Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It’s one of the harder questions to answer in innovation management, but it doesn’t have to be. With some smart thinking and careful decisions, you can bring out the best in your team. Creativity is encouraged, or discouraged, by leadership. But that doesn’t mean you can’t experiment and innovate.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Channel : This is the creative thinking part.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership Development Workshops Workshops focused on leadership development provide executives with the opportunity to learn new strategies, tools, and frameworks that can aid in their mindset shift. These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership Development Workshops Workshops focused on leadership development provide executives with the opportunity to learn new strategies, tools, and frameworks that can aid in their mindset shift. These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. And the more we ‘push’ for learning, the greater chance we have of thriving in a challenging world. Learning and Education should always start with us.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We facilitated a follow-up innovation workshop for an industrial client. They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Innovation Day – Challenge the Status Quo & Reach for Innovative Solutions Every year, the world of innovation pushes boundaries and reshapes our lives. February 16 A similar commemoration found on many calendars is “Innovation Day,” often set for February 16.

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Idea Sandbox

AUGUST 3, 2023

Last Updated on 3 August 2023 In our increasingly competitive world, innovation or “re-imagining” is hailed as the key to success in nearly every field. But what if our conventional understanding of innovation is fundamentally flawed? What if innovation isn’t something you do but something that happens as a result?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Your choice of technology should align with your team’s specific needs, ensuring that every member can connect and collaborate with ease.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Your choice of technology should align with your team’s specific needs, ensuring that every member can connect and collaborate with ease.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. Enables Tiered Thinking. What Is Mind Mapping?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 11, 2024

Innovation has become one of the cornerstones of success because leaders know that failing to adapt and embrace new ideas risks their organisations being left behind by more agile competitors. Psychological safety creates a space where failure is seen as a learning opportunity rather than a source of blame or shame.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Their influence extends beyond mere presentations, playing an integral part in fostering team-building and collaboration among members. Effective speakers can identify and address underlying issues that may be hindering team cohesion, thereby setting the stage for more effective collaboration post-event.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer.

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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. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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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. The ideal speaker should be capable of not only imparting wisdom but also igniting a passion for innovation among the audience.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 17, 2023

The same applies to innovation. We all have areas where we are unaware, uninformed, prejudiced, or unappreciative of certain things, and this makes it difficult to recognize an innovation. This is referred to as an innovation blind spot. What is an Innovation Blind Spot? What Causes an Innovation Blind Spot?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 1, 2021

Can you learn to be more creative? . There are lots of ways for you to learn about systematic creativity. Just think about how using these can benefit both your personal and professional life. . So dive in, learn, develop, and become a student of creativity. Alpe Audio.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Design Thinking Human-centered Approach to Innovation. This is where Design Thinking steps in to create better solutions, services, and experiences to solve our current problems. . At the root of effective Design Thinking methodologies is empathy and emotional intelligence. Approaching human-centered innovation. ?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tips for building and sustaining innovation teams within your organizational culture. Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. This is an individual innovative mindset that also is alive in innovative teams. What is an innovative team?

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Top Questions about Innovation. What are the most popular or common questions people have about innovation? What are the frequently asked questions about innovation? We used our AI tools to identify the questions people ask about innovation the most and find the answers. Read on for the innovation FAQs!

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. Failing to innovate can cause even a large established business to lose ground to competitors that more fully embrace innovation. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation Consultant.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. 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?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging Open Dialogue and Collaboration Open dialogue and collaboration are the bedrocks of strategic thinking. Transparency leads to trust, and trust leads to more meaningful collaboration. Emphasizing Continuous Learning and Adaptability The only constant in today’s business world is change.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Mike Brown.

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