Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I have been virtually attending the Siemens SPS Event this week taking technology, inspiration and connected innovation to a new level. You can’t fail to learn of several new concepts or innovations within this portfolio offered. For me, it was the expanding range of innovative concepts that are emerging.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

visual from www.amle.org collaboration-the-missing-standard/. For this we need help, we need collaborators wanting to not just navigate back but more to navigate forward. However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change.

Collaboration 130

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HYPE Innovation

JULY 26, 2021

While product-oriented innovation is well-established as a business practice, innovation in service-oriented sectors, such as legal, accounting, and consulting, has had a slower progression – until now.

Technical Review 246

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry.

Collaboration 147

Collaboration Innovation Agile Technical Review 147

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect. We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in.

Collaboration 273

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

visual from [link] collaboration-the-missing-standard/. For this we need help, we need collaborators wanting to not just navigate back but more to navigate forward. However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change.

Collaboration 130

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 20, 2021

When they were brought back to the office, the rationale was that hallway conversations and unexpected interactions would lead to better communication and innovation. The fact that this appears to be "news" suggests how little innovation must happen in the NY Times news room. Innovation in any corporation is difficult.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Innovation Industry Technology 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect. We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. My focus continues to get deeper and deeper into the Energy Transition from my innovation perspective, it is highly critical to our future.

Technology 246

Technology Report Collaboration Data 246

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. I wrote about the “ cascading effect” for innovation as “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. The age of “technology attack.”

Disruption 130

Disruption Technology System Change 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The need for transformational innovation. Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. Transformational innovation is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, to achieve. They confront, conflict and compel change.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The value of opening up and embracing Ecosystems in design and thinking is that you can attract diverse expertise and knowledge into fresh partnerships and collaborations that can piece together radically different value propositions and shift competitors’ positioning.

Design 147

Design Technical Review Collaboration ChatGPT 147

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design.

Agile 182

Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 182

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Disruption is everywhere. Twenty years ago, when I started advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on their innovation strategies, a “2020 vision” served as a key staple in most business planning efforts. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption.

Trends 130

Trends Disruption Artificial Inteligence Internet of things 130

Digital Tonto

JUNE 11, 2023

These days, innovation has become, far too often, solipsistic and self-referential, pursued for the glory of the innovators themselves rather than for the benefit of anyone else and there is increasing evidence the venture-funded entrepreneurship model is crowding out more productive investments. The recent CHIPS Bill is a good start.

Entrepreneurship 196

Entrepreneurship Innovation Disruption Collaboration 196

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Innovation is certainly a complex and dynamic process that involves many factors and actors and I certainly feel it has been shifting in its focus. I decided to ask GPT-4 what major shifts have occurred in how we approached innovation ten years ago and today. It was suggested that these were the following.

Artificial Inteligence 173

Artificial Inteligence Change Generative AI Innovation 173

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.

Innovation Programs 189

Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 189

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Achieving Meaningful Change through Business Ecosystems Several business organizations have committed to navigating complexity, fostering dynamism and originality in approaching innovation and business ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Disruption is everywhere. Twenty years ago, when I started advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on their innovation strategies, a “2020 vision” served as a key staple in most business planning efforts. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption. Emerging technologies catalyze disruption.

Trends 113

Trends Disruption Artificial Inteligence Internet of things 113

Imaginatik

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Imaginatik will be attending the 5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) in San Francisco, CA on December 13th and 14th. We’ve partnered with our valued customer, The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) to develop and submit an open innovation paper describing our work together and the resulting economic impact.

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Open Innovation Conference Technology Collaboration 189

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the biggest questions I am getting from businesses at the moment is what the potential impact of a recession or the slowdown of the economy might have on their innovation efforts. And according to a new report by Innovation Leader and KPMG USA called “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead.”

Technical Review 298

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Report Innovation 298

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Technology is a fundamental disrupter or enabler; it is the catalyst for making this change. Markets are changing significantly, and collaboration and partnerships are rapidly forming and coalescing around the concept of Ecosystem thinking and Platform design. It is highly collaborative and interactive.

Design 189

Design Collaboration Disruption Resources 189

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. The need for radical innovation changes the present position.

Radical Innovation 321

Radical Innovation Technical Review Engagement Collaboration 321

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

How difficult would it be to embrace this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, as it is often argued that most people want to keep innovation management and its process simple? We cannot afford to avoid changing our innovation processes as we deal with a far more complex and challenging world. Why change?

Case Study 147

Case Study Innovation Design Collaboration 147

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. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 182

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the suggested Hierarchy of Business Ecosystems , recognizing the value of an interconnected series of (dedicated) Ecosystems that build out innovation, business, dynamic flexibility, and connected enterprise layers does need to address the natural instincts to resist. This can hinder cross-functional collaboration and ecosystem thinking.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Collaboration Culture Data 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

Ecosystems4Innovating

MARCH 6, 2023

Future connected industry ecosystems will be highly collaborative Seizing breaking opportunities, dealing with disruptions and delivering on more demanding customer needs are raising the complexity of managing today. Expansion, collaboration and innovation need to remain highly flexible.

Collaboration 78

Collaboration Industry Design Data 78

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. My focus continues to get deeper and deeper into the Energy Transition from my innovation perspective, it is highly critical to our future.

Technology 130

Technology Report Collaboration Data 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. Jeffrey Phillips and I have collaborated over a number of years and I have always felt these have been highly productive, original in thinking and truly valuable. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change.

Change 130

Change Technical Review Disruption Innovation 130

Ecosystems4Innovating

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Our existing business organizations need to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical constant change. They need to be ready to meet different challenges that will be consistent, complex and highly challenging, require the ability to be highly adaptive, and need high levels of open collaboration.

Disruption 52

Disruption Technical Review Collaboration Design 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2024

I believe in building the foundation layer, the Innovation Ecosystem pushes the “grey cells” and gives the best platform for integrating a comprehensive Ecosystem framework in my proposal, which comprises an Innovation Ecosystem, a Business Ecosystem, a Dynamic Ecosystem and the Enterprise Ecosystem.

Design 130

Design Collaboration Resources Data 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation’s power lies in the ability to adapt, evolve, and collaborate, and our need is to make this as much of a dynamic ecosystem as possible to tackle the growing complexity and challenges we are facing today and in the future. Dynamic ecosystems are not just about collaboration and innovation.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Design Leadership Industry 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet.

Disruption 127

Disruption Industry Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 127

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

Agile 130

Agile Collaboration ChatGPT Technical Review 130

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. Additionally, the risk of technology fatigue is heightened with virtual teams.

Strategy 100

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