Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. Enjoy… -Ash) As a product design manager and portfolio owner, I have found myself endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The Interconnected Business Ecosystem framework is pioneering in its approach, which aims to help organizations navigate the complexities of today’s business landscape through this interconnected, collaborative ecosystem approach. They constantly search for adapting, evolving and collaborating to thrive and grow.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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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. Innovation is undergoing a radical change, in opening up to technology, collaborative thinking and the value of generative AI thinking. Encourage collaboration between AI and human experts.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Understanding Team Collaboration Collaboration within a team setting is a cornerstone of modern organizational success, driving innovation, problem-solving, and efficiency in today’s complex workplace. Higher Employee Engagement Teams that work collaboratively often report higher levels of engagement and job satisfaction.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This blog post explores how utilizing the right mix of Agile work management solutions can boost productivity and empower product teams to achieve their goals effectively, with each tool playing a crucial role in this intricate symphony of success. The company’s strategic goal is to become a leader in the AI-driven analytics market.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Dynamic Ecosystems build future ecosystem resilience and including participation as the core to thinking evolution and discovery, to exploit and expand to what is possible, through ecosystem-centric thinking and design.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

The Essence of Team Collaboration Team collaboration is the bedrock of modern organizational success, fostering an environment where ideas can flourish and goals can be achieved through collective effort. Benefits of Effective Team Collaboration The advantages of implementing team collaboration best practices are manifold.

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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. We need to approach innovation differently through connected agility, have speed and automation more central, and provide roles for a great diverse set of participants.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Dynamics- The core of Business Ecosystems Recognizing the value and potential to the Integrated Ecosystem Design The concept of having an integrated business ecosystem is central to the future growth and value businesses can provide. We need to learn to work in collaborative Ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

There has been an awful lot to absorb when it comes to skills and how organizations need to be designed for the future. This report has been part of a broader ‘agile’ series from them but this one specifically gave me my necessary anchor point, to move forward with my own design thinking for agility and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems. Open collaboration should be at the top of my mind- far more than today. Innovation ecosystems increasingly need to be designed to offer more sustainable and socially responsible solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. This agility allows them to seize new opportunities, stay ahead of competitors, and effectively navigate uncertainties and disruptions in the business landscape.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. Most of the failures point to a lack of design and alignment with people’s needs. This is where Design Thinking can be of tremendous value. It is people centric.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Networks designed. Focus Areas : Research and Development (R&D) Knowledge sharing Collaborative problem-solving Distinctiveness and Value : Distinctiveness : Emphasizes creativity, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the development of groundbreaking ideas. Acts as the catalyst for exploration and experimentation.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management. Benefits This approach leads to increased engagement and motivation.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JULY 26, 2023

Increased interactions and tightly controlled activities drive synergies : Ecosystem designs require enhanced interactions within the community. Agility and strong orchestration are essential for new business models : Ecosystems that give rise to new business models require a high capacity for agility within participating organizations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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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. Senior leaders are a significant driver in the success rate of an Agile transformation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 21, 2024

We increasingly need to consider ecosystems in our thinking and design. Yet the real potential when each layer is strategically integrated brings a more interconnected vision and value, building the impact and effect of Ecosystem design for collaboration and co-creation. Collaborative Innovation: Why Ecosystems?

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 12, 2023

In a series exploring cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, this is the third post discussing different aspects and the approach to this that needs to be taken as my suggested starting point. Defining roles and responsibilities : The next stage is to define the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the collaboration.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future yet it is still the need for the human touch will still be essential. As we form more around ecosystem thinking and design, design thinking will be essential as the significant enabler to creative input.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 3, 2024

Designing the Business Ecosystem Approach I have been looking at different ways to pitch Business Ecosystems recently for some evolving and hopefully sustaining work. Extending into Collaborative Innovation: Why Ecosystems? Ecosystems foster collaboration and innovation by bringing together diverse entities.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. There’s a balance between autonomy and collaboration. Participants should have confidence in each other’s abilities and intentions.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Marketplace Design can drive bottom-up Ecosystem designs. Do Marketplace designs drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems? Marketplace designs can indeed drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems. So, do Marketplace designs drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need to approach innovation differently through connected agility, have speed and automation more central, and provide roles for a great diverse set of participants. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1. Design Thinking Frequently Asked Questions 1.

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