Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the significance of team collaboration cannot be overstated. Collaborative efforts are the cornerstone of high-performing teams and are critical for driving innovation and achieving outstanding business outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 3, 2024

Designing the Business Ecosystem Approach I have been looking at different ways to pitch Business Ecosystems recently for some evolving and hopefully sustaining work. Extending into Collaborative Innovation: Why Ecosystems? Extending into Collaborative Innovation: Why Ecosystems?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 24, 2022

The three degrees of ecosystem design- the innovating equation. In any ecosystem thinking and design, we do need to find this “sweet spot” for encouraging more innovation. Within business, ecosystem thinking and design have become central to how organizations go about their search for value and impact.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

The Essence of Team Collaboration Team collaboration is the bedrock of modern organizational success, fostering an environment where ideas can flourish and goals can be achieved through collective effort. Benefits of Effective Team Collaboration The advantages of implementing team collaboration best practices are manifold.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Technical Review Tools 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Within the series of four posts, I have been emphasising that cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution, the necessary parts need connecting.

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IdeaSpies

APRIL 16, 2019

In 1985, a relatively unknown professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published a book called Competitive Advantage , which explained that by optimizing every facet of the value chain , a firm could consistently outperform its competitors. A Radical Shift Toward Design. Shifting From Assertiveness To Empathy.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Keynote Presentations for Team Collaboration Importance of Team Collaboration Keynote Presentations Team collaboration is the cornerstone of any successful organization. The best team collaboration keynote presentations serve as catalysts for change, inspiring and motivating teams to work together more effectively.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2022

Broader collaborations will become central for future organizations to find ways to cooperate, network and build relationships, that recognize the partnership value, to achieve a sustainable, future business that offers impact and connected design for customers to value, that meets their changing needs.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

25 years looking back at Innovation’s evolution I decided to hold a conversation with Google’s Gemini about how innovation had changed and hopefully progressed since I first became involved 25 years ago, when I lived in Singapore and was heavily involved in my MBA, which had innovation as an elective.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collaboration and Co-creation across diverse organizations sharing a common purpose are needed far more today to break through and provide new innovating solutions. Firstly why are business ecosystems emerging as a real competitive force? It is not one single product that is chased in crowded, highly competitive fields.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. What is Design Thinking? Empathize : Understanding the needs of those you’re designing for.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. They are very short synopsis to get this base for my thinking and understanding, of why innovation processes and its management needs to change and how.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 13, 2024

Ecosystems have emerged as powerful catalysts for driving transformative change and fostering collaborative solutions in today’s complex and interconnected business landscape. By combining a diversity of experiences, knowledge and insights, you realize the combined power of ecosystem collaboration.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 2, 2024

Connected Business Ecosystems for Impact and Value After a short break, I have further solidified and deepened my approach to business ecosystem thinking and design through my “ Hierarchy of business ecosystems ” framework.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. What is Design Thinking? Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions.

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Artificial Inteligence Design Thinking Design Analysis 113

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Several business organizations have committed to navigating complexity, fostering dynamism and originality in approaching innovation and business ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. They serve as a catalyst for change, a forum for problem-solving, and a way to foster team unity. The right atmosphere can foster engagement and collaboration.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. However, if merging is done right, it might lead to competitive advantages. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. Most of the failures point to a lack of design and alignment with people’s needs.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation’s power lies in the ability to adapt, evolve, and collaborate, and our need is to make this as much of a dynamic ecosystem as possible to tackle the growing complexity and challenges we are facing today and in the future. Dynamic ecosystems are not just about collaboration and innovation.

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Innovating4Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Designing the Energy Transition with Ecosystem Thinking and Design By fostering greater collaboration and co-creation within the Energy Industry, it is becoming crucial to consider Ecosystems in design and thinking. Ecosystems designed well are robust for navigating the complex landscape of any Energy transition.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that embraces change and is open to new ideas will naturally drive innovation, leading to greater business growth and the development of competitive advantages. A culture that is flexible and adaptive to change will enable your organization to navigate challenges and capitalize on opportunities more effectively.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Culture Change 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 21, 2024

We increasingly need to consider ecosystems in our thinking and design. Yet the real potential when each layer is strategically integrated brings a more interconnected vision and value, building the impact and effect of Ecosystem design for collaboration and co-creation. Collaborative Innovation: Why Ecosystems?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Design thinkers rubbed shoulders with entrepreneurs, and user feedback was cherished like gold. But these ecosystems were not static; they were alive and ever-changing. The fourth thread, competitive positioning, taught us that thriving in this dynamic environment required strategic thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Fusing” human engagement with technology enablement involves creating a harmonious integration of human collaboration and technological tools to enable an ecosystem’s successful development and operation. Human-Centered Design: Begin with a human-centered approach. Is that possible?

Technology 174

Technology Collaboration Engagement Data 174

IdeaSpies

APRIL 17, 2019

In 1985, a relatively unknown professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published a book called Competitive Advantage which explained that, by optimizing every facet of the value chain, a firm could consistently outperform its competitors. Yet today we’re seeing a radical shift toward design as a driver of value.

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Competition Collaboration Technical Review Policies 57

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 24, 2022

Society 2045’s Radically Collaborative Organizations. We are free to make different choices that will change the outcome of our lives. If we are individuals who crave and thrive in collaborative environments, we will want to influence more collaboration. How can we evolve radically collaborative organizations?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves, it is needing radical change. Adapting to collaborating never fully in control can be unnerving.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MARCH 3, 2024

The importance of a radical mindset shift in Business Ecosystem Design What makes Business Ecosystems different in how we approach them, the answer lies in our mindset? Are our existing ways of approaching business design different and within this, how important is a radical mindshift in any Business Ecosystem thinking?

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