Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is. Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. To get to a consistent performance of innovation and creativity within organizations you do need to rely on a process, structure and the consistent ability to foster a culture of innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 24, 2021

At Qmarkets we have spent the last 15+ years helping leading organizations to build and implement effective innovation initiatives. Along the way we have seen a wide variety of approaches and formats, from small-scale hackathons with a few hundred participants, to long term innovation programs involving tens of thousands of users.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 12, 2021

In my last article I wrote about the influences and themes that I see changing how large, mature and (often) incumbent organisations drive innovative growth and impact. In short, the innovation development professionals are (ironically) being disrupted. The post Is There Value in an Innovation Program for Your Company?

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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. IdeaScale Innovation Services. Leading Innovation Workshop.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. How can corporations work with startups?

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Wazoku

MAY 24, 2023

Changing the world, one idea at a time has to start somewhere. Even the organizations that regularly bring about revolutionary change had a first step to take on their journey. In the Innovation Basics series, we focus exclusively on what that first step could look like for newcomers to the innovation world.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In his book, Identity, political scientist Francis Fukuyama explains that our identities aren’t fixed, but develop and change over time. In fact, we routinely choose to add facets to our identity, while shedding others, changing jobs, moving neighborhoods, breaking off some associations as we take on others.

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Open Innovation is a challenging task for any company. Yet it yields great opportunities, and in this new world of digital transformation and rapid change in traditional markets, it's an approach CINOs have to consider.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

It should articulate how innovation will contribute to achieving these objectives, and what specific goals and metrics will be used to measure the success of the innovation program. The innovation mandate should clearly define the value goals for the innovation program and how they will be measured and tracked over time.

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eZassi

MAY 13, 2024

Amplify Your Innovation Program with AI-Driven Technology Discovery Today’s highly competitive business climate is fueled by the ability to innovate and ride the cutting edge of technology. AI-driven technology discovery revolutionizes the way organizations approach innovation management, creating competitive advantage.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

Why have we not embraced innovation? I will not apologize here; this will partly be a “rant” and then begin to suggest a way forward on embracing innovation fully. I was thinking of having the headline “Innovation as our eternal doom or shame” or “innovation groundhog day” Let me begin in why.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the big challenges to innovation is that many people think of it as a big program, like implementing the quality programs of the 1980s, or rethinking everything, like the re-engineering programs and right sizing programs of a more recent vintage.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Overview : Innovators face a number of challenges, as detailed in our choose-your-own-adventure infographic , including leadership buy-in, resources, and team-building. The first step in building an innovation culture in any organization is to develop the idea of innovation as a priority. Leadership. Start with leadership.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

How do you measure the success of your innovation program? In my experience guiding corporate innovators, I have found that even the most well-intentioned teams aren’t evaluating true impact—instead, they deliver vanity metrics, which offer, at best, a measurement of partial engagement. Getting the numbers right is crucial.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 24, 2021

The enormous pressure of the pandemic has caused irrevocable change, forcing organizations to adapt and innovate to survive. In times like this innovation can be likened to charcoal – functional and necessary – but when faced with tremendous pressure it can produce unique diamonds.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2018

There has just been a highly useful benchmarking report released by Innovation Leader with KPMG LLP sponsoring this and providing some of their collective insights into the different aspects of “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018″ At present, you can download the report before it might slip behind a paywall at some later stage.

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Planview

JUNE 12, 2018

Measuring the success of an innovation program is a critical step in determining the impact it has on a company’s bottom line. But how do you know if your innovation program is delivering value? During the webinar, Amin gave listeners an inside look at Bechtel’s innovation program, including how they measure success.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation activity is at an all-time high. Ideation on its own isn’t enough to drive innovation outcomes—and could even be a waste of resources if not governed properly. Problem: Game-Changing Ideas Get Stuck at Square One Without a reliable system for testing early-stage ideas, orgs are leaving innovation ROI on the table.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. This became particularly important when the COVID pandemic impacted the campus, leading to rapid change. Building An Inclusive Innovation Practice. IdeaTrek uses two tracks. Facing COVID.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

Imagine getting your ears chopped off for being innovative. Back in the 17th century, innovators were considered troublemaking disruptors of peace – and there was a price to pay for that. Fortunately, things have changed! How can we change and improve things in a way no one has done within our organization? Never fear!

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we welcome back the Dean of Innovation, Dr Jeff DeGraff, who has worked with more than half of the Fortune 500 companies to improve their innovation programs. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Building the Innovation Ecosystem for the US Military.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Each year, IdeaScale meets with innovators from all over the globe who gather to share best practices on the management and delivery of ideas. The topics are diverse and offer valuable insight into what it takes to innovate in the ever-changing technological landscape of today. Innovation: The Reality-Making behind the Glamour.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Overview: Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information, software solutions, and other services for professional sectors, has been running its own innovation awards for over a decade. A Need For Innovation. It’s a demanding business where change is the only constant. It comes out of left field,” Dubey says.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Innovation is about teamwork at Spotless. asks Bridie Scott, Innovation Manager at Spotless. A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 3, 2021

Overview: Join us Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT on Zoom for a webinar with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) innovation team. In that context, the NRC requires powerful innovation to meet its brief. And the agency’s staff took to the challenge. The Greenhouse.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A great idea is a good thing, but is it creative or innovative? Creativity and innovation are often seen as interchangeable. It’s important to understand and apply that difference in your innovation strategy. Innovation is the act of putting something into practice. Can there be innovation without creativity?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2020

Innovation is at its best when everyone in your organization is involved in the process. Are your employees engaged with your company’s innovation strategy? Employees who are directly engaged with what’s going on in the company will feel a stronger need to innovate than their disengaged counterparts. Encourage Innovation.

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Collectivecamp

APRIL 27, 2019

For most of the twentieth century, large organizations could project what the next five years would look like with a high degree of confidence, but technology has changed the rules of the game in the twenty-first century and created an increasingly ambiguous and befuddling business landscape.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2019

Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. While many viewpoints and ideas can be useful, some innovations need fewer hands.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Our CEO was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Business Times and the conversation pulled up short for a moment when the interviewer (after hearing us talk about the possibilities afforded by an innovation management system) asked us why people are sometimes afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program.

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Planview

JUNE 29, 2018

Every year Spigit conducts its “ State of Crowdsourced Innovation ” customer study to better understand how our customers build and manage their innovation programs. As we analyze this data year over year, we can see trends emerge and see how what’s important to them changes over time. What is the value?

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It’s time to overcome innovation theater. Research by the Boston Consulting Group shows that 75% of executives report that innovation is a top-three priority and driver of growth of their companies. Yet results in terms of growth from innovation rarely live up to expectations, despite an abundance of innovation activities.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

How can you assess how innovative your business is? The Innovation Sophistication Index is a list of just 24 statements. This is the Launch phase where the need for innovation is recognised but not much has been achieved so far. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a new partnership with US-based innovation consultancy Accel IQ Digital to provide comprehensive strategic innovation services to joint clients across the United States, Brazil, and the Middle East. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy.

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