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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. Design the Experiment Choose the best method to test the hypothesis. What is the Experiment Canvas?

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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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

This model is designed to help organizations strike a balance between optimizing current operations and exploring new frontiers. Designing tailored processes for idea selection, development, and scaling. Quarterly or biannual portfolio reviews help maintain agility and relevance.

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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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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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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. The post How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design first appeared on Business Innovation Ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

By integrating AI into organizational design, you can streamline processes, improve decision-making, and optimize resource allocation. Benefits of Incorporating AI in Organizational Design Incorporating AI into organizational design offers numerous benefits that can significantly enhance your organization’s efficiency and effectiveness.

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APRIL 15, 2025

A Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS) is a hierarchical tool designed to systematically organize and categorize all project requirements into structured, manageable segments. In Agile environments, it complements the backlog by grouping user stories and features into thematic categories. What are Requirements Breakdown Structure?

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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

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

MARCH 26, 2025

This approach encourages organizations to challenge industry orthodoxy and design innovations that meet latent or emerging needs, often leading to breakthrough value creation. Build and Test Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) Design small-scale experiments to validate assumptions. MVPs should: Be fast and inexpensive to build.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Instead of building a rigid business plan based on speculative projections, DDP encourages teams to identify key uncertainties, design experiments, and refine the strategy as new information emerges. Design Learning Milestones Set checkpoints where you will test assumptions and evaluate progress. Prepare to pivot as you gather data.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 22, 2024

Braden Kelley is a popular innovation keynote speaker creating workshops, masterclasses, webinars, tools, and training for organizations on innovation, design thinking and change management.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The framework looks to 1) tap into collective intelligence, 2) accelerate innovation by cross-pollination, 3) enhance resilience and agility, 4) deliver superior customer experience, and 5) optimize resource utilization across the parties sharing in this interconnected ecosystem. Post two : Interdependence and Feedback Loops.

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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. There is a better way.

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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 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

APRIL 15, 2025

Originally coined in the startup world, the term refers to strategies that prioritize agile experimentation, data-driven decisions, and cross-functional collaboration especially between marketing, product, and engineering teams. Collaborate Across Teams Growth hacking works best when marketing, product, design, and engineering work together.

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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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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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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 3, 2024

Braden Kelley is a popular innovation keynote speaker creating workshops, masterclasses, webinars, tools, and training for organizations on innovation, design thinking and change management.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. By embracing the impossibility of proof, you open the door to a more agile, efficient, and ultimately successful innovation process. Ask probing questions to uncover their real needs, pain points, and willingness to adopt your solution.

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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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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

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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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience. To leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience, it’s essential to align the cultural dynamics with your company’s vision and operational tactics.

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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 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. Spot emerging trends and opportunities to inform product or service design. What is Context Map Canvas?

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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When we reflect on the remote work, rapid response and agility have all been tested in recent months. The shifts from the predictable to managing in (total) uncertainty required a factory of significant flexibility in design understanding, digitally prepared and physically able to be reconfigured.

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