Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2023

Any energy transition takes a long time, requiring a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. For example, wind solutions have continued to evolve as we learn to explore new materials, improve the integration of advanced technology development, and better understand weather conditions.

Design 130

Design System Innovation Collaboration 130

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nine Stages of Building Dynamics I built out and have used a nine-stage journey for building dynamic capabilities for innovation, and now I want to extend this and apply it to building steps of a dynamic innovation ecosystem. I chose to stay with the nine stages in their step approach to link the two.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Recognizing the pivotal role that ideas play in driving innovation, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has introduced ISO 56007 guidance on tools and methods for managing opportunities and ideas. This standard serves as a comprehensive guide to managing innovation opportunities and ideas.

Idea Generation 52

Idea Generation Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

Software Review 163

Software Review Innovation Design Technical Review 163

eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They are not afraid to challenge the status quo and are driven to find innovative solutions to problems. By fostering intrapreneurship within your organization, you stimulate the development of disruptive ideas and invest in a collaborative work environment. Offer mentorship and guidance to help them navigate the process.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Management Software 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. Enhance cross-functional collaboration through shared insights and decision-making platforms.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Analysis Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined. AI technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling, which can significantly enhance the efficacy of the Stages and Gates process.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Innovation Management Management Generative AI 100

PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It almost sounds like an oxymoron, but with the help of generative AI systems like ChatGPT—OpenAI’s advanced AI language model that’s all the rage these days—you can take a lot of weight off your shoulders by streamlining your innovation processes, so you can have a bit more structure and creativity without the headaches.

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ChatGPT Generative AI Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 90

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Any energy transition takes a long time, and it requires a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Innovation is a long hard task of iterative improvements and some rare breakthroughs, and this requires increasing collaborations between public, private, and research institutions to pursue together ideas and concepts.

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System Innovation Technology Collaboration 181

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy. This capability allows teams to anticipate and address potential issues early in the design process.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties. Let’s talk about open-source innovation.

Open Innovation 94

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session. Most companies have an innovation management system.

System 59

System Innovation Management Management LEAN 59

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

Digital technologies are beginning to have a real impact on the methods, approaches, and rates of our innovation outputs. We continually learn, at our cost, that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago. Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding.

Technology 179

Technology Change Agile Innovation 179

eZassi

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The objective is to outperform and outmaneuver, blazing the trail to new frontiers with faster, more cost-effective innovation solutions. The Race to Space : Launch Collaboration. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know it takes a unified, collaborative effort to achieve projects of this scale. The appearance of U.S.

Software 52

Software Innovation Collaboration Ideation 52

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2017

Let’s step back just for one minute, these ‘sentiments’ are fine, yet we actually do, seriously lack a common language for innovation and we should find the ways and the means to change this. It holds innovation back significantly. It can’t continue in a world of greater networking and collaboration.

Innovation 185

Innovation Collaboration Engagement Learning 185

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility. The integration of AI amplifies these capabilities by improving design thinking with AI , thus accelerating the innovation process.

Design Thinking 140

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. Collaborators can achieve solutions only by being “fully” connected up, comfortable with their data, understanding and contribution, both within their knowledge and insights.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

You do get tired of hearing “we are looking to become a value-creating solution provider”, yet the willingness to really create collaborative networks is still stuck in the “us and them” mentality. The thinking through on the contribution around innovation needs to be changed. Struggling with legacy and old models.

Collaboration 138

Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Industry 138

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Innovation has gone from being islands of knowledge, developing new products and services exclusive to that one company, then quickly copied by the competitors, into something radically different. There are needs to explore the ways of working, collaborating and engaging and that alone is a massive undertaking.

Innovation 186

Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 186

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation.

Innovation 160

Innovation Design Innovation Processes Agile 160

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s one thing to say you want a culture of innovation. It’s another to actually get everyone truly innovating. We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure. Some progressive government organizations aren’t far behind the tech industry.

Tools 124

Tools Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 124

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Technical Review Innovation Engagement 52

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Join this Learning Lab. Open Strategy.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Project 52

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Yet prioritizing long-term innovation is the key to surviving crises. And so, how to keep innovation alive during crises? How to get leadership support for innovation? In order to mitigate this risk, companies should embrace open innovation and seek out collaboration opportunities.

Leadership 59

Leadership How To Innovation Project 59

Wazoku

MAY 12, 2020

Forrester Reveals The 13 Most Significant providers in Innovation Management “Wazoku has a differentiating vision for idea sharing and innovation collaboration.” Wazoku featured as one of the 13 Most Significant providers in Innovation Management in “The Forrester Wave : Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020”.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Software Review Analysis 52

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s one thing to say you want a culture of innovation. It’s another to actually get everyone truly innovating. We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure. Some progressive government organizations aren’t far behind the tech industry.

Tools 100

Tools Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 100

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Innovation System Change 175

Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 1, 2023

To build repeatable capability, organisations need an innovation system made up of innovation strategy, innovation processes, innovation governance, innovation culture and leadership for innovation. In their absence, innovation won’t be a repeatable and sustainable growth capability.

Culture 52

Culture Tips Innovation Leadership 52

Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

The evolving trend of Smart Cities is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

Crowdsourcing 58

Crowdsourcing Technical Review Engagement Collaboration 58

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There is the shift to more open-sourcing, the profound shifts that technology and digital transformation is having upon all our worlds is allowing a very different “connecting” innovation to come into play. Each has to find a new model of moving away from austerity and find ways to grow, innovation again is the means for this.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Software Review 100

IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

19:22] How do you think innovation should be measured? The questions are divided into measuring innovation outcome vs process. The challenges of measuring progress in the innovation process are discussed. They need to genuinely encourage and support innovation rather than push their own predetermined solutions.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Innovation Artificial Inteligence Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Every conversation, challenge, event and community building is likely to be different and that lack of the ability to have a repeating process will certainly drive the cost of origination a lot higher. Crowdsourcing can take place on many different levels and across various industries (social and government).

Crowdsourcing 113

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 113

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Every conversation, challenge, event and community building is likely to be different and that lack of the ability to have a repeating process will certainly drive the cost of origination a lot higher. Crowdsourcing can take place on many different levels and across various industries (social and government).

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

Again, I think this mirrors the current organization dilemmas on making the level of commitment to changing and adapting to technology and what it will bring in any new innovation activity. The really major shift is towards dynamic innovation ecosystems.

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Policies Report Technical Review Innovation 182

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

John Yoo (pictured right) is the Senior Innovation Success Manager of FORVIS’ EDGE team with almost 20 years of experience working in product management, strategy consulting, and chemical engineering. Recognition is paramount to the success of innovation at FORVIS”. The industry is also challenged by a war for talent.

Idea Management 90

Idea Management Management Crowdsourcing Culture of Innovation 90

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Furthermore, only 20% of companies are (or feel) ready to scale innovation because very few leaders are satisfied with the skills they have. There’s a clear gap between innovation aspirations and organizational capabilities. Your innovation programs should be strategically connected within the organization. In Summary.

Innovation Programs 52

Innovation Programs Innovation Culture Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 25, 2015

If they get the factors right, hit the needs of customers in their design, understanding, agility in responding to learning and adapting, ability to be fast to market and capable of scaling up really fast, then they transform spaces, leaving the established players desperately struggling to find answers and catch up. Control still dominates.

Industry 100

Industry Technical Review Collaboration Technology 100