Remove Opener to the Three Horizons for Innovation
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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges.

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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design

Paul Hobcraft

There is huge value in applying the three horizon framework into your thinking. It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Visual two heads… different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same process we lose so much. Innovation today disappoints.

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Reflecting on our innovation practices

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the rest of what innovation needs to be built upon.

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The Pressures Placed on the Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

nd There are multiple “stretching and straining points” that make the life of the innovator increasingly uncomfortable. These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. So much around innovation is not optimal. So why is that?

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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. “…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”. The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland. They are a reaction to the “red queen problem” but aren’t actually solving the problem.