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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive 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.

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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? A radically different orchestration of innovation – highly networked, fully connected-up. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

It is an advantageous space to innovate and grow in and builds the starting point for the development of ideas for products, services or new business models. So why is it so very important to take this upstream step in the innovation process? There is no instruction or construction toolkit for disruption.

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

Paul Hobcraft

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. This needs designing in unique ways, not in rigid processes and structures. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Technology leads, innovation exploitation is lagging

Paul Hobcraft

It is still managed mainly through a linear process of stage-gates and investigation / validation to decide to move on or not. This merging of cloud, big data, social, and the internet of things is becoming the new system of discovery according to some. The balance in innovation activity is changing.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. Organisations that excel at driving genuine innovation don’t just rely on existing market intelligence like focus groups, trend reports or big data.