Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session. Most companies have an innovation management system.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. It focuses on collaboration, interconnectedness, and shared value creation within an innovation ecosystem.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation by definition is very different from typical business processes, and it should be in a constant state of flux.

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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. Create: Forming connections and maturing the association’s system dimension needs, network engagements, deepening understanding, architecture framing, impact, and implication.

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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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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

These are likely only the tip of an iceberg of adjustments that will impact everything from how companies compete for sales, to which technologies they use, what their physical footprints look like and how they manage their supply chains. A proven way to do this is through the agile process. Get the Ideas Flowing.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

.” I feel “explicit instructions” need to be carefully managed. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

How difficult would it be to embrace this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, as it is often argued that most people want to keep innovation management and its process simple? Any enterprise-enabled framework will require serious change management thinking. Why change?

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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. They just wanted to know what the process should be, so we can’t change that.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling.

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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?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Recognizing the transforming potential of having fully connected digital factories will revolutionize how we manage innovation going forward. It shifts our thinking and the management of innovation dramatically. There are so many opportunities for innovation well beyond products and services. deployments.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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. Furthermore, innovation is influenced by various external factors, including social, cultural, economic, and technological contexts.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. We “pull down” what is needed. It adjusts and you learn.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

Where should a company place its emphasis to gain both an improving impact on its performance and strengthen its innovation capabilities? The difficulty for many is that innovation is a complex process that has many intangibles within the total mix to manage. There are so many challenges in managing innovation.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Which is why “Innovation is rewarded but execution is worshipped!” While most innovation management software makes it possible for teams and organizations to gather and iterate on ideas, the question you must ask is, how do you ensure the best ideas become reality? Document management. This is a major plus!

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

We look to engage in issues and challenges that give value and impact, sometimes it works, other times less so! Storyroom provides a set of unique datasets and AI to meaningfully connect concepts, ideas or thoughts, to drive awareness and engagement. I am a great admirer of the work that Itonics offers around Innovation Management.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Something has to suffer and I believe this is our innovation outcomes are not shifting the growth needle as we keep our innovation systems and thinking trapped in the 20th-century mindset. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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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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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations. It involves rethinking and redesigning business processes to reduce costs, improve quality, or accelerate production times.

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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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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Lego: By integrating digital experiences with its physical building blocks, such as video games, augmented reality apps, and interactive playsets, Lego expanded its appeal beyond traditional toys, engaging children in both physical and digital creative play.

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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. But I thought I’d share some of the other things that have got us revved up for Open Nation 2018 !

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Being an economist by training, I initially followed that path into financial and data analytics management roles within a major global energy company. With my curiosity and perpetual learner mindset, I reinvented and innovated my career once again.

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hackerearth

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

One of the vital contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors, is innovation management. “It How innovation management enables digital transformation. They further enhance an organization’s innovation culture when they are applied to its business model, its products, and its processes.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Outlining the benefits of adopting a business eco-system accelerates the innovation process, reduces the risks inherent in innovation, and engages the entire organization as “co-ideators” and broader ecosystem in the innovation effort. Continue reading →

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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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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Being an economist by training, I initially followed that path into financial and data analytics management roles within a major global energy company. With my curiosity and perpetual learner mindset, I reinvented and innovated my career once again.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. Another study by PMI unveils that poor project management leads to a staggering $97 million wastage per $1 billion invested. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

When you work in a global organization, scale takes on even a greater set of dimensions; one that needs coordinating and managing. We are seeing risk management become increasingly important in any assessment on where, how and why we need to scale-up and more importantly when. This is where innovation comes into play.

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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. As you may know, I’m an innovation facilitator. I just completed a rigorous, month-long, front-end of innovation process with a client — and I’ve never met them face to face.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Where is innovation within this? Horizon One – keeping the lights on, managing today.

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