Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When they are constantly scanning reports on the “state of innovation” it can often lull them, to give some that warm glow, others quickly being dismissive, disregarding many of the key messages as “not applicable to me”. Then disruption suddenly hits. Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation?

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition. An innovation keynote speaker can provide valuable insights into fostering a culture of innovation, navigating disruptive trends, and implementing effective change within an organization.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A speaker specializing in innovation can also highlight trends, emerging technologies, and industry disruptions, providing valuable context for future strategic planning. This approach underscores the importance of innovation in both message and action, solidifying the theme’s relevance to your event.

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Technical Review Innovation Engagement Conference 100

Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I think the major disruption from 3D printing will be with socio-economic factors such as new truly disruptive business models appearing on the market as consumer (home) 3D-Printing becomes commoditized, which is actually happening here and now! It is a disruptive respons to todays global socio-economic change.

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Disruption Software Design Marketing 40

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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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. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs. This 3H thinking helps break down complex issues.

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Design Innovation Agile System 138

Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

What is Open Innovation? In a nutshell, open innovation takes place within an ecosystem that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single organization. The iPhone is a famous example of a product created as part of a closed innovation process.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2016

From the data presented it's clear that "innovation" is still defined very narrowly, as improvements to existing products and services. In other words, most of these executives and their teams are just scratching the surface, when right underneath the surface a range of innovation options and outcomes is just waiting to explode.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. These two posts are not intended as a mapping of the present DT landscape, they are reflective posts coming from what I researched. Pointing towards a future.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption. They, Sopheon, have been generating good cash and have presently a net cash position of $16.7 The nature of the present constraints. For me, Sopheon has the right vision. It is a very fragmented market, constrained by the existing designs in place. 1] [link].

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Innovation Management Management Software Review Software 200

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. SAP Innovation Awards, April 2022.

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Innovation Software Industry Case Study 130

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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Innovation Competition Resources Technology 147

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

By integrating AI into the innovation process, companies can uncover valuable insights, streamline workflows, and make more informed decisions. It allows for a more agile response to market changes and unforeseen disruptions. With the integration of AI, these meetings are transforming, becoming more data-centric and efficient.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Analysis Technical Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

We are facing some of the natural consequences of our present inability not to reduce greenhouse gases at the rate they are required. Innovation system mapping and best practice sharing are ways to get started quickly, especially for emerging economies. The climate is about to get really difficult to predict.

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Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 189

IM Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Innovation is not synonymous with good and innovation practitioners are not necessarily making the world a better place. Innovation: Good Intentions May Not Be Enough Dams for Hydropower: Built to harness clean energy from rivers, they’ve often disrupted local ecosystems and displaced communities.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation System Design 52

etventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Corporate incubator meets “real start-ups”: During the mvp Demo Day on February 20, the teams of co-pace, Continental’s mvp.Builder incubation program, presented the mvp’s they’ve been developing for the past 4 months on site at wavespace Berlin. Innovation programmes for corporates are important tools for the innovation process.

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Disruption Innovation Processes Meeting Technology 40

Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2022

What is Open Innovation? In a nutshell, open innovation takes place within an ecosystem that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single organization. The iPhone is a famous example of a product created as part of a closed innovation process.

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Open Innovation Innovation Resources Innovation Processes 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 25, 2015

With the dizzy array of choices, combined with technology prowess and ‘plugging’ these into ‘seen’ customer needs, they are setting about disrupting existing businesses and establishing new ones, on an ever-increasing global scale. Innovation is hugely caught up in this transformational change.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. 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.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Technology Internet of things Innovation 100

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Many of the company’s engineers were not comfortable presenting their big ideas to the senior staff. Managers often co-presented with the idea champion to the senior staff. Playing the role of mentor means you are able to: Use innovation efforts as an opportunity to develop innovators’ capabilities and careers.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Technical Review 189

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 28, 2016

.” – I believe we need to find a new framing position for innovation as the disruptive forces and challenges we face today are growing and call for new ways of managing. To achieve this innovation requires a greater organizational engagement than ever before.

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Disruption Change 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

The significant shifts deriving from technology change and digital disruption are not yet being translated into new innovation processes, frameworks or methods to extract the value of speed and unique insight and translate that out quickly into new products and services. I have structured my thinking (so far) into six parts.

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Processes 100

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

We are facing some of the natural consequences of our present inability not to reduce greenhouse gases at the rate they are required. Innovation system mapping and best practice sharing are ways to get started quickly, especially for emerging economies. The climate is about to get really difficult to predict.

Policies 130

Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

We all see around us increasing disruption caused by digitalization. We are seeing a very distinctive advantage in embracing digitalization into innovation. We need to digitize our innovation activities fully. They both combine to give new insights, new options to generate significant new and greater value.

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Data Innovation Design Marketing 208

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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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

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. Take a look at this list, far from exhaustive but it covers many of the problems we still face on innovation management.

Innovation 100

Innovation Competition Disruption Collaboration 100

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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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet they are the businesses that that will disrupt and drive transformational future growth. Transformational excellence is what allows an enterprise to be the disruptor rather than the disrupted. Organization & Operation – How R&D and innovation processes are structured and work at the BU and the corporate level.

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System Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 52

Idea Drop

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

With innovation comes disruptive change and you will inevitably face a myriad of dismissals in pursuit of your ideation strategy. However, the key to turning a rejection into an acceptance is to understand that the first ‘no’ is not the end of the process. Presentation skills are key and will only improve with practice.

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Innovation Software Idea Management Disruption 61

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions.

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Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

We are facing some of the natural consequences of our present inability not to reduce greenhouse gases at the rate they are required. Innovation system mapping and best practice sharing are ways to get started quickly, especially for emerging economies. The climate is about to get really difficult to predict.

Policies 130

Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 130

IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

Innovation under the current economic climate and technological shifts is discussed. Susie defines innovation as something new that makes our lives better in some way, a combination of novelty and impact. Ed presents a metaphor where innovation can be viewed as fruit, trees, or soil, depending on the focus of innovation efforts.

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Technical Review Innovation Artificial Inteligence Leadership 52

Qmarkets

JULY 28, 2017

How Kodak Failed To Navigate Digital Disruption In Spite Of Investing In It. When thinking about the challenges of disruptive innovation - one of the most commonly cited examples is Kodak’s failure to capitalize on it’s dominance during the shift from analogue to digital.

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Company Disruption Technical Review System 60

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

That got my interest up as I show here in this adopted visual of the Hype Cycle for Innovation Management. It seems the current peak of expectation and the emerging innovation trigger are in my present research focus. Now that I liked! Back to the AI tool and my “Ecosystem” work .

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Innovation Artificial Inteligence Tools Innovation Management 130

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2016

In this case we were told that Yes, the client had adopted another consulting firm's innovation methodology. In fact when we met with the client team, they provided a binder of information on a step by step innovation process, that from the looks of things was relatively straightforward and complete. Anyway, back to the client.

Innovation 100

Innovation Training Resources Project 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The ambitions for these problem-solving networks may differ as well: pre-empting disruptive trends; discovering disruptive trends; identifying capital investment; and short-circuiting entrenched processes. The open innovation process here self-organizes the proper fit for start-up-to-problem-solution pairing.

Open Innovation 100

Open Innovation Ideation Innovation Internet of things 100

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 13, 2015

It was with great interest that I read a synopsis of a presentation given at Forum 2015, by the wonderfully named Jeffry Pilcher, who is the CEO/President and Founder of The Financial Brand. His talk to the conference was on a key innovation target. What does this do for the consumer?

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