Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

I would like to quote some of his writing here as it gives me, and I hope you, the reader, a richer understanding of narratives and why they are so important to us. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. They help us to orientate and can profoundly inspire us to shape the future.

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Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

But not all businesses are run in this way and leadership comes in many different forms. Let’s explore the nature of modern leadership in business, look at how extending crowdsourcing beyond the executive teams impacts a business and how this all ties into building and fostering a culture of innovation. The nature of modern leadership.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 28, 2024

Books discussed in the video: If you would like to watch us have this conversation, you can do so here. Figuring out where to leverage AI tools and where to use HI ( Human Intelligence ) will become a key differentiator or skill of an effective leader. You can connect with him on LinkedIn here.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

We specialize in B2B strategic marketing, B2B analyst and influencer relations, and B2B thought leadership marketing putting your brand in front of active B2B buyers, analysts and influencers worldwide – Explore membership today ! Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. After all, the past century of business management education has taught us that in order to improve performance, you need to understand, improve and track the performance of your key performance indicators.

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Anaqua

APRIL 18, 2018

As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says: “More than ever before, women are taking up leadership roles and making their voices heard in science, technology, business and the arts.”. IBM’s Alison Mortinger developed an early awareness of IP through her father, who worked for US Steel Research.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

For us at IdeaScale, Open Nation is always our favorite week of the year. For those of us in the weeds every day, they represent a refreshing opportunity to take a step back and reflect on how the work of our customers is making people’s lives better, every day. First up was Michael Contreras, president and CEO of Ensemble Consultancy.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” With participants live on camera, you can see levels of engagement and how participants are reacting to your facilitation. This mindset encompasses five parts.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Those of us battling it out in the trenches are left to learn the hard way”. The view offered in this article suggests four pillars to be put into place: 1) A Committed and Engaged Leadership, 2) A Comprehensive Innovation Strategy, 3) A Sustained Mindset Shift and 4) A Comprehensive Tool Kit.

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Kainexus

MAY 16, 2019

For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, Mark is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of “Lean Healthcare” and the author of LeanBlog.org and author of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award-winning book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! “ We used to be so focused on releasing good products that we didn’t validate if we were spending time on the right thing, which slowed us down.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whilst these represent the core and foundational business management and leadership roles essential to successful organisational performance, the world has changed significantly, and traditional organisations are being severely disrupted. Maximizing the dormant space. The new roles of leaders and teams in the 21st century.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. When should it be used: Every company should look at itself frequently to find out how it can build its innovation culture in a way that is right for them.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Leadership team sponsorship and mentorship.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. The shifts taking place has been hugely shaped in how digital transformation continues to grow in its importance.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

In today’s flat, lean organizations, many individual contributors assume that they don’t need to be led or managed. Great managers can give us vital outside leadership and perspective that we can’t get anywhere else. Make sure they know how to use it and feel safe doing so. So why is management still relevant?

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Compete by applying and experimenting with lean and agile start-up methodologies and take advantage of the opportunities and possibilities of the global entrepreneurship movement’s new models for leadership, collaboration, and experimentation. What are the possibilities and opportunities available to us? Who needs this?

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Additionally, 91% of surveyed staff members indicated accountability as their employer’s top leadership development need. What pain points or roadblocks inhibit us from doing our best work? What changes can our department expect in the coming years that may negatively impact us? What Are Examples of Good Department Goals?

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IM Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

The system is what allows us to prioritise that impact. 22:30) How empathy is often a desired trait of innovation teams engaged in building better products. It is also needed by innovation managers for senior leadership and shareholders, in order to build a better system . (24:00) – Esther Gons. contact-form-7].

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Innovation 360

APRIL 30, 2017

She has demonstrated great leadership and collaboration by creating a vision to start up an innovation company and build capabilities to incubate and commercialize innovation portfolio for the day after tomorrow in the FMCG industry. Operational Excellence/Lean. Areas of expertise. Innovation Strategy. Business Development.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

There is this constant, pressing need to absorb, synthesise and translate what is constantly coming towards us in innovation thinking. The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

Fast-growing startups often link compensation to achieving growth in a particular metric, such as advertising spend, or user engagement. All too many times, David said, a “big idea” emerges, and you’ll gather your people, draft the business plan, bring a powerpoint to the finance team or leadership, only to hear them say, “Sounds great.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

New Ways of Engaging Stakeholders. This is a strategy that lays out specific actions for: Horizon 1 — our current business: life beneath the clouds ⃜ allowing us to capture and extract as much value as possible from that business. Just more of this same noise won't cut it.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Change is all around us, it is accelerating not abating. ‘Much’ seems to be closing in on us. These “change forces” are making many organizations and the leadership a little weary and wary, they seem to ‘double down’ They become risk averse, defensive and determined to ‘weather it through’.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. Some of us have failed multiple times trying to find a life partner. What does an engaged user look like?

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Sales teams not providing access to customers saying, “Ask us! Someone who understood the why behind innovation methods such as design thinking or lean startup and could help you apply them in your organization?

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Moves the Needle

MAY 24, 2019

.” - Herb Caen Those who carry this vision forward and empower these dreams are the past, present, and future city leadership and employees. Lean Innovation is a set of rapid customer-focused, evidence-based behaviors that help remove the waste and uncertainty in how we create value and solve problems for those we serve.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Contact us now at mailto: janet@imaginenation.com.au Find out more.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. If the data-driven intensity sounds familiar, that’s because the firm has its roots in the traditional consulting world and its leadership are professors at Harvard Business School. Bionic leans heavy on tech nomenclature.

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Inceodia

MARCH 26, 2020

Our client is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. Most organizations run pretty lean operations and utilize mostly manual processes to deliver their services. About this Client. Executive Summary.

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Guide 4 Innovating

DECEMBER 28, 2018

If you could ask a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages it would make such a difference to our innovation performance and engagement. It underpins innovation engagement. It gives confidence to any innovation undertaking. This different way of thinking needs surfacing. It is full of risk and uncertainty.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result of this project, TSYS was able to address employee pain points and inefficiencies, enhance corporate leadership strategies, increase savings, and implement lucrative new ideas. Employee engagement presented the second major challenge. This left employees sceptical of the idea that future programs would be any different.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Leadership Mindset A company’s leaders are paramount in driving the organization forward. Not Communicating the Strategy and Vision As is the case with many innovation initiatives, a lack of strategic alignment and failure of leadership to communicate the vision for a project is often to blame when a transformation program derails.

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