Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

And, as a result, our innovation portfolios tend to be quite large and less and less strategic. According to Tom, streamlining our portfolio is the first thing to do in 2023 to increase customer satisfaction and speed up the overall innovation process. “If Strategic Agility.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation. New Areas of Accelerating Innovation Discovery.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. This could include customers, partners, suppliers, or other ecosystem participants.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services.

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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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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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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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Idea Drop

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation.

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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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every organization needs to find methods innovate ideas and solutions based on the nature of their jobs and the types of challenges that need to be solved. Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. Innovation Management.

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Idea Drop

JULY 6, 2017

Recent reports which have been released reveal an awareness of the necessity to embrace innovation but a reluctance to be the first to take the corresponding steps. 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.

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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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every organization needs to find methods innovate ideas and solutions based on the nature of their jobs and the types of challenges that need to be solved. Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. Innovation Management.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

Achieving Business Model Innovation with Innovation Management Software Innovation management software offers a suite of tools that streamline the innovation process , facilitate collaboration across departments, and provide analytics to measure the impact of proposed changes.

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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

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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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Follow insights on two contrasting perspectives on measuring innovation: leadership’s desire for certainty and employees’ concerns about potential repercussions. She emphasizes the importance of implementing measurements that serve the needs of top management while also motivating employees with achievable targets.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

As a leader, you understand the importance of innovation management in maintaining a competitive edge, much like a motorcyclist constantly adjusts their balance and direction when navigating a challenging road. So, how can you ensure that your innovation efforts are positioned for success?

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET.

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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. Take-Something-Home Workshops. We’re excited to see the results that you’ll be able to use right away.

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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

MARCH 8, 2022

I am a great admirer of the work that Itonics offers around Innovation Management. Recently they have also been exploring AI-Driven Innovation and in a very recent post “ Why AI-Driven Innovation Should Be On Your Radar” they are highlighting a recent Hype Cycle graph for Innovation Management Techniques,2021.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

Yet we still get caught out by no t resolving or addressing the essential building blocks of innovation (culture, environment, climate, governance, alignment. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation. Innovation is seemingly more complex today.

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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 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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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

Let me provide a quick introduction along with some brief explanations : Innovation for me always needs common reference points. When you don’t have a common approach to something, in this case, the management of innovation, you can have considerable pockets of inefficiency and a high level of ineffectiveness to deal with.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This involves creating a framework that allows for calculated risks and ensures that these risks are managed and mitigated effectively. Successful innovation often means stepping out of the comfort zone while having safeguards in place. #8 It’s about creating a safe space for risk-taking and learning from failures. #1

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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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