Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Here are some suggestions: First recognise that we all live inside boxes which frame our view of the world. We all make assumptions. Ask many questions about any situation and be receptive to different points of view. Then for each one ask this question, ‘What if the opposite were true?’. Stay curious and open-minded.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What can we do to build our innovation capabilities for the future? • How does our innovation team compare to innovation teams at other companies? I was struck and somewhat surprised by how different the approaches to innovation success and its management seemed to be. More on that later.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sadly many innovators are simply happily working away with no specific guidelines, apart from the general remit of “we need to be more innovative”, and this lack of coherence merging from the boardroom, failing to cascade down the organisation leaves this strategic part that innovation should plan as far to vague. Pretty bad, I think?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Traditional project management and financial management processes and principles are designed to produce robust plans for exactly how a project should run, and select only projects which are likely to succeed. How do you prioritise the potential innovation projects? method) about how the L.I.V.E. And this is true.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 30, 2022

With Hillary Clinton going up against Donald Trump before the election, even on the day of the election, people were being asked in polls around the country how they would vote. Psychologists believe it is due to a series of biases we have called Response Biases. Let us look at a classic example: The United States 2016 election.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about brainstorming, and we have found that whiteboard sessions are some of the best exercises to conduct to get the most out of your brainstorming session. . How do these outcomes translate to the actions we can take today? Brainstorming Techniques.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2021

But in reality it is very easy to fall into a rut where we cling to our own entrenched concepts of the world and subconsciously reject notions which might disturb our views. Try this quick quiz to see how you rate as regards being open minded. There are just ten questions to which you have to give yes or no answers.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

In particular, the leader has to answer these questions which are present in people’s minds even if they are unspoken. Why do we need to change? We have already had so much change and now things are starting to go well so why rock the boat? How are we going to change? How will it affect me and my work here?

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TechEmpower Innovation

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It's a really simple thought - do the right things to prepare before you start a big task, but we lose sight of what adequate preparation looks like in so many activities. We know how to do them by heart, so preparation feels like wasted time. Something as simple as how a question was worded left the team perplexed and confused.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wanted to build out some thinking based on the question, “Can we unlock the innovator’s potential through understanding their sensory and cognitive abilities?” This shapes what we do and how we can respond to navigate an increasingly dynamic and ever-changing world. Nothing is set in stone.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 30, 2022

” While this quote initially may seem depressing, suggesting that we quit producing art, it actually shows that real professional creatives are willing to let go of their art and release it. But at some point, it will indeed be good enough to be released and please other people, even if we could spend additional effort working on it.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Here’s how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive. This limits perspectives and it may result in missing crucial information; if there’s a challenge of which only one department might be aware, you need that department in the room. There are several ways to design these questions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

Why have we not embraced innovation? I really am fed up with constantly seeing claims that “ innovation is core to our business ” and that we are “ constantly seeking fresh growth ” Both of these are simply b t statements from the vast majority of our businesses. We are all operating in a different era.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. We need to counter “fear” with a different approach, recognizing most of what we feel might be the ‘unknown’ is actually ‘known.’

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. You may remember Todd from the previous podcast interview where we talked about the Motivation Code. 00:07:15 – How the book is structured in order to be useful every day and repeatable.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

How can you differentiate yourself? Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. Asking very basic questions. Ask the very basic questions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Combining Ecosystems, technology and GenAI to unlock innovation The concepts of ecosystem innovation and generative AI has arrived at the point where we need to question workflows have the real poential openness has become central to our process of thinking and development building. New Areas of Accelerating Innovation Discovery.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Overview: New agricultural, processing, and manufacturing technologies are changing what we eat, how long it keeps, and how we store it. What each of these innovations has in common is a thoughtful and different approach to common questions. Here are eight and how they came about. The Challenge. Blockchains.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

