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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Design Thinking : The whole emphasis and approach involve using empathy, creativity, and experimentation to solve complex problems. It emphasizes a user-centric approach, where the focus is having a central understanding of the users’ needs and designing solutions that meet them. This evolved over many years.

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Fostering Innovation with Technological Solutions – Part 1

Wazoku

This two-part series will explore the topic of a session I recently gave at a Design Thinking and Business Innovation Summit. It is certainly possible to use one of the growing dedicated Innovation Management software solutions in an Open Innovation or Crowdsourcing approach to drive engagement.

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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

The adoption of Lean and Agile, of Design Thinking, of being encouraged to invest in rapid experimentation and build prototypes that can quickly advance understanding of customer need, design and how it will provide functionality in the marketplace is accelerating innovation. There is a magnitude of the speed of change required.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

This approach could also have been placed underneath the funnel: co-design usually happens with both partners and customers and is meant to have a more human-centered design approach in your R&D-funnel. It has become a main topic of research within design thinking. Customer activities: Route 22: Crowdsourcing.