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Achieving engagement outcomes from cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. The General Services Administration, or GSA, has the job of ensuring government employees have what they need to do their jobs.

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The Energy Transition Needs A Structured Innovation Process

Paul Hobcraft

In any innovation process, these “proof points” become “go / no go” decisions. The innovation process becomes a clearly defined and well-disciplined one; it has to be. Industry investors will have measures that place higher costs or “force” social change.

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

It becomes the licence to operate and encourage valuable contributions to any innovation. In summary the two posts The alignment and engagement that forms around the organization’s approach and support of the innovation program are often lacking a detailed innovation mandate. Addressing both makes good sense.

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Achieving engagement outcomes from cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Ecosystems4Innovating

It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

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Barriers to innovation, the cause and effect.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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Innovation is essential to unlock all parts of the energy transition.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is a long, arduous task of iterative improvements and some rare breakthroughs, and this requires increasing collaborations between public, private, and research institutions to pursue together ideas and concepts, so their combined disciplines and understanding can push design and solutions in a continued way.

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