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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling. Design Thinking : The whole emphasis and approach involve using empathy, creativity, and experimentation to solve complex problems.

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Reflecting on our innovation practices

Paul Hobcraft

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The movement towards the different crowdsourcing techniques and all the variations (or derivation’s) of ‘ crowd’ and co-creation ’ have changed the game.

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Are you having fun riding the innovation waves?

Paul Hobcraft

The other real forces of innovation change in this relatively short period, have come from a greater explosion of Lean Management principles and incorporating Design thinking into our work. Both being rapidly embraced within our organisations, large and small. How these are fully integrated remains a challenge for most.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They partner with Silicon Valley startups who have breakthrough technology when they really just want incremental innovation that delivers quarterly results. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. Most organizations struggle with innovation.

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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

There is the shift to more open-sourcing, the profound shifts that technology and digital transformation is having upon all our worlds is allowing a very different “connecting” innovation to come into play. We have seen an amazing transformation in how we socialize through the use of technology and the smartphone.