How to Start the Process. In keeping with tradition, they might leave the plan for tackling it open and flexible, so as not to constrain or thwart any potentially good ideas. You don’t want to instruct others on what and how to think, but you must offer some kinds of guidelines. So our minds naturally go to what we already know.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Here is a question for leaders and managers. They do not like the inherent risk in the question. Which brings me to my second question: Are people empowered to try out their ideas? They expect us to get on with our jobs and it would be risky to try something new which might fail.’ Some bosses are quite negative.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this conversation with @DrAlanBarnard, we explore how the principles of the Theory of Constraints (originally created by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt) can be used to not only drive significant business results but also to help us make high stake decisions as leaders. We explore who is a true expert. We explore who is a true expert.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 14, 2022

Over time, natural selection might allow dolphins with gills to successfully exploit new niches, or perhaps even out-compete air-breathing dolphins. For example, how did dinosaurs evolve into birds that could fly? But in order for a dolphin to evolve gills, it would need to fundamentally change how it got oxygen into its body.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 26, 2021

The shelter-in-place orders associated with the pandemic have meant that hotels, restaurants, event venues, and similar businesses have had to “roll with the punches” in ways we’ve never seen in the modern era. Sometimes, we have to get back to the essence of why we’re in business.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s the people who ask questions that innovate. The fundamental value of curiosity in innovation is that it pushes people to ask and find the answers to questions. We have hobbies because we were presented with a question or challenge that took on a certain momentum in our lives as we found the answers.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation, yet already we’ve seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working systems, more targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and more acceptance of mobile and web apps as productivity tools.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you are launching a new product or service or if you want to review sales and marketing tactics for an existing product or service then here are twenty probing questions to ask. How would you describe our product (or service) in one short sentence? How, when and where will it be used? How technical are they?

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 5, 2022

What their teachers might however not be aware of is that, in practice, they don’t actually want their students to be creative. Might it be possible that even though teachers think that they are encouraging their students to be creative, that their actions and behaviour actually discourage creativity in their classrooms?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. You might believe this is a no-brainer but you would be really surprised that this ‘tight’ linkage is often lacking. It is through this work mat we regard as our solution aimed at filling that gap.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 5, 2024

As we embark upon women’s history month, it appears 2024 is on track to be another stressful year for women in America. In the US, we have a long history of underinvesting in women’s health, which leads to worse health outcomes for women. But we know that isn’t the case. So, what can we do about it? as “solutions.”

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TechEmpower Innovation

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Let's take a look at some of the many ways businesses can benefit from these new models to streamline operations and deliver faster and more accurate results.We’ll begin by looking at some real-world examples and then we’ll dive into more details of how these improved search capabilities can enhance your business.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But what may be most important right now, regardless of your innovation maturity, may be to innovate how you operate. Eventually, as well, you'll need to innovate how you innovate. What they need to do is to innovate how they work, how they structure and how they create value.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To answer this latter question, you could consider incorporating the theory of Jobs to be Done , or Jobs Theory, as you think about your business aspirations. They are the progress we are trying to accomplish in a given situation. They are the progress we are trying to accomplish in a given situation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2023

How do we know the critical skills, competencies and capabilities for innovation? We often miss or fail to ask which skills or attributes are critical to providing a more significant impact for a successful innovation solution. We stifle and lose the real potential of what having the correct dynamics of innovation can offer.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We spoke about issues like climate change, and controlled burns and other issues that lead to more fires, and more destructive fires. What he is asking for is societal and political innovation - where we all agree to change our collective behaviors to create a long term benefit. His parting shot to me was - you are an innovator.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 23, 2018

You might need to raise some finance. Here are four key questions that they will want you to answer: Problem. How exactly (but concisely) will it work? How is it better and different from whatever else is out there? How will customers react? His answers might have been: Problem. How will customers react?

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Let’s look at a couple of bad approaches and then some tips on how to do it better. The weak approach is to keep putting off the conversation in the hope that things will change and the discussion might become unnecessary. I would like to talk about how the job is going.’ ‘We We should have a chat about our relationship.’ ‘We

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