Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts. They can more effectively respond to market dynamics, experiment with new ideas, and integrate diverse perspectives and inputs into the innovation process.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways. Thus, open innovation is a faster way for traditional companies to innovate, so we offer to scout and facilitate productive engagements deploying that process. You can register here.

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Exago

JUNE 14, 2018

In times of uncertainty, when business models are challenged, companies are bound to cut costs, to become more agile, robust and adaptable to change. Managers can support these efforts, namely within the corporate innovation programme.

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Agile Innovation Management Change 133

Tim Kastelle

MAY 8, 2016

Examples: Business model development, platform/ecosystem innovation, basic technology research & development, startup engagement, innovation intelligence. One common mistake of organizations is to ask employees and external contributors to generate ideas without putting mechanisms in place to act upon them. Adapted from: [link].

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The time to invest in innovation agility is now. My consultancy has been maxed out during Covid19 with two primary engagements. The dynamic engagement included Zoom, Stormz, telephone calls, texts, and exchanged documents. I consulted with management to focus a rapid innovation process effort. Two Real World Examples.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Qmarkets’ provides your employees with a process to suggest ideas for incremental change that continuously improves your organization, resulting in a range of benefits, and placing your organization in a stronger position to survive in the face of disruption. The Opportunity in Crisis – Now or Never?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Qmarkets’ provides your employees with a process to suggest ideas for incremental change that continuously improves your organization, resulting in a range of benefits, and placing your organization in a stronger position to survive in the face of disruption. The Opportunity in Crisis – Now or Never?

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Disruption Innovation 52

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 15, 2016

So some ‘grief’, some compliments, and I ended up feeling ‘warm’ but a little chastened, as I had failed in clearly raising the level of curiosity intended in my mail out for a greater, deeper engagement that I was attempting. How mistakenly wrong this call for simply ideas really is.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Progressive employee engagement. At this moment, the enterprise world is buzzing with new technological advancements influencing employee engagement and experience in the workplace. Take the time and make the investments needed to balance employee expectations with business needs to ensure they are equally satisfied and engaged.

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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. We are seeing increasing calls for greater speed, increased customization, engagement, authenticity, the different view on value, functionality.

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Strategos

JANUARY 26, 2017

Framing innovation challenges is of critical importance when leadership decides to engage their employees in innovation activities. Crowdsourcing ideas is a popular, energizing way to solve a wide range of business problems. Model agile behavior by getting started and learning from your results. How Merck engaged its employees.

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Idea Drop

JULY 6, 2017

In this post we discuss the current state of innovation in the legal sector and how law firms can benefit from an innovation strategy supported by idea management software. Companies that are engaged in these more up-to-date technological practices are in a far better position to stamp out their competitors.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

Adapting agile principles, Amazon launched the Beta version of Amazon Custom in a short time frame, allowing existing customers to provide feedback directly. In order to power their transformational strategy, and generate new ideas for tobacco-free products, PMI has harnessed the power of crowdsourcing.

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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. We are seeing increasing calls for greater speed, increased customization, engagement, authenticity, different view on value, functionality.

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Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2019

Adapting agile principles, Amazon launched the Beta version of Amazon Custom in a short time frame, allowing existing customers to provide feedback directly. In order to power their transformational strategy, and generate new ideas for tobacco-free products, PMI has harnessed the power of crowdsourcing.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Their agility helps them to keep the pulse of the digitally savvy consumers and makes it easy for the unbanked to join in. Companies can connect with millennials, and the increasingly tech-savvy every other generation, via collaborative open innovation platforms , and create a culture of dialogue, candor and engagement.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 20, 2016

Examples: Business model development, platform/ecosystem innovation, basic technology research & development, startup engagement, innovation intelligence. One common mistake of organizations is to ask employees and external contributors to generate ideas without putting mechanisms in place to act upon them. Adapted from: [link].

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

JULY 14, 2019

Because we’re not bound to the usual channels, we can really afford to be quite flexible and agile in meeting our challenges. QM: How did you previously gather ideas from your employees? What made you interested in idea management software? There were lots of ideas but no way to execute or promote them. .

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2017

However, due to a combination of increased regulation, public opinion, and bottom-line cost-savings, one of the most common challenges modern enterprises aim to overcome with idea management is undoubtedly sustainability. .

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework.

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

Tip: Conducting internal engagement activities such as hackathon helps. Identify good ideas, discard bad ideas, compartmentalize incremental and transformational ideas, select the best, and execute. Tip: Having an innovation/idea management software can be of great help especially for large enterprises.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level. In this process, when ideas are submitted, they often follow clear parameters set by the organization. Opportunity scouting is a fundamental element of innovation.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level. In this process, when ideas are submitted, they often follow clear parameters set by the organization. Opportunity scouting is a fundamental element of innovation.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

JULY 14, 2019

The solution came in the form of an innovation hub powered by Qmarkets – designed to give employees a simple, engaging, and collaborative method for submitting innovative ideas. Because we’re not bound to the usual channels, we can really afford to be quite flexible and agile in meeting our challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Sopheon is delivering the right “on-market” message that they “provide support for speed, agility, and adaptability – all critical enterprise capabilities in the digital era” They are claiming they are actively building business partner ecosystems. They might feel they have this, I don’t.

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Values Centered Innovation

APRIL 6, 2017

IT-based platforms for enabling innovation have variously been called idea management, crowdsourcing, or innovation management systems. A review of websites from innovation management system providers reveals 5 typical goals: Driving results – solving business challenges. Could they do better?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 16, 2020

When considering your own innovation ‘agriculture’, you can liken the high risk/high reward crops to disruptive idea management. Ideas also tend to be bottom up, empowering employees to suggest changes that will make processes more efficient relating to their own jobs or departments.

Software Review 52

Software Review Ideation Innovation Disruption 52

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Agility is not an option. Design your innovation programs in such way they are swift and agile to meet the rapid pace of technology and changing consumer demands. When it comes to employee engagement, there’s no such thing as a small thing. Innovation process expert. Guest innovator. The quick follower with great execution.

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Innovation Programs Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation 40

eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

This includes engaging the right people, creating new strategies for automation and performance measurement, evaluating ideas and executing the best ideas in a way that reduces the time to market. Staying aware and agile can ensure that innovation is a continued process and not a one-off project. And much more!

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