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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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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share. To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporate venture studios offer innovation teams the freedom to operate with the spirit, passion, and resilience of entrepreneurs, all while leveraging organizational resources. However, building successful innovation teams in this context requires careful consideration. What are the key ingredients?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation comes to businesses in many ways, yet one thing is for certain: It relies on a diversity of thought. After all, differing viewpoints have been known to encourage greater innovation. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking.

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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

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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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. There are good and bad things about this approach. The Agile model and its peculiarities. Check them out. The positive aspects of the Waterfall model.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The debate is about whether or not to fund innovation work, and if the decision is positive, how much to spend or invest in innovation. In this regard, there is clear demand for innovation, for new products, new services and experiences and consumers have the funds to spend on new things. But we are asking the wrong question.

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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. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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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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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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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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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

Why Command-and-Control Culture Fails Stifles Creativity and Innovation A command-and-control culture tends to stifle creativity and innovation, as it leaves no room for employees to contribute their ideas or think outside the box. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 5, 2021

As we leave the COVID lockdown and the economy picks up steam again, I think many businesses will recognize a need for more generalists on their team. Pity the poor PhDs who try to find new areas of study to complete their research. A siloed organization full of specialists will find it exceptionally difficult to be nimble and agile.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Project managers face a range of challenges in their day-to-day life including poor project planning, lack of communication, and lack of accountability. A project manager should be able to effectively communicate with teams, clients, and other stakeholders involved in the project.

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CMOE

MAY 7, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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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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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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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 #3.

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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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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But today, there is no way to postpone the innovation plans in the pipeline. What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. We are already leaving a spoiler: it is crucial to understand how to get value from 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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