Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

As you lead your distributed teams, understanding the nuances of virtual collaboration is crucial for driving innovation, productivity, and engagement. When you prioritize robust management practices, you pave the way for seamless collaboration and ensure that your virtual teams can meet and exceed their objectives.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Recently, I got caught up in some announcement by Siemens, where they announced the acquisition of Mendix, the Low-Code providers, for the explicit purpose to combine Mendix with Siemens MindSphere, claiming it has the potential to cover off all elements of the Smart App Stack. That got my attention.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Acuvate

APRIL 20, 2023

Language models like GPT, LLM (large language models), and other AI-powered technologies have shown tremendous potential in transforming human-machine collaboration, unlocking new levels of efficiency superpowers. It has allowed users to design complex workflows and digital assistants based on natural language. Let’s see how.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 20, 2023

From India to Vietnam: The Changing Landscape of Offshore Software Development Outsourcing software development services to offshore vendors has become an increasingly popular way for businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Other emerging offshore destinations for OPD services include the Philippines, and South Africa.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2023

Hill and her colleagues in an article published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) last year. The second thing that occurred to me was that each of these ABCs are roles that we proactively embed within organizations through innovation management software. What makes a great leader? That’s the question posed by Professor Linda A.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. The free web-based brainstorming software makes it simple to upload a document, create a tracking table, and use all other features with a team, sharing documents and collecting edits.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

We need a radical design, universal in design and approach. What we should finally accept, a platform connects all users, both internally and externally in their ability to share their knowledge and information in exchanges, in one environment to cultivate collaborations and continuous collaborative creativity.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? The IM software market is stirring. million.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product. Embedded software is becoming essential within products; from shoes, household appliances, cars, travel etc.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. Innovation software management continues to be sold piecemeal, so often just bolted onto the other parts already in place, not being optimized.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? What is design thinking?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

So as I read about the solution that Aras provides to the designers within Manufacturing to manage PLM complex systems and products, you have to wonder why this cannot be extended into all innovation’s management. The whole momentum of collaboration becomes accelerated. A truly open innovation 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. They need a more fluid, highly adaptive design. Let me outline many of these here.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The partnership will see Qmarkets collaborate with Capgemini Invent , Capgemini’s innovative management division. Together, Qmarkets and Capgemini Invent will provide leading global enterprises with a combined package of strategic consultancy services and dedicated innovation software.   They are a great bunch of innovators.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This report provides a definitive innovation benchmarking document for leaders in strategy, R&D, design, and other innovation roles inside large organizations. Is that due to it being “too risky” or the appetite for change, is less but due to what? This needs more investigation.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. McKinsey & Company research shows that “Design-led organizations realize 10% more revenue than ones that aren’t.” Making Remote Teams Work.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Moreover, AI’s role in product development is becoming increasingly important due to the growing complexity of consumer needs and the fast-paced nature of technology. Enhance cross-functional collaboration through shared insights and decision-making platforms. Tailor products and services to specific market segments.

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Anaqua

JULY 26, 2021

A Client Portal or virtual collaboration workspace - can help manage client correspondence, facilitate sharing sensitive data, simplify tracking IP tasks, and ultimately, satisfy your clients. Collaborate effectively. My Requests and My Reviews in the Client Portal are key features to utilize.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

The traditional paradigms of automotive manufacturing are evolving, driven by the imperative to integrate cutting-edge software solutions seamlessly with hardware production. This divergence between software and hardware cycles poses significant challenges, particularly for OEMs typically focused on manufacturing.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way. In the present economic situation, when your business is surrounded by instability, pandemics, and disruption, planning to innovate business strategies or prepare for recessions is prudent and wise. What Is Design Thinking?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

The author presents a clear three-part framework consisting of Innovation Strategy, System and Culture that a large company needs to use to be an innovative organization. This book presents a refutation of this belief. To do so, the author presents the following framework for creating and sustaining a capacity for innovation.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

Industries including medical devices, biotech, aerospace, automotive, apparel, and food are finding applications for intricately designed, novel material customizations. This includes engineers, designers, production managers, and other stakeholders who must work together to integrate AM into the production facility.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new partnership between Qmarkets and boutique management consultancy SteepConsult will enable enterprise companies across Europe to benefit from a 360-degree service combining SteepConsult’s extensive innovation expertise with our own innovation management software solutions. At Management level, give it the right mandate!

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

I was catching up with my collaborate and sparring partner on “all things innovating”, Jeffrey Phillips and within our recent conversation, some of our discussions sort of triggered a reflection back to some fundamental work we undertook some years back. presently to connect and link manufacturing in a more “globalized” world.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 26, 2012

Design patterns are generally considered a good thing, but do they actually help run a user experience group? As a user experience group manager and an observer (and sponsor) of design pattern exercises, I’ve come to have serious questions about their actual utility.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 27, 2020

More people than ever before are relying on remote software tools to collaborate and innovate with their teams. Video conferencing software Zoom is definitely near the top of that list – and they’ve just added a new feature that makes connecting your various virtual tools even easier. What is Zapps?

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

The circular economy seeks to address these challenges by reimagining how we design, produce, and consume goods. The Role of Enterprise Architecture in the Circular Economy Enterprise architecture (EA) refers to the practice of designing, planning, and implementing IT infrastructure and systems to support an organization’s goals and strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Part of my shifting my own innovation advisory work was to build out a greater understanding of the power of ecosystems platforms and customer experience collaborations. They are creating the design tools for platforms and by extension, ecosystems. This excitement from my side is the result of how they are setting about tackling this.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

We help organizations discover how to build innovation and design thinking strategies into their workplace environments, start and lead innovation teams, and keep up the process of innovating every day. Aside from collaboration, innovation teams must also fight against a “failure” mentality. What is an innovative team?

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