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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited.

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Barriers to innovation, the cause and effect.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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New Year’s Resolution: Catch Up on These Must-Read Innovation Blogs from 2019

IdeaScale

Office design is a crucial aspect of your innovation strategy. Certain factors must be present to foster the development of innovative ideas. Consider collaboration spaces, plenty of light, and a comfortable environment for your employees. Crowdsourcing and open innovation are gaining ground in the financial industry.

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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. Can we design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit the specific need? Through a blend of pattern recognition, predictive analytics and exploring cognitive computing we can change much with innovation.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Industry 4.0

eZassi

It’s all about embracing automation, artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things to optimize productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the supply chain. We then help evaluate, facilitate, and incentivize the key ideas formed by your solver ecosystem as part of the overall innovation process.

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Needing To Think Applied Innovation Services

Paul Hobcraft

Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation. A new cycle of innovation. Innovation is seemingly more complex today.