Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We do need to make some real changes. So we make a resolution to change something to improve on this constant catch up state we find ourselves in. Often our innovation activities face the same dilemma. Designing the complete rapid innovation application process. I then get caught up in the spillover effect.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

A system that encourages forming strategic alliances, partnerships, and knowledge sharing to drive innovation and create shared value in open, thoughtful, and collaborative ways. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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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. From healthcare to finance, AI’s ability to process vast amounts of data at unprecedented speeds has revolutionized traditional practices.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. Often they’ll tell you they mean revolutionary change. Challenges in “Buy-In”.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2023

After a series of posts introducing and explaining the thinking and design behind the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, I thought it would be a good idea to put this into a sequence of visuals that should take you through this to provide a decent understanding of its make-up and logic.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the past few months, I have been writing consistently on the need to change our innovating process, thinking and designs into Innovation Ecosystem ones. Where there is a complex challenge that one business cannot provide a solution to, innovating through ecosystems makes absolute sense.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Design Thinking in Education: Shaping Creative Minds for the Future In a world characterized by rapid changes and complex challenges, the traditional education model, which primarily focuses on the dissemination of knowledge, is increasingly proving to be insufficient.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks. Yet it is the sequence of how we learn that becomes vital to “feed” and build the innovation stacks.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 14, 2023

Here I want to summarize the posts that were part of this build-up, that build the compelling business case for the need to change our thinking about innovation. The challenge faced by innovation software : The post “ Innovation Software, is it Facing the Innovators Dilemma?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. Recently, I have been looking specifically at the way the (traditional) innovation management process will change.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. You need a systematic approach and project staging plan.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 26, 2023

I have followed a number of great innovation thinkers and read different books on the areas of innovation. Reading and even contributing to different innovation books that have come out has added experience and contribution, but I do so often wonder that innovation seems not to have changed as much as I would have expected.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Keynote speakers also serve as catalysts for change, motivating teams to embrace new methodologies and collaborate more effectively. They often share stories of successful team dynamics, which can serve as a blueprint for teams seeking to revamp their approach to innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. They need a more fluid, highly adaptive design.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Resource allocation: The innovation mandate should outline how resources, including funding, personnel, and technology, will be allocated to support innovation initiatives and where these will be drawn down from and the “equity of resources” shared so this is a collaborative endeavour. Addressing both makes good sense.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 14, 2023

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Yet to get to these cross-sector collaborations you do need to take a very considered holistic view of what is needed in any collaboration, let alone ane cutting across sectors to generate a successful outcome.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

Innovation has the power to unlock the Energy Transition, Innovation thinking and design are needed everywhere within the energy system. Any energy transition takes a long time, requiring a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. The Private sector mostly brings innovations to market.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you invite an innovation keynote speaker to your event, you’re not just getting a presentation; you’re accessing a wealth of knowledge shaped by real-world experience and success. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. If you’re interested in running more effective, innovative meetings with your team, you’ve come to the right place.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2021

In any collaborative meeting, you, as a leader, have an opportunity to foster innovative thinking. Moving to an anonymous, text-based online collaborative environment, though, offers multiple new, intriguing possibilities for leaders to cultivate innovation. 6 Innovative Leadership Possibilities that Anonymity Enables.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

Innovation is essential for all organizations. Whether you work in government or the private sector, constant change is vital to what you do. The corporate innovation landscape is always evolving. Idea sharing is the first step in the innovation process. Leading Innovation Workshop. Campaign design.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There is a lot of change occurring in our innovation abilities. There is this constant shift to more open-sourcing and collaborating. We are seeing profound shifts that technology and digital transformation are bringing us to deliver innovate differently. What is radically changing how we innovate?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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