InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks. The vertical learning components enable us to progress or return back a step or two to revalidate our assumptions.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Images and Metaphors — Finding the Right Agile Organization Design. Mid–sized and larger organizations often struggle immensely with finding an organization design that allows them to grow and stay agile at the same time. Agile organizations display equal shares of balance and structure. There are many.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. 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. The need is for a very fluid, dynamic, constantly evolving approach to design and solutions.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. The practice is very common within agile logic.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We have actively collaborated and designed tools and frameworks over the years that we believe had some of our insights “baked” into them to offer valuable reference points to help us all work through connecting innovation in hopefully better ways. We call this the engagement- alignment gap.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For me, ecosystem thinking and design are accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. The need for digital platforms and ecosystem designs has grown to achieve this collaborative environment. Firstly, we need to ask, “Why change the innovation narrative?

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Thinking of innovation as an innovation ecosystem in design. In designing these innovation ecosystems, we might have the potential answer to overcoming and giving innovation that chance to be more central to the core of the business. We need to re-think innovation and provide a new level of innovation integration and optimization.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They can, through shared platforms achieve a closer relationship with the customer, to understand their needs and experience through increased collaboration, and engagement. This calls for some radical rethinking of the existing business and deciding the design of the future business. We are at a critical point of change.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We need to build theories, explore multiple connections, and build continuously on the patterns, the signals, and the interactions by extracting from all the different ‘cells’ of knowledge we all possess, which makes the application of innovation often highly unique to each of us. Innovation needs to speak to us. That is my place.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome. We capture those signals around us today that can point to a very different future. In my view, we must go way beyond “open innovation” as we practice it today.

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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. We need an Innovation Mandate calling for a Radical Re-design of how we undertake innovation management, it is needed to bring innovation management into the 21st century in design and approaches.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A well-designed organization attracts and retains top talent, just as better-designed products and services attract customers. Yet organizations resist change and lack the courage to re-design themselves and adapt to uncertain socio-economic conditions. What Is Business Design? Why Business Design?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2020

From building safe spaces for ideation in the training room, keeping your L&D function agile, and taking advantage of innovation expertise from beyond your organization, read on to discover the innovative potential of L&D! Agile Training Breeds Innovation. Build Safe Spaces To Let Ideation Flourish.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We are seeing profound shifts that technology and digital transformation are bringing us to deliver innovate differently. A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them. This is leading us to recognize the value and power of the seamless customer experience. Yet does it need to be like this?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. This required the design team to work a “Sprint&# (month long iteration) ahead of the development team. Where did Agile come from?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. coming from industry 4.0

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation? Uncertainty, volatility and a rapidly changing environment with complex challenges confront us daily, not occasionally.

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Fehmida Kapadia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A bunch of us have gathered here as part of a writing group to work on our projects. An hour into the activity, we take a short break to discuss what we are working on and the following conversation ensues “I am writing about design thinking” “Oh! Are you a designer?” “No, Design thinking has become a buzzword today.

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Brunner

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Headless Content Management Systems Offer Endless Freedom for Website Design, Tech Decisions Last year, Brunner embarked on a brand refresh — new messaging, new visual design, new language. 7 Critical Lessons from our Headless CMS Project Lesson 1: Don’t design in a silo — collaborate across UX, content, and dev teams.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 17, 2022

. * The future of work is through exploiting the systems of engagement. So to help, there is a dedicated site to building the arguments and exploring options for your future here in collaborative designs and you have found it! We are creating value by combining technology and relationships in any ecosystem design.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process. This demands a radical redesign of the innovation process and the whole customer engagement process.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

turns HR into its own agile consulting organization that focuses not only on delivering services, but also practices design thinking to push innovative solutions, tools, and transparency into the organization. Build and apply capabilities in agile and design thinking (more on this below). Organizations operating at HR 3.0

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 17, 2018

While my parents worked long past sunset, I played on the sidewalk of my parents’ company, Design Matters. Before it was a podcast, Design Matters—one of the first agencies in the San Francisco Bay area—was my personal experience with design. Today, design doesn’t look much like what I remember from my childhood.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. We’ve helped organizations across the world go beyond what they thought was possible by using some of these techniques!

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. Transitioning from skills we find comfortable today to skills that will be new to many of us, is a journey for each of us. That’s a good thing.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Agile Engagement 263

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. I’d love to engage on this to realize its potential.

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Be-novative

APRIL 26, 2019

Truly innovative companies don’t just design for customer experience. They also design their own journey towards creating maximum impact. I loved the fact that they all used Design Thinking and said: The journey starts with Empathy. Why don’t we Design Think right here within our organization as well?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative. Ecosystems built around specific platform designs are the future of innovation that takes designs and solutions into a new realm of opportunity built on collaborative engagement and common missions.

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Collaboration Design Innovation Technical Review 241

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

into future ones built far more around innovation ecosystems in thinking and design that are integrated and connected, to open up conversations and exchanges, seeking common points of value in a broader network of solution providers. This “work mat” gives a solid design for discussions and recognition.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Scaling up does have the potential of opening up new places to play, or the dark holes many of us often fall down into. 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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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 25, 2024

Hannover is seemingly emphasizing the power and need of Ecosystems, platforms, marketplaces, end-to-end processes, and sustainability to set up so as to gain value and impact from all the data and AI coming towards us. Crossing the chasm into a new way of doing business through Ecosystem thinking and design is upon us all.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The interplays and interfaces available from technology and AI applications available to us today can deliver completely different, more compelling innovations. Couple this with Ecosystem thinking and design, and we are moving towards a different, more integrated framework for innovation ecosystems. Why these four components?

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