Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? Additional Tips to Help Your Team Prioritize Innovation Roadmap Features.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Partners and team. The first potential pitfall after having the spark of the first idea is not having a clear problem statement of the issue your idea solves and researching whether someone else has solved that problem and penetrated the market already. Mock-up and prototype for testing product-market fit. Not starting.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

By fostering strategic thinking, leaders can better adapt to changes, identify opportunities for innovation, and prevent potential setbacks before they occur. Build a resilient organization that can withstand market fluctuations and competitive pressures.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

By fostering strategic thinking, leaders can better adapt to changes, identify opportunities for innovation, and prevent potential setbacks before they occur. Build a resilient organization that can withstand market fluctuations and competitive pressures.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Drag is the resistance of air against a moving object.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 27, 2022

I'd like to borrow this idea from the entrepreneurial community and turn our gaze to mid-sized and larger firms, and think about how much time, if any, companies spend on two critical aspects of their business: strategy and innovation. In Innovation or On Innovation? That is, if you have a strategy.

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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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Cris Beswick

MAY 8, 2024

Innovation has often been treated as a cyclical phenomenon, eagerly embraced during prosperous times and relegated to the sidelines during economic downturns. More than 70% of senior executives regularly acknowledge that innovation will be among their companies’ top three growth drivers in the next three to five years.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. According to BCG in a recent article, “To Drive Innovation with GenAI, Start by Questioning Your Assumptions.”

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It involves a shift from a fixed mindset to one that is dynamic, encompassing self-awareness, resilience, and the courage to drive innovation and growth. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It involves a shift from a fixed mindset to one that is dynamic, encompassing self-awareness, resilience, and the courage to drive innovation and growth. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. How can corporations work with startups?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Example: Kodak, a once-dominant player in the photography industry, struggled to innovate and adapt to the digital age.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. It does not include product development.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Anyone leading in innovation will tell you that managing the complete idea lifecycle is an uphill battle. So let’s look at some practical ways you can maximize your innovation potential and overcome the top 3 innovation challenges with the help of ChatGPT. Improve Decision-Making What informs your innovation strategy?

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Creating an innovation approach that is as effective as it is exciting should be the focus of every innovator. As we embark on the “ corporate innovation odyssey ” that is 2024 (as Planbox CEO Ludwig Melik calls it), equipping ourselves with the right features in our innovation toolkit cannot be overstated.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. Acquiring such comprehensive skills presents a formidable and resource-intensive endeavor.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At this point in business evolution, every CEO understands the need for more innovation. After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. Innovation does require creativity and expansive thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Innovation, as practiced today in most corporations, is far too "easy" and commercialization is far too difficult. What if innovation was challenging and difficult, and commercialization were easy? Innovation is easy, commercialization is difficult Now, let's get our language straight. What if that statement were reversed?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 16, 2018

In the late 1800s and early 1900s there were even competitions between explorers. Teams from several countries raced through blinding snow and ice to get to the North and South pole first. Exploration became more intense and was seen as a competition for limited resources. There was the "race" to the poles.

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Stephen Shapiro

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I asked it: “ Please write me an 800 word blog entry on why innovation is important to large organizations. Be sure to include your definition of innovation and 5 steps on how to make innovation a reality.” Innovation is important for large organizations for a number of reasons.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Whether it’s Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams or SharePoint, to name a few, we all use one tool or another to communicate with team members. What does that mean exactly? .

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. They also share fundamentals behind the model: Scan – Be on the lookout for new market patterns, emerging customer preferences, unfamiliar competitors, and pattern-breakers changing your industry.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amidst the relentless waves of innovation and competition, OEMs, suppliers, and manufacturers in the automotive industry navigate a sea of challenges and opportunities. Simultaneously, the divide between business leaders and IT presents a significant hurdle in the dynamic landscape of automotive innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 10, 2023

In doing so, business leaders can then develop an Anticipatory mindset that more easily overcomes what they are afraid of before it tears them down. Failure to innovate – A lot of businesses are stuck in their ways or they are on a mission to preserve the status quo, which means they pass up innovating for a variety of reasons.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 13, 2017

Perhaps the most important role of the innovation leader is creating a competent team. You may have the best products and services in the market, but without a strong, talented marketing team behind them, you’ll start losing ground to the competition. Top innovation leaders get actively involved.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 22, 2016

Market research often falls short when it comes to innovation. Here’s why: Modern market research methods, like Lean Startup, do a great job of focusing on customer-centric discovery. In our post, How to Innovate: What Innovation Really Is , we discussed how focusing on learning before executing is vital to innovation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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