Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

So if there was ever a time to clear the existing innovation agenda and rework the entire space for innovating, it is about to become the pressing reality as we enter into 2017. There are so many forces coming together that require this reworking. The Merging Conditions and Forces. We are facing more complex challenges than ever before.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As I’ve recently highlighted in my latest blogs , there is great entrepreneurial opportunity in Africa’s electricity market: Africa’s mass nonconsumption of electricity is ripe for market creation. A brief history of the market-creating organization. A brief history of the market-creating organization.

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Braden Kelley

MAY 30, 2017

Excerpt from the May/June 2017 edition of The European Business Review Every company begins as the nimble startup, organized around the solution to a single customer problem and executing that solution better than anyone else in the market (including incumbents … Continue reading →

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IdeaScale

JULY 9, 2019

At the intersection of modern technology and advertising, digital marketing is one of the fastest changing industries in the world. And to stay relevant in digital marketing, you need to be innovative. And perhaps one of the most competitive and technology-dominated industries is digital marketing.

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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2017

I spoke about Social-First Content at the April 2017 Social Media Strategies Summit in Chicago. With traditional marketing communication, there were numerous clear divisions among important roles: Creative vs. analytical. This idea started developing for me as we started using Hubspot for inbound marketing. Strategy vs. design.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 13, 2017

The first is in Chicago on April 26-28, 2017. I’ll be speaking at the SMSSummit in New York this coming October (October 17-19, 2017). As part of the relationship with these GSMI conferences, we’ll be co-releasing several new Brainzooming eBooks on brand strategy and social media content marketing. Enjoy this article?

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Alexandra Alvarado Director of Marketing and Education, American Apartment Owners Association. It may surprise some landlords to know that tax liens and civil judgments (including evictions) have been removed from credit reports since 2017.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2017

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Thanks for reading our content on strategy, creativity, innovation, and content marketing during 2016. We hope it’s been of benefit to your business success, and look forward to sharing more great strategies, ideas, and tips throughout 2017!

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We have, in the past, partly because of levels of uncertainty, reliant on ‘poor’ limited data tended to take a safer route to market, by trying to achieve well-defined problems, place these into the pipeline for innovation and worked methodically along the timelines, often impervious to the market conditions changing before our eyes.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 12, 2022

In response to this challenge, in 2017, it launched the Xcellerate program in order to drive both internal innovation and more tightly connect the company across languages and borders. This has led to rapid growth; by 2017, it had over 3,000 clients in 47 different markets. The Challenge. So it turned to IdeaScale. The Solution.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We are back from the Inbound 2017 conference sponsored by Hubspot. For a quick summary of the week, here are quotes pulled from across most of the Inbound 2017 keynotes and breakout presentations I attended. Marketing Chops. Today, you need marketers with “broad experience and the ability to go deep in a few areas.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

market, and many cities are ending curbside collections of glass. All ideas must be submitted by October 13, 2017. However, in 2013, only 34% of glass products were recovered and recycled, meaning that the rest most likely ended up in landfills. Today, glass is one of the least recycled common materials on the U.S.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 4, 2022

Hannun is the co-founder of Dandelion Energy, a former Google X company that came about in 2017. As we shift into a new, more complicated labor market, this innovation will be key to keeping top staff. In 2017, only 9.2% Here are some of the top female innovators of 2022 to use as inspiration for your team. Kathy Hannun.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

As these concerns increase, so does the market power of the sustainable business, with non-sustainable businesses ultimately being left behind. Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn started using them in 2017. Moreover, ignoring the need for sustainability is becoming more difficult. Some Examples of Sustainable Innovation.

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Planview

MAY 11, 2017

Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. More of his businesses were far more vulnerable than he realized to the changes taking place in theie markets.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2021

According to a 2017 Artsy insight : An entrepreneurial trade painter, Huang Jiang, launched Dafen’s remarkable trajectory. This, combined with the Chinese consumers being more willing than their western counterparts to buy expensive art through online shops, is creating a growing local market for original, creative work.

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Brunner

JUNE 1, 2022

ATLANTA (June 1, 2022) – Goodwill of North Georgia , one of the largest and oldest non-profits in Georgia, has selected marketing firm Brunner as agency of record (AOR), responsible for overall media planning, creative strategy, as well as digital strategy including paid social, digital display and digital video. ABOUT BRUNNER.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 13, 2017

In 2017 I’m talking through the same concerns as I was 6 years ago. Well for a number of reasons: Security – We know that in 2017 cybersecurity is a top concern of CEO’s (and IT alike). Seed reports, “Some people struggle to coordinate with marketing to get branding and communications plans set up.

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Planview

MAY 11, 2017

Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Last week was. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement.

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ITONICS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From Ideas To Market. The participants gain insights into how to develop market-relevant products on the basis of own ideas in a structured way and become part of an expert community that will boost their learning curve. The post Congratulations to the new Agile Innovation Managers 2017! Congratulations on this achievement!

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2018

Late last year (November 2017) Amazon announced its Neptune a fully-managed graph database service with the objective of building and running applications that work with highly connected data sets. Go check out Googles Knowledge Graphs. It is offered in the cloud, very scalable and works for open graph API’s.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Taking Ten New Technologies to Market. Who will the winners be in 2017? National Cancer Institute. Identify the top ten recommendations to help complete a decade’s worth of research in five years! This is just a taste of what innovation management award winners can accomplish.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

The most impressive presentation I reviewed in 2017 was the one from Munich Re, held on 21st November 2017 under their investor day event. For example, they illustrate the Canadian approach to their digital marketing platform. I can simply touch on it here, I suggest you do your own drawing of conclusions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

I have written about the new innovation era in 2017 made up of higher levels of needed collaboration, where platforms, ecosystems and customer experience understanding become increasingly central. So the edge will radically begin to transform the core.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. What we design in organizations is far too rigid and not highly adaptive and that is the not reflecting the needs we are facing in our more volatile markets today.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. But they don’t do it alone. million volunteers and 9.6

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

However, on December 14th, 2017, the FCC voted to repeal the current US legislation on net neutrality. By focusing upon garnering data on your target market, refining ideas and testing prototypes, creators equip themselves with the power to define how, where and when they innovate; irrespective of loading speeds.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 1, 2018

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are December’s twenty most.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 16, 2024

Even though Malawi spent almost 23% of total government expenditure on education from 2017-2019, this amounted to just $52 per capita. This willingness to build an ecosystem to support the very specific goal of improving literacy and numeracy in resource-poor settings is consistent with market-creating innovations.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 16, 2017

According to Fortune Magazine, some of the top financial technology trends for 2017 are consumer trust, buying behavior, mobile banking, blockchain, cybersecurity, and access. And machine learning could be applied towards many of those already (for example: using data to optimize for consumer buying behavior).

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