Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

There is a fascinating change by embracing Design Thinking principles differently in the future of innovation; organizations can foster a more profound culture of creativity, empathy, collaboration, and user-centricity, one we have often dreamed of in embracing design thinking but so often never achieving.

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Design Thinking Design Technology Creativity 148

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Firstly, we have the interconnected global marketplace as our context The change toward an interconnected and conscious global marketplace has been of significant importance, reshaping business strategies, consumer expectations, and societal values. Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 148

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

It is having a well-established innovation process or a clear, transparent one that can engage, communicate and build shared understanding. That sense of collective identity has a greater chance of generating innovative solutions. The Private sector mostly brings innovations to market.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Here is a brief review of quantum idea generation. Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. To generate these powerful results you need to use four elements – diversity, stimulus, brain type, and eliminate fear and have fun. Let’s start with a big picture view.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. The best innovation keynote speakers talking points often cover the challenges of scaling innovations, the importance of cross-functional teams, and the strategies to overcome resistance to change.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Qmarkets’ innovation management software facilitates idea generation, evaluation and implementation, collaboration, and data analysis. You have an endless list of stakeholders to engage, countless data points to consider, and plenty of landmines to avoid. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy.

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Culture Technical Review Software Review Roadmap 98

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One point that he writes about but is not specific about is that all of these successful vignettes have deep engagement from the CEO or a board member. Lots of time, because companies aren't just creating a new product, but a new process, and changing culture along the way.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Idea Generation ChatGPT can help you generate new and innovative ideas by using its advanced natural language processing capabilities to analyze large amounts of data and information. This can help you increase participation and engagement among employees and stakeholders.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 31, 2017

This week, we take a look at Employee Engagement - the benefits of employee engagement and how to successfully create employee engagement in your organization. This helps ensure that they become exemplary corporate citizens capable of helping graft significant change onto the organizations that they work for.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

In most discrete innovation projects, the ideas generated are not distinguished from existing products or services, and thus many times the activity is deemed unsatisfactory or even a failure. Some will be short and focused on incremental change, while others are longer and focus on more disruptive ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Equally, many within organizations where innovation is left more ‘open’ do run the risk that there is an over-emphasis on idea generation; by placing the emphasis point further along the innovation value chain that we must remember that it is exploring the benefits that flow from ideas, not the ideas alone.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 9, 2023

Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition and meeting the ever-changing needs of customers. To be successful, organizations must be able to effectively manage their innovation processes, from idea generation to commercialization. This article originally appeared on Forbes.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This analogy aligns so well to what corporate America does when it comes to a focus on innovation - intent discovery on things that don't matter, while purposefully ignoring the factors that must change to make innovation successful. Thus corporations emphasize the unimportant and rush away just as the real work begins.

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Culture Idea Generation Innovation Competition 150

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 27, 2022

I'd like to borrow this idea from the entrepreneurial community and turn our gaze to mid-sized and larger firms, and think about how much time, if any, companies spend on two critical aspects of their business: strategy and innovation. I'll address both briefly below. I n Strategy or On Strategy?

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There is a fascinating change by embracing Design Thinking principles differently in the future of innovation; organizations can foster a more profound culture of creativity, empathy, collaboration, and user-centricity, one we have often dreamed of in embracing design thinking but so often never achieving.

Design Thinking 97

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 97

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

I have found that when individuals feel their contributions are valued, they are more likely to engage fully and share their diverse perspectives. Implementing Changes in Your Team As an executive or business leader, it’s essential to constantly evolve and improve team dynamics to foster innovation and achieve high performance.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. Any change needs to find a way to create local economic value and jobs, as others in any change of this magnitude will be displaced.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It drives growth, differentiation, and value creation, allowing companies to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market. Below are some examples that illustrate how AI is being incorporated: Idea Generation : AI-powered tools can suggest design options based on previous successful projects and current design trends.

Design Thinking 140

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This reduces the risk of innovation and increases visibility Introduce the idea of innovation portfolios and the need to innovate across the three horizons. A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. How would the user experience change if we switched the order of these steps?” We’ve all been there.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

NASA@Work, the space program’s internal crowdsourcing program, is charged with promoting knowledge-sharing and idea generation. At the conclusion of each challenge, they award prizes for the best ideas offered. You must also set expectations for challenge owners because engagement is critical to success.

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Crowdsourcing Learning Data Technical Review 219

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Without it, our companies would fail to grow and evolve with the ever-changing markets that we are serving. Similarly, strict top-level decision-making increases the opportunity for groupthink and lessens the chance of fluid idea generation throughout the organization. However, it leaves very little room for new possibilities.

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Strategy Strategy Idea Generation Comparison 98

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Without it, our companies would fail to grow and evolve with the ever-changing markets that we are serving. Similarly, strict top-level decision-making increases the opportunity for groupthink and lessens the chance of fluid idea generation throughout the organization. However, it leaves very little room for new possibilities.

Strategy 98

Strategy Strategy Idea Generation Comparison 98

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. They are very strong at generating ideas. Gaps like this between those that formulate strategy and those that execute it will make it incredibly hard to implement new ideas.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The inspiration behind this release, which you’ll hear more about in the below video, was simple: help customers drive significant cultural change. With that in mind, we set out to reimagine the user experience and expand the flexibility of the Spigit platform to give customers even more ways of creating culture change.

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Artificial Inteligence Learning Video Ideation 67

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Equally, many within organizations where innovation is left more ‘open’ do run the risk that there is an over-emphasis on idea generation; by placing the emphasis point further along the innovation value chain that we must remember that it is exploring the benefits that flow from ideas, not the ideas alone.

Innovation 130

Innovation Engagement Resources Strategy 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As businesses adapt to the ever-changing market demands, the integration of AI into the design thinking process has become essential. Embracing these changes is key to improving design thinking with AI , ensuring that organizations stay ahead in creating value for their customers and for their business.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. They are the catalysts who: Champion Change : High potential leaders are often at the forefront of advocating for and implementing new ideas and processes.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The status quo of the existing places an increasing drag on the forces of change. Am I happy with this, no of course not but in my view “nothing can change until something does change” What do I mean by that? My thought is what do you expect if boards are not as engaged as per the HBR report above stating?

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seven Idea Generation Fails. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. The Failure Rate is partly because the game’s changed, again.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

People tend to resist change when change means altering or replacing existing norms of doing things. The idea generation phase involves various possible solutions, then the designers start prototyping, gaining feedback, and ongoing iterations. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). Why mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

How many online sessions are included in a Free the Genie engagement? We have worked with many companies engaged in highly technical pursuits. How long is each session? 75-90 minutes. How many members of our team can participate? Our team is bigger than four people. Can we still use Free the Genie? Why only four?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 15, 2016

The subject was the changes occurring at the front end of innovation. My argument was the results we have obtained from a disconnected set of front end activities was poorer than they should be and this needs changing. So here is the newsletter, I will be explaining the impact and change potential that can be made in a future post.

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Software Review Innovation Software Engagement 100

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

It becomes our task in delivering alternatives, in new varieties, updates, technology enhancement, or simply recognizing the lifecycle of the existing needs refreshing, changing or altering. The unknown becomes very different in approaching idea generation. It needs to have a different level of innovation idea funnel.

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