Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. I am going into new versions of PAH-1 , but let me share this opening design for AI-driven innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How much does a business organization spend on its ERP system compared to its innovation system? The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation? How feasible is this?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking. It is the dynamics within the innovation system that can make it transformational.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. The need for digital platforms and ecosystem designs has grown to achieve this collaborative environment.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

This model segments the innovation process into distinct phases, each culminating in a gate. It’s a systematic approach designed to minimize risk and allocate resources effectively. The typical stages might include concept development, design, testing, and launch.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. Many large enterprises are reimagining their growth transformation system in a more holistic and integrated way. The early signs of this change are becoming visible.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Equally nearly all our larger business organizations are still locked in the past, or attempting to catch up to the present but in random ways.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It is not just an enabler but a catalyst for innovation that can significantly shorten the time-to-market for new products and services. AI systems are adept at sifting through vast amounts of data to uncover insights that can inform every stage of the development process, from ideation to launch.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. “ Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy” Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. Where can innovation help? The opening answer is everywhere within the energy system.

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Board of Innovation

JULY 20, 2023

Speed, depth and breadth: the rise of Creative AI Table of content The power of imagination Creative AI in product design Ethical considerations and future implications More creative AI resources Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been revolutionizing various industries, and its impact on the creative realm is no exception.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 2, 2017

We need to think of innovation in different ways, we need to automate it and in addition augment it. I suggested in that post “we need to pull down what is needed” and design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit a specific need. We need to bring innovation and its process up to date.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

The powerful effects of digitalization are opening up different business opportunities, the chance to design different business models and get far closer to the ultimate need, to understand the customers wishes from the products and services they are wanting to buy. We need to digitize our innovation activities fully.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Reaching out for a new design built on collaborative building blocks of design. Our present economic models, certainly in the West are so heavily debt-laden, from the effects of over-spending, supporting the Ukrainian war, and the Corvid crisis, and rightly supporting those in economic need and business difficulties.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! .” ” They are all part of the problematic “ordering” of the organizational social system.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 3, 2021

With that in mind, we developed 3 new homepage widgets that allow you to visually present your content to your audience. Read on to learn more about these unique modules and the benefits they can bring to your innovation initiative. As with our other icon widget, you can define a title, sub-text, and image for each icon.

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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. Procurement is one challenge of government innovation.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 3, 2021

With that in mind, we have developed 3 new homepage widgets that allow you to visually present your content to your audience. Read on to learn more about these unique modules and the benefits they can bring to your innovation initiative. You can now use the Icons Presentation widget on your homepage to promote your content.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2015

We will obtain increasing more powerful insights that have the real potential of being turned into new innovation outcomes, through the connected businesses we are presently needing to build. Our innovation systems are lagging significantly behind. This can generate new value and business propositions.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 12, 2019

Experience Design is a set of methods that aims to provide complete and unforgettable consumer experiences. Experience Design: what it is and what it is for. How to Work the Experience Design concept. Experience Design consists of knowing how to approach what the customer wants and thinks it is ideal for him.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 30, 2022

In a world that’s flooded with assessment and measurement tools that tell you what kind of leader, innovator or person you are, it’s refreshing to see a new assessment that is backed by rigorous academic research and data. It’s very qualitative and allows for a more nuanced look at what makes for successful innovation.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While I’m committed to enhancing skill sets and refining operational systems, designed to benefit consumers, users, employees, and investors, it doesn’t unequivocally translate to universal good. Social Media Platforms: Designed to connect, they’ve become hotbeds for misinformation and cyberbullying.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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 excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, new robotics, improved data management systems, and impressive automation in a smart factory does not happen instantly, and substantial change management is required to prepare the workforce. We then help evaluate, facilitate, and incentivize the key ideas formed by your solver ecosystem as part of the overall innovation process.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For me, a good idea management system needs to be set up for all known and unknown possibilities to capture their potential. The knowns are those products, services, processes, etc. Characterizing unknown unknowns.

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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. BIG Innovation Awards, January 2022.

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