Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 23, 2018

After working through a number the one that held my attention and has become central to my thinking to take organizational practices forward was provided by a recent report from McKinsey “ How to create an agile organization ”. Agility for me is vital, it allows us to increasingly be adaptive in an uncertain world.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process. This agility is particularly important in fast-paced markets where consumer preferences can change rapidly.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Helps allocate resources more effectively by identifying high-impact focus areas. Incorporate benchmarking findings into strategic planning cycles, design thinking workshops, or agile backlogs. This evidence-based approach: Aligns innovation priorities with industry best practices and evolving standards.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An exploration of resources and advice for design thinking in education. Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. Tapping into empathy is critical in the design thinking process.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It gives the big shots at the top a game plan, making sure resources aren’t thrown around like confetti at a parade. For more on similar topics, mosey on over to our article on how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process. Encourage Creative Thinking Make space for new ideas and brainstorming.

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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.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

They can cite a number of seemingly valid reasons for this, including: My team hasn’t got the time to resources or time to take ownership of this new thing. Suggested reading: There are not that many resources out there about this theory yet as it is quite new. 5 – Design Thinking. Suggested reading: .

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking. From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are using agile methodologies to rapidly test and iterate on ideas, keeping up with the pace of change and market demands.

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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

JUNE 12, 2023

These components can include different methodologies, tools, technologies, and resources that can be flexibly combined and reconfigured to meet specific innovation needs. It emphasizes the ability to leverage and combine existing resources, knowledge, and technologies in novel ways to drive innovation.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Many are applied today but the recognition of the leveraging of speed, scale and impact this needs to bring brings these into a sharper focus to resolve : Agile Innovation Processes: Rapid ideation, prototyping, and iteration cycles enabled by generative AI will demand more flexible, adaptive innovation processes.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As AI and sophisticated systems become the norm, it’s essential for organizations to retain their creative spirit, agility, and grit. This ability to adapt and innovate in a scrappy, resourceful way is often the fuel behind revolutionary ideas and game-changing products. Don’t let your tech stack undermine your agility.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Verizon scaled agile methodologies and a product-driven model across their entire Consumer Group. Agile Methodology Reinforcement: Vanguard had used agile since 2006 but lacked proper CI/CD pipelines. Agile Methodology Reinforcement: Vanguard had used agile since 2006 but lacked proper CI/CD pipelines.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. At its core, design thinking involves five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

For me, I think the real need is in speeding up of the whole innovation process, approaching the whole innovation in a systematic way, as the only path to tread in the years ahead. We need to broaden out the whole process of rapid innovation application beyond the two current favorites of lean and design thinking.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. This can be difficult for startups because they often have limited resources and a small customer base. Hire individuals with experience in sales and a track record of success and provide them with the training and resources they need to succeed.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. Ecosystems and platforms become the core of any design. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality. We are seeking collaboration and co-creation.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Divvy Up Resources : Make sure you’ve got the essentials covered—time, cash, and crew—to back your fiery projects. Go Agile : Embrace a get-and-go approach for quick tweaks and turns. Plus, checking out approaches like design thinking can make strategy sessions even more creative.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

More than two thirds of executives surveyed in IBM’s latest research report said that HR is ripe for disruption – and the time is now to make a move to fundamentally change the way organizations think about their human resources department. Build and apply capabilities in agile and design thinking (more on this below).

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Adaptability : An innovative culture equips your organization with the agility to pivot quickly in response to market changes and consumer needs. To gain a more in-depth understanding of how an innovation culture can transform your organization, explore our resources on creating a culture of innovation and innovation culture best practices.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

They serve as collaborative platforms where individuals, organizations, and institutions unite to share knowledge, resources, and ideas to bring new ideas to market and address pressing challenges, but these need the “essence” of being dynamic. The diversity of participants and the redundancy of resources contribute to their resilience.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And these capabilities will be different from someone inside an innovation project team, to someone managing multiple innovation projects, to a leader helping to set the innovation strategy and provide resources.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. Let me explain these a little more for the remainder of this post.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Accelerated Innovation Through Co-Creation : o Collaborative innovation within ecosystems brings diverse perspectives and resources together, fostering the rapid co-creation of new products, services, and business models. Pooling resources with partners minimizes individual costs and risks, making large-scale innovation more sustainable.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

We work with clients to materialize their Design Thinking processes like we did with our customers at SAP , achieve their Agile product development and research operations, and implement business viability assessments based on COSTAR or Business Model Canvas. We’re looking to generate results sooner rather than later.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings. Follow along to the questions below to design a more effective innovation meeting.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is especially challenging when a company is trying to run multiple innovation projects simultaneously, but like every other company also has limited staff, resources and budget to allocate. Clear in design ( “we know roughly what the perfect solution looks like and how it needs to be configured “).

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random. Impact and Intensity becomes the new mantra.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

It needs increased agility, looks to have innovation consistently redesigned to meet different challenges and needs, it needs a better set of flexible design elements and system thinking to gain from reuse and redesign rapidly. Organizations continue to struggle with being adaptable and flexible.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Applying these principles or methodologies throughout an enterprise helps mitigate the risk of producing products or services no one wants , and allows the allocation of capital and resources to ideas that create value.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. This could include customers, partners, suppliers, or other ecosystem participants.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Problems such as climate change, health care, and social inequality that not only transcend sectoral barriers but leverage the unique strengths of those involved in resources can create more innovative and effective solutions.

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