Qmarkets

MARCH 28, 2023

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. In this article, I’ll go through the key points to consider to help you develop the most effective innovation process for your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

For that, we require ingenuity in our abilities to break through present seemingly difficult barriers in technologies, and this calls for breakthrough innovation. The importance of innovation is across the board. Innovation is required in all areas of research, development, demonstration, and deployment, to have equal focus.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Innovation needs reinventing. The building out of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 25, 2021

As a consultant, I’ve had the chance to work with some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations to help guide innovation initiatives and business strategies. The Value Proposition Canvas is useful for refining a new product or service innovation to make sure it is well received on the market.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with the Best Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in corporate events, as they have the power to set the tone and energize the audience. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2017

Improve your innovation process with gamification. The ideal moment in any innovation process is when innovating becomes fun. That’s where gamification comes in, and it can blast your innovation onto a whole new plane. Gamification is the addition of game-like ideas and rewards to a work process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s unique approach to innovation helps teams “work backwards” to create breakthroughs. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

The Power of Team Innovation Keynote Speakers Keynote speakers hold a pivotal role in setting the tone and driving the theme of corporate events, conferences, and leadership programs. Their impact can often extend beyond the event, influencing long-term team dynamics and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

25 years looking back at Innovation’s evolution I decided to hold a conversation with Google’s Gemini about how innovation had changed and hopefully progressed since I first became involved 25 years ago, when I lived in Singapore and was heavily involved in my MBA, which had innovation as an elective.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Quiet quitters are a classic example of poorly engaged employees. Employee engagement refers to the extent to which a company’s staff are invested in their roles and in the success of the business as a whole. Highly engaged employees, on the other hand, are invested in their work. Are Engaged Employees More Productive?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2021

Amazon’s unique approach to innovation helps teams “work backwards” to create breakthroughs. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service–and this is exactly how Amazon innovates.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2020

Drawing together everyone should be the goal of any innovative organization. There’s nothing more important to innovation than an engaged, thoughtful workforce. Yet bringing your team out of their box of day-to-day tasks and larger projects to focus on innovation can feel daunting. Lead by example.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding the sensory and cognitive abilities of innovators Following on from my first post on building an Innovator’s Sensory profile, the combination of various cognitive, emotional and environmental factors heightens our awareness, so I needed to explore this further in this post. Nothing is set in stone.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 14, 2023

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This final post here is about the appeal, interest and growing engagement and judging outcomes.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework lies the core, the different innovation stacks, and the learning components. Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 26, 2023

You need to discover your innovation pathway. I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. I have followed a number of great innovation thinkers and read different books on the areas of innovation. Let me start.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I have been struggling for quite some time with innovation’s increasing difficulties in influencing growth and achieving real impact. I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. ” constrained them.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. I highlight the key value points.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Embrace the future if AI-driven innovation. As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation. As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. ” I do think we need to restate the current barriers to innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For 2021, IdeaScale has three new winners of the Innovation Management Awards: TriHealth for engaging nearly 80% of their workforce; Grant Thornton for pioneering work in automation; and Graybar for an exemplary innovation process. Best Innovation Process: Graybar. Best Engagement Strategy: TriHealth.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform’s ability to offer multiple values will influence many of the client’s adoption decisions over the choices their business will engage with. ” I suggested in this post, “ Platforms allow you the opportunity to innovate in very different ways. Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation- theory into reality.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Developing the innovation stack takes the view that innovation is a series of building blocks stacked on top of each other with different layers to work through. Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals.

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HYPE Innovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

As an innovation manager/leader you likely deal with processes (and process improvements) every day.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

It should articulate how innovation will contribute to achieving these objectives, and what specific goals and metrics will be used to measure the success of the innovation program. The innovation mandate should clearly define the value goals for the innovation program and how they will be measured and tracked over time.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2023

After a series of posts introducing and explaining the thinking and design behind the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, I thought it would be a good idea to put this into a sequence of visuals that should take you through this to provide a decent understanding of its make-up and logic. Each stack “sits” on a technology platform.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. We need to shift our innovative thinking from static to dynamic.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Where will Innovation Management Software go? This morning I decided to have a chat on ChatGPT on the future of Innovation Management Software, I asked a number of questions in a short series and can well-relate to the answers provided incredibly quickly. chat.openai.com/chat Where will Innovation Management Software go?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. In a series of three posts, I have asked Google’s Gemini to answer five questions to track and trace the progress innovation has made and where it seems to be heading.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 25, 2020

Since 2015, the Innovation Management Awards, presented by IdeaScale, have sought out the best innovation strategists, designers, and approaches. 2020’s field was a tough one to narrow down, as innovation management has spread from the smallest businesses to the biggest conglomerates.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. Innovation Stacks become essential.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual.

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