Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The market for investing in innovation management tools remains fragmented. Many small vendors provide limited scope to grow innovation in organizational ways; they “sweat” the one idea or big challenge. Is that really the sum of innovation? We are all operating in a different era.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

What is Innovation Management? Innovation Management involves all activities that provide the right conditions for innovation to repeatedly deliver value for customers, competitive advantage and growth for the business as well as benefits for employees and all other stakeholders.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the challenges to innovation in government is a lack of insight into what citizens have to offer in the way of innovative strategies. Governments are aware of the increasing need to capture perspectives and insights of citizens to spark the innovation process. Recognize the Challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

I am a great admirer of the work that Itonics offers around Innovation Management. Recently they have also been exploring AI-Driven Innovation and in a very recent post “ Why AI-Driven Innovation Should Be On Your Radar” they are highlighting a recent Hype Cycle graph for Innovation Management Techniques,2021.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. In these meetings we present our new Sales Catalog and help them to understand our new products.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. In these meetings we present our new Sales Catalog and help them to understand our new products.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 9, 2021

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. In these meetings we present our new Sales Catalog and help them to understand our new products.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999). Reduces processing time.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999). Reduces processing time.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. Our advisors are present in the USA, Brazilian, and Asian regions. There are a few avenues for engaging in open innovation: 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation? In one final quote from this article: “when boards seem to have a “widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes (that) could be a major blind spot and a potential liability”. A good lesson in presentation, certainly for me!

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

With Innovation Management In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires embracing Industry 4.0 and leveraging the power and adaptability of Innovation Management and strategy. innovative manufacturing methods must be developed. Improving Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They can offer valuable insight into the state of innovation and what trends, technologies, and concerns will drive broader innovation in the future. Here are eight awards to monitor for a fresh take on innovation. The CES Innovation Awards, January 2022. The International Innovation Awards, December 2022.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming business case, for transforming the innovation management structure. The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. Innovation is caught up in this transformational change.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

By not adopting a common set of innovation reference points you can remain often unproductive, consistently re-adapting, re-working and plugging gaps that could be better invested in managing the many aspects of complexity you always find in a better thought-through innovation management structure, one that focuses on advancing your activity.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. Our advisors are present in the USA, Brazilian, and Asian regions. There are a few avenues for engaging in open innovation: 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2022

Although innovation cannot be touched, heard, tasted or seen, it can be felt. It is probably best described as a pervasive attitude that allows businesses to see beyond the present and create the future. In short, innovation is the engine of change and in today’s fiercely competitive environment resisting change is dangerous.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

These being, firstly a decline in the level and speed of innovation , partly due to lower investments in research and development and also a continuing uneven adoption of innovation across individual economies and the world at large. The underlying messages from the GII report.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

This is part two of an extended series on my thoughts on “ moving towards a new way of managing innovation ” that explores the potential for changing the management of innovation. Producers of innovation need to transition radically into a different innovation delivery & design structure.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

However, there are various approaches for each step of the process which can be chosen based on what is best for your business and employees. Submission Arguably the submission phase is the most important step of the process. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2019

Salt Lake City, Utah – April 9th, 2019: RocketSource has announced the formation of an alliance with Qmarkets software to support its LevelNext Business Transformation and Innovation MasterClass. Their clients will have the option to combine the benefits of RocketSource’s Innovation Labs with Qmarkets’ unique product offerings. “Our

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Commodore Innovation

JULY 25, 2019

1) A new innovation process needs to be measured A new innovation process almost always requires consideration of how to measure its performance. By “new” we don’t just mean: your firm didn’t have any formal innovation activities and processes before, and now it does. If only it were that simple.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. The knowns are those products, services, processes, etc. We are often specifically asked to improve on them by finding cost savings, improving their functionality or design.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 28, 2016

” – We have been renovating our innovation process until it becomes unrecognizable by all the patches we have been applying and is it really providing the results we want? Innovation today disappoints. We are not achieving the impact from all our innovation endeavors that we should. Read his article here.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 12, 2018

Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. This week, we look at how companies can use hackathons not as a standalone idea-gathering tool, but as part of an overall comprehensive innovation process.

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Commodore Innovation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At a minimum, it would present companies with an extraordinary opportunity to enhance their innovation productivity —which would enhance shareholder value [3] and be an important source of competitive advantage. Companies who aren’t attempting to leverage AI to enhance innovation risk being left behind.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Many of the company’s engineers were not comfortable presenting their big ideas to the senior staff. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. Managers often co-presented with the idea champion to the senior staff. Coach an innovation champion and team through the entire innovation process.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Coming backdown to earth this thought piece builds on Fostering Innovation with technological solutions – Part 1 and takes a much more tactical drill down into the growing market of innovation management solutions and who to watch out for, as well as the wider innovation ecosystem and harnessing the crowd to best effect.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Chatbots are designed to deliver a conversational user experience in the business applications with a minimum learning curve. In a decentralized system, every employee in the organization has a voice in the innovative processes. This can only be achievable in the present day scenario with decentralization.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

After a fairly detailed exploratory working through crowdsourcing in this mini-series, I wanted to offer my ‘take’, to help our thinking though in formulating clearer positions in this, to see its increasing value as contributing into an innovation management system. Designing the challenge becomes critical.

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Planview

APRIL 28, 2019

This meant allowing everybody within the company to participate in an innovation process. Iron Chefs consisted of 14 to 15 employees selected for their specific skill sets in areas such as product design, product development, customer service, and marketing. innovation management and to delivery.

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