Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2024

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. To buy in to Agile, leaders need to understand what’s in it for them.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2024

Designing a Composable Innovation Framework During May and June 2023, I worked through and concluded my thinking on why we needed to change our Innovation approach. A radical change from far to often a linear one, into a new, more up-to-date, and dynamic solution for managing innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Culture Change Understanding the Stakes: Innovation and Business Growth Culture change within an organization is not just about altering the workplace environment; it is a strategic imperative. Initiating a culture change demands courage, vision, and a steadfast commitment from the leadership team.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They can, through shared platforms achieve a closer relationship with the customer, to understand their needs and experience through increased collaboration, and engagement. We are at a critical point of change. New economic value has to be ‘seen’ and believed in, so people can engage and work towards making the necessary changes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

It is the pervasive power of technology integration that will change the business models of all industries. We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. Here is where innovators are going to be well-positioned.

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Planview

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization. If you didn’t get to attend these engaging sessions, read on to get the scoop! Becoming Agile and Beyond. How to Build High-Performing Agile Teams.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

As you lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth , you will notice a surge in novel ideas and solutions that can propel your company forward. A culture primed for agility and resilience is better equipped to respond to market shifts and challenges, positioning your organization for sustained success.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? Through a blend of pattern recognition, predictive analytics and exploring cognitive computing we can change much with innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Why engage in changing to Innovation Ecosystems Following on from my last two posts related to recognizing the importance of Innovation Ecosystems we need to ask what makes these dynamic, interconnected and engaging, from a diverse groups perspective? The post Innovation Ecosystems need you to engage and openly embrace?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Employees are more engaged, motivated, and committed to the organization’s success when they feel aligned with its cultural values. A culture that embraces change and is open to new ideas will naturally drive innovation, leading to greater business growth and the development of competitive advantages.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The growing concerns of several intertwined issues need addressing as they will initiate a significant change to the Business and how it operates and presents itself to the world. What would that mean in the magnitude of change? Agility Innovation. Sustainability is rising to be top or close to the top of a boards agenda.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

We are presently facing a profound set of changes in the conditions that businesses operate within in the immediate years ahead, that of the fear of business contagion; these will need a different set of innovation shifts and responses to counter this and seize new opportunities. The shifts will change how each country and company compete.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves needing radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While digital formats can expand audiences, they make it more difficult to engage members, create quality connections, or brainstorm new ideas. The premise was for members to be able to meet in-person wherever safely possible, but at the same time be agile and flexible in case local regulations changed overnight.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It opened my eyes to the changes within factories that are being currently undergone to get to the factory of the future. I have been learning what has happened in the past 12 months to change our perception of Manufacturing and the factories we need in the future. Factories are undergoing massive change.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

They are very short synopsis to get this base for my thinking and understanding, of why innovation processes and its management needs to change and how. Let me provide these: Increased agility : Embracing a Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework enables organizations to be more agile in responding to market changes and customer needs.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to build a strong case, stay informed, and think critically is the key to unlocking success and driving innovation. In this environment, success isn’t just about being prepared for change; it’s about actively shaping it. My 1st offer point in delivery.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2020

In contrast, dynamic capabilities are those higher-level competencies that determine a firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure both the resources and skills to possibly shape, they have the power to transform, and then be deployed to meet rapidly changing business environments, to take advantage of these changing conditions.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 5, 2021

The increase in data and our ability to analyze data and turn it into insights and information also contributes to the increasing focus on specialization and minute changes to operation models. What the model did not take into consideration was a downward change in housing prices, which invalidated the model.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2024

Agile Organizational Structure: Why it Matters: A rigid structure can hinder adaptability. An agile structure allows for quick adjustments to changing conditions. Implement agile methodologies for iterative and adaptive approaches. Communicate a compelling vision for change and inspire organizational buy-in.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

You’ll generally find the jobs which build EQ are those that see you engaging closely with other people. Adaptability and Agility. Your best way to avoid this is to cultivate adaptability and agility. So, are there jobs that are innately geared toward developing adaptability and agility? Conclusion.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

This does need a real change but can we achieve it? Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His point was that a plan, any plan, is, by itself, useful in one set of conditions, and an interesting artifact if the circumstances change. It is useful as long as its scope and assumptions hold true and becomes significantly less valuable as those assumptions or scope changes. Being reactive is not the same as being agile.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There is a lot of change occurring in our innovation abilities. What is radically changing how we innovate? A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them. All that has changed dramatically.We There is this constant shift to more open-sourcing and collaborating. It is a VUCA world.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

This, regrettably, is simply not good enough in today’s world as it has changed so radically in these last few months. There are plenty of techniques to help in this, but I have taken innovation as the focal point as we all will need to become creative, adaptive, fluid, and flexible to changed situations. But keep reiterating like mad.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” 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. The idea encouraged exploring the organisation’s boundaries and engaging with customers, suppliers, and partners to co-create and co-innovate.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

You can learn from others, you can adapt but you need to clearly understand where you are in your own evolution and capacity to undertake change. How they evolve, in new growth, in their changing business model, in their innovation, in their capabilities to manage the “spread” of activities required to transform.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. Firstly, we need to ask, “Why change the innovation narrative? Clear strategy leadership, a different organisational culture but with an emphasis more on partner engagement.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an agile coach certification program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves, it is needing radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation.

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Exago

JULY 19, 2018

In times of uncertainty, when business models are challenged, managers and financial directors are bound to cut costs to make organisations more agile, robust and adaptable to change.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 3, 2024

The problem for many is that it does “confront” them in considering the multiple layers of what this might mean regarding changes in mindset, organization thinking, and design, rethinking trust by opening up to others outside your existing network and adapting to a new way of design and thinking. Ecosystems support agility.

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