Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. The IEA also highlights the ratcheting up of global ambitions, both by leading governments, financial institutions and corporates.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

In order to curb global inequality, the authors of a Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—a global consulting firm that partners with business and society to tackle challenges and opportunities— article recommend that governments focus on three things: improving inputs, putting system-level enablers in place, and elevating outcomes. Click To Tweet.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

The line between technology, innovation, and progress is not straight. Yet it can be drawn with a level of confidence that suggests: more innovation leads to greater shared prosperity. This is because not all innovation activity is created equal. These are innovations designed to do more with less, especially less labor.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The core is establishing an innovative collaboration foundation to reach dynamic collaborations across a diverse ecosystem of partners that unlocks collective prosperity. I decided to resist this ( at least at this stage) and have not added a further layer, as much of what is required from governance lies within any layer.

Design 182

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is. Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. To get to a consistent performance of innovation and creativity within organizations you do need to rely on a process, structure and the consistent ability to foster a culture of innovation.

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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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Sopheon

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Innovation governance can help them move faster and maintain market dominance. The post Why Large Companies Need Innovation Governance to Remain Competitive appeared first on Sopheon. Industry leaders face aggressive, nimble challengers at every turn.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. Thankfully there is hope.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. Recognizing the types of innovation leadership might help you manage the innovation work a little better. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader? Are they a front-end or back-end innovation leader?

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Acuvate

JUNE 5, 2023

Recognizing the numerous benefits it offers, businesses have accepted generative AI as a catalyst for future growth and new innovations. It seems clear that generative AI’s adoption and utilization are as crucial as addressing its security and governance concerns.

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Acuvate

JUNE 5, 2023

Recognizing the numerous benefits it offers, businesses have accepted generative AI as a catalyst for future growth and new innovations. It seems clear that generative AI’s adoption and utilization are as crucial as addressing its security and governance concerns.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 8, 2021

One aspect of any successful innovation portfolio is the way you manage your pipeline of new ideas. The danger is when companies or innovation teams are not willing to remove ideas. This can happen when an innovation project is started, given budget, but not set criteria against which progress can be measured.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 16, 2024

With a GDP per capita of approximately $555 and annual national government expenditure per person at $109 , Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Even though Malawi spent almost 23% of total government expenditure on education from 2017-2019, this amounted to just $52 per capita.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. There are kids out there, getting ready to graduate from college, who were just being born when I started doing innovation work. Innovation.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Although Brazil’s government has worked to resolve its education paradox, the country’s decentralized education system continues to struggle to make progress. Thankfully, education-focused market-creating innovations are spreading across Brazil and improving learning outcomes. FULL WEBINAR.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

Environmental, social and governance strategy (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. The overall market for ESG investments has swelled to $8.7 trillion in U.S. assets under management last year, up 33% since 2014, according to the U.S.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Evolution of Innovation Management Innovation management has undergone significant transformation over the years. From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies.

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The Inovo Group

JANUARY 31, 2020

This is nowhere more true than in the practice of innovation and within the practice of innovation, to its ‘governance’. By governance, we mean who makes the rules and how, who enforces the rules and how and who has what decision rights. The reality is that 88% of companies today govern innovation haphazardly.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. Our first conversation called the Fundamental building blocks for innovation success (13 minutes), links here , introduces the series and the areas of our focus. Achieving innovation alignment always needs clear framing.

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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Open Innovation to Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market Open innovation is a new framework to solve problems in a high-yield and low-cost manner. It is increasingly used by business, governments, and other organizations seeking solutions. This type of innovation […]. This type of innovation […].

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Overview : Sending people and objects into space was once so expensive, only a handful of governments could do it. The global push to develop a private space industry was both driven by innovation and drives innovation in both the private and public sectors in turn. The Promise of Space. The Roots Of A Private Space Sector.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. The IEA also highlights the ratcheting up of global ambitions, both by leading governments, financial institutions and corporates.

Report 130

Report Innovation Technology Policies 130

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. The IEA also highlights the ratcheting up of global ambitions, both by leading governments, financial institutions and corporates.

Report 130

Report Innovation Technology Policies 130

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

The needs of Innovation Coherence. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs. They are not drawn into the need for change and its implications from an innovative perspective. Building our capacity to innovate needs understanding and reflects the organization’s business activities.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

Deploying a design that recognizes the layers of an Innovation Ecosystem feeds the Business Ecosystem, and these provide the Dynamic Ecosystem to adjust and respond and, when combined, allow the Enterprise Ecosystem to generate collective prosperity, dynamism and a sustaining environment that thrives on its interdependence and interconnectedness.”

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Exploring the Global Smart Cities Market: Software Opportunities According to recent market research reports, the global smart cities market is expected to reach a size of over $2 trillion by 2026, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 10%. Let’s explore the market opportunities by categories and regions.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The blog “ the sustainability innovation paradox ” triggered quite some discussions the last few weeks on the role of governments in innovations. On the one side governments stimulate innovation but also hinder innovation due to regulatory policies.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 10, 2023

On January 15, 2019, I published The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty with the late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen and former Harvard Business Review editor, Karen Dillon. The sequel to The Prosperity Paradox will focus on the process of market-creation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management Defining Innovation Management with AI Innovation management refers to the process and activities that organizations use to manage and nurture new ideas into marketable products and services. Tailor products and services to specific market segments.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before. Many of these are defined today as marketplaces, where innovation has pushed the boundaries and stretched thinking to combine aspects of multiple transactions into connected and seamless ones. Think Amazon, Airbnb, Uber.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The linkages of innovation purpose. Whenever I get into conversations about innovating, we always hit difficulties on the question, “how can I build this well and be sustainble?” ” Hence, I often try to build an extended narrative for what makes up the innovation capability building and understanding for the future.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2023

Developing countries need innovation and financial support. Innovation has a very tough job of attracting the necessary money to take a concept or idea all the way through to commercialization. Here I am taking an innovation need in a different way than most are used to reading about.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2021

So if you are voting for a continuance of affordability expecting an abundant world, then our innovation stays locked into incremental improvements to keep forcing the price down and demand up. Sustainable innovation needs to shift our thinking. Innovation can drive this in new, highly imaginative ways. So how do you vote?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. AI complements human creativity, enabling teams to translate complex data into meaningful insights and innovative solutions.

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