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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. Let me start.

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The Value of Knowing When to Pivot

IdeaScale

Pivoting refers to the idea of shifting your business strategy to meet the unexpected demand of customers, and this can take some unusual forms. A good example is the ubiquitous business chat software Slack. The question, of course, is where. Taking A Turn. First, we should define what a pivot is. Are profits declining?

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Harnessing the Power: Proven Team Collaboration Best Practices

Leapfrogging

Collaboration Software and Apps Collaboration software and apps are designed to enhance the way teams communicate and collaborate, regardless of physical location. These tools can include messaging apps, video conferencing software, and digital whiteboards, among others.

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How Good Feature Request Management Contributes to Innovation

IdeaScale

Their software products have a Suggest a Feature button on the home tab, enabling users to submit request features and describe them in detail. Of course, there’s more to innovation than getting as many feature requests from your users. Specialized software allows you to segment your feature requests from different customers.

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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

Of course, I can’t speak for all women, but I can share that the perceived lack of credibility often contributed to my own self-doubt and lack of confidence. Beyond just building a great software solution, I learned that to build a technology business, it’s critical to figure out how to navigate explosive growth and the need to scale.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Of course, not all friction is bad. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? What does it mean in a business context? But they are manageable.

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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company. We refer to these as the key principles of innovative organizations. Netflix refers to this as the organization being loosely coupled. Need a contract reviewed by your legal team?

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