Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. I think if this trend continues it will be a mistaken course. The mismatch of client needs and consultants offerings.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. To figure out why, the consulting team had reviewed the company’s innovation lifecycle process, showing what happens to an idea in order to get implemented.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

We can also see how these approaches were precursors to larger movements in lean startup, design thinking, and agile. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have named him one of the world’s top management experts and consultants. They’re as relevant for entrepreneurs and corporate ventures today as they were back then.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

He has worked on technology projects and used Lean Startup and Design Thinking elements and principles to drive and transform process and project delivery and ensure they add value. Some of the certifications he holds are Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner, PMP, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Startup.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Background: Dr Khoh has more than 25 years of industrial experience with a wide spectrum of roles in manufacturing, design engineering, IT, 6-Sigma Black-Belt, program management, Innovation Champion and Inventor Mentor in Fortune 500 MNCs based in Malaysia and abroad. Design Thinking (Stanford d.School Thinker).

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 30, 2017

Over the last 10 years, he has worked at leading cloud technology software companies consulting organizations on improving their strategy and operations through the usage of the latest cloud computing technologies. Shervin is also a certified scrum master driving process and operational improvements through agile and lean methodologies.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. The key to design thinking is it begins by imagining a solution that does not exist yet, and then set about outlining a pathway to realizing it. All exciting, motivating stuff.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Design Thinking. The post Dana Shaddad appeared first on Innovation Consultant | Innovation 360 | Home Of Innovation. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership. Innovation Management.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

“Tell me what I should be thinking about.” He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. Not Design Thinking?” There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

I do an imaginative game where executives consult with, in their minds, the wisest mentor they’ve every known. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

They are not always intentional or by design. Corporates and consultants alike (I can’t say that I haven’t been guilty of this myself) have bastardised and devalued the word innovation for a decade now, to the point where many don’t know what it means. Take the Double Diamond of Design Thinking for example.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Design Thinking. She is a holder of BComm and MSc in Strategy degrees from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership. Innovation Management. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Organizational & Human Capability Development.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Enter the book.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. What if you were able to take the best methods and practices and intentionally design an innovation blueprint that worked with your organization instead of against it? Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. The customized session design and associated proprietary tools in Digital MoshPit are only available through GFi. Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects.

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

Or, another alternative that is particularly popular with larger companies: We’ll commission a consulting firm to compile a strategy paper on digitization, substantiated by figures from relevant studies and complicated calculation models in Excel. Focusing on people is a key factor in design thinking /human centered design.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

Noel: “I describe myself as an innovation product development life engineer who’s worked on product development teams through most of my early career and mostly in technology-driven companies, and after business school, went into consulting. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in. I worked across industries.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

So, after over a decade of innovation consulting, I can say without doubt that companies that are just starting to innovate have it much better than those that were attempting it years ago. That's because as more companies try more innovation, more tools are vetted, more methods explored and exposed.

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Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Lean is the top Continuous Improvement method. When it came to which method practitioners use to drive CI success most often, the Lean method topped the list, followed by Kaizen and Six Sigma. Management consulting. Let’s dig in. Other methods that were shared, but not used as frequently, include: TeamSTEPPS. Innovation.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. As the name implies, Management 3.0

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

how it is influencing much that is surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways, where it deconstructs and then, it is forcing us to reconstruct our innovation thinking, so as to gain from all this transformation occurring all around us.

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Planview

APRIL 13, 2017

Lean is the top Continuous Improvement method. When it came to which method practitioners use to drive CI success most often, the Lean method topped the list, followed by Kaizen and Six Sigma. Management consulting. Let’s dig in. Other methods that were shared, but not used as frequently, include: TeamSTEPPS. Innovation.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Scrum is highly applicable to define priorities in processes and optimize management development in different segments – Consulting, Technology, HR, Telecommunications, Marketing, Engineering, Insurance, Health, among others. Lean Startup. Different segments can benefit from Lean Startup. Where to apply. Where to apply.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Gregg Fraley has designed and lead team training workshops for two decades. He’s lead entrepreneurial teams to success, in software, research, and consulting. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM.

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Planview

MARCH 3, 2016

This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. Steve Glaveski is an innovation consultant, keynote speaker, author, blogger and podcast host. “Move fast and break things.”. About the Author.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Traditional project management and financial management processes and principles are designed to produce robust plans for exactly how a project should run, and select only projects which are likely to succeed. If you want to talk with Nick Skillicorn (founder of Improvides Innovation Consulting and creator of the L.I.V.E.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process. It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Experimenting With Failure As a business consultant, there's not an organization out there that I talk to that doesn't bring up the word ‘failure.’ If you're trying to learn if somebody likes your messaging, you can do split testing or a landing page design. You want to see that behavior change. Ownership needs to be internal.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

Her biography shows that when she was 19, still a sociology student, she founded her organization consulting company, KonMari Media Inc. . The KONMARI method has premises that closely resemble lean thinking and agile mindset. This work was on the New York Times bestseller list for 86 weeks; later, it became a global phenomenon.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. That’s where lean methodology comes up. Tools such as this would ensure we went beyond talking to doing and would provide a simple way to design new projects so we could test out ideas to see if they worked. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

The Solution We have found through our collective 100 years of consulting that the best possible strategy is developed hand-in-hand with our clients. Explore Phase – Starting with the 6 audiences, the workshop that kicked off this phase delved deeper into design thinking tools such as interviewing, journey mapping and jobs-to-be-done.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

The Solution We have found through our collective 100 years of consulting that the best possible strategy is developed hand-in-hand with our clients. Explore Phase – Starting with the 6 audiences, the workshop that kicked off this phase delved deeper into design thinking tools such as interviewing, journey mapping and jobs-to-be-done.

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