Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

There is huge value in applying the three horizon framework into your thinking. It is as useful a framework that you can get to help decide where you are heading. It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. It has multiple values in any organization thinking and alignment. The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 6, 2018

Our brains are wired to look to the past, not the future. Related posts: We Need To Switch Our Mental Models From Hierarchies To Networks. Why Digital Marketing Strategy is so Hard. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 6, 2018

The latest in our series on trend mashups (which started with our article on eco lux) is the unlikely combination of guilt free indulgence. This is where the ‘better for me’ trend comes face to face with the societal shift toward a more hedonistic lifestyle. The Food Peopledefine this merging of priorities as “better for me indulgence”.

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100%Open

MAY 6, 2018

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 6, 2018

If you’re a fan of blockchain technology these are exciting times. On a seemingly daily basis there are new applications and cryptocurrencies being developed with no end in sight. In a way, it’s almost like the entire web is migrating onto the Blockchain which essentially means that the entire world is migrating as well. It’s the dawn of a new era.

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Idea Champions

MAY 6, 2018

As the story goes, several years ago the CEO of Dow Corning walked into his company's R&D lab and spoke two sentences: "Glass breaks," was the first. "Why don't you do something about it?" was the second. That's it. Just two sentences. Then he turned and left the room. The R&D team, a brilliant group of inventors, was curious, but they were also skeptical.

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Idea Champions

MAY 6, 2018

MitchDitkoff.com. Idea Champions.

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Dawid

MAY 6, 2018

Green, green, green, red red red red red red red. The life of many ‘simple’ fixed price projects. Design Thinking does very well when you have somewhat loose constraints. For instance, we don’t want to assume that our current proposed solution is the best use of resources until we’ve prototyped and tested it. We have full permission to go back to the drawing board as failure is cheap in Design Thinking, and isn’t considered failure at all, but instead it’s feedback.

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