Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We are or need to be, in search of a sustainable future where we can constantly build upon innovation capabilities, capacities and competencies that can be refreshed, strengthened and sometimes reduced to meet the circumstances. The extent of market advantage (posses distinctive advantage) to be achieved or believed needed.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. I had never heard of Agile.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The marketplace, the third part, often gets left to last when those achieving this new solution realize it needs a place for actual exchange, a thriving buyer/seller market. Imagine a real market where you shop. Increasing scope for a total addressable market.

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Planview

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In doing research for Project to Product I found myself having very similar discussions with analysts about expanding the benefits of Agile and DevOps to the operating model of a digital business. In the decade following, I was amazed to witness how ALM went on to shape the tool landscape around software development. Fast forward to 2016.

Management 59

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

We need to create a digital transformation strategy, a clear roadmap and build the business case as it is going to be, well, umm…… transformational. It is not like downloading one app, playing around with it, assessing its value and dispensing with it if it does not meet our need.

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Planview

MAY 3, 2023

Key Transformation Challenges Picture this: You’re in a meeting to address challenges across the PMO and certain issues keep being raised. You’ve implemented agile ways of working at a team level, but as an enterprise, you’re still slow to market and are having trouble reacting to changes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Innovation Process Insights The journey to innovation is a critical path many businesses pursue to stay ahead in today’s fast-paced market. Utilizing customer feedback loops to stay aligned with market needs. Creating an innovation roadmap that outlines short-term and long-term initiatives.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Here’s why.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. Lucas Potasso-Justino Chief Editor for the Future-Fit Manifesto and Content Marketing Specialist at Planbox.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

Following are the seven steps to help you prepare for eventual certification, providing your organization with the upper hand that leaves your rivals in the dust while you burn rubber towards market leadership. Step 1: Context of the Organization “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Knowing the why of your customers is something that keeps many marketing and C-level executives up at night. seem to not meet heightened expectations. Are you meeting your customer needs, do you fully understand their motivations, associated behaviors to design a better range of innovation solutions?

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo. One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” Get feedback online.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Jennifer Riggins is the marketeer at Happy Melly , a virtual global business network dedicated to making happiness at work the new norm. One supporter collaboration that has come out of our community is the Agile Uprising which looks to build a community around the agile mindset and includes four Happy Melly members as founders.

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Innovating4Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This approach should be well-thought-out and comprehensive and provide clear roadmaps for the essential broad inclusion solutions required. It’s about being agile and adaptable in response to new information and challenges.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. Understanding customer problems requires developing customer empathy, and customer empathy requires new forms of market research methods and avoiding market research method traps.

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Peer Insight

MARCH 17, 2020

Diversify your market validation strategy. Here are a few alternative ways to measure success: clarity on learning goals, deep understanding of why users feel the way they do, reported satisfaction with the offering, clarity on future roadmaps, willingness to recommend. Focus your team. Be sure to make the from ?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. Understanding customer problems requires developing customer empathy, and customer empathy requires new forms of market research methods and avoiding market research method traps.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 16, 2020

Not to mention the major disruption caused to supply chains, manufacturing lines and different markets across the globe, all with their unique nuances as to how Covid-19 is changing the way of life. So then, how do we stay agile and relevant to our customers and consumers? Nevertheless, these relationships are highly strategic.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Bezirk , a startup of crack engineering team inside Bosch figured that retail IoT is a great market that needs personalization. Innovation. Adapt or die.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. Acronym of Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe is an agile development framework that provides a simple and lightweight experience for the team as it is divided into three segments: Time, Program, and Portfolio.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

With a clear strategy in place, leaders are better able to meet short-term expectations and manage pressures and decisions in a way that aligns with and sustains the company’s overarching mission and vision. Strategy Promotes Strategic Agility. A well-defined strategy is important— but strategic agility is even more important.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While experimentation speeds the time to a viable business innovation, it does not necessarily lead immediately to the kind of large-scale growth or increased market share that are usually the barometers of performance, in the core business or in any future business potential. It is the power of combination.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 17, 2017

An AI could be assisting virtually everyone throughout your business – operations, RD&E, sales, customer relationship, marketing, manufacturing, supply chains and innovation. Every time a customer calls, requires a demo, has a 1-hour meeting with a sales person, etc. An AI could be at the center of your Industry 4.0 is friction.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The customer today feels a growing empowerment, in choice in personalization, in knowing the products or service they are buying are meeting their needs and these are becoming increasingly intelligent to meet these needs. Moving closer to our innovation need we can see digital transformation everywhere, it is actually all around us.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The customer today feels a growing empowerment, in choice in personalization, in knowing the products or service they are buying are meeting their needs and these are becoming increasingly intelligent to meet these needs. Moving closer to our innovation need we can see digital transformation everywhere, it is actually all around us.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

According to Deloitte: “Purpose-driven companies witness higher market share gains and grow three times faster on average than their competitors, all while achieving higher workforce and customer satisfaction.” Use all communicational channels including the intranet, all-hands meetings, and chat channels to tell the why and the origin story.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Governments will need to introduce more substantive policies to meet the emission targets they signed up too and society, industry and us, as individuals will have to undergo adjustments to accommodate this in our habits, consumption, and usage. There is a compelling need to design a roadmap for changing the energy system in nearly all cases.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. After enjoying almost total market domination, Intuit finally was beginning to face some competition.

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