Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are all presently learning a new practice. We need to ditch much of the endeavors that make up a legacy of past practice, and think forward, to which the term next practice becomes the learning spot. Agility, adaptability & innovation. As-Is and To-Be grand designs. Agile product development.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization? Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. It does not include product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI-powered innovation management involves the use of machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, predictive analytics, and other AI tools to augment the human decision-making process. The Importance of AI in Today’s Product Development Artificial Intelligence has become an indispensable tool in modern product development.

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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. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. Where did Agile come from?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration in Today’s Workplace In the contemporary workplace, characterized by rapid technological advancements and a shift towards more agile and remote working conditions, fostering team collaboration has become indispensable. Encourage team members to share their mistakes and learning experiences.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry. By integrating the agility and fresh perspectives of startups, established companies can adapt more quickly to industry changes and consumer demands.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Embracing Failure and Learning A culture that accepts failure as a stepping stone to success is more likely to innovate effectively.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By investing in startups, corporations can access new technologies, products, and services that can significantly enhance their competitive edge. Moreover, through CVC, corporations can tap into the startup ecosystem , leveraging agility and innovative mindsets. Market Expansion Entering new markets or segments through partnerships.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. I had never heard of Agile. We were Waterfall.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes. To help your organization become more agile, I offer four pieces of advice, each of which ties to an essential element of agility. While we often prioritize the dynamic elements of agility?—?the

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ITONICS

AUGUST 15, 2017

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. You will …. Training components. Target group.

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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. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to Startup Accelerator Programs The Concept of Startup Acceleration Startup accelerator programs are designed to foster rapid growth of early-stage companies by providing them with the necessary resources and support. The collaborative environment of an accelerator allows for a rich exchange of ideas and best practices.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Adaptive learning (leads more to incremental innovation). Generative learning (willingness to question long-held assumptions)- favours radical. Relational learning (collaborative linkage, networking for open innovation). Distinctive learning of new knowledge to create added value directly.

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ITONICS

MARCH 14, 2017

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. You will …. Training components. Target group.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

They represent a radical departure from existing products, services, or processes, paving the way for new markets, industries, and value networks. These uncertainties require a different approach from conventional project management, emphasizing learning and adaptation over rigid planning and execution.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 29, 2023

Ries’s emphasis on Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) sparked a paradigm shift. This shift highlights the need for purposeful and disciplined experiments throughout the entire business model, beyond product development alone. An MVP is a product experiment with a very high degree of fidelity.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 5, 2018

While some are working to increase knowledge sharing between traditionally siloed departments, others are focused on saving millions of dollars a year and still others are focused on accelerating product development. Be more agile. Learn more about the state of innovation in the healthcare industry in our white paper.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Most people work in their departments on the current model while a handful of innovators drive change initiatives or new product developments. The ideas that don’t work are discarded and the ones that show promise are developed. The emphasis is on adaptability, learning and sharing. The emphasis is on plans and targets.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

The trends outlined in this blog offer a glimpse into the future of product development and some exciting opportunities for product-driven companies to achieve real ROI regarding cost savings, efficiency, productivity, digital transformation benefits, and employee satisfaction.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I've written before but it bears repeating, innovation, that is, thinking up, designing and creating something new and different that drives value for customers, isn't going to happen in your day to day business as usual environment. The efficient, effective environment isn't a good development platform for new thinking and new ideas.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. At this point the development team maintained the site with an agile process.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Unfortunately the Build, Measure, Learn diagram is the cause of that confusion. Build, Measure, Learn sounds pretty simple.

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IdeaConnection

APRIL 20, 2018

In a move designed to accelerate innovation in its manufacturing processes and boost product development, Electrolux is launching the Electrolux Innovation Factory. The Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer aims to provide an agile, open environment where ideas can flourish and be turned into marketable products.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means. So, what is a minimum viable product, and how do you go about creating one? Understanding MVP Development . Conclusion.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

His experience spans multiple industries with experience in hardware, software and services in startups to Fortune 500 companies.Currently, Mike serves as Sopheon’s Chief Product Officer and leads the team in Product Management, Design, and Product Marketing and is responsible for Sopheon products throughout their entire lifecycle.

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Be-novative

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

One of the biggest trends in 2022 is to design workplaces together that put people at the centre and craft experiences and organisational cultures that are more empathetic, inclusive, creative, healthier, humane?—?which Agile transformation and card games like the above encourage people to start acting in small increments bottom-up.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

In the Organisation Design profession, we call this the principle of form follows function. Know what the work should look like and what the outcomes must be before you design how you are going to work on it together. In good agile practices, the client and the team define together the deliverables of each sprint.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Which means they do not believe small changes over time, failing, learning and adjusting can or will have a meaningful impact. Agree on an internal definition at your company – solicit input from all over the organization, not just those in product development, IT and the C-Suite.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

BECOMING PROACTIVE ABOUT CUSTOMER NEEDS NCARB’s programming teams, already skilled in using agile work prioritization techniques , took part in Moves the Needle’s Lean Innovation Sprint to learn how to determine what work should be on its list, based on proactive and deep understanding of their customer.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn.

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Acuvate

MAY 31, 2023

Their ability to study and analyze huge amounts of data and learn from customer interactions has allowed GPT-powered chatbots to offer immense value. However, there is also a need for the retail industry to remain agile and embrace continuous innovation and harness the full potential of GPT and chatbots in shaping the future of retail.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. The New Wave of Innovation Management Paradigms – Efficiency in Discovery When facing uncertainty, we need processes that allow us to optimize learning, not just execution. For the consumer, this is awesome.

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The Inovo Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

The processes, methods and tools used for New Product Development (NPD) are insufficient for strategic innovation [1] and strategic innovation is necessary for the accelerated growth that companies demand. The most promising approaches are designed for the startup ecosystem. You learn by doing and falling over.”

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

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