Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Applying ecosystem thinking to innovate complex and challenging problems “Opening up our thinking towards ecosystems will have a powerful effect, it alters the way we will approach problems today and in the future, ecosystems offer a greater potential for collaborative growth, impact and sustaining innovating value” Our understanding of innovation is changing; we are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed (internal orientation) into open and far more collaborative innovation (ext

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the biggest questions I am getting from businesses at the moment is what the potential impact of a recession or the slowdown of the economy might have on their innovation efforts. And according to a new report by Innovation Leader and KPMG USA called “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead.” (available for download from Tuesday 7 Feb 2023), the outlook shows that there are potentially major problems ahead for innovation teams.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

It’s not ideal, but it’s a reality—some businesses hit a point of no return. Their core products are no longer relevant, the wave there are riding has crashed, or their demographic’s needs have shifted. While some businesses throw in the towel, others explore entirely new business models. The brands below slightly repositioned themselves, drastically expanded [.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Humans can be irrational and maddening. Decades of research have shown that, when given the exact same set of facts, even experts will make very different assessments. Some people will be more strict, others more lenient. Some of us are naturally optimistic, others are cynics. A family squabble in the morning can affect the choices we make all day. So it’s not unreasonable to want to improve quality and reduce variance in our decision making by taking a more algorithmic approach by offering clea

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Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success As leaders, it’s not just about what we know, but also about how we interact with others and manage our own emotions. Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is the ability to recognize and understand our own emotions, as well as those of others, and use this information to guide our thoughts and actions.

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Viima

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As the world continues to evolve at an accelerated pace, so does our pursuit of innovation. But the growing complexity of this world makes innovation more challenging. It’s no longer a one-person job (if it ever was). Yet, the myth of the solitary genius innovator persists in organizations that still believe that they can innovate alone, with no external help.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Innovation is a crucial driver of progress and success in many industries, but traditional approaches to innovation may be insufficient in today's rapidly changing business environment. Open innovation is a new paradigm for innovation that is gaining popularity among forward-thinking businesses. In this article, we will explore the concept of open innovation, its benefits, and [.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When you are about to negotiate, is it better to go first, or is it better to wait for the other person to show their hand and you then are able to adjust with more information? Well, according to the research, whoever provides the first piece of information has a major advantage, as the final agreed number tends to be closer to their initial suggestion.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A shift in managing differently , a possible inflexion point We are possibly at a series of inflexion points in our current business environment. Here’s one you will be required to address. What seems to be occurring increasingly in many different market spaces is defining an opportunity that directly impacts the current status quo and then seeking to make some radical moves to achieve that differentiation.

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As a passionate customer insight strategist, I tend to prefer an outside-in business strategy, meaning one that looks at customers’ latent or hidden needs and translates them into solutions that will serve them. In other words, a strategy that focuses on co-creating value together with your customers.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Our identity and sense of self drives a lot of what we see and do, yet we rarely examine these things because we spend most of our time with people who are a lot like us, who live in similar places and experience similar things. That’s why our innate perceptions and beliefs seem normal and those of others strange, because our social networks shape us that way.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. I had the chance to connect with a longtime friend and colleague, Matt May. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a powerful tool to accelerate the timeline to innovative solutions. By leveraging the wisdom of the crowd and taking advantage of advances in technology, organizations can quickly leverage collective intelligence and user insights to drive and scale ideation. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what crowdsourcing for innovation is, the benefits [.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with Innovation Leader management team of Scott Kirsner (previously on the podcast here ) and Alex Slawsby about the b reaking new InnoLead report “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023 “ We cover the most important data on innovation teams, including the changes in appetite for different types of innovation projects based on the uncertainty in the coming 2023 economy.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

credit InnoLead and KPMG I have always welcomed the KPMG LLP-sponsored InnoLead benchmarking report; this is for the third year. I received a note from Scott Kirsner , who leads the team at Innolead, and he offered me a chance to read the report before its official release today at 12 PM ET time and suggested I can post anytime, so here goes. This report provides a definitive innovation benchmarking document for leaders in strategy, R&D, design, and other innovation roles inside large organi

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We've all seen it. We've all experienced it. Most likely, we were in a group, a small team, or in some form of workshop. Maybe there was a little conflict. Two people looking at the same problem from different perspectives. They realize that they're both right but also wrong; from their perspective, they can only see part of the picture. Then the lightbulb goes on.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

People like to quote the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who said things like “the only constant is change” and “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” They’re clever quotes and they give us confidence that the change we seek is not only possible, but inevitable. Yet while change in general may be inevitable, the prospects for any particular change initiative are decidedly poor and the failure to recognize that simple fact is why

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Discussing with ChatGPT about Business Innovation Ecosystems, their value and progress

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Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

While necessity is often touted as being the mother of invention, innovative ideas aren’t only developed in times of need. A variety of studies have identified the link between happiness and creativity. The link between the two is one of the many reasons why a healthy organizational culture should be of greater priority. Let’s dive [.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A country is never static. It is either growing or shrinking, rising or falling, and, perhaps most importantly, its people are either prospering or languishing. Unfortunately, Nigeria, over the past decade, has been shrinking, falling, and has seen its people languishing. In 2014, for instance, the country’s GDP per capita was $3,200. Today, it hovers around $2,000.

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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.” The book the “Innovation Dilemma” published in 2016 was written by innovation expert Clayton Christensen suggesting even though even the most outstanding companies can do everything right–yet still lose

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the same way, you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the point that many of our opinions are a product of our inclusion in a particular team. Because our judgments are so closely intertwined with our identity, contrary views can feel like an attack. So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition. That almost guarantees a failure to survive victory.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Lead Scoring in B2B Sales: Transforming the Process with Design Thinking Lead generation and qualification is a critical aspect of B2B sales success, but it’s also a time-consuming and complex process. With an abundance of leads, sales teams often struggle to determine which ones to prioritize and focus on, leading to wasted time and missed opportunities.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Creating a vision board is an effective way to promote innovation in any organization. They are also a secret to success for entrepreneurs across a variety of industries. Vision boards provide an excellent opportunity to brainstorm, set objectives, and visualize goals. They can also be utilized to maintain inspiration and track progress. Let’s dive into [.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

There are major practical, technical, and legal challenges to overcome before tools like ChatGPT reach the scale, robustness, and reliability of Google.

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Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product. It’s our way of intentionally managing through uncertainty — since, as Claude Shannon said, “the only resolution to uncertainty is information.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The fear of the unknowns explodes upon those not ready When the established order begins to creak and dismantle, seemingly in front of our eyes, those fears of the unknown can kick in, especially if you have been used to managing in an established (slowly) evolving way for most, if not all, of your business life. We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this.

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Interestingly, financing is not the top reason for start-ups to pursue partnerships, or even among the top three.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cholera is back in Malawi, the southeastern African country. And this time, the outbreak is worse than anything the country has ever experienced on record. More than 1,000 people have died and over 30,000 are infected. Malawi has appealed to the World Health Organization (WHO) for more than seven million oral cholera vaccines. Not much is known about when the vaccines will be delivered.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How Traditional Ad and PR Agencies Can Compete with Tech Companies in the Digital Era WPP, Publicis, and Interpublic are three of the largest multinational advertising and public relations companies in the world. They operate in North America, the UK, and Europe and offer a range of services including advertising, media planning and buying, market research, public relations, and digital marketing.

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Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge. These products, with their unique capabilities, bring fresh opportunities and challenges that demand a fresh approach to product management. This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products.

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