Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. The shift to platform thinking gives the potential for scalable and flexible foundations for collaboration, integration, and value creation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. I am going into new versions of PAH-1 , but let me share this opening design for AI-driven innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2021

This presents governments with a careful balancing act that needs to be struck with innovation. Political Realities: Another is the ever-present question of how something will be perceived by voters. Even when an innovation may be a good idea, the overall politics of the moment have to be considered before pitching any changes.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual. This directs contributions and collaboration towards the goals you’re trying to meet.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The following qualities are essential for an effective innovation speaker. Expertise in Innovation and Business An effective innovation speaker must possess a deep understanding of innovation processes and business strategies.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Innovation drives the changes in the Energy transition. If we take the suggested Energy Innovation System outlined in this Whitepaper.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A speaker specializing in innovation can also highlight trends, emerging technologies, and industry disruptions, providing valuable context for future strategic planning. This approach underscores the importance of innovation in both message and action, solidifying the theme’s relevance to your event.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 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. Our advisors are present in the USA, Brazilian, and Asian regions. Let’s talk about open innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. “ Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy” Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

Many small vendors provide limited scope to grow innovation in organizational ways; they “sweat” the one idea or big challenge. Is that really the sum of innovation? How feasible is this? Over the weeks ahead, I want to “flesh this out” in a series of conversations, questioning and finding answers.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The best way for people to understand new ideas is through a visual medium, and because of this it only makes sense for businesses and innovators to begin adopting visualization tools. In this article, we will discuss why visual collaboration is so important to innovation and we’ll reveal the best tool to implement new innovation strategies.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These barriers do not ‘magically’ change by delivering what I believe moves us to a better system for innovation, that of an ecosystem and platform architecture. Recognizing the present and ongoing barriers to innovation needs solutions to be built into any future design. Enabling technology and processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. The need for digital platforms and ecosystem designs has grown to achieve this collaborative environment.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2021

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. Virtual whiteboards are shared workspaces that people operate through in order to collaborate from anywhere. They provide a ton of features that teams can use to increase the collaborative potential of their workspace. Exercise #1 ?

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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. Our advisors are present in the USA, Brazilian, and Asian regions. Let’s talk about open-source innovation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Office design is a crucial aspect of your innovation strategy. Certain factors must be present to foster the development of innovative ideas. Consider collaboration spaces, plenty of light, and a comfortable environment for your employees. Crowdsourcing and open innovation are gaining ground in the financial industry.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In some ways, innovation is about going “back to the drawing board.”. Process improvement is about making an existing process better, and there’s no reason not to do this when the opportunity presents itself. Only when an innovative process has been tested thoroughly should it go live.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs. This 3H thinking helps break down complex issues.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The energy transition that the world is undertaking is one of the most critical areas where innovation needs to be at its very best, that top of the game to make the level of change necessary. Any energy transition takes a long time, and it requires a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 25, 2019

This is not to say that with open innovation, political and cultural barriers magically go away. Just like innovations that take place completely within an organization, innovations and ideas gathered from open innovation processes will bump up against turf wars, self-appointed “gatekeepers” and the like.

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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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Board of Innovation

JULY 20, 2023

Machines can generate ideas and concepts that might have been overlooked by humans, offering fresh perspectives and innovative solutions. With AI as a creative partner, businesses and innovators can explore uncharted territories and unlock new possibilities.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the challenges to innovation in government is a lack of insight into what citizens have to offer in the way of innovative strategies. Governments are aware of the increasing need to capture perspectives and insights of citizens to spark the innovation process. Recognize the Challenges.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

In today’s blog we will define the key steps that should be included within an effective idea generation process to maximize idea submissions, engagement, and eventually implementation. However, there are various approaches for each step of the process which can be chosen based on what is best for your business and employees.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Hutch Carpenter

AUGUST 5, 2015

Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. In this post, I want to focus on another type of innovation initiative: Collaborative Innovation. Phase objectives.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

This say-do gap presents a significant challenge for companies committed to sustainability—it's not enough for a product to be sustainable; it must also resonate with consumers on multiple levels, including cost, convenience, and quality. Yet there is a large gap between what customers say and what they actually do.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Enhanced Problem Solving.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Reaching out for a new design built on collaborative building blocks of design. Our present economic models, certainly in the West are so heavily debt-laden, from the effects of over-spending, supporting the Ukrainian war, and the Corvid crisis, and rightly supporting those in economic need and business difficulties.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

across an organization As an Innovation Management solution provider, Ezassi helps manufacturers initiate the innovation process by identifying specific Industry 4.0 We then help evaluate, facilitate, and incentivize the key ideas formed by your solver ecosystem as part of the overall innovation process.

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100%Open

JULY 7, 2020

Union is a club for innovation professionals, hosted by 100%Open, and its aim is to connect people. We do this by inviting speakers to give presentations on a certain topic or theme – the most recent being Innovation Is No Longer A Contact Sport – followed by Q&As and general networking time.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Enhance cross-functional collaboration through shared insights and decision-making platforms. For a deeper dive into how AI is revolutionizing the stages and gates processes of innovation, explore next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

The chart below shows the responses to a questionnaire I administered called the Innovation Value Chain survey , and it demonstrates what an air sandwich looks like in practice. This is one of the reasons that it is almost impossible to just add some innovation into an organization, without changing the culture.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 25, 2015

There is still this relative reluctance to form broader collaborations that will provide new ways of managing through this technology led revolution. A more open one built on collaborating, on leveraging, on tapping into low-cost capital presently available and pushing really hard for radically different business model design.

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