Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility. The integration of AI amplifies these capabilities by improving design thinking with AI , thus accelerating the innovation process.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

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. We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 208

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. When you invite an innovation keynote speaker to your event, you’re not just getting a presentation; you’re accessing a wealth of knowledge shaped by real-world experience and success.

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Artificial Inteligence Case Study Leadership Design Thinking 100

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We need to get closer to ‘real-time’ This reliance on rapidly out-of-date understanding cannot be the basis for any justifications for high-stake bets when it comes to innovation.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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Technology Change Agile Innovation 178

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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ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Innovation 182

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. Traditional methods and approaches to innovation are completely breaking down, hence my total belief we are in the new era of innovation.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 185

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy. Test AI systems simulate user interactions for immediate feedback.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a forty-five minute working group you can either develop a new innovation process that you can upload and use in your IdeaScale community that day or you can create a communications plan to guide outreach in your next campaign. Innovation you can eat. Take-Something-Home Workshops.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Agile Innovation Management 133

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders. Agile Innovation Processes: Implement agile innovation processes that allow for rapid testing and iteration of new capabilities within the dynamic ecosystem.

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Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Change is always difficult, and changing factors like informal decision making, beliefs and attitudes, risk taking and other factors is more difficult because it requires buy in at all levels and constant reinforcement. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

A good innovation management system will include the templates, a communication and engagement strategy, and processes and rules to quickly launch new activities. Executives want to receive a demonstrable benefits, or ROI, and easily track the progress of the innovation program.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Programs Innovation 78

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. Where is innovation within this?

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Design Innovation Agile System 138

Phil McKinney

AUGUST 17, 2023

This fear can prevent individuals and organizations from pursuing innovative ideas, even when they show great potential. Cognitive biases also play a considerable role in creating innovation blind spots. Lastly, an organization's lack of thinking style and experience diversity can also lead to innovation blind spots.

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How To Technical Review Innovation Trends 78

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 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.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As a pracademic who has spent over 25 years designing and launching innovation processes, Angèle shared with us what happens when business meets design and what it takes to apply the science and art of innovation. In other words, Business Design is an agile approach to design-driven innovation. Why Business Design?

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Design Meeting Data System 52

PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Think of it as a set of practices ingraining innovation deep within the fabric of the organization. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. Ensuring success requires organizations to select the right team for the job. The best part?

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Innovation Management Resources 97

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

There is a strategic resistance, there is a lack of organizational agility and still not the level of commitment this is required, driven from the top. We can reach far more into underserved markets through greater customer connections and engagement, we can co-design with them. The internal change is slow.

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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis. What’s an Innovation Sprint? And the current digital landscape doesn’t help this situation.

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Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

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.

Trends 90

Trends Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Data 90

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. Millions of people, connected by the internet, are contributing ideas and information to projects big and small. So where are you on the crowd continuum?

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Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 113

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. The culture within organizations still is rather more closed-up into the silo mindset and not encouraged to be more open, engaging across functions in collaborating ways.

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Innovation Culture Leadership Resources 145

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Are the innovation consultants reacting to the massive changes in information asymmetries occurring and proving solutions to these? There is this growing redundancy of idle assets that are struggling to be reconfigured to take on new challenges and new purpose and failing to be agile, flexible and adaptive.

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Processes 100

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

Shown below are a list of the factors I feel can be major contributors (far from exhaustive), firstly into the soft side of our balance sheet that is made up of culture, climate and environment as our creative and engagement capacity. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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Innovation Engagement Technical Review Entrepreneurship 100

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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Marketing LEAN Case Study Study 65

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. Millions of people, connected by the internet, are contributing ideas and information to projects big and small. So where are you on the crowd continuum?

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

Yet2

MARCH 18, 2021

Six months passed before we started seeing most of the innovations developed directly in response to COVID-19 hit the market. Look to products that might not have been a perfect fit before but can be adapted to the moment while you start the direct innovation process. Want more information? Ready Resources.

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Disruption Innovation Resources Marketing 52

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. Depending on companies’ innovation readiness, the responsibility areas of the ‘innovation team’ may include the following: Set the strategy, define success. The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical.

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Technical Review How To Software Review Ideation 68

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

H1 initiatives tend to be larger in scale, and can be pushed through a rigid stage-gate process. H2 and H3 on the other hand, often require a more agile, explorative and iterative process with different returns, different capabilities and different people on the projects. Start with either an internal or external campaign.

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Product Development How To Ideation Project 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A transparent process in turn encourages user engagement when the user trusts that their idea will be considered and fairly evaluated. More ideas alongside more user engagement, means a higher chance of successful ideas! Opportunity scouting is a fundamental element of innovation.

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Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A transparent process in turn encourages user engagement when the user trusts that their idea will be considered and fairly evaluated. More ideas alongside more user engagement, means a higher chance of successful ideas! Opportunity scouting is a fundamental element of innovation.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Idea Drop

JULY 6, 2017

On the other hand, some law firms are leveraging remote access, deploying algorithms to assess cases and installing new information systems to streamline day-to-day activity. 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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Innovation Management Management Innovation Software 56

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records. The session is engaging, highly kinesthetic, intense, fun, demanding — and highly productive.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The best practices that we’ve developed indicate that the very first choice you make should be to select a strategic objective for the innovation project — one that is directly linked to the growth strategy of the organizations leadership. Blocker # 2: Lack of Purpose. Motivation and productivity go hand in hand.

How To 45

How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Engagement 45

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Disruption Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management 73