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MARCH 19, 2025

Enhance collaboration between departments and business units. For example, Amazon continuously evaluates its 7S elements to ensure its customer-centric strategy is supported by agile systems, an efficient logistics structure, and a culture of innovation. Does our structure support collaboration and innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 11, 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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It facilitates collaborative sensemaking and ensures that innovation efforts are not only creative but also grounded in contextually relevant insights. Getting Started with the Context Map Canvas Implementing the Context Map Canvas involves a combination of research, collaboration, and periodic review. Discuss implications.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

The Design Thinking Toolkit offers a human-centered approach that fosters collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement, ensuring that solutions are not only innovative but also practical and customer-driven. Prototype Rapidly and Test Iteratively: Reduce risk by quickly validating concepts with real users.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. Enhances Motivation and Engagement Encourages teams to set ambitious, inspiring objectives. For example, Spotify adjusts its OKRs for user engagement based on analytics from streaming behavior, recommendation effectiveness, and subscription retention rates.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery. Scenario Selection: Identifying and selecting the right scenarios is crucial, especially where ecosystem engagement and the use of generative AI can be central.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Collaborating With Universities.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 11, 2025

+the acceleration into even broader, highly connected open innovation +the shifts of how to apply agile methodologies with AI being leveraged + embrace of data-driven decision-making comfort and execution +endorsement and leveraging of digital technologies +fostering cross-agency collaborations +empowering citizen to participate and see the value and (..)

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. For example, Netflix uses KPIs like viewer engagement, retention rates, and content performance to optimize its streaming platform and improve user experience. Establish regular performance review meetings.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

It shapes the work environment, influences decision-making, and ultimately drives employee engagement and satisfaction. The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Accelerated Innovation and Speed to Market In an innovation ecosystem, shared resources, collaborative platforms, and agile development processes dramatically reduce the time it takes to move from idea to implementation. Your internal system may excel at refinement, but ecosystems excel at speed and agility.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Encourages internal collaboration by building consensus around data-backed goals. For cultural or organizational innovation, benchmarking leadership practices, employee engagement, or DEI metrics helps shape internal transformation initiatives. Collaborate with industry peers or participate in innovation consortiums.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ecosystems have suddenly become of age, as they can be formed around common concepts fairly rapidly, they can enable cross-cutting innovation to be delivered in highly collaborative ways. Connecting and collaborating opportunities for business seem to be really powerful networks of value-adding effect, for finding new economic opportunity.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Stakeholder Engagement: By integrating communication strategies, it ensures that all key stakeholders are aligned and involved throughout the change process. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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Planview

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Agile coaches are tasked with guiding teams through complex transformations, but they must do so without the traditional power to enforce changes. Instead, they rely on influence, collaboration, and data to inspire continuous improvement.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

This agility ensures that your clients can stay ahead of the competition. With AI, you can: Develop highly personalized marketing campaigns Optimize product offerings based on customer preferences Enhance customer engagement strategies For instance, AI tools can analyze customer data to identify buying patterns and preferences.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

As a business consultant, this means you can transform traditional processes into more agile, responsive, and efficient workflows. By leveraging these AI-driven components, you can help clients achieve optimized processes, making their operations more efficient, agile, and responsive to market demands.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Stakeholder Engagement: By integrating communication strategies, it ensures that all key stakeholders are aligned and involved throughout the change process. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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Roadmap Tools Change Project 130

eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

The Ezassi Advantage: Enhancing Supply Chain Agility for Procurement Executives Why CPOs and Supply Chain Executives Should Pay Attention For Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), procurement leaders, and supply chain executives, staying ahead of disruptions while driving efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability is more challenging than ever.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

where technology and diversity of experiences and broader market potential are demonstrating significant growth opportunities in more collaborative and co-creative ways. Your internal system may excel at refinement, but ecosystems excel at speed and agility. I asked Googles NotebookLM to provide a podcast of this series.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

Stakeholder Engagement: By integrating communication strategies, it ensures that all key stakeholders are aligned and involved throughout the change process. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Encourages Cross-Functional Collaboration Aligns different departments toward shared objectives. Learning & Growth Perspective Evaluates employee engagement, training, and corporate culture. Enhances Strategic Execution Ensures that all business functions contribute to overarching goals. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. I have used it many times in different workshop environments; here is a post of mine on this to bring opinions together and give a collective focus to build out a more collaborative future. Source: Nesta UK.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration The efficacy of team collaboration cannot be overstated in today’s business environment. Understanding the significance of collaboration among team members is the first step toward harnessing its full potential. Greater Flexibility Teams that collaborate well can adapt to changes quickly.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 7, 2025

Ensure Organizational Alignment Foster collaboration across departments. Customer Experience Strengthening brand loyalty and engagement. Failure to Adapt to Changing Market Conditions – Rigid strategic goals can limit agility and responsiveness. Adapt to industry changes with agility and confidence.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts. For more on tailoring products to customer needs, delve into our resources on agile product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

Exploring Complexities of Business Ecosystem Collaborations Why should “we” step into the realm of ecosystem collaborations? Collaborations are challenging but exciting and potentially rewarding, but they radically differ in how you conduct business. I offer here many distinct aspects and strategic advantages.

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Collaboration Disruption Design Agile 130

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

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. By taking a more outward action, even we can get re-engaged to influence and change things that can make a difference. The Big Recognition Innovators All Need.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. Encouraging Cross-functional Collaboration and Idea Generation Mixing folks from different corners of your company can light the spark for fresh ideas and innovative shifts.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

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. This collaborative approach fosters innovation synergies , reduces duplication of efforts, and accelerates the pace of innovation.

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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? We need to get far more comfortable with working in ecosystems, managed in platform designs to work more collaboratively.

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Design Technical Review Innovation Agile 232

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Regular updates, clear documentation, and stakeholder engagement can prevent misunderstandings. Poor Stakeholder Engagement: When key stakeholders arent aligned or involved, misunderstandings and lastminute changes become inevitable. process automation, and agile methodologies can drastically improve success rates.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 140

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Seeking out a highly collaborative approach. We need to recognize that we are increasingly becoming reliant on platforms, networks, greater connected relationships that are working collaboratively in ecosystems. The collaborators are seeing the combined value and individual gain in this more open approach. deployments.

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Industry Innovation Collaboration Design 222

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow. But be aware – the challenges are difficult to work through.

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