Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. Innovation has a critical role in delivering new solutions to drive this energy transition we are undergoing. What does this all mean for innovation?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 5, 2020

Iowa DOT has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets’ innovation management software, with the launch of their Research Ideas Website. link] The Iowa DOT Idea Crowdsourcing website for users to suggest new and innovative ideas to improve transportation in Iowa.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 5, 2020

Iowa DOT has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets’ innovation management software, with the launch of their Research Ideas Website. We’re really happy to be using Qmarkets’ tool to help drive innovation at the DOT, both internally and externally.” “The We’re excited to see what results this initiative generates!”.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 27, 2019

Efficient supply chains reduce waste, save money, and ensure the best possible goods are made and brought to market. There’s a lot of innovation waiting to turn supply chains into ever more powerful tools. A good example is collaborative transportation management. Automation And Robotics.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

When we collaborate more openly with others, our odds of solving real problems and creating value for our customers and users increase. For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 22, 2024

Collaborative innovation : Innovation within a business ecosystem frequently occurs through collaboration and knowledge sharing among different players. Companies may co-create products, services, or solutions by combining their respective strengths and expertise, fostering interdependence in the pursuit of innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We need to respond quickly and in very different, highly collaborative ways. Our need is to explore and exploit, and we have to harness ourseleces, our organizations, through these new technologies and collaborative concepts to take advantage and leverage all that is possible.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is one of the most critical places where innovation application is required and able to be conducted to deliver a sustaining impact in our world. Innovation solutions will provide the energy transition needed, and that is what makes it such a compelling area to focus upon. The question is, will we?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. Innovation has a critical role in delivering new solutions to drive this energy transition we are undergoing. What does this all mean for innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. Innovation has a critical role in delivering new solutions to drive this energy transition we are undergoing. What does this all mean for innovation?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. Objectives might include reassessing market position, exploring new partnerships, or setting performance targets. Here’s how you can facilitate these conversations effectively.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Top Questions about Innovation. What are the most popular or common questions people have about innovation? What are the frequently asked questions about innovation? We used our AI tools to identify the questions people ask about innovation the most and find the answers. Read on for the innovation FAQs!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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. This will drive innovation across sectors, but will be especially useful for green energy applications like solar power.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What is Product Market Fit? The source of competitive advantage is disruption, and whoever manages to survive it will differentiate themselves within the invisible hand of the market. That’s where Product Market Fit comes in. Often, managers encounter difficulties and obstacles to define their own situation in the market.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 17, 2023

One area of potential to bridge is the collaborations at the multiple firm levels. Each is struggling to get out of their (self-made) islands of knowledge to grow their business value through mostly individual innovation solutions. Well, this post is about one alternative well worth considering.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

In looking for innovations it is sometimes helpful to consider whether your product or service is open or closed. Open source software became a major force for innovation. A major innovation in the 19th century was canned food. The great innovation which transformed global trade was one that took an open process and enclosed it.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 17, 2023

AI — The Tool, Not The Taskmaster AI is an innovative tool that will change the way we approach our work rather than a taskmaster that will usurp our jobs. Furthermore, As retail becomes increasingly digitized, the need for people skilled in digital marketing, AI, and data analytics is growing.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The bright ideas coming from creative innovators prove we are developing and harnessing new technologies to eliminate the burning of fossil fuels to off set carbon emissions. As the Earth’s need for power grows, so does the necessity for innovative clean power solutions. Is zero carbon possible?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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. This will drive innovation across sectors, but will be especially useful for green energy applications like solar power.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Nearly all of their brands were struggling with stagnant or declining market share. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. However, you don’t need to have full-time innovation scouts to get going.

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Innovating4Energy

MAY 16, 2023

I often wonder about the rigor of assessments and the lack of a common approach when evaluating or assessing the contributions of new concepts or innovation solutions in any Energy Transition and the broader impacts these can have. So what makes up the 18S framework to assess any change and innovation in the Energy transition ?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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Innovating4Energy

JULY 24, 2023

We need a new economic logic, one that can still offer us a market-driven or consumption-conscious one, one that can harness not harm. An energy transition becomes a socially-driven one, compelling the existing market structures to change, harnessing, and balancing nature with all that needs to co-exist on this planet.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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Innovating4Energy

AUGUST 18, 2023

The continued burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation, is giving levels of carbon intensity that need to be dramatically reversed as this continues to put pressure on rising temperatures and a warming planet. We have this real need for an effective energy transition built on electricity supplied by renewables.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

With Innovation Management In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires embracing Industry 4.0 and leveraging the power and adaptability of Innovation Management and strategy. Innovation? innovative manufacturing methods must be developed. Improving Industry 4.0

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I have been having some writers block recently and I was not sure how to unlock some random thoughts I was having in the past weeks, then in a great conversation I had today, with a fellow innovation colleague, it started to “reveal itself” in where I needed to go to give a new sense of repurpose. We need to combine them.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The way transportation went from horse and carriages to having cars changed within 20–25 years. Imagine the innovation we could collectively give birth to, with more freedom. This creates a barrier to innovation and motivates people to want to change the system even more. It needs collaboration. The Process. The Solution.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 4, 2022

As many automobiles hit the market with fully autonomous capabilities, rideshare platforms like Uber and Lyft — who already disrupted the public transportation industries with their applications — will start utilizing those types of vehicles to transport individuals instead of individual drivers.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

However, I have recently been seeing reports of many businesses going into survival mode; choosing not to invest in innovation and instead save precious resources. Casualties of Innovation Complacency The disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has forced all companies to act. The Opportunity in Crisis – Now or Never?

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

A Reflection on 10 Years in Open Innovation. When 100%Open was spun out of Nesta 10 years ago, open innovation was interesting. Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies. The business case for open innovation . The development of open innovation. Marginal to mainstream. Why is this?

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IdeaConnection

JANUARY 12, 2018

It has been an exciting few days for open innovation with global companies launching big new open innovation initiatives. They want to speed up the time to market for a new connected car. Among them are GE Appliances, Hyundai and Nissan. Here is a quick peek at some of the stories that have been making the headlines.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

However I have recently been seeing reports of many businesses going into survival mode; choosing not to invest in innovation and instead save precious resources. Casualties of Innovation Complacency The disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has forced all companies to act. The Opportunity in Crisis – Now or Never?

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2016

You may know that Paul Hobcraft and I are collaborating on a new blog entitled Ecosystems for Innovating where we focus on the emerging importance of platforms and ecosystems for innovation. New innovations must either align to and integrate with, or must overthrow these platforms and ecosystems.

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