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? Emphasize the potential for increased agility, faster time-to-market, and improved innovation outcomes.

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Guide 4 Innovating

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Agility holds a special interest for me. I named my consulting business Agility Innovation Specialists and constantly am looking to emphasize that agility is really important to managing innovation. My takeaways from this: “Learning agility is a reliable indicator of potential for leadership roles.

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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. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

In general, business building allows incumbents to blend startups' agility and rapid growth potential with their resources and established wisdom. “If In other words, balancing these two dimensions – the ‘now’ and the ‘new’ – is the trick for leadership to succeed at building businesses. If our startups grow, we grow”.

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Planview

OCTOBER 17, 2019

What does innovation management mean to you? You need ideas to be innovative, but you need an innovation culture to continually source the most valuable ideas. The concept of “building an innovation culture” is a topic that’s come up in a variety of conversations with Planview Spigit clients over the last few months.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. The CINO has been brought out from the server room and given responsibility for leading innovation management to keep the enterprise as a competitive player. .

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2017

I was at a committee meeting recently and one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision making – the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision making” actually meant, I was informed that it meant accelerating planning by making fast decisions that did not need to be “perfect”.

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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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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2017

Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete, and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that helps individuals cope with disruptive technological change”.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This transformative journey is encapsulated in the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs, a cascading framework comprising four interconnected layers: Innovation Ecosystems, Business Ecosystems, Dynamic Ecosystems, and the Ecosystems of Enterprises. The orchestration becomes central to managing Ecosystems.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Not just managing, but mastering the art and science of innovation, effectively ensuring a continuous and cost-effective approach to value creation and realization. An astronomical force for strategic and boundless innovation. Think of it as a set of practices ingraining innovation deep within the fabric of the organization.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2017

Ralph Ohr explores the question: In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures - such as innovation or digital labs - being dedicated to initiate and develop explorative ideas and opportunities?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Dan Montgomery is a practitioner of Strategic Agility and shares his simple and practical tools in this interview. He is also the co-author of The Institute Way: Simplify Strategic Planning and Management with the Balanced Scorecard. He has helped several organizations create strategic plans and add agility.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As rightly pointed out by Tim Kastelle recently, it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both purposes are complementary and equally important. The main objective of dual approaches is to.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. The Relationship of Capabilities to Leadership.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company. To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. What makes an organization innovative?

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 20, 2016

In previous posts, I have shared my view on important cornerstones for successful innovation management systems. In the following, I would like to summarize and complement these thoughts by suggesting an innovation management model that may help organizations to innovate more successfully and sustainably.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Broad Categories of Innovation At the heart of the innovation spectrum lie two broad categories that encapsulate the range of strategies businesses can deploy: incremental innovation and radical (including disruptive) innovation.

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Idea Drop

JULY 6, 2017

Striking a balance between formal processes and spontaneity is tricky but can be helped by innovation management software. Such a platform facilitates the capture and curation of ideas , whilst encouraging collaboration and an agile approach.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors and teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. What is your definition of “innovation”? Magazine Great Leadership Speaker.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam about what keeps innovators within large organisations going and what makes it really hard for them. Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation.

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Innovation Architecture

MARCH 5, 2018

The IAOIP, a non-profit professional society, seeks to raise the level of knowledge amongst the professionals working in the field of innovation management. People involved in innovation management will find the IAOIP a valuable resource. I felt as if I were “amongst my kind.”

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

To figure out why, the consulting team had reviewed the company’s innovation lifecycle process, showing what happens to an idea in order to get implemented. As such, companies have been taught that if their innovation efforts are failing, it means that there is something fundamentally wrong with the innovation management process.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. The conversation I recited at the start of this blog proves they are far from being alone in misunderstanding the importance of culture, processes and strategy to innovation. (Amongst 4 mysteries he solved that year).

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand…architecting your business for real-time adaptability and resilience in the face of uncertainty”. It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand.” At Qmarkets we call ours the Innovation Management Ecosystem.

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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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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. How Do You Appreciate the Value of Business Agility? I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2023

. #8 – Innovation as a Response to Market Changes The ability to innovate in response to market changes is a critical competitive advantage. 7 – Continuous Learning and Adaptation Innovation is not a static process; it requires continuous learning and adaptation. . #3

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Qmarkets

MARCH 24, 2021

It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand…architecting your business for real-time adaptability and resilience in the face of uncertainty”. It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand.” At Qmarkets we call ours the Innovation Management Ecosystem.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

That group should possess a deep understanding of the existing organization’s strategy, business models, operations and culture and a wider appreciation of the innovation landscape, the “fields of opportunity” and the emerging practices of innovation management.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand…architecting your business for real-time adaptability and resilience in the face of uncertainty”. It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand.” At Qmarkets we call ours the Innovation Management Ecosystem.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance. Measuring innovation becomes a key focus, with an emphasis on balancing leadership’s need for certainty with employees’ concerns about potential consequences.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. We created a short video for you on this topic.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is why it’s important for leadership to recognize the power of crowdsourcing : it’s a sustainable process for repeatedly unlocking business value. This means having leadership that trusts and motivates everyone to share, collaborate on, and prototype their ideas, no matter how crazy they may initially sound. Read the Full Story.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Full of excitement and passion, I started hiring some great talent and jumped headlong into the role of leader, coach, mentor and manager. Being a rather seasoned innovation manager, I pulled out my innovation toolbox and got to work training my organization on how to use the tools.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

To bring a better level of clarity to the many left open, fuzzy, and still so unclear areas within organizations, leadership must find better ways to resist their impulses to constantly re-organize. In Leadership, I believe, would need to understand innovation far more in this demanding environment of inquiry.

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