Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

A fact none of us can ignore is the planet, our world is undergoing significant change, and this is so much human-made. Our energy sources need radically changing to building our future on clean energy, generated by fossil-free energy sources. The innovation process becomes a clearly defined and well-disciplined one; it has to be.

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Viima

MARCH 14, 2023

Why do we fail to define them and why should we slow down in the innovation process? Matt is an innovation consultant, columnist, speaker, and author with over a decade of experience in executing strategy and facilitating change for some of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods brands and retail stores.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is about diplomacy as well as creativity. Central to any innovation process is stakeholder management. All should be involved in the process to some degree, making innovation processes as much about people skills and diplomacy as engineering. Be Clear On Impact.

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This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times.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

MARCH 16, 2021

When you focus on the customer in everything you do, innovation moves from an ambiguous concept into a concrete way to change the world. If you want to see how you can build tools & resources to support your organization’s innovation efforts, sign up for a free beta account on upBoard.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

When you focus on the customer in everything you do, innovation moves from an ambiguous concept into a concrete way to change the world. If you want to see how you can build tools & resources to support your organization’s innovation efforts, sign up for a free beta account on upBoard.

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IdeaScale

JULY 9, 2019

At the intersection of modern technology and advertising, digital marketing is one of the fastest changing industries in the world. And to stay relevant in digital marketing, you need to be innovative. At Level Up Digital , we help companies navigate this ever-changing landscape of advertising on these platforms. —-.

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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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ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As industries and organizations of all shapes and sizes increasingly embrace the digitalization of value creation, it is clear that waiting for change to happen before considering a response is a losing strategy.

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Svava

MAY 12, 2017

Inviting Your Prosumers Into the Innovation Process While managing the risks involved In the first post, we introduced the idea or concept of how consumers have changed, morphed thanks to innovation in commerce and technology, into proactive consumers – or prosumers.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Unfortunately, it is all too easy to get stuck in the wrong mindset and have the design thinking process as intended unravel in front of you. In order to benefit from the process, you need to get yourself out of these “negative” mindsets that destroy the creative and innovation process. Trusts your instincts.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies. Traditional Phases and Gates Processes Traditionally, the phases and gates model has been a cornerstone in structuring innovation management.

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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. New Areas of Accelerating Innovation Discovery.

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

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eZassi

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As a gentle reminder, the definition of acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Do we have the people we need with the skills and support to make an innovation organization flourish? Are they accountable for identifying, championing and developing external innovations through the organization as their primary business role?

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IdeaScale

JULY 14, 2023

What is Process Innovation? Process innovation is defined as the process of development and implementation of new or improved processes, methods, or systems within an organization to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and value creation.

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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

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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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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HYPE Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2016

So we make a resolution to change something to improve on this constant catch up state we find ourselves in. I never seem to finish what I had intended to complete by the end of a day or week. I get caught up in the spill over effect. Something always gets in the way, something has to give.

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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 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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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

She shares her approach to explaining innovation to her own children, emphasizing change as a fundamental aspect. She discusses the importance of tying innovation to specific outcomes or goals to facilitate acceptance and adaptation. [04:03] 05:40] Sustaining Innovation: An effort to maintain market position.

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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 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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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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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2023

Impact on Innovation and Creativity The Endowment Effect may partially explain why many decision makers in companies prefer to keep the status quo rather than accept new ideas which may change things. Therefore, innovations which threaten to change things may be perceived as less valuable than what they currently have.

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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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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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Idea to Value

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do not become aggressive or confrontational towards them, or they may become even more afraid of change and work even harder to prevent innovation however they can

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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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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

They also involve continuously scanning the environment for new opportunities and emerging trends, and being willing to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. In contrast, regular innovation strategies tend to be more reactive, responding to market demands or customer feedback rather than actively seeking out new opportunities.

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

From this basic statement we can go further into the topic of creativity in innovation. We can explain that the tools for creativity are used during a regular innovation process where teams should generate new ideas to further explore their feasibility as proper business models. What would happen if I change my value chain?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

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? There are a few factors that may hold companies back from adopting innovation management software.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Communal: Understanding and informing through social interactions, attributing, designing, adapting, projecting future value and impact, coherence with existing systems, identifying changes and their implications, and using metaphors for identification. To achieve any validation we need to capture the learning process.

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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 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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