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? Innovation will be central to this; it will be based more on agility, being highly adaptable, flexible and acting at speed.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The ability to evolve enterprise capabilities is evaluating value webs, and artificial intelligence, pushing the need to reshape structures to be more outwardly facing, open to receiving new knowledge and prepared to share and exchange in return. What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 209

Planview

AUGUST 16, 2023

Fortune 500 companies have long recognized the importance of adopting the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced business landscape. Increasing Business Agility One area undergoing rapid evolution in software development is generative AI.

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Agile How To Generative AI Resources 52

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

My conclusions from that final post was “The Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs presents a holistic approach to navigating the complexities of the modern business landscape. It emphasizes collaborative ecosystems as the key to unlocking untapped potential, driving sustained growth, and achieving collective prosperity.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This transformative journey is encapsulated in the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs, a cascading framework comprising four interconnected layers: Innovation Ecosystems, Business Ecosystems, Dynamic Ecosystems, and the Ecosystems of Enterprises. Ecosystem of Enterprises: Focus on achieving collective prosperity and sustained excellence.

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Collaboration Design Leadership Competition 64

Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As such, they exemplify the power of AdaptiveWork as a flexible enterprise-wide platform to enable various teams to operate in the way that best suits their needs. Huntington Bank then embarked on an Agile transformation journey to evolve how its business solutions were delivered, funded, prioritized, and governed.

Agile 59

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. AccelIQ Digital is a global consultancy based in Houston, Texas, with a mission to help enterprise businesses unlock the benefits of this outward-looking, collaborative approach to innovation.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 18, 2017

Using a highly novel approach to innovation, he sought to create a startup-like environment where all employees – including blue collar personnel – could easily contribute to refuel and grow the R&D enterprise. To achieve his goals, Knibiehly knew he needed more than innovation management software.

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Engagement Case Study Agile Innovation 61

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new partnership between Qmarkets and boutique management consultancy SteepConsult will enable enterprise companies across Europe to benefit from a 360-degree service combining SteepConsult’s extensive innovation expertise with our own innovation management software solutions. But it doesn’t have to be so hard. That’s where we come in.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. Our advisors are present in the USA, Brazilian, and Asian regions. There are a few avenues for engaging in open innovation: 1.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

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. Often it is present in the existing, as commonly referred too as “weak signals”, these are often hidden amid the noise of delivering on today.

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Design Innovation Agile System 138

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Then the last in a long list of legacy problems we never achieve the potential of organizational agility and efficiency. Enterprises that look well-run suddenly stubble or push their existing position a step too far. Customer Engagement Apps are a good point in case. Horizon two is connecting the present with the future.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this blog, we’re going to preview digital workplace trends that are going to have the most impact on enterprises this year. Progressive employee engagement. At this moment, the enterprise world is buzzing with new technological advancements influencing employee engagement and experience in the workplace.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are all presently learning a new practice. Enterprise Architecture. Agility, adaptability & innovation. Agile product development. Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. Primary perspective on the whole.

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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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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Acuvate

JUNE 22, 2022

“Digital banking,” “super apps,” “hyper-personalization,” “customer experience,” and “agility” — are the terms redefining the BFSI industry today. The pandemic has fast-tracked digital behaviors, redefining how customers want to engage with their banks. Infusing agility in banking operations with legacy system modernization.

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Industry Artificial Inteligence Agile System 52

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Recently I was asked to complete a review of digital transformation, to gauge where it presently is, to take a look at the leading emerging practices and ‘professional ‘wisdom’ and turn these insights into a report due out before the end of the year. It needs very hands-on engagement throughout the whole process.

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Technical Review Roadmap Agile Engagement 100

Planview

AUGUST 16, 2022

As such, they have the capacity to work in an Agile manner, and as necessary tweak or re-invent business processes that replace complexity with simplicity — and ultimately improve customer experiences. In other words: they are a high growth and a highly profitable enterprise — not one instead of the other. Improved Revenue.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Past experience can be enough to assist complicated but complex becomes more problematical as it is ambiguous, uncertain and presents a uniqueness in its challenges. It needs to be more agile and flexible. Hierarchy and delegation are flattening out and seeking engagement. how can we reverse engineer scaling up?

