Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 148

Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 20, 2023

From India to Vietnam: The Changing Landscape of Offshore Software Development Outsourcing software development services to offshore vendors has become an increasingly popular way for businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Tech talent turnover rates in Vietnam are less than 1/3 that of India.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Review 62

Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era In an age of rapid technological advancements, companies everywhere are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to modernize their operations. Large enterprises often lose their agility due to organizational inertia and bureaucracy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? The IM software market is stirring.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC) has become, over the past three years, a pivotal entity in championing the principles and practices of Value Stream Management. Their insights, drawn from a diverse pool of survey respondents, provide a comprehensive view of the VSM landscape.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Technology is radically altering our need for innovation. We see increasingly innovation is feeding off the “ digital response rate ” Connecting technology and innovation is altering how we should re-access organizations ability to build out. That got my attention.

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eZassi

AUGUST 30, 2022

For innovative and creative organizations, the challenge is not a lack of good ideas, but no effective system in place to review, score, catalog and process these ideas through the pipeline. To focus on the best and “throw the bad ones away” a strategic, competent company needs an Innovation Resource Management tool. Let’s Talk.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The partnership will see Qmarkets collaborate with Capgemini Invent , Capgemini’s innovative management division. Together, Qmarkets and Capgemini Invent will provide leading global enterprises with a combined package of strategic consultancy services and dedicated innovation software.   They are a great bunch of innovators.

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Brunner

OCTOBER 6, 2023

An ‘Internet Tech’ Career Path: Dumb Luck or Planned Destiny? Thirty years ago, I was working as a software engineer and a systems analyst for an IT consulting company. Much of what we did was custom software development in nature and usually operations related. They will ask me to teach them about digital technology.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 15, 2023

Setting the North Star: Crafting Tech Success through Transparency and OKRs In any company, it’s essential to have a guiding light, a North Star, that illuminates the path towards the goal. In the realm of technology, where rapid evolution is the norm, this becomes even more crucial.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

We can mix and match different emerging or established innovation approaches but sometimes miss valuable points and due to this lack of “being connected up” we lose flexibility, sometimes meaning and miss some of the potential value as the parts are not as well interlinked or dynamic; we screen out more than we add-in.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Design 130

Qmarkets

APRIL 26, 2022

. – Qmarkets was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Innovation Management Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47455321, April 2022). IDC believes innovation management platforms (IMPs) are essential for innovation leaders to gain visibility and control on the discovery and selection subcycles of innovation.”

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eZassi

AUGUST 22, 2022

From the Harvard Business Review article “ An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times ,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead: What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success? Technology Scouting Services. Innovation Strategy Consulting.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2022

Demand management software helps companies improve productivity, reduce bottlenecks, and make better-informed decisions. If employees don’t know how to use this technology, there’s no point in implementing it. You’ll learn three best practices to improve the success of your change management journey. But there’s a catch.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.” It is evident innovation must be way broader than just technological RD&D. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

To address the problem, security leaders should: Review hiring practices. Which cybersecurity technology trends have you seen make the biggest impact in terms of improving data security in the last year? Develop a cyber third-party risk management program. Redefine what the term “qualified” means before seeking candidates.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Cognyte, the global leading security analytics software provider, has launched an innovation management program with the Qmarkets Q-ideate tool. shared Amir Barel, Chief Technology Officer at Cognyte. “We Qmarkets helps us to do just that.” said Noam Danon, CEO of Qmarkets.

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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. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

The traditional paradigms of automotive manufacturing are evolving, driven by the imperative to integrate cutting-edge software solutions seamlessly with hardware production. This divergence between software and hardware cycles poses significant challenges, particularly for OEMs typically focused on manufacturing.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At the beginning of the year, FORVIS launched its new idea management platform, powered by Qmarkets. John Yoo (pictured right) is the Senior Innovation Success Manager of FORVIS’ EDGE team with almost 20 years of experience working in product management, strategy consulting, and chemical engineering.

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Acuvate

MARCH 30, 2023

This results in cost savings, increased accuracy, and faster response to customer inquiries and issues. For CPG companies, too, RPA is streamlining supply chain management, reducing operational costs, and improving customer service through faster and more accurate order processing.

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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. Solutions that drive this strategic innovation are Ezassi’s Technology Discovery and the Ideation and Collaboration Platform, as well as consultative services for Innovation Ecosystem design.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Adjacent technologies impacting the energy industry can be harnessed by collaborative project teams of engineers and leading organizations who seek to modernize power systems and continue to utilize renewable resources. The global economy will continue to demand more power and with that growth, greater energy security.

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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. Improving Industry 4.0 What is Industry 4.0 Innovation? Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Acuvate

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Additionally, due to thousands of hearings and proceedings occurring daily, courts often face a shortage of stenographers to transcript and parse videos and audio. Best-in-class, AI-powered automatic speech recognition technology converts conversations into text, even detecting emotion, intent, action items, and much more.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new partnership between Qmarkets and boutique management consultancy SteepConsult will enable enterprise companies across Europe to benefit from a 360-degree service combining SteepConsult’s extensive innovation expertise with our own innovation management software solutions. At Management level, give it the right mandate!

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eZassi

MARCH 29, 2022

Maintaining that resource’s energy and focus from year to year and project to project will continuously be a challenge though unless your innovation leaders have an opportunity to recharge their creativity, ideate, and consider innovation management platforms. Technology is best when it brings people together.” - Matt Mullenweg.

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eZassi

MARCH 29, 2022

Maintaining that resource’s energy and focus from year to year and project to project will continuously be a challenge though unless your innovation leaders have an opportunity to recharge their creativity, ideate, and consider innovation management platforms. Technology is best when it brings people together.” - Matt Mullenweg.

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Conference Technical Review Software Review Ideation 52

Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades. Algorithms and Zoom rooms were meager surrogates for authentic connection.

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eZassi

MAY 10, 2022

Learn how our Innovation Search and Management platform can provide new insights and help organize your innovation projects in the Food and Beverage Industry. Due to unpredictable climate events, a change in eating trends, and disturbances in the supply chain for worldwide populations, agriculture demands innovative solutions.

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Technical Review Software Review Ideation Innovation 52

Planview

MARCH 20, 2023

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. Without this commitment, consequences include slow delivery and increased technical debt.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

We are now injecting the full power of generative AI across our entire suite of innovation management tools. AI and big data have been prevalent in the Qmarkets platform for a long time already, including our ‘similar idea’ engine, ‘automated clustering’, ‘content matchmaking’, ‘expert recommendations’ and more.

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Innovation Management Management Generative AI Innovation 59

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Can we manage innovation the way many still are? Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. Applying technology application to innovation opportunities needs a platform thinking approach. I think not. Risks are actually rising not falling.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As a concept that originated in the ‘90s as a synonym for “digitization,” it has since evolved into the process by which companies update the source code of their people as well as their business. For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning.

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eZassi

MARCH 15, 2022

Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.`` — Peter F. Kodak – A late adaptor to digital photography, but a recent resurgence in technologies they’ve always mastered- new age imaging, printing and sought-after chemical production. They ask questions like: Do we need an AI Officer?

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Dear Reader, Joe the CEO , Leon the Product Line Director and Emily the Product Manager are hard working people, very motivated to make their company successful. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. The same is true for Engineering. Compare it with IT.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Dear Reader, Joe the CEO , Leon the Product Line Director and Emily the Product Manager are hard working people, very motivated to make their company successful. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. The same is true for Engineering. Compare it with IT.

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