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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. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Briefly, I summarize what these have been bringing into innovative thinking.

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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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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Industry 4.0

eZassi

Innovation? is the fourth industrial revolution, merging cutting-edge technologies with traditional manufacturing to create a smart and interconnected production ecosystem. across an organization As an Innovation Management solution provider, Ezassi helps manufacturers initiate the innovation process by identifying specific Industry 4.0

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

IdeaScale

How Does Globalization Impact Innovation Strategy? Did you know innovation can bridge social, cultural, and political differences? New technologies and ideas can spread quickly across the world, closing the gap to bring these matters together. Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

You do get tired of hearing “we are looking to become a value-creating solution provider”, yet the willingness to really create collaborative networks is still stuck in the “us and them” mentality. The thinking through on the contribution around innovation needs to be changed. Struggling with legacy and old models.

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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design

Paul Hobcraft

There is a real need for a broader ecosystem approach that taps into a constellation of diverse and specialized players that all come together around a particular challenge, collaborating to deliver growing complex solutions that offer real growth value for the client.

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