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Innovation Software Review Design Engagement 222

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

We will obtain increasing more powerful insights that have the real potential of being turned into new innovation outcomes, through the connected businesses we are presently needing to build. The real need is delivering a new integrated innovation engagement platform. This can generate new value and business propositions.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Technology Internet of things Innovation 100

ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape whole industries and every enterprise.

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Generative AI Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 59

InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Design Thinking, Agile, & Online Meetings with Google Jamboard Online. Available to Enterprise, Business, Basic, and Education G Suite customers, this tool can be incredibly useful to collaborate and design together with your team virtually. Host a video meeting and present your whiteboard to people viewing remotely.

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Design Thinking Software Video Meeting 40

mjvinnovation

JUNE 12, 2020

This article aims to present the main concepts, advantages and challenges of adopting IT Outsourcing and how MJV can help your company achieve its strategic objectives in times of global crisis. The most popular reasons for outsourcing any project is to have an access to expert knowledge and experience that present employees may not offer.

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Company Software Review Agile Project 52

Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The ability to evolve enterprise capabilities is evaluating value webs and artificial intelligence, pushing the need to reshape structures to be more outwardly facing, open to receiving new knowledge and prepared to share and exchange in return. What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have.

Design 52

Design Innovation Artificial Inteligence Collaboration 52

ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times. Strategy #4. Improving both customer centricity and the customers’ experience.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 52

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. The ongoing digital transformation has now affected every corner of enterprise business. The Importance of Agile Leadership. The Evolution from Management to Leadership.

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Leadership Crowdsourcing Collaboration Innovation 56

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

So I reverted to the press release and that provided more than the website in gaining some improved clarity as there seems precious little else at present. Bridging the intent with the present deliver. My understanding came more from the press release. I assume curated will be by Cap Gemini as it is their Exchange.

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Innovation Collaboration Technology Disruption 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do. With the increasing need to adapt to a digital world, the essential need for understanding customer behaviors of those wanting to engage with your business or brand becomes even more of a challenge if you have not mapped this out.

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Technical Review Report Survey Artificial Inteligence 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

I like this extract from the New York Times: “ Crowdsourcing is the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal- often innovation, problem-solving or efficiency. Firstly we have the bigger “meta” trends or present phenomena driving much of our thinking. What do you gain that is additional to what you are currently doing?

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Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 113

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In my view I visualize a new integrated innovation engagement platform to be like this shown below. I’d love to engage on this to realize its potential. The real need is delivering a new integrated innovation engagement platform. We need not only a new innovation management system, we need a modern engagement platform.

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Engagement System Innovation Design 206

Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Breaking down silos and seamlessly connecting and streamlining data and process flows are integral to finding new solutions, enhancing security, and creating personalized and engaging citizen experiences.” Defined as the movement of value from customer insight to product delivery, flow is a fundamental prerequisite to Agile success.

Agile 52

Agile Software Tools Project 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

I like this extract from the New York Times: “ Crowdsourcing is the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal- often innovation, problem solving or efficiency. Firstly we have the bigger “meta” trends or present phenomena driving much of our thinking. What do you gain that is additional to what you are currently doing?

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. Speed is dominating at present then “ Scale ” and the constant worries over the” Execution ” of the new value proposition.

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Innovation Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 150

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

” This should be asked not just on each occasion of an innovation concept design but within the total innovation system we are presently operating under. The “ what is viable ” becomes richer, more engaging and closer to the two other parts of a solution needed for greater innovation delivery. What are we capable of?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Design LEAN 100

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level. More ideas alongside more user engagement, means a higher chance of successful ideas!

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level. More ideas alongside more user engagement, means a higher chance of successful ideas!

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. Small startups can get away with it.

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