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. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For me, ecosystem thinking and design are accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. “ Organizations today are no different from the past; they seek fresh growth and establish new competitive positions. ” constrained them.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

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 proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. I highlight the key value points.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. When you invite an innovation keynote speaker to your event, you’re not just getting a presentation; you’re accessing a wealth of knowledge shaped by real-world experience and success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 182

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Dynamic ecosystems are not just about the present but about the future. Future-Proofing Through Investment in Dynamic Ecosystems While the present is undoubtedly crucial, dynamic ecosystems require businesses to cast their gaze toward the future. Dynamic ecosystems are not just about the present. They are about the future.

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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. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. This 3H thinking helps break down complex issues.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The journey has forced me into terrain that presented diverse challenges to achieve fresh insights and traversed many a rugged landscape to get closer to my goal of offering organizations their innovation fitness and future landscape design, one designed to alter their present capabilities and capacity to innovate radically.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Thinking of innovation as an innovation ecosystem in design. In designing these innovation ecosystems, we might have the potential answer to overcoming and giving innovation that chance to be more central to the core of the business. We need to re-think innovation and provide a new level of innovation integration and optimization.

Design 52

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 16, 2023

Energy is a vital part of any country’s ability to be competitive, and we need to recognize that to innovate is the critical enabler to a clean energy future. We must nurture innovation and continuously look for ways to facilitate its pathway in the Energy Transition we are presently travelling.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems. Share instances where timely knowledge acquisition has led to breakthroughs or market leadership to strengthen ecosystem thinking and design further.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Arable Ventures specializes in enterprise innovation, operating model design, capability and venture portfolio delivery. You have an endless list of stakeholders to engage, countless data points to consider, and plenty of landmines to avoid. About Qmarkets Managing innovation in large organizations is never easy.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 1, 2021

This means that every organisation, regardless of its size and specialisation, requires its leaders, and teams paradoxically, to be both competent and confident, to be both human-centred and customer-centric, in effectively managing both the future and the present. Unlearn, relearn, reskill and upskill. Embracing paradox.

Management 52

Management Agile Collaboration Creativity 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. We often need to approach change in a non-linear fashion as no recognized patterns or present system approaches or behaviours work. Connecting up and Deploying Collaboration Tools.

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Betterific

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Our “ Hacking Civic Engagement ” Challenge was a first for us in many respects. Ideas were conceived of by the Betterific community, winners were chosen by Pixel, and passed them on–along with design specs–to the designers at Topcoder. In 48 hours, they received 25 app designs. .

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Acuvate

JULY 7, 2023

These include personalized interactions, optimized marketing strategies, and providing proactive customer support. In this blog, we dive deeper to discover the potential of Generative AI for enhancing customer experience in marketing and customer support/engagement. This will drive deeper engagement, brand loyalty, and advocacy.

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Acuvate

JULY 7, 2023

These include personalized interactions, optimized marketing strategies, and providing proactive customer support. In this blog, we dive deeper to discover the potential of Generative AI for enhancing customer experience in marketing and customer support/engagement. This will drive deeper engagement, brand loyalty, and advocacy.

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Generative AI Engagement Marketing Artificial Inteligence 52

Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. Other challenges that startups may face when it comes to sales include competition from larger companies, limited brand recognition, and difficulty in differentiating their products or services from those of their competitors.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2024

This can lead to cost savings and improved competitiveness. The key is to demonstrate how a well-designed partner ecosystem can directly support and accelerate the achievement of these priorities. Highlight competitive advantages : Emphasize how a robust partner ecosystem can provide a competitive edge in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

In the process, they are losing out financially, forgoing huge opportunities in not achieve future competitive positions or foregoing the chances to alter their market position radically. XPLANE , visualization thinkers who apply a design thinkers approach, produced brilliant visualizations of the organizations needs.

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Guidelines Innovation Strategy Strategy 342

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. Still, barriers do need to be consciously built into any new thinking as ones “to be resolved” in any new solution design. They need a more fluid, highly adaptive design. Let me outline many of these here.

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Software Review Innovation Design Technical Review 162

Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

So the most voted topic of our latest ‘Spark Creativity’ session was on: How to engage C-level managers to collaborate better and break the silos to create a more engaging workplace for employees? Engage them in surfacing possible solutions and selecting the ones they see most impact and feasibility.

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Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

So the most voted topic of our latest ‘Spark Creativity’ session was on: How to engage C-level managers to collaborate better and break the silos to create a more engaging workplace for employees? Engage them in surfacing possible solutions and selecting the ones they see most impact and feasibility.

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Groups Engagement Management Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

It is probably best described as a pervasive attitude that allows businesses to see beyond the present and create the future. In short, innovation is the engine of change and in today’s fiercely competitive environment resisting change is dangerous. Although innovation cannot be touched, heard, tasted or seen, it can be felt.

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Innovation Competition Resources Technology 147

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2021

Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. A sustainable design that turns today’s promise of decarbonization into a real, meaningful one that delivers tangible and quantifiable solutions in product and the extended supply chain. To get to this new design, we need different thinking.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 25, 2024

Crossing the chasm into a new way of doing business through Ecosystem thinking and design is upon us all. It is never easy to lay out the shift to Business Ecosystem thinking and design. Engage them early, seek their input, and leverage their support to consider my point 4. Build a coalition of advocates.

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Industry Design Resources Competition 59

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Innovation is vital to the energy system’s integration and operation design, and we need to further recognize its crucial role. Its ultimate result is to offer innovation that can continually look for re-imagining new market designs and business models to stimulate the changes and solutions for our future energy transformation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to Startup Accelerator Programs The Concept of Startup Acceleration Startup accelerator programs are designed to foster rapid growth of early-stage companies by providing them with the necessary resources and support.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Interconnected solutions and systems contribute to overall growth and competitiveness. Driving Sustained Growth and Impact: Active engagement in ecosystems drives sustained growth and impact; it connects a collaborative vision and drives engagement and return.

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Collaboration Design Leadership Competition 64

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What condition of ‘readiness’ in design, capabilities and capacity4. These form the ‘way forward’ in discussions, resolution and design. What are the expectations and the environment you chose to compete in3. Have the critical processes for creating success been laid in or still have critical gaps.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2020

We are searching for what makes up the present system and what needs to be part of the future to create a ‘best’ innovation capability environment that is sustainable in the longer-term. We are striving towards a true ‘innovation coherency premium’ in design , knowing what makes up your core dynamic components.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Capgemini Invent helps clients from a diverse range of industries to remain competitive through customer-centric innovation. You have an endless list of stakeholders to engage, countless data points to consider, and plenty of landmines to avoid. About Qmarkets Managing innovation in large organizations is never easy.

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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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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

Presently our Governments are obsessed with innovation- it sometimes feels it is the only game in town for future growth. The problem is we seem to be destroying more than we can build at present, yet a ‘few’ gain from these seeds of “destructive creation” while a majority don’t. The obsession with innovation- myself included!

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Creativity Innovation Industry Disruption 306

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2020

It is through the nature of these complexities we achieve competitive advantage and can deploy more of the flow of knowledge for those new sources of new profit and wealth creation. They suggest organizations need to decide on where to hold complexity within any design and build the right capabilities where they matter.

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