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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

For a comprehensive understanding of how AI is reshaping this field, I recommend reading about innovation management powered by artificial intelligence. The Importance of AI in Today’s Product Development Artificial Intelligence has become an indispensable tool in modern product development.

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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. This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. Inspire Collaboration : They foster a collaborative culture that encourages the sharing of diverse thoughts and perspectives.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Rest of company not directly involved in innovation. No unified way to plan and measure innovation progress. No overall innovation strategy or portfolio. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Here, innovation will be closely tied to “product development” resources.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

Successful closed innovation requires protection, control, and ownership of intellectual property while still under development, through the use of special product development teams within a company. Social Innovation. Process Innovation. Marketing Innovation.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This process is critical to innovation in business success as mastery of the art of implementation is necessary to ensure that your innovation process and program clicks on all cylinders, all the time. To reach the widest audience and create variety, use multiple communication channels.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 7, 2024

Sustainability has shifted from the fringes of corporate strategy to a key driver for innovation. 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.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. 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.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Collaboration and Engagement ChatGPT can help you foster collaboration and engagement among stakeholders by providing a platform for communication and feedback. Additionally, ChatGPT can help you manage and track progress on collaboration projects, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers are integral to the product innovation process.?. Product innovation is all about new ideas from both your employees and your customers. Trying to develop a new product without input from your customers is akin to shooting arrows in the dark. Your employees, however, are a different matter.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. A growth transformation system is one in which corporate strategy, R&D and innovation all work together and in harmony to drive transformation excellence.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. This process is widely adopted by managers, executives, and consultants to drive new product development, service innovation, and business model refinement.

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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.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Defining a Clear Innovation Strategy The Barenbrug management team already had a clear strategy for the future. They have specified this in clear innovation targets and innovation themes. To reflect this, we have set up these innovation objectives directly in the Qmarkets tool.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Through ai-driven design thinking strategies , managers and executives can craft solutions that are not only innovative but also aligned with actual user needs and market demand. For a comprehensive guide on how to integrate these tools into the Empathize stage, consider reading ai-driven design thinking strategies.

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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. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. They are all becoming digital endeavors.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Queensland Police Service (QPS).

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 1, 2018

Executive-level consultant and C-level positions including Head of Business Units, Head of Strategy and Head of Innovation. Provides expert analysis and sound guidance when developing unique concepts and ideas to facilitate valuable long-term change. New product development. Innovation management.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? Builds collaboration and teamwork: Design thinking involves bringing together people from different disciplines and backgrounds to work on a problem together. This can foster collaboration and teamwork within the organization. What is the history of design thinking?

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 3, 2017

Executive-level consultant and C-level positions including Head of Business Units, Head of Strategy and Head of Innovation. Provides expert analysis and sound guidance when developing unique concepts and ideas to facilitate valuable long-term change. New product development. Innovation management.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. This bias surfaces when we are faced with ideas for new offerings, business models or strategies that the company is not used to.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Defining a Clear Innovation Strategy The Barenbrug management team already had a clear strategy for the future. They have specified this in clear innovation targets and innovation themes. To reflect this, we have set up these innovation objectives directly in the Qmarkets tool.

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hackerearth

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The bottom right quadrant is reserved for strategists as that’s where they start their work to look at digitally-powered strategies for changes to business models and new products. How innovation management enables digital transformation. Innovation management provides the innovation process structure, repeatability, and scale.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. Beyond these possibilities, what else can your brand explore to expand its repertoire of market listening strategies? Get your copy today!

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

In this article, I’ll draw upon two decades of hard-earned experience in pioneering the development of innovation-focused cultures in organisations worldwide to share proven principles, strategies, and techniques. As leaders, this means being bold and asking the tough questions: ‘Why do we do it this way?

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Innovation 360

MAY 30, 2017

From various experiences over the years – in management consulting, branding & communications, product development, strategy and creative process – Sabina has developed a never-ending hunger for turning needs and opportunities into creative ideas and products. Innovation Assessment.

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Planview

APRIL 28, 2019

As organizations seek to add value to customers and develop new, differentiated products and services, innovation is at the heart of strategy. It starts with creating a culture of innovation from within by tapping into the wisdom of employees. 1,697 comments, collaborating ideas. Strategy to execution.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 21, 2017

They needed a new product, in a hurry. From concept to packaging, they needed it all: RTB, packaging design, product name, name and product fit with top benefits, and fully baked complete concepts to test against legacy products and competitive products. Competitive pressures were high.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 15, 2020

1st Training of the Be-novative Partner Hub The Be-novative Partner Ecosystem is a Hub of people and resources whose main goal is envisioning, accelerating, and scaling the success rate of both organizational and product-development, creating impactful projects and meaningful solutions locally or globally.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 15, 2020

1st Training of the Be-novative Partner Hub The Be-novative Partner Ecosystem is a Hub of people and resources whose main goal is envisioning, accelerating, and scaling the success rate of both organizational and product-development, creating impactful projects and meaningful solutions locally or globally.

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hackerearth

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The bottom right quadrant is reserved for strategists as that’s where they start their work to look at digitally-powered strategies for changes to business models and new products. How innovation management enables digital transformation. Innovation management provides the innovation process structure, repeatability, and scale.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Depending on companies’ innovation readiness, the responsibility areas of the ‘innovation team’ may include the following: Set the strategy, define success. The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical. Real Innovators. Strategists. Programme Managers. IP experts.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

On the other side you had the experts – think of Coopers and Edgett, Clayton Christiansen, Henry Chesbrough and Jay Doblin, theorizing and promoting new approaches to innovate. One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations".

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

However, having leaders who drive and foster innovation accelerates a company’s growth. Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. It also shows the company’s interest in investing in innovation.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house. Those that follow this model often collaborate with FinTechs and start-ups through various means: innovation fairs, competitions, and small seed investments, to identify prospects.

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