Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach.

Innovation 190

Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 190

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is a work in progress only, so let’s continue on that journey: Achieving an Ecosystem AI-driven innovation engagement process Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery.

Generative AI 163

Generative AI Design Data Innovation 163

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. Let’s talk about open-source innovation. Define Objectives: Know why you’re embracing open innovation.

Open Innovation 94

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Innovation Walk

JUNE 14, 2019

These are generally known by their agility and fast implementation of their products or services, giving them a great growth potential. The major challenge is then for large companies, usually built on cumbersome processes and lack of agility. As a matter of fact, today it is very difficult for a company to innovate individually.

Open Innovation 40

Open Innovation Innovation Agile Trends 40

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 21, 2023

Ecosystem thinking is becoming central to our future as we open up to greater co-creation and collaboration opportunities, exploring broader open innovation initiatives. We need to continue to learn, simply in growing within ourselves and what we are inspired to work upon.

Collaboration 196

Collaboration Design Innovation Agile 196

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

Customer co-creation is becoming more co-jointly involved in innovation , gaining insights into customers’ deeper needs and preferences. It emphasizes the ability to leverage and combine existing resources, knowledge, and technologies in novel ways to drive innovation.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The collaborators are seeing the combined value and individual gain in this more open approach. There are so many opportunities for innovation well beyond products and services. We can open up so many new possibilities. Innovation emerges out of the Industrial 4.0 coming from industry 4.0 deployments.

Industry 290

Industry Collaboration Innovation Design 290

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy. #2 Throw open innovation to encompass perspectives from throughout the organizations AND outside the organization. 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

Strategy 151

Strategy Strategy Culture Strategic Thinking 151

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Open Innovation Practices: Embrace open innovation practices that allow for the flow of ideas and resources across organizational boundaries. Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Techniques such as Lean manufacturing and automation play a pivotal role in driving process innovation, enabling businesses to maintain operational excellence and agility. Business Model Innovation Business model innovation is all about rethinking how companies create, deliver, and capture value.

Radical Innovation 52

Radical Innovation Innovation Disruption Competition 52

Innovating4Energy

MARCH 17, 2024

Siemens Energy has opened Innovation Centers in Berlin, Orlando, Shenzhen, and Abu Dhabi to Connet, Ignite, Co-Create, Explore, Pilot and Showcase. Agile and Adaptive Ecosystems: Energy changes face significant obstacles in time, risk and the level of change needed to occur. first appeared on Innovating the Energy Transition.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Technical Review Creativity Innovation 52

Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I see four main components within innovation ecosystems that must be expanded to give this framework meaning. Various mechanisms can enable knowledge transfer and its importance, requiring collaboration platforms, exchanging of intellectual property rights, open innovation practices, and drawing in different intermediaries.

ChatGPT 64

ChatGPT Technical Review Collaboration Competition 64

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 →

Agile 40

Agile Ideation Innovation Innovation Processes 40

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We need to design our systems to be highly agile.

Design 233

Design Technical Review Innovation System 233

ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

Focussing on building both internal and external talent, through empowering, equipping, and enabling internally cohesive and effective innovation teams. Innovation evangelists are change catalysts who courageously experiment with different business models and processes, to crowdsource broad and deep innovation capabilities.

Agile 52

Agile Collaboration Crowdsourcing Learning 52

Integrative Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2016

More and more corporations seek to engage with startups by pursuing corresponding activities across dedicated ecosystems and incorporating them in exploration units along with internal ventures. Startup engaged naturally most in those vehicles not requiring any kind of equity. For (worthwile) details, please delve into the report PDF.

Engagement 40

Engagement Collaboration Report LEAN 40

Imaginatik

APRIL 7, 2017

These VENs are a specialized form of the topic of ‘open innovation’ that we’ve described in previous blogs. The VENs value-add to the ‘open innovation’ movement is that pools of experts do not need to register and be vetted multiple times for each large corporate innovation initiative.

Software Review 100

Software Review Open Innovation Innovation Industry 100

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Qmarkets and Wise Ocean have partnered to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy. We chose to partner with Qmarkets to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy.” transformation.

Software 52

Software Innovation Management Management Agile 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Qmarkets and Wise Ocean have partnered to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy. We chose to partner with Qmarkets to tackle the challenges organizations are facing by leveraging internal and external ecosystems with an agile strategy.” transformation.

Software 52

Software Innovation Management Management Agile 52

100%Open

JULY 3, 2023

Collaboration is another fundamental pillar of inclusive innovation where by bringing together a partnership of various stakeholders, we harness diverse expertise and perspectives. They engaged with us to convene a diverse group of professionals through the “End Migrant Homelessness” Crowdicity platform.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Crowdsourcing Innovation Ideation 52

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. In my view, we must go way beyond “open innovation” as we practice it today. Where is innovation within this? We need to design our systems to be highly agile.

Design 138

Design Innovation Agile System 138

Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, the development of Amazon Custom offers a particularly insightful example of an open innovation initiative that has reaped the benefits of both incremental and disruptive methodologies. A report from BCG highlighting the critical importance of development times for securing innovation ROI.

Examples 53

Examples Disruption Crowdsourcing Agile 53

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. It can simply connect a ‘crowd’ of people to a common purpose. What do you gain that is additional to what you are currently doing?

Crowdsourcing 113

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 113

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Adaptive learning (leads more to incremental innovation). Relational learning (collaborative linkage, networking for open innovation). Always orientated towards innovation, not just new product development. Building agility and responsiveness to constantly changing market conditions.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 148

Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2019

However, the development of Amazon Custom offers a particularly insightful example of an open innovation initiative that has reaped the benefits of both incremental and disruptive methodologies. A report from BCG highlighting the critical importance of development times for securing innovation ROI.

Examples 40

Examples Disruption Agile Crowdsourcing 40

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. It can simply connect a ‘crowd’ of people into a common purpose. What do you gain that is additional to what you are currently doing?

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Mission-driven organizations have an equal opportunity to apply the principles and practices of innovation to maximize their impact–but few take it. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. It may be hard, but the world will thank you.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review LEAN Innovation Social Innovation 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

We need to engage differently. For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. We need to engage differently.

Collaboration 138

Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Industry 138

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”.

Innovation 133

Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

They are quiet rightly suggesting “ with risks well-managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio”.

Innovation 133

Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Yet2

JANUARY 15, 2019

Adding to that roster of open innovation services, over the past 12 – 24 months, several of our subscription clients have asked us to perform anonymous searches for them. Hence the need to engage a partner like yet2 to conduct an anonymous technology search or due diligence inquiry. Can Innovation Save Retail?

Artificial Inteligence 49

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Trends 49

100%Open

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

And of those employees that remain, up to 70% are not engaged in their work , according to Gallup. We’ve built up a pool of regular Associates with whom we work with on specific projects, sometimes for very short and sharp tasks, and other times for an ongoing engagement. ” But being an entrepreneur is not for everybody.

Agile 40

Agile Entrepreneurship Course Engagement 40

Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. A Brief History of Lean.

Entrepreneurship 70

Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

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. It builds a common story on our failing at the front end of innovation.

Software Review 100

Software Review Innovation Software Engagement 100

100%Open

JUNE 1, 2017

Intellectual property (IP) is often the first thing people want to discuss when exploring open innovation. It’s something we at 100%Open know quite a bit about and we have developed a range of tools to effectively manage IP (e.g. innovation airlocks ). Copying is at the heart of all creativity and innovation.

Open Innovation 40

Open Innovation Creativity Agile Design 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The session is engaging, highly kinesthetic, intense, fun, demanding — and highly productive. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

Technology 50

Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50