Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Innovation is the unlocking mechanism.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The Customer Journey Map is a popular management tool. The Innovation Journey Map (IJM) is a similar concept showing the journey that an innovation takes from initial conception through to final implementation. Maybe take a major new product or service and also an important internal process or system innovation.

Innovation 194

Innovation Tools Project Management 194

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2017

I love hearing how companies are creating successful products that provide customers value, which is the topic of this episode. Gordon Stannis, the Director of Design and Strategy at Twisthink shares their approach to developing innovative solutions for their Fortune 500 clients.

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Innovation Processes Product Innovation Design Innovation 41

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

Radical Innovation 52

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Throughout the past couple of years, I have been constantly arguing about the need to put innovation management on a digital platform. These have come in different thoughts on digital platforms, ready for cross-industry and having in place, a rapid digital innovation process that scales and evolves on new technology and insights.

Software Review 186

Software Review Software Innovation Collaboration 186

Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

What do you think about when you hear the word innovation ? For many people, it evokes brands that created something so new that it changed the way we interact with certain products or services forever: Uber. First Things First: What is Incremental Innovation? Let’s get started. Take Microsoft’s operating system Windows.

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Examples Innovation Disruption Innovation Programs 98

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. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 17, 2023

For vehicle manufacturers and service providers in the global transport industry right now, innovation isn’t so much optional as existentially vital. In this blog, we’ll explore some of these trends and make a case for an effective innovation management program to capitalize on them. Take sustainability.

Industry 98

Industry Trends Innovation Technology 98

Sopheon

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The food and beverage industry is one of the most interesting and competitive industries when it comes to innovation and new product development. I recently joined Stefan Gates on the Food Matters Live podcast to discuss the latest in food and beverage innovation and new product development.

How To 52

How To Product Development Competition Innovation 52

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 11, 2021

I've been thinking a lot about how innovation, both how it is done, and who does it, has changed. Going back into history, innovators were the rare people (Newton as an example) who had time and talent to innovate. Harnessing steam It seems that the world took a great leap forward when we managed to harness the power of steam.

Underperforming Technical Team 144

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Tools Creativity 144

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. The biggest reason is dealing with the fear of the unknown – a lesson in 4IR change management. Innovation is one powerful catalyst ripe for leveraging in this 4th Industrial Revolution.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? When you work in a global organization, scale takes on even a greater set of dimensions; one that needs coordinating and managing. This growing complexity to manage is increasingly moving organizations towards the very traits innovation also requires.

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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.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Management Software 52

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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System Collaboration Innovation Design 159

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 2, 2019

I've been struck by the importance of two rapidly converging forces - digital transformation and new product innovation. As we've discussed, here and elsewhere, ad nauseam, there is increasing demand for new products and services, making stretching the capacity of tenuous innovation processes and teams.

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Data Innovation Product Development Examples 142

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

I'm writing a series of blogs based on questions that I regularly receive about innovation. In my last post, I wrote about the staffing plan necessary to sustain growth and innovation , basing it in part on the Pareto rule. Most people are reasonably good at creating small, incremental changes to existing products.

Innovation 144

Innovation Trends Survey Course 144

hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Why do companies need innovation management software?

Software 45

Software Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team 45

Qmarkets

JANUARY 17, 2023

For vehicle manufacturers and service providers in the global transport industry right now, innovation isn’t so much optional as existentially vital. In this blog, we’ll explore some of these trends and make a case for an effective innovation management program to capitalize on them. Take sustainability.

Industry 52

Industry Innovation Trends Technology 52

hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? Poor innovation implementation. Rampersad, G.,

Software 40

Software Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team 40

hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999).

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. For survival, innovation is almost obligatory (Drucker, 1999).

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Innovation Management Technical Review Management Software Review 40

hackerearth

JANUARY 28, 2018

Continuous innovation is critical to achieving and maintaining a steady competitive advantage. There are three types of innovation: product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation.A What does process innovation mean? What process innovation is not.

Design Thinking 75

Design Thinking Disruption Innovation Innovation Processes 75

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The bulk of the webinar is based on a recent research paper— Accelerating innovation: some lessons from the pandemic —published by Dr. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.

Product Development 52

Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Innovation — a necessary component of any successful business in the modern world. Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. Building a Robust Innovation Strategy: The 5 Innovation Misconceptions 1.

Strategy 98

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. A Typology for Innovative Organizations. Organization Design in their eyes.

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Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Design 80

Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity. What Exactly is Business Innovation?

Innovation Programs 98

Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Open Innovation 98

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Innovation — a necessary component of any successful business in the modern world. Regardless of the industry your business falls in, innovation can keep your team ahead of the trends and competitors and foster stability and consistency within your strategy. Building a Robust Innovation Strategy: The 5 Innovation Misconceptions 1.

Strategy 98

Strategy Strategy Idea Generation Comparison 98

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Shifting Radically the Innovation Business Model. I have been spending some significant time on questioning the current innovation business model, from both the customers (clients) perspective and the innovation consultants’ one. For me, the process and management of innovation really does need to be definitely questioned.

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Processes 100

hackerearth

JANUARY 28, 2018

Continuous innovation is critical to achieving and maintaining a steady competitive advantage. There are three types of innovation: product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation.A What does process innovation mean? What process innovation is not.

Design Thinking 65

Design Thinking Disruption Innovation Innovation Processes 65

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2016

Accenture has recently published an innovation survey of 500 executives in the US. I'm particularly partial to portions of this survey because the authors identify a real and growing problem - the gap between what executives want from innovation, and the organization's ability to deliver. This isn't new.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity. What Exactly is Business Innovation?

Innovation Programs 95

Innovation Programs Innovation Open Innovation Technical Review 95

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. Producers of innovation need to transition radically into a different innovation delivery & design structure.

Innovation 100

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered 71 different methodologies for implementing innovation in your organization. Innovation Cycle (Avans). Open Innovation (Chesbrough).

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The research of Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) shows that innovation is persistent. Product innovation shows the most clear path-dependency. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Policies Innovation Product Innovation Innovation Processes 40

mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For many companies, innovation means taking products and services and changing them in detail: color, shape, features, size, etc. However, this form of incremental innovation alone does not work anymore in many markets. In summary, innovation is always a big challenge – it needs to be understood, first, and foremost.

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Company Innovation Radical Innovation Competition 40

eZassi

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Consumer demands have never been higher, and large organization who don’t innovate will eventually die (think of Blockbuster or Xerox). Large organizations like these can no longer exclusively rely on the internal R&D team or employee base to produce the product innovation and insights that will keep them in the game.

Open Innovation 40

Open Innovation Software Technology Innovation 40

Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. The World of Innovation Has Changed. And in fact, Innovation Theater has even become rampant.

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