TechEmpower Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

No good innovator turns down advice! The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. Why do this without the right technical advisor? Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2024

Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Of course, not all friction is bad. They are real.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation. Jeffery and I go back within the innovation space a long way. Here is the link to the recording. We believe C.E.O’s

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

The accepted conventions of project management—from methodologies to practices and strategies to software—are there to ensure organizational effectiveness, a concept that measures how efficiently an organization achieves its business goals. Consistent monitoring and reporting are also required for effective time management.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives. It involves five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Businesses that have leaders who are committed to their strategies grow faster and are more profitable than their counterparts. The results of this lack of investment cascade down to leaders in the middle, leaders on the front line, and the workforce: 95 percent of employees do not know or understand their organization’s strategy.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

By identifying key challenges and proposing actionable solutions, we aim to shed light on the strategies necessary for success in the industry’s dynamic landscape. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness. Three challenges, in particular, are driving the automotive industry’s software revolution.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be these “innovation ecosystems”, “business ecosystems” or “dynamic ecosystems.” Before I get to explaining and exploring this overarching “ Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs “, I wanted to describe a step-by-step way of building out the needed dynamic innovation ecosystems.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. What’s more, 90% anticipate ramping up their innovation budgets, with nearly all increasing by more than 10%!

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This shift was powered by the defining trait of our species, our human creativity, which is at the heart of all creative problem-solving endeavors, where innovation is the engine of growth, no matter, what the context. But for business problem solving, using GPT-4 resulted in performance that was 23% lower than that of the control group.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

In our last blog , we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate, to take advantage of living in a globalised world, interconnected through technologies and values and within an interrelated structure of reality. Strategy #1. Strategy #2.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. Innovation as a dedicated activity still sits uncomfortably within many organizations. Why is that? Source: [link].

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Therefore, this at-home life’s effects were not felt as a need to realign strategies and even rethink business models. But today, there is no way to postpone the innovation plans in the pipeline. We are already leaving a spoiler: it is crucial to understand how to get value from innovation. Innovation. Startup-up.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation by definition is very different from typical business processes, and it should be in a constant state of flux.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Most innovators are optimists. There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. It also positions us for change innovation and excellence in the way we transform our approach to work and share our wisdom in life.

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Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 10, 2019

All organisation have a stated strategy – one that they would like to execute on. However, most organisations are not able to execute the stated strategy, which leads to the organisation not being able to live up to its potential and deliver what they promise to their stakeholders. The strategy is the how part.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies issue arrived Saturday. In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers. This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”. Leading innovative tech companies, no matter whether it was Google, Intuit, Microsoft or Apple, all benefited from coaching. Three key business nutshells.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Innov8rs | Without a well-established innovation capability, continuous innovation is nearly impossible. Most corporates can innovate occasionally and be successful in doing so. Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. Here’s a summary of his remarks.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Some years ago I took on the challenge of building an innovation center and organization in China for a Fortune 500 firm. Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Do companies know how to innovate? Should innovation be part of an individual’s job title? Does a company even need to innovate? Most big companies think technology when thinking about innovation, regardless of whether or not they’re technology companies. Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested reading: 13 – Budgets for Micro-Innovations.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

In the past, we’ve discussed the history of innovation , what it means to be innovative, and some of the challenges facing organizations when it comes to straight up innovation. But now, it’s time to talk about something more specific.lean innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 10, 2023

In doing so, business leaders can then develop an Anticipatory mindset that more easily overcomes what they are afraid of before it tears them down. Failure to innovate – A lot of businesses are stuck in their ways or they are on a mission to preserve the status quo, which means they pass up innovating for a variety of reasons.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. How can I apply design thinking to my business?

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Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As incredible as it sounds, what defines a truly successful organization in today’s data-led world is the willingness and ability to build modern data estates, find meaning in an increasingly complex myriad of data sources and data silos, and incorporate agility, speed, and innovation into data-driven business decisions.

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