Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Adopting ecosystem thinking combined with Generative AI will augment, automate and rapidly scale innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

The book shares that this is the same way that Amazon developed Amazon Web Services (AWS), by engaging and empathizing with target customers more closely and helping to establish entirely new business categories that didn’t exist before. Step 3: Work backwards from the ideal customer experience.

Innovation Processes 147

Innovation Processes Innovation Brainstorming Tools 147

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This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times.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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Technology Change Agile Innovation 179

Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

The book shares that this is the same way that Amazon developed Amazon Web Services (AWS), by engaging and empathizing with target customers more closely and helping to establish entirely new business categories that didn’t exist before. Step 3: Work backwards from the ideal customer experience.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Brainstorming Tools 130

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. They share insights that can reshape the way your organization approaches creativity and problem-solving.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This shapes what we do and how we can respond to navigate an increasingly dynamic and ever-changing world. The recognized simpler view of innovators having essential cognitive skills is made up of generally needing to associate, question, observe, network and experiment and should be part of the innovator’s DNA.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 14, 2023

It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

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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. Engagement Keeps the audience interested and involved.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. 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.

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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. This evolved over many years.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

By modularizing these tasks and their interfaces, organizations can assess their innovation progress by having a complete innovation system available to them, designed on specific stack elements to address knowledge operation requirements in the stage of development to commercialization.

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Learning Innovation System Design 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform development using the innovation stack, and supporting the innovation stack with a platform.

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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. Seeing the barriers, the causes and effects.

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Software Review Innovation Design Technical Review 163

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. ” So narratives attract, engage, motivate and call people to push and achieve their potential.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 319

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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Software Review Technical Review Innovation Collaboration 183

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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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Engagement 209

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform’s ability to offer multiple values will influence many of the client’s adoption decisions over the choices their business will engage with. ” I suggested in this post, “ Platforms allow you the opportunity to innovate in very different ways. Platforms are more viable and relevant today than ever.

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Technical Review Innovation Engagement Collaboration 183

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.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

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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ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Innovation 183

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The idea of using all our sensory experiences came up, and I started to think, is there such a thing as having an innovator’s sensory profile? Would they be unique and help to unleash your inner innovator? This heightened awareness could contribute to their ability to navigate and adapt to changing circumstances.

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ChatGPT Creativity Data Learning 183

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. Here I offer a different perspective of innovation that leads to proposing such a change. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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Design Innovation Collaboration Innovation Management 183

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I However, she explains, it’s all about the process. Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation. I have very little creativity.”

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How To Innovation Culture Innovation Processes 195

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. The ability to build the context and show its (ongoing) value makes the difference.

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Agile Design Innovation System 130

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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Case Study Innovation Design Collaboration 148

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

More use of gamification techniques to encourage participation and engagement among employees. Overall the software will help companies to manage and improve their innovation process and to get insights from the data generated by it. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more?

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Software Innovation Management Management Artificial Inteligence 183

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

Erosion is everywhere, it just seems inevitable, we somehow get caught up in the process of time and our organizations seem to ‘freeze’ before our eyes, then simply age. They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them.

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Change Technical Review Marketing Management 100

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2023

Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, have the need to bring the innovation management process into a constant technological advancement, and be more tailored in its design by their own specific needs and not “offered” as a rigid set of solutions.

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Innovation Design Innovation Processes Collaboration 174

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

It allows organisations to dynamically assemble (and reassemble) and reconfigure their innovation processes and resources constantly to adapt to the knowledge and discovery of innovation as it reveals itself in new insights ad potential.

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Software Review Software Innovation Design 246

Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement, Manuel Hellendorff (Head of Customer Success at Novable ) provided an overview of the main AI tools currently in use and shared practical advice on how to incorporate these tools into your work to enhance productivity and success.

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ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Change Trends 59

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How much does a business organization spend on its ERP system compared to its innovation system? The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation?

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Innovation Design System Software 190

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

Innovation is a long, arduous task of iterative improvements and some rare breakthroughs, and this requires increasing collaborations between public, private, and research institutions to pursue together ideas and concepts, so their combined disciplines and understanding can push design and solutions in a continued way.

Design 130

Design System Innovation Collaboration 130

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

In short, innovation is the engine of change and in today’s fiercely competitive environment resisting change is dangerous. The key driver of the organization’s ability to change is innovation. However, deciding that the organization has to be innovative is insufficient. This is what needs to change.

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Innovation Competition Resources Technology 148

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Role of a Keynote Speaker in Corporate Innovation A keynote speaker can be a powerful catalyst in corporate settings, sparking innovation and inspiring change within an organization. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Technical Review Trends Innovation Engagement 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Building a detailed Ecosystem thinking and design of collaboration needs Intellectual property management : Innovation often generates valuable intellectual property, and the innovation mandate should outline how this intellectual property will be managed and protected. The organization should build these into living dynamic documents.

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Policies Innovation Programs Innovation Collaboration 148

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Design 130

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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Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We “pull down” what is needed.

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