Humanizing Agility
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 20, 2024
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs.
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Achieving an Ecosystem AI-driven innovation engagement process
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 20, 2024
Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before. The post Achieving an Ecosystem AI-driven innovation engagement process first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.
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Innovation Ecosystems need you to engage and openly embrace?
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Why engage in changing to Innovation Ecosystems Following on from my last two posts related to recognizing the importance of Innovation Ecosystems we need to ask what makes these dynamic, interconnected and engaging, from a diverse groups perspective? It is a listening of 13 minutes but I like how it discusses this.
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HUMANISING AGILITY
ImagineNation
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an agile coach certification program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions.
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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience
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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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking
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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The future interplays between design thinking, technology and AI
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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AI-Powered Design Thinking: Accelerating Innovation and Insights
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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Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Generative AI design.
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. Innovation needs reinventing.
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Great weeks come from my significant advances in Business Ecosystem thinking and design.
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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The Dynamics within Agility.
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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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.
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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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in
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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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension
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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A New Integrated Innovation Engagement System
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. I’d love to engage on this to realize its potential.
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Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way
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.
4 Fantastic Agile Sprint Retrospective Templates
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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How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design
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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Engagement within the Energy Movement
Innovating4Energy
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Engagement in the Energy Transition Movement How do you encourage engagement? ” My fifth encouragement point was during the launch of the Innovation Center event, Dietmar Siersdorfer – the Middle East Managing Director at Siemens Energy, added a further important aspect of collaborations, engagement and celebration.
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Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration
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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Why are innovation ecosystems important?
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 10, 2024
So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems. Multiple alerts to market changes, conditions and customers’ needs can stimulate a growing adaptability and solution design, more modular or progressive in response. Greater potential for sustainability and social impact.
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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design
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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The Future of Design Thinking: Embracing AI Tools for Success
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. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.
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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking
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. Employees become mere executors of orders, leading to a lack of engagement and motivation.
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Good Marketplace design does drive bottom-up business ecosystem participation.
Ecosystