Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, the need to bring the innovation management process is a constant technological advancement. We cannot afford to avoid changing our innovation processes as we deal with a far more complex and challenging world. Why change?

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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

APRIL 1, 2023

How do we know the critical skills, competencies and capabilities for innovation? Also, what are the additional dependencies for sustaining innovation capabilities that are becoming vital to understand so an organization can place the appropriate resources behind them, build upon a sustainable future and leverage these innovation dynamics?

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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. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Learning is a constant, ongoing process that moves us through the complete innovation discovery to commercialization stages. These learning components work through foresight , then how we learn, synthesize, create, decide, and then set about to convince others of the value and benefits of this innovative concept, the communal “buy-in”.

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Learning Innovation System Design 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

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. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Fuel of Innovation Performance – the dynamics of innovation in Ecosystems: Interconnected Resources: Recognize that resources are distributed across the ecosystem, and innovation performance depends on effective collaboration and resource sharing.

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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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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

APRIL 27, 2017

We need to get closer to ‘real-time’ This reliance on rapidly out-of-date understanding cannot be the basis for any justifications for high-stake bets when it comes to innovation. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

In response, a solution is to invest in growth initiatives that are developed and incubated externally, as a “Venture NewCo” that operates with startup agility, and then to eventually integrate successful ventures back into the core business. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Optimize resources by predicting potential challenges and bottlenecks. For a deeper dive into how AI is revolutionizing the stages and gates processes of innovation, explore next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes. It helps organizations to: Anticipate future trends and consumer demands.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

Organizations need balance, and innovation tends to constantly push to upset this need; that’s its nature as it seeks to change. Innovation will be central to this; it will be based more on agility, being highly adaptable, flexible and acting at speed. How feasible is this?

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The paper outlines six key practices for accelerating new product development and innovations based on examples from companies representing various industries. However, our discussion with Dr. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate. DOWNLOAD THE DATASHEET.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Specifically, here are four ways in which innovation management enhances the PMO’s capabilities: Systematic Ideation and Evaluation: It provides a structured approach for generating, evaluating, and implementing ideas, ensuring projects align with organizational goals. The best part?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas. Executive commitment - It's hard enough to get the existing products or services to market, let alone try to create new solutions in an uncertain innovation process. Innovation needs really deeply involved executive involvement and commitment.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Radical innovation is about making significant leaps forward, often creating new industries or reshaping existing ones. Disruptive innovation, a subset of radical innovation, specifically refers to the process by which smaller companies with fewer resources successfully challenge established incumbents.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

The key is knowing what are the critical factors for your innovation activities and their dependencies for sustaining innovation success? The question is, which are critical, which naturally occur when others begin to be put into place, and which seem to have limited or no real effect on changing the dynamics of innovation?

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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

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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined. AI technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling, which can significantly enhance the efficacy of the Stages and Gates process.

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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

JULY 5, 2017

We hang on to all the legacies built up around the existing innovation system , we manage innovation in efficient and predictable ways. We continue to push our innovation concepts inside an organization that seems determined not to listen.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

If the company isn't all that good at innovation, and what they delay for a few quarters is only incremental innovation that does not radically change the product portfolio, then I think it's reasonable to suggest that delaying isn't all that risky. What work can be done to improve innovation and shorten time to market?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach encourages businesses to test their hypotheses about new business models and customer behaviors quickly and efficiently, minimizing the resources spent on ideas that don’t work while identifying viable innovations faster. Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy , formulated by W.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. Where is innovation within this?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These companies report a clear business impact from their innovation efforts, repeatedly- measured in revenues and/or transformation outcomes. Their systems work effectively and efficiently, but they are also agile enough to seize short-term opportunities. Step 1 involves taking inventory of the elements mentioned earlier.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

The importance of big data, the speed of technology adoption, mobile products, digital design, and technology platforms are at the heart of innovation. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Provide employees with opportunities to learn user-centered and agile methodologies as well as entrepreneurship, thereby fostering long-term cultural change. “If Adapt Your Innovation Process When you adopt that problem-first mindset and ask for challenges instead of ideas, you must adjust the innovation process accordingly.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

.” Accelerating Innovation Now Is An Imperative. In a measurable way, we are hiding our talents under a bushel ( the USA is now #14 in the world in innovation ). We are not taking advantage of the ample resources available to innovate. The time to invest in innovation agility is now. To clean energy.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

It is fascinating to hear their project titles and pitches and we try and take the opportunity to share as much information as we can from our IdeaScale resources. That’s why tapping into the crowd makes ideas a virtually renewable resource. Not Enough Resources to Create Change. What are the stages of innovation?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities. As such, the first question for you to answer is – how ready is your company to support and nurture innovation? In fact, there can be conflict for resources, which the core business inevitably wins.

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Yet2

MARCH 18, 2021

Six months passed before we started seeing most of the innovations developed directly in response to COVID-19 hit the market. Look to products that might not have been a perfect fit before but can be adapted to the moment while you start the direct innovation process. Ready Resources. They were already inundated.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

What does a process consultancy do? When we mention process consulting, we are essentially talking about greater agility in the execution of activities and, mainly, saving time and resources by improving operational routines. Modeling – organization, design or redesign of the process flow. Remember Agile?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. Thursday, November 1 at CRC.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This could be in a new plant, in where production should be situated, so it can be allowed to scale at a later date, in resources able to achieve scale or more importantly you scale according to the type of goods or demand so they can be readily available, closer to the market they are needed. This is where innovation comes into play.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

We often can’t seem to break down the rigidity win the organization’s system, to allow innovation to speed up, connect and deliver on its promise. Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. Food for thought.

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