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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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2022

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. What is Open Innovation?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 19, 2017

In case you hadn’t heard, open innovation was defined by Henry Chesbrough as “a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.”. The post Do You Know What Open Innovation Is?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This is more than just a way to better understand who shops with you, though; with the right platform, it can be a source of powerful innovation. What Is Open Innovation? Traditionally, innovation in companies has been “closed.” When Should I Use Open Innovation? How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Innovation is certainly a complex and dynamic process that involves many factors and actors and I certainly feel it has been shifting in its focus. I decided to ask GPT-4 what major shifts have occurred in how we approached innovation ten years ago and today. It was suggested that these were the following.

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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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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents; The more open the innovation process, the less disciplined; Innovation can’t be measured. More specifically, the post is about recent developments in open innovation metrics (yes, they matter !)

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InnovationManagement

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The innovation process (as variable as it can be) has a seemingly basic format no matter what your goal is: once you understand the problem, you identify some solutions to test. The post How Can Nonprofits Develop a Pilot Innovation Process that Works for Volunteers? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Open Innovation as a paradigm on itself is on its quest to touch base.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Open Innovation.

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100%Open

JUNE 10, 2019

As a “newbie” to the innovation sector, I have to admit I had some help from the jargon buster. I’ve also come to understand that open innovation is no longer a novelty concept, rather a part of the culture at the heart of many companies, including Carlsberg , Argos , and Oxfam. Opening innovation up. Bring it on!

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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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100%Open

OCTOBER 9, 2016

When it comes to open innovation, knowing where to start or what to do next can often be the hardest decision. To counter this, we have produced a simple tool (below), which is based on our range of practical experience, to show the most common and relevant methods to successfully innovate openly.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. The 3 types of open innovation.

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Innocentive

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Open innovation is becoming well established as an important business model. But can it be used in public services, creating opportunities for citizens to participate in generating solutions for their communities? We think it has a lot of promise – and we’re not alone.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. The open innovation process here self-organizes the proper fit for start-up-to-problem-solution pairing.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Overview : Innovators face a number of challenges, as detailed in our choose-your-own-adventure infographic , including leadership buy-in, resources, and team-building. The first step in building an innovation culture in any organization is to develop the idea of innovation as a priority. Leadership. Start with leadership.

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IdeaConnection

MARCH 30, 2018

When Boeing wanted fresh ideas on how to spend $100 million, which was the result of the benefits of tax reform legislation it turned to open innovation. It can also provide ways for companies to engage their employees in the innovation process or in making important decisions. Employee Engagement.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. We caught up with the founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital, Ariana Smetana, to find out more about the business and its approach to open-source innovation.

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Svava

MAY 19, 2017

Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk In this series of blog posts, we’ve been talking about the shift from consumers to prosumer, and how you can bring them into your innovation process, without opening yourself up to risk.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 23, 2016

eZassi integrates with Linkedin, Facebook, and other popular platforms so that with the click of a button, the visitor can “sign-in” and start participating in the open innovation process without creating a username and password and verification email. Higher participation once a user joins your innovation community.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Innovation needs reinventing. Adopting ecosystem thinking combined with Generative AI will augment, automate and rapidly scale innovation. For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

The idea of “outsourcing” innovation can seem contrary to the whole concept. Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. Why Should I Outsource Innovation?

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In today’s business environment, where startups play an increasingly important role and disruptions come from unexpected corners of the business arena, embracing external sources of knowledge as part of an open innovation strategy becomes crucial! More info can be found here.

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CREATORS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, they are failing at corporate innovation. We believe that it doesn’t take a lot to do innovation better. Here a few rules companies can adopt instantly to get better at open innovation in no time! Here a few rules companies can adopt instantly to get better at open innovation in no time!

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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.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 2, 2021

As two intermediaries from Hamburg that foster open and cross innovation processes, Science Scout (an initiative of Hamburg Innovation) and Cross Innovation Hub (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft) joined forces to start a discussion around the stimulation and measurement of open and cross innovation processes.

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eZassi

JANUARY 24, 2017

Idea Management Software Streamlines Open Innovation. “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.” How do you launch innovation challenges?

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Svava

MAY 12, 2017

Inviting Your Prosumers Into the Innovation Process While managing the risks involved In the first post, we introduced the idea or concept of how consumers have changed, morphed thanks to innovation in commerce and technology, into proactive consumers – or prosumers.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We’ve wrote about the open innovation software process before, but understanding how ideas move through that process is very important from a couple of perspectives, depending on which style of innovation you move forward with; internal or external. Open Innovation. Structured Innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Why do startups have a head start in innovation? One of the great virtues of startups is that they have to innovate quickly, or they cease to exist. Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. Building an innovation culture starts with a strong foundation.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 16, 2022

People who know me, know I am a fan of open innovation and crowdsourcing – when it is done correctly. After analyzing 17,000 patents, he discovered that the breakthroughs that arise from multidisciplinary work “are frequently of unusually high value—superior to the best innovations achieved by conventional approaches.”.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s natural to consider education and innovation as mutually compatible. It’s surprising, then, that many academic institutions still lag when it comes to implementing well-structured innovation processes. Innovation in Education: A Proud History DNA, Genetic Fingerprinting, CDs, Computers, and the Internet.

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100%Open

JANUARY 4, 2016

We were asked recently by a new client what our top 10 Do’s and Don’ts are for running open innovation competitions, based on our experience including the UBS Future of Finance Challenge , Unilever Foundry Ideas Challenge , Colombia CO4 Open Innovation Competition , and Ordnance Survey GeoVation Challenge.

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As part of a simulation game on innovation management we have been running at universities and in corporate training programs for over 4 years now, we have developed an integrative model for dealing with innovation management on a daily basis. You can download the full infographic at the website of Innovative Dutch.

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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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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