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AI-Powered Design Thinking: Accelerating Innovation and Insights

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Achieving engagement outcomes from cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. It’s a role in government that demands constant innovation. Small Business Administration.

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The Future of Design Thinking: Embracing AI Tools for Success

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

Collaboration and partnerships : Innovation often requires collaboration with external partners, and the innovation mandate should consider how these partnerships will be managed and how value will be created and shared. It becomes the licence to operate and encourage valuable contributions to any innovation.

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The Energy Transition Needs A Structured Innovation Process

Paul Hobcraft

We need to shift our validation into implementation and then refinement, through innovation. This pathway design needs to state a robust, reliable, and affordable net-zero emissions energy system in clear stages of transition, say 2029, 2039, and 2049. We need innovation to drive change and behavior.

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Barriers to innovation, the cause and effect.

Paul Hobcraft

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. They need a more fluid, highly adaptive design.