Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp , one of the leading PLM solution providers. I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. Some claim that they do this already but seriously they do not.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. There are management tools that have become ‘enshrined’ in organizations and many of the executives become settled on the ones they have bothered to learn or seemingly do the job. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Ideascale ) How might we develop AI as a creative thinking partner to effect profound change, and create innovative solutions that help us build a more equitable and sustainable planet for all humanity? ( What’s more, inaccurate or otherwise flawed training data (for instance, data skewed by inherent biases) produces poor outcomes.”

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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to McKinsey , this “tax” on development comprises about 40 percent of IT balance sheets, stemming from the intense pressure to enter the market and gather feedback swiftly. These challenges underscore the complexities inherent in managing and evolving the technological framework of automotive software.

Industry 59

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. Acquiring such comprehensive skills presents a formidable and resource-intensive endeavor.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In addition to these still highly topical issues, we’d like to raise another four points which we personally foresee key for innovation management in the time to come – making no claim to completeness: Organizational Ambidexterity. It doesn’t always translate to managers, however. Who wants to be an exploiter?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2016

Innovation is constantly facing disruption; it is constantly going through life cycles and new waves of different activities and we begin decay faster today than ever. The key requires us to manage this transition, not let others manage it for us. It is how we manage this transition becomes so critical.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader. Nor do they position an organisation for future success”.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

Yet, our research and experience at ImagineNation over the past 10 years has revealed that many governments, communities, organisations, teams, and leaders, feel somewhat – but not very – confident in their readiness, competence, and capacity to change and innovate in a world of unknowns. Strategy #3.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. Re-thinking in a disconnected and disruptive age. Developing a habit of reflective practices. Critical art of re-thinking.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

No matter that the questions, you can prepare yourselves ahead of time without disrupting the business. In the present economic situation, when your business is surrounded by instability, pandemics, and disruption, planning to innovate business strategies or prepare for recessions is prudent and wise.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Mentors see themselves as people developers. 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.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Many organizations were already testing this type of distributed management. What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. From internet access to today, it has been responsible for a multitude of disruptions in business models.

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CMOE

APRIL 8, 2020

Sooner or later, and whether we like it or not, every business, organization, or team will encounter some type of crisis or unexpected emergency. We consistently counsel leaders that the best way to manage a crisis is to anticipate and prepare for it in advance. Effective leaders understand that managing crises is nothing new.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 22, 2016

Innovation is constantly facing disruption; it is constantly going through life cycles and new waves of different activities and we begin decay faster today than ever. The key requires us to manage this transition, not let others manage it for us. It is how we manage this transition becomes so critical.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Organizations have been plagued in the last two years by major shifts that have disrupted business and threatened their profitability. This is evident in a recent report from MIT Sloan Management Review , which found more employees quitting their jobs to run away from toxic workplace culture.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Disrupting Thinking. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. The reason?

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Growing up in the fashion industry, in 1980’s Paris, I forged an exciting global career and experienced, first hand, a diverse range of the most amazingly innovative fashion presentations ever. Expanding our knowledge. Starting with elastic thinking.

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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. Often it is present in the existing, as commonly referred too as “weak signals”, these are often hidden amid the noise of delivering on today.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

I was first introduced to the principle of “Personal Responsibility” when I attended a number of experiential workshops facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki who is now well known globally as the successful entrepreneurial author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book series. Back to Leadership Basics. Find out more about our work at ImagineNation.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Where the focus was on enabling and empowering team members to metaphorically “sing from the same song sheet.” Aligning strategically and systemically. How do you know whether you are aligned, or not?

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. This is starting to change.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

For an airline, determining the correct way for a gate agent to manage boarding, or for a flight attendant to interact with passengers, are both elements of managing an internal brand team. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights. Who Is Your Internal Brand Team?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Fostering an innovative environment in your organization can be key to growing your business and developing opportunities in ways you have not yet even considered. Here are six critical keys to getting your team up and innovating as an intuitive element of your company's DNA: Open Communication Between All Company Levels.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world. The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Fostering an innovative environment in your organization can be key to growing your business and developing opportunities in ways you have not yet even considered. Here are six critical keys to getting your team up and innovating as an intuitive element of your company's DNA: Open Communication Between All Company Levels.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

As the world becomes increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous ( VUCA ) , longer-term disruptions are the greatest existential threat to a company’s growth and survival. Relatively few methods and tools exist to help companies gain insights into longer-term futures that include discontinuities and disruption.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Yet far more of our business organizations are continuing to really struggle on their innovation activity for a whole host of reasons that seem never-ending, disappointing in end result and stuck in management quicksand to ever really change. For me, the process and management of innovation really does need to be definitely questioned.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

how it is influencing much that is surrounding innovation, as it continues to disrupt in faster, demanding ways, where it deconstructs and then we need to reconstruct our innovation thinking so as to gain from this transformation occurring all around us. Our continued failure to manage risk correctly for innovative concepts.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types. Click to Tweet.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

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Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

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The BMI Lab Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

During this last September and October BMI Lab organized the Second Senior Management Experience Study Trip with Covestro, a Bayer company spin off created in 2015 (formerly Bayer Material Science division). Hi Katharina, can you please explain to our audience what the Senior Management Experience Study Trip is? Gassmann and Prof.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period.

Software Review 57

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