Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Briefly, I summarize what these have been bringing into innovative thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming business case, for transforming the innovation management structure. The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. Our innovation systems are lagging significantly behind.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

.” I do think we need to restate the current barriers to innovation. These barriers do not ‘magically’ change by delivering what I believe moves us to a better system for innovation, that of an ecosystem and platform architecture. Enabling technology and processes. Rapidly altered environments.

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Software Review Innovation Design Technical Review 162

Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Over 100 professionals from 50 countries gathered to compare experiences and find commonalities as part of the ISO/TC 279 technical committee’s work on the development of the new ISO 56000 series for Innovation Management. The documents will cover: Fundamentals and Vocabulary in Innovation. Overview of Topic Areas.

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Guidelines Innovation Management Management Technical Review 84

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution. So far, in my series of posts on Building a Different Innovation Process, I have argued in my first post: “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation ” differently?

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eZassi

APRIL 25, 2022

The back end of innovation is driven by tactical Technology Scouting, a targeted research initiative to solve for challenges in the innovation pipeline. Innovation Solutions. In combination, these powerful tools enable businesses to innovate expertly, adeptly, and purposefully within an organized management system.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It raises the question of where can Innovation Management Software go ever to broaden out, and gain a scale and adoption momentum to support these (individual) efforts significantly. That is a worry, is it organizations becoming more risk-averse or organizations settling for less out of the innovation work?

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Report Innovation Technical Review Software Review 225

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

For a deeper understanding of enhancing business through teamwork, explore our insights on innovative team collaboration. Responding to Modern Work Trends The modern workplace is characterized by rapid technological advancements, distributed teams, and a shift towards more agile and dynamic work structures.

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eZassi

AUGUST 29, 2023

With Innovation Management In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires embracing Industry 4.0 and leveraging the power and adaptability of Innovation Management and strategy. Innovation? Improving Industry 4.0 What is Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. We go and simply ‘grab them’ to fit the innovation we are working upon. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2019

SCM Group – a major global industrial technology organization – has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets innovation management software across their workforce. SCM Group’s decision to drive innovation with Qmarkets resulted from a highly-successful pilot with the software in 2018. About SCM Group.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Embracing team collaboration strategies is essential for managers and leaders aiming to navigate the complexities of today’s business environment effectively. Building a Collaborative Culture Creating a culture of collaboration within a team is a critical step towards achieving high performance and fostering innovation.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Reinvention through business model innovation. Let’s remind: One size does not fit all.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In part 1 of this post , Ralph revisited key innovation issues that were already addressed by us three years ago. It doesn’t always translate to managers, however. Co-Innovation and startup engagement. Another way is to “outsource” exploration through external engagement with startups.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Qmarkets platform has received an outstanding appraisal on CompareCamp.com – a leading online resource for B2B and SaaS reviews. As a result, Qmarkets has gained two major accolades on the CompareCamp.com system – the 2019 Rising Star Award and the Great User Experience Award. Award-Winning Results. About Qmarkets.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. However, this is not what happens in reality.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2019

SCM Group – a major global industrial technology organization – has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets innovation management software across their workforce. SCM Group’s decision to drive innovation with Qmarkets resulted from a highly-successful pilot with the software in 2018. About SCM Group.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Industry Software Review Groups 40

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. We need a radical redesign of the innovation process and that is becoming full connected up and have a distinct digital thread running through it.

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Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

Qmarkets

JUNE 8, 2018

Schindler has partnered with idea and innovation management software company Qmarkets to leverage the collective intelligence of their German workforce. However due to Qmarkets’ responsive mobile interface and dual-login functionality, over 60% of these employees were engaged within the first week. About Qmarkets.

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Innovation 360

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Over 100 professionals from 50 countries gathered to compare experiences and find commonalities as part of the ISO/TC 279 technical committee’s work on the development of the new ISO 56000 series for Innovation Management. The documents will cover: Fundamentals and Vocabulary in Innovation. Overview of Topic Areas.

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Guidelines Innovation Management Technical Review Management 40

hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

Innovation is never easy, and in today’s world where everything is becoming digital, innovation is technology first and quite complex. Over the years, the linear model of innovation has been tweaked to include these variations—the phase gate model (e.g. photo editing software), and technology push (e.g. Blockchain.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Over the years that followed, this venture would overcome significant obstacles and make countless breakthroughs on its journey to becoming the global innovation powerhouse known nowadays as ICL. Innovation is central to the company’s commitment to help humanity meet its sustainability challenges.

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Ideation Software Review Idea Management Technical Review 105

eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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Software Review Technical Review Innovation Management Software 52

Acuvate

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. What is innovation management? What is innovation management? Importance of innovation management.

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Innovation Management Examples Management Software Review 53

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

These being, firstly a decline in the level and speed of innovation , partly due to lower investments in research and development and also a continuing uneven adoption of innovation across individual economies and the world at large. Grass-roots innovation leads to green-shoots of economic and social stimulus and growth.

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Policies Report Technical Review Innovation 182

PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2023

10 – The Power of Employee Engagement Employee engagement is a goldmine of innovation. When employees at all levels are encouraged to contribute ideas, it not only leads to a diverse array of innovations but also fosters a sense of ownership and pride in the organization’s achievements.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

In today’s blog we will define the key steps that should be included within an effective idea generation process to maximize idea submissions, engagement, and eventually implementation. During this step it is important to make the process as engaging as possible, as well as align it to your overall business goals.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Jean-Philippe Mathes: As we all know, the finance industry is more ripe for technological disruption than almost any other sector. We’re now facing threats not just from established competitors, but countless hi-tech start-ups which seem to appear on a weekly basis. After the initial call for bids we looked at many solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It is all about the fit of innovation and the tensions between the design, function, structure, and process needs to manage innovation management. We relate this specifically within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. The idea needs to “form, from observation, listening, engaging and data insights.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 6, 2020

Qmarkets’ software has been chosen by LEAD Innovation Management GmbH to support a groundbreaking initiative – designed to leverage the collective wisdom of global businesses against the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. said Michael Putz, Founder of LEAD Innovation Management. “To

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The survey exposes the myth that innovation is not one of the three top challenges, innovation ranks fifth as it follows the more conventional concerns of managing talent as the top (and that did surprise me) and regulatory and competitive threats. Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. What is your definition of “innovation”? Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 246

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Jean-Philippe Mathes: As we all know, the finance industry is more ripe for technological disruption than almost any other sector. We’re now facing threats not just from established competitors, but countless hi-tech start-ups which seem to appear on a weekly basis. After the initial call for bids we looked at many solutions.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Harvard Business Review has stated that ‘without discipline, almost anything can be justified as an experiment – discipline oriented cultures set clear criteria’. However, providing a formal process alone won’t create a culture of innovation – management must still be the driver.

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Culture Company Culture of Innovation Technical Review 98

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. Where is innovation within this?

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Qmarkets

JULY 14, 2019

In 2017, an Innovation Strategy Manager at a major vineyard was tasked with finding an efficient system for streamlining ideation. This system would need to be used to overcome departmental communication barriers, as well as drive the innovation that would help protect the company from wine industry disruption.

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