Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 30, 2016

I believe within our human resource groups they must provide the people solution to building innovation capacity, they should contribute to providing lasting design impact and central engagement role in building innovation into the core fabric of the organisation. They can help deliver the dynamics needed in innovation.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

What follows is a sampling of testimonials from some of the 33 graduates of Idea Champions' Team Leadership Training , delivered to Al Siraat College, in Epping, Australia in 2020. Will definitely be carried throughout my life." -- Gulcan Ayvaz. Helped me develop confidence in my leadership." - Maryam Omer. SHORT AND SWEET.

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Training Leadership Creativity Engagement 48

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

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This report provides a definitive innovation benchmarking document for leaders in strategy, R&D, design, and other innovation roles inside large organizations. ” I believe we are not opening up to Innovation Ecosystems’ thinking and designs. I make a case for opening up and embracing ecosystems.

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Report Innovation Technical Review Software Review 225

InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Yet how often do we fail to connect the innovation’s we design and execute specifically aligned to the strategic need? Taking action in designing your innovation alignment. Strategy informs”.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Engagement 203

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

These two ideas - the deep engagement of senior leadership in innovation skill and process development, and the time it takes to build innovation competence, and scattered throughout the book but not directly addressed. Finally, in Chapter 8, Bensauo has a chapter on the role of senior leadership, but it feels somewhat too little, too late.

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Idea Generation Innovation Leadership Engagement 144

Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

The problem: A typical problem in large organisations is that senior leadership concentrates on short-term business goals and are less motivated by opportunities to engage with people co-creating projects that reflect on the long-term impact of the company when it comes to a hackathon. Here is a collection of our best practices: A.)

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Groups Engagement Management Leadership 52

Be-novative

MARCH 17, 2021

The problem: A typical problem in large organisations is that senior leadership concentrates on short-term business goals and are less motivated by opportunities to engage with people co-creating projects that reflect on the long-term impact of the company when it comes to a hackathon. Here is a collection of our best practices: A.)

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Groups Engagement Management Leadership 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties. It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Get the balance right across the organisation’s design and in its leadership management, it becomes a very powerful mechanism for accelerating performances by delivering significantly new innovation and equally sustaining and leveraging the core business you have today. It is far more than ‘just’ this.

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Management Innovation Leadership Design 124

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Get the balance right across the organisation’s design and in its leadership management, it becomes a very powerful mechanism for accelerating performances by delivering significantly new innovation and equally sustaining and leveraging the core business you have today. It is far more than ‘just’ this.

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Management Innovation Leadership Design 100

Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

In the Organisation Design profession, we call this the principle of form follows function. Know what the work should look like and what the outcomes must be before you design how you are going to work on it together. How to steer the direction into something meaningful? Here are a collection of our wisdom and ideas we have offered: 1.

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How To Collaboration Leadership Agile 52

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 9, 2019

Skills: Problem definition. What that looks like: They know how to zone in on the real crux of a problem and offer numerous ways to both present it, and solve it. Designing innovation behaviours into the fabric of your team. Idea finding. They can see many possible approaches and can rationalise each and every one.

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Underperforming Technical Team Culture of Innovation Culture Design 40

The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

The author presents a clear three-part framework consisting of Innovation Strategy, System and Culture that a large company needs to use to be an innovative organization. This book presents a refutation of this belief. To do so, the author presents the following framework for creating and sustaining a capacity for innovation.

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Technical Review Software Review Creativity System 40

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

How do your HR leaders design work models to ensure both employee productivity and well-being? When you say “teamwork,” it must also reflect in how you model and design the in-person and remote workplace to facilitate relationships and productivity. What are your strategies to lower burnout and employee stress?

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Policies Technical Review Culture Underperforming Technical Team 246

Gregg Fraley

MAY 18, 2017

It’s designed for actual learning. The definition of creativity is sometimes put as “novelty that’s useful.” ” By that definition, Organizational Creativity is creative. Potentially, this book is used not only in creativity and entrepreneurship/innovation courses, but also leadership.

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Creativity Case Study Entrepreneurship Innovation 51

Mike Shipulski

MARCH 21, 2018

There’s lots of talk about the idealize future state, cries for a clean slate design or an edict for a greenfield solution. Instead, sit in the present and understand the system as it is. And once there’s a common understanding of the system as it is, if there’s a call for a clean sheet design, run away. And that’s a big deal.

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System Design Leadership Course 45

Anaqua

APRIL 29, 2020

Indeed, using Anaqua’s patent search and analytics tool, AcclaimIP, it is clear that Small Entities—based on the USPTO definition —are having an outsized impact on the planet and our environment. One interesting application is for a wind turbine (patent # US9228564B2 ) designed for use in urban and suburban environments. 3: Xyleco Inc.

