Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2025

The emphasis is on agile governance, ecosystem sensing, knowledge sharing and human exchanges. The overall message highlights the transformative potential of dynamic ecosystems for organizational design and sustained growth.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation. What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the First Mover Advantage To successfully capture first mover advantage, organizations must plan meticulously and execute with agility. The following steps outline a structured approach to harnessing this advantage: 1.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. Recognizing the profound effect of culture on every aspect of your organization is the first step toward leveraging it for business success.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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. They foster a culture of curiosity, exploration, and a willingness to learn from both successes and failures.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core concept from the Lean Startup methodology, designed to help organizations test new ideas quickly and learn from real customer feedback. It promotes agility, customer focus, and data-driven decision-making by minimizing time and resource waste on ideas that may not deliver value.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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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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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. Here’s how you can combine these approaches: Design Thinking : Begin with empathy.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

This trend is particularly impactful in ai in workflow design , where AI can optimize processes and reduce manual effort. AI for Organizational Culture : AI tools are being developed to analyze and enhance organizational culture. Explore more in organizational culture analytics.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Agenda Design for Maximum Impact Structuring a killer agenda isnt rocket science but needs some finesse to keep heads in the game and not in the clouds. The post Crafting Powerful Strategic Offsite Meeting Designs first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops. Logistics : Nail down the where and how.

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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. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning. This is where Design Thinking can be of tremendous value.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

In the innovation context, it is a vital diagnostic and planning tool that guides decisions related to product design, process improvements, market positioning, and organizational transformation. Incorporate benchmarking findings into strategic planning cycles, design thinking workshops, or agile backlogs.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. They are influenced by economic cycles, cultural shifts, emerging technologies, competitive pressures, and evolving customer needs. What is Context Map Canvas?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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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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 incident became a cautionary tale about the importance of fostering a culture where employees feel empowered to speak up.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. T ime-bound Designed for a specific timeframe (e.g., Foster a Culture of Accountability and Learning A strong OKR system promotes ownership, responsibility, and continuous improvement. Agile Planning Frameworks – Ensures adaptability and continuous iteration.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 27, 2025

Skill Assessments : AI-powered assessments can evaluate employees’ current skill levels and identify areas for improvement, enabling you to design targeted training programs. This allows you to proactively design training programs that align with these anticipated needs. Lead Successful Change Management Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Option 2: Product Leadership Competing on Innovation Focuses on breakthrough technologies, design excellence, and R&D leadership. Prioritizes agility, experimentation, and early adoption of trends. Solution: Align business processes, culture, and investment with the chosen discipline.

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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. For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design. AI can help design experiments and analyze results.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 10, 2019

Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. This transaction is pending the final approval of Imaginatik shareholders by January 31, 2019.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. Facilitates Agility and Adaptation Allows businesses to pivot based on performance insights. Steps to ensure accountability: Designate KPI owners within relevant teams. Establish regular performance review meetings.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 22, 2021

These top agile and scrum sprint retrospective templates can be used during remote meetings with your team. Facilitating Agile Retrospectives Workshop. This board is directly from a Miro team member and is designed to help facilitators of retrospective sessions to guide their agile team effectively through the process.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

They asked customers to help design new products. Galvanize the culture. Knudstorp revolutionized the corporate culture. He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. Inventory was reduced and the number of individual parts was halved from 13000 to 6500.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. Change, whether strategic, operational, or cultural, can be overwhelming. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This calls for some radical rethinking of the existing business and deciding the design of the future business. This calls for thinking through a different designed structure for the business and different skills needed. The shifting from the current state to the future designed state is no easy task.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The Key Outcome Indicators is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. Change, whether strategic, operational, or cultural, can be overwhelming. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Product managers, designers, developers, and marketers rally around user feedback as the primary source of direction. This fosters agile practices and customer-centric innovation. By isolating and testing key features, they avoid overengineering and reduce waste. Learn and Iterate Analyze the results against your initial hypothesis.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

The OGSM Strategy Framework is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. Change, whether strategic, operational, or cultural, can be overwhelming. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

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