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APRIL 15, 2025

A Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS) is a hierarchical tool designed to systematically organize and categorize all project requirements into structured, manageable segments. It acts as a central reference point throughout the project lifecycle, from early planning and stakeholder engagement to quality control and project closure.

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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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MARCH 26, 2025

The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. Design the Experiment Choose the best method to test the hypothesis. What is the Experiment Canvas?

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APRIL 28, 2025

Focusing on innovation ensures that your business remains resilient and agile. Utilizing the Business Model Canvas Understanding the Business Model Canvas The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management tool that helps you design, describe, and pivot your business model. Their input and buy-in are crucial for smooth implementation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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APRIL 1, 2025

By integrating AI into organizational design, you can streamline processes, improve decision-making, and optimize resource allocation. Benefits of Incorporating AI in Organizational Design Incorporating AI into organizational design offers numerous benefits that can significantly enhance your organization’s efficiency and effectiveness.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dynamic Ecosystems build future ecosystem resilience and including participation as the core to thinking evolution and discovery, to exploit and expand to what is possible, through ecosystem-centric thinking and design. The post How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design first appeared on Business Innovation Ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation. What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation?

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APRIL 3, 2025

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core concept from the Lean Startup methodology, designed to help organizations test new ideas quickly and learn from real customer feedback. It promotes agility, customer focus, and data-driven decision-making by minimizing time and resource waste on ideas that may not deliver value.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

Agenda Design for Maximum Impact Structuring a killer agenda isnt rocket science but needs some finesse to keep heads in the game and not in the clouds. Get folks talking, questioning, and engaging. The post Crafting Powerful Strategic Offsite Meeting Designs first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops.

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MARCH 26, 2025

This model is designed to help organizations strike a balance between optimizing current operations and exploring new frontiers. Getting Started with the 70-20-10 Innovation Rule Implementing the 70-20-10 model requires deliberate planning, stakeholder engagement, and a dynamic approach to innovation portfolio management.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Experiment with alternative distribution, pricing, or engagement strategies. This approach encourages organizations to challenge industry orthodoxy and design innovations that meet latent or emerging needs, often leading to breakthrough value creation. Investing in capabilities that support continued agility and iteration.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before. The post Achieving an Ecosystem AI-driven innovation engagement process first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Originally coined in the startup world, the term refers to strategies that prioritize agile experimentation, data-driven decisions, and cross-functional collaboration especially between marketing, product, and engineering teams. Collaborate Across Teams Growth hacking works best when marketing, product, design, and engineering work together.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Heres how this works in practice: Engage with High-Quality Feedback : Instead of relying on hundreds of survey responses, have deep, meaningful conversations with a smaller group of potential customers. Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. Every idea is born ugly.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Instead of building a rigid business plan based on speculative projections, DDP encourages teams to identify key uncertainties, design experiments, and refine the strategy as new information emerges. Design Learning Milestones Set checkpoints where you will test assumptions and evaluate progress. User engagement or retention metrics.

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APRIL 28, 2025

By implementing a robust business model innovation process, you position your organization to be more agile, resilient, and responsive to market changes. Engage with different methodologies by participating in a business model innovation workshop and equip your team with the necessary skills through business model innovation training.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Personalized Employee Development : AI-driven platforms can tailor learning and development programs to the specific needs of each employee, fostering continuous growth and engagement. AI algorithms can analyze employee performance data, including productivity metrics, engagement scores, and feedback from peers and managers.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts. Here’s how you can combine these approaches: Design Thinking : Begin with empathy.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. Most of the failures point to a lack of design and alignment with people’s needs. This is where Design Thinking can be of tremendous value. There is a better way.

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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

MAY 26, 2024

The framework looks to 1) tap into collective intelligence, 2) accelerate innovation by cross-pollination, 3) enhance resilience and agility, 4) deliver superior customer experience, and 5) optimize resource utilization across the parties sharing in this interconnected ecosystem. Post two : Interdependence and Feedback Loops.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design. Innovation needs reinventing.

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MARCH 18, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the First Mover Advantage To successfully capture first mover advantage, organizations must plan meticulously and execute with agility. The following steps outline a structured approach to harnessing this advantage: 1.

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APRIL 3, 2025

It validates assumptions about user behavior, pricing, and engagement. If users engage regularly and express interest in additional functionality, the team can expand with confidence. Product managers, designers, developers, and marketers rally around user feedback as the primary source of direction.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Increasing motivation and engagement Helps employees and teams stay accountable for their performance. Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. Increase online sales conversion rate by 5% through improved website UX design. What tools or systems will track data?

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MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. For example, Netflix uses KPIs like viewer engagement, retention rates, and content performance to optimize its streaming platform and improve user experience. Establish regular performance review meetings.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. Senior leaders are a significant driver in the success rate of an Agile transformation.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. Enhances Motivation and Engagement Encourages teams to set ambitious, inspiring objectives. T ime-bound Designed for a specific timeframe (e.g., Agile Planning Frameworks – Ensures adaptability and continuous iteration. quarterly, annually).

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Every activity, from initiating a project to closing it out, is designed to contribute directly to an organizations strategic direction. Engage in Quality Management to audit and verify the project meets its standards. Avoid over-documenting in small or agile projects. Start small with critical processes, then scale.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

It shapes the work environment, influences decision-making, and ultimately drives employee engagement and satisfaction. The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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