InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Explore examples of how design thinking and human-centered design has led to innovation in healthcare. Healthcare is one industry among many that can benefit from innovative thinking and human-centered design principles. Using Agile Thinking to Keep Hospitals Aligned. Image Courtesy of IDEO.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. Here’s how design thinking breaks down: Empathize: Get cozy with your customers’ needs and woes. Using combos like design thinking and SWOT ensures that innovation isn’t floating by itself.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking. Then I went into System Thinking.

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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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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. The five main stages of the design thinking process can create better experiences for our stakeholders.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Historically, companies may have used systems like suggestion boxes or an email address where people could send their ideas, but more often than not, the ideas sent in didn’t go anywhere, leading to frustration in both the leadership (who could not organise and evaluate ideas) and the people who submitted them.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This demonstrates the importance of independence to brainstorming and how online whiteboards can promote new techniques that achieve independence and free-thinking. Design Thinking. Design thinking is one of the most popular exercises for creatives everywhere and can be easily applied to brainstorming sessions as well.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Optimize Product and Process Design : Generative AI can be used to procedurally generate and iterate on product designs, manufacturing processes, supply chains, and other complex systems. This can enable rapid experimentation, identify optimal configurations, and uncover novel design approaches.

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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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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For more on similar topics, mosey on over to our article on how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process. Cloud Computing : Use cloud systems for IT setups that grow and shift with you. Quick Reflexes (Agility): Ever seen a cat dodge a falling vase? That’s agility.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

constrained by the current often disjointed innovation system and design they have adopted, built in piecemeal fashion over the years. 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.

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Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 208

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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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As AI and sophisticated systems become the norm, it’s essential for organizations to retain their creative spirit, agility, and grit. Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. Don’t let your tech stack undermine your agility.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

We need an Innovation Mandate calling for a Radical Re-design of how we undertake innovation management, it is needed to bring innovation management into the 21st century in design and approaches. By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check the Score : Put systems in place to see how your innovative ventures are paying off. The Feedback Loop : Set up a system to catch insights from your clients, team, and others involved. Go Agile : Embrace a get-and-go approach for quick tweaks and turns. Hit up events, dive into workshops, and get your team on board too.

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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. This initiative focused on returning to true agile principles with comprehensive training and modern development practices.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. People are afraid of challenging the status quo if they do not feel psychological safety.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. Implement a CRM system: A customer relationship management (CRM) system can help you keep track of leads, sales, and customer interactions, which is crucial for understanding your sales pipeline and identifying areas for improvement.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We often need to approach change in a non-linear fashion as no recognized patterns or present system approaches or behaviours work. ” In summary.

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Innovation Agile Design Collaboration 189

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. We hang on to all the legacies built up around the existing innovation system , we manage innovation in efficient and predictable ways.

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When you think we are on a roll, we are making that transformation in technology, systems, new organizational designs, you are suddenly stopped in your tracks. We still struggle with resolving legacy in our systems, processes, factories so we lose the ability to really advance and gain true connectivity.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. ” It moves from systems to ecosystems of innovation activity. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality. What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have.

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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. Recognizing different system theories.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Feedback Loops: Establish feedback loops with stakeholders, users, and the AI system itself to refine and improve the generative thinking process over time. I do believe the principles of design thinking, agile development, ecosystem thinking and design coupled with AI integration offer a radically exciting new innovation approach.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Then, we have the investments in structures, systems, and governance , making sure these are flexible and robust enough to make what we work upon, as r esponsive, agile, adaptive, exploitative and exploratory. These are the foundation to build innovation capacities.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Yesterday I did a release of a collaborative “flyer” on “ Unlocking Value Through Partner Systems “ So it has been a well-focused time but I thought I should complete one more “backward glance” before I move forward. Address Risks: Identify potential obstacles (e.g.,

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Thriving Network Effects and Synergies : Dynamic ecosystems thrive on network effects, where the value of the system increases as more participants join, collaborate, and share resources. ​ They foster a culture of curiosity, exploration, and a willingness to learn from both successes and failures.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Often this reluctance to dispose of these old systems, processes and inadequate frameworks is holding innovation back. Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? Well you should! We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

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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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Cris Beswick

JULY 10, 2024

To write the book, my co-authors and I combined years of expertise in innovation strategy, design thinking, culture change, employee engagement, and leadership development to create the six-stage approach for embedding innovation capability throughout an organisation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Implementing OpenTable’s online reservation system was a huge challenge. To get the reservation systems into as many restaurants as possible, the OpenTable team would order internet service on behalf of the restaurant, pickup and deliver the equipment on the back of mopeds, and then run cables across the ceiling.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Often this reluctance to dispose of these old systems, processes and inadequate frameworks is holding innovation back. Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? Well you should! We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” One where we are capable of designing and engineering far more so as to deliver and have a more desirable end.

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