Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. We need to resolve that issue within any innovation activity, it needs a “tight” linkage to strategy.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We experimented with some of the first online collaboration tools. The challenge is that many managers haven’t actually been trained on what’s needed to lead virtual or distributed work teams.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries. Create a hub where ideas can flow freely, fostering a dynamic environment for collaboration.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These programs often provide startups with resources and mentorship, enhancing the potential for successful collaboration and integration of startup innovation into larger corporate frameworks. This involves a thorough analysis of the startup ecosystem to pinpoint ventures with the potential to disrupt existing markets or create new ones.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We experimented with some of the first online collaboration tools. The challenge is that many managers haven’t actually been trained on what’s needed to lead virtual or distributed work teams.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them. Successful innovation requires aligning your innovation model to your business strategy.

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Innovating4Energy

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The search for stability with all the disruption and dislocation. Alamy Stock Photo How do you reassure those worried that significant changes to their energy system will lead to the inevitable disruption and dislocation none of us like? How can we manage so much change occurring to give some level of stability and continuity?

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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.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Hill talked to the Harvard Business School publication Working Knowledge about embracing the digital transformation and creating an innovation management strategy based on “ecosystems” of innovation. Hill says: “For innovation to happen and take hold nowadays, managers often need to build ecosystems.”.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Statistics show that 70% of projects fail to deliver desired results and 42% of organizations don’t even understand the importance of project management—but they also show that 73% of organizations that use a formal project-management approach always or often have met their goal. Here, we focus on five core skills.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 20, 2021

Some of the to-ing and fro-ing that happened is inexplicable, at least to me, but I am sure there was some "strategy" behind it. So, there are a couple of issues with the idea that collaboration and innovation aren't helpful. Rather than random interactions, create interactions and collaborations that have an intent.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CVC can be an integral part of a corporation’s broader innovation strategy, providing both the capital necessary for startups to scale and the strategic support to navigate the complexities of their respective industries. This alignment can result in a myriad of collaborative opportunities, from product development to new market entry.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. Suppose organizations make adaptability a cornerstone of their product development strategy and overall culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We all recognise that markets are changing, complexity is growing, and challenges are more formidable to manage without extended help. This one explores how individual entities are seizing new ways of managing and evolving their business model, with the significant use of technology, partnerships and what I would call ingenuity spotting.

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective.

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Planview

JANUARY 17, 2024

These Agile principles have introduced a new level of adaptability, collaboration, and responsiveness, allowing organizations to stay agile and competitive in the ever-evolving market. We’ll explore proven strategies for efficient WIP and bottleneck management, along with the best tools available to streamline these processes.

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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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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. There’s a balance between autonomy and collaboration. Participants within dynamic ecosystems prioritize continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ensuring alignment and effective collaboration among participants with different goals and priorities can be challenging. Barrier: Lack of effective coordination mechanisms and communication channels may hinder seamless collaboration, impacting the overall success of the ecosystem.

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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. I highlight the key value points.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

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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.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Leaders with high emotional intelligence are adept at understanding and managing their own emotions, which in turn allows them to inspire and influence their teams positively. For those seeking to deepen their understanding of this synergy, exploring emotional intelligence in leadership can provide further strategies and examples.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Question 1: How can we build a system if we have not settled on an innovation management process? . Question 2: Who in the organization should manage innovation?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This partnership will combine the extensive functionality of the Qmarkets platform with the expertise and services of RevelX’s team of growth entrepreneurs, to power the innovation efforts and strategies of companies around the world. Together they combine over 200 years of experience in consulting and management.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance. Overall, it provides valuable insights into the nuances of innovation in organizational settings and offers strategies for overcoming common barriers.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 17, 2023

Tackling Digital Transformation Challenges with Ease: Strategies for Success The digital transformation journey is essential for businesses to remain competitive and relevant in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world. Next, develop a phased approach to minimize disruption to the business.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Offer strategies for effective prototyping and testing. Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2020

In our last blog “Leading and managing human transitions through disruption and adversity,” we described the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic not only with themselves, and also with others they interact with. Mining decades of stability.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Especially the innovation resources who might struggle in traditional management structures?

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you actively seek to disrupt yourself, your team, and your organisation to effect sustainable success in the new year, or not, we all need to face, adapt and learn from the range of challenging disruptive events that impacted us in the past 12 months. We have all been challenged by disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A shift in managing differently , a possible inflexion point We are possibly at a series of inflexion points in our current business environment. Technology is a fundamental disrupter or enabler; it is the catalyst for making this change. It is highly collaborative and interactive. Gaining a network of thriving relationships.

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