innovation Work Mat.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

How difficult would it be to embrace this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, as it is often argued that most people want to keep innovation management and its process simple? Here I will offer up some thoughts on how to make this change and who should be involved, as it is a more radical design of a holistic nature.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. Corporations can leverage this innovation to drive growth, remain competitive, and enter new markets.

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Collaboration Innovation Agile Technical Review 147

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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

Business contagion requires different innovative responses. We are presently facing a profound set of changes in the conditions that businesses operate within in the immediate years ahead, that of the fear of business contagion; these will need a different set of innovation shifts and responses to counter this and seize new opportunities.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. This 3H thinking helps break down complex issues.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Developing the innovation stack takes the view that innovation is a series of building blocks stacked on top of each other with different layers to work through. Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 24, 2024

In the modern business world, where disruption is the norm and change is relentless, the ability to continuously drive innovation-led growth has become the ultimate competitive advantage. In this climate, innovation is no longer an optional pursuit but a strategic imperative for survival and sustained growth.

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Integrative Innovation

JULY 16, 2020

Both capabilities may exhibit some overlap, yet can basically be considered independent from each other: a company can be highly agile while lacking ambidexterity and vice versa.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. In my first post.”

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is. Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. To get to a consistent performance of innovation and creativity within organizations you do need to rely on a process, structure and the consistent ability to foster a culture of innovation.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It plays a pivotal role in shaping the overall ecosystem; I would argue it is the unique essence of this design. Providing the Ecosystem environment to build out dynamism enables the capabilities to challenge and have the abilities to disrupt. Innovation Agility: Processes that allow for rapid prototyping and iteration.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 17, 2022

We have not found the “real-time” to explore and approach concepts and innovative ideas in different ways. Innovation grows your business, it grows your equity, it provides you greater returns but it needs a far greater recognition of its ‘multiple’ parts that must fit together to make it provide a real return.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation. Jeffery and I go back within the innovation space a long way. Here is the link to the recording. We believe C.E.O’s

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The building always the Innovation Business Case offers a unique approach to tackle one of the real problem areas within innovation- making the case compelling. One of the toughest aspects within Innovation is making the Business Case. It is no different for understanding your innovation fitness.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

Deploying a design that recognizes the layers of an Innovation Ecosystem feeds the Business Ecosystem, and these provide the Dynamic Ecosystem to adjust and respond and, when combined, allow the Enterprise Ecosystem to generate collective prosperity, dynamism and a sustaining environment that thrives on its interdependence and interconnectedness.”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Our existing business organizations need to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical constant change. We need to transform or be (totally) disrupted; this is where knowing your ecosystem and network comes in as the new thinking and design of how this needs to be constructed and understood.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. Leaders can use agile practices to balance the work. All workers should be members of agile teams.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. We all need to seek out that badge of “agility”.

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eZassi

MAY 13, 2024

Amplify Your Innovation Program with AI-Driven Technology Discovery Today’s highly competitive business climate is fueled by the ability to innovate and ride the cutting edge of technology. Companies that fail to embrace emerging technologies risk being eclipsed by more agile, proactive competitors.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Innovation is the unlocking mechanism.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

How often do you feel the tensions surrounding innovation? A tough part of managing within larger organizations is in reducing the layers and competing forces, the underlying tensions that innovation (uncertainty) brings out? ” I often suggest that “innovation is a very uncomfortable bedfellow to have around.

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Innovating4Energy

MARCH 17, 2024

The importance of innovation at the front end of the Energy Transition For me, the front end of the Energy Transition is vital. What I mean by the front end is that link where innovation, ingenuity and creativity get created.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2022

The approach we take to embedding innovation in all its forms is a unique one that we call the Pathway Curve Methodology. Innovation needs to be worked at, to grow into a deeper understanding, over time. Innovation building faces a multitude of obstacles to overcome so innovation has a chance to be embedded within an organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They provided an outstanding virtual showroom packed full of innovations, product presentations and use cases are exhibited in an exciting real 3D environment. When we reflect on the recent events of the last twelve months, this has been highly disruptive but those industrial companies that had already started their Industry 4.0

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

At its heart, business model innovation is about change. Business model innovation is about drawing a new map that shows the current landscape, with all its new opportunities and challenges. What Is Business Model Innovation? It’s a way for businesses to look at what they do and ask, “Can we do this differently?”

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation’s power lies in the ability to adapt, evolve, and collaborate, and our need is to make this as much of a dynamic ecosystem as possible to tackle the growing complexity and challenges we are facing today and in the future. Dynamic ecosystems are not just about collaboration and innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with the Best Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in corporate events, as they have the power to set the tone and energize the audience. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

Innov8rs | Breakthrough innovations are characterized by their ability to disrupt or redefine the competitive landscape, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. It contrasts sharply with incremental innovation, which refers to minor improvements or upgrades to existing offerings. Radical innovation is full of surprises.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2016

Let’s define agility as an organization’s ability to renew itself, adapt and succeed in a changing, and often highly dynamic and unpredictable, environment. Let’s define agility as an organization’s ability to renew itself, adapt and succeed in a changing, and often highly dynamic and unpredictable, environment.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2024

New Paradigm for Business and Economic Growth: Collective Significance: Balanced Development: The hierarchy signifies a departure from a singular focus on economic growth, recognizing that innovation, adaptability, and sustained excellence are equally vital components for long-term success.

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