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Technical Review Technical Support System Technology 98

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 4, 2022

We discussed her vision for the year 2045 and ways to improve people’s present financial condition. . Definition of Wealth. We had an interview with Alicia Castillo Holley , Founder of the Wealthing VC Club in Silicon Valley. We need to create a bridge between creativity and productivity.”.

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Collaboration Creativity System Management 125

Innovating4Energy

MAY 23, 2022

It seems to be that the lack of positives is presently being defeated with all the negatives I have been recently reading about in disruption, energy risks and the growing energy crisis. The new research sets a specific definition: projects capable of pumping at least 1bn tonnes of CO2 emissions over their lifetimes.

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Report Project Policies Disruption 52

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

Daniel Burrus

APRIL 21, 2021

Meanwhile, an overly quiet video conferencing company once considered merely useful in special circumstances became a commodity out of nowhere, and it most definitely came to the rescue. Zoom Video Communications is among several video conferencing options that existed long before COVID-19 arrived in the United States.

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Change Video Disruption Trends 79

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

But, while team members may be offered training or even certification on Agile development practices, the training rarely discusses best practices for integrating UX design into the development process. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress.

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Commodore Innovation

APRIL 26, 2021

Definitions of what constitutes the “front end” vary. When forecast outcome metrics are presented, the reviewers tend to focus on the number itself—not the analysis behind it. Instead of setting a specific target to benchmark against, they decided to focus their leadership on the directionality of their PVI. 1—Muller, J.

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Technical Review Innovation Project Analysis 52

Innovation Architecture

MARCH 5, 2018

Last week I had the good fortune to participate in and present at the Innova-Con 2018 conference. Their presentations served in part as open-ended invitations for collaboration and knowledge sharing: “I’ve got the job and the charter, now what? How might I get started?”

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Culture of Innovation 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 2, 2013

But, ignore the deliverables and design ideas. Everybody has his or her own definition. There’s a separate group handling UI design.”. Now, I was thinking about my landing page design last night and I made some sketches. I design experiences, not just interfaces. Now, think back to your last project.

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Underperforming Technical Team Design Project Meeting 82

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

For me, the process and management of innovation really does need to be definitely questioned. They worked on specific problems, reviewed, recommended new designs, sold and delivered these and moves on (and out) of the clients. Perhaps we are in urgent need to change the very dynamics of how we undertake innovation.

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Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Processes 100

The Human Factor

MARCH 16, 2020

Not surprising considering the definition of the word: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. When discussing a new idea or key decision, appoint a designated devil’s advocate to ask the questions that otherwise would not get put on the table.

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How To Comparison LEAN Groups 41

Innovation Architecture

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

companies who commit to performance excellence in five (5) areas: product and process outcomes, customer outcomes, workforce outcomes, leadership and governance outcomes, and financial and market outcomes. The topic of my presentation: “innovation management systems, demystified. Figure 1: the Baldrige Framework.

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team System 40

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

This often manifests itself in the host of variations in what are claimed as their ‘unique’ versions of “common innovation” where they constantly reinvent the wheel in their own approaches to processes, definitions, tools, frameworks, systems of working and idea management etc. Also innovation itself is going through really a massive change.

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Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

Based on retrospective analytics—Net Present Value (NPV) models, for instance, are built on market projections that are calculated using past trends—they tend to skew innovation decisions toward optimizing existing product lines rather than pursuing new ones. Opportunities tend to be defined narrowly. More value, greater growth and impact.

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Innovation Guidelines Learning Management 133

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

There is increasing emphasis on thinking through new business models, combining design thinking, lean management, customer development, prototyping, experimenting outside the lab, collaborating with clients, finding different partners, the different exploitation of research techniques are all breaking out in different forms and combinations.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Our collective failure of imagination is caused by five related factors: Momentum of legacy – A company’s past and present are a powerful anchor that can blind a company’s leadership to alternative futures, especially when these futures challenge conventional wisdom or threaten knowledge authorities.

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Technical Review Trends Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 45

Corporate Innovation

JULY 17, 2017

The ACE mobility services value chain requires expertise in one or more of the following areas: 1) Vehicle Design and Manufacturing , 2) Big Data acquisition, management and exploitation , 3) ACE Platform , 4) Passenger Experience Platform , and 5) Fleet Operations. Table courtesy of Evangelos Simoudis.

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Analysis Big Data Data Examples 56

Mills-Scofield

OCTOBER 23, 2016

It embodied Einstein’s definition of insanity, spending over $200B for a train wreck… and they’re doing it again. In the early 90’s at AT&T, I was on a ‘special project’ with some friends to design the next generation core domestic network. We were young and idealistic so our designed was based on the TCP/IP protocol.

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Training How To Culture Design 40

InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. Design thinking in action.

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Design Thinking Culture of Innovation Design Culture 52