Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

It emphasizes collaborative ecosystems as the key to unlocking untapped potential, driving sustained growth, and achieving collective prosperity. ” “ This series introduced each ecosystem’s design, including thinking and construction principles.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. To ensure your offsite is as productive as possible, it’s essential to design it with intention. The right atmosphere can foster engagement and collaboration.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve been interested in the growing space of self-assessments for design thinking and innovation. I was curious to see if our AI tool could create a self-assessment people could take to assess themselves on their design thinking behaviors, mindset and practices. How well do you communicate your ideas and insights to others?

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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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eZassi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The intersection of design and technical innovation come close to home in our workplaces and dwellings. Architects of today are tasked to design new buildings with emerging, energy efficient technology for the practical structures of tomorrow while maintaining beautiful and intriguing design elements. Talk to Ezassi.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world. Adapting to collaborating never fully in control can be unnerving. Either they adapt or die.

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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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Digital Tonto

APRIL 16, 2023

Unable to hold live exams because of Covid-19, it designed and employed an algorithm that based scores partly on the historical performance of the schools students attended with the unintended consequence that already disadvantaged students found themselves further penalized by artificially deflated scores.

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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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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Collaboration often leads to the generation of novel ideas. Technology and Online Tools : There are various online platforms and tools designed to help you generate ideas, such as idea generation apps, creativity exercises, and brainstorming software. Constructive criticism can help refine your ideas and make them more innovative.

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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. I continue to gather, reflect and construct the “how and what” structure of this redesigned innovation (ecosystem) process/system. Source: tmforum.org.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It challenges established norms and prompts a complete reimagining of our relationship with energy and the environment through innovation, creativity and ecosystem thinking and design. It does shift ownership of the energy transition. It encourages radical change simply because we do need this radical shift.

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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. These six options are among the most common roles: 1. Full-on participant.

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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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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the ever-changing and fast-paced world of business and innovation, the paradigm is shifting towards collaborative ecosystems. Introduction to the Hierarchy: The Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs is a construct of collaborative ecosystems, navigating complexity with agility, openness, and shared vision.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. Link to related articles such as designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning for further insights on crafting an effective agenda.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MARCH 3, 2024

The importance of a radical mindset shift in Business Ecosystem Design What makes Business Ecosystems different in how we approach them, the answer lies in our mindset? Are our existing ways of approaching business design different and within this, how important is a radical mindshift in any Business Ecosystem thinking?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

AR and VR : a lot of agencies were showing off new ways to see what finished construction projects would look like using augmented and virtual reality headsets. So those are some of the innovations I saw on the construction industry so far in Germany. Some exhibitors pulled out all the stops. But it is definitely a step forward.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Conflict Management Effective leaders use EQ to resolve disputes constructively. Conflict Management Addressing disagreements constructively. These skills contribute to the creation of a positive work environment, fostering collaboration, and ultimately driving organizational success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. The two key components of structuring your offsite are the agenda design and the planning of breakout sessions.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 28, 2020

Design Thinking Coaching: 1on1 or Group. We can connect you to an excellent design thinking coach who can help you apply design thinking in your own work, with your teams, and within your organization. Here’s an example of what a design thinking coaching program could look like with Tom. Learning topics (i.e.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers. We have a huge responsibility here as designers. It’s up to us how we design these platforms and what social norms we set there. helps designers to craft useful feedback to each other. Source: uxfol.io.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

DECEMBER 24, 2023

There have been so many success stories, specifically in industry and the energy transition, that are so reliant on collaborations and co-creations, coming from essential ecosystem design and thinking. Let us remind ourselves where those collaborations between different stakeholders deliver real change in radical, innovative solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Lack of Team Spirit : When collaboration and camaraderie are missing, the workplace can become isolated and divided. Undefined Roles and Responsibilities : Without clearly defined expectations, employees may feel uncertain and stressed, leading to conflict and competition rather than collaboration.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. Collaborative but Individually Accountable. The design space is large – but not infinite. Highlights. Gary Pisano, PhD. Flat but with Strong Leadership.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 14, 2017

It was a team process , involving anywhere from a handful of friends pitching into a vast scientific infrastructure cranking out prototypes and arguing over design. But don’t hesitate to offer comments on ideas so people can offer constructive criticism and modifications. While this is happening, set some goals. Ready to start?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Enhanced Collaboration : Offsites encourage open communication and teamwork, fostering a spirit of cooperation that can lead to innovative solutions. For guidance on designing a successful offsite, refer to our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Feedback and Active Listening: Seeking constructive feedback from peers, mentors, and team members can provide valuable insights into a leader’s emotional intelligence. Team building: Fostering a collaborative environment to preempt potential conflicts. Conflict Management Resolves disagreements constructively.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them.

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Innovating4Energy

MARCH 17, 2024

Today, this must be done through more outstanding collaborations, especially recognizing the value and benefits of ecosystem thinking and design. Placing a greater emphasis and set of resources on Innovation will help make rapid progress towards a more sustainable and efficient energy future in highly collaborative and open ways.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2024

A partner ecosystem refers to a network of complementary companies, organizations, and individuals collaborating to create (additional) value for customers and drive innovation. Effective communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution mechanisms are essential for the long-term success of partner ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 30, 2016

I believe within our human resource groups they must provide the people solution to building innovation capacity, they should contribute to providing lasting design impact and central engagement role in building innovation into the core fabric of the organisation. They can help deliver the dynamics needed in innovation.

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