Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Innovation does need reinventing as a discovery process. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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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. I plan to add another element of Sustainability , both social and corporate value, later as it should run through our innovation thinking throughout.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. This could include customers, partners, suppliers, or other ecosystem participants.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

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. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

So how to set about making this change and who should be involved as it is a more radical design of a holistic nature is what I am outlining in this post. Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, the need to bring the innovation management process is a constant technological advancement.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. I am going into new versions of PAH-1 , but let me share this opening design for AI-driven innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking. It is the dynamics within the innovation system that can make it transformational.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By definition, innovation involves continuous reinvention. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How much does a business organization spend on its ERP system compared to its innovation system? 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? I am only partly there.

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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

MAY 19, 2023

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. It is by leveraging the platform; organizations can create a more seamless and efficient innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. The need for digital platforms and ecosystem designs has grown to achieve this collaborative environment.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It is not just an enabler but a catalyst for innovation that can significantly shorten the time-to-market for new products and services. AI systems are adept at sifting through vast amounts of data to uncover insights that can inform every stage of the development process, from ideation to launch.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design. It is where we need to question workflows and processes, as openness has become increasingly central to our thinking and development-building process.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

A proven way to do this is through the agile process. First created in the software industry around 20 years ago, the agile methodology is widely seen as the innovation engine that drives Silicon Valley’s success, and it has now been adopted by many companies beyond the tech sector. Be Bold and Experiment.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We need to get closer to ‘real-time’ This reliance on rapidly out-of-date understanding cannot be the basis for any justifications for high-stake bets when it comes to innovation. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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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 hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it. This does need a real change but can we achieve it?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

This model segments the innovation process into distinct phases, each culminating in a gate. It’s a systematic approach designed to minimize risk and allocate resources effectively. The typical stages might include concept development, design, testing, and launch.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, also play significant roles in the innovative process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Then innovation can finally play its true part in discovering, leveraging and delivering new value and impact. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. Innovation is benefitting from the 4 th Industrial Revolution. It shifts our thinking and the management of innovation dramatically.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

I have gotten relatively excited about this strand of thinking and ecosystem design as it has been a reasonably extensive period of research building this out to a validation point. Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

As I delved deeper into the processes that underpin effective innovation management that AI could transform, I realized the potential for even greater disruption than I had thought. However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Innov8rs | Corporates often grapple with the "Innovator's Dilemma," where the gravitational pull of the core business's existing processes, incentive structures, and risk models stifles the pursuit of groundbreaking innovation. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Implementing OpenTable’s online reservation system was a huge challenge. To get the reservation systems into as many restaurants as possible, the OpenTable team would order internet service on behalf of the restaurant, pickup and deliver the equipment on the back of mopeds, and then run cables across the ceiling.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s about introducing features, functionalities, or designs that meet emerging customer needs or tap into uncharted market segments. Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! .” ” They are all part of the problematic “ordering” of the organizational social system.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

System 113

System Innovation Design Technical Review 113

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2023

Today, we lack a comprehensive system model that brings the critical innovation skill factors out, gives them their appropriate values, and when those needed are applied appropriately. How can we identify these and make the innovation process more dynamic yet embed constantly as routines?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

The question is, which are critical, which naturally occur when others begin to be put into place, and which seem to have limited or no real effect on changing the dynamics of innovation? How can we identify these and make the innovation process more dynamic, yet these are constantly embedded as routines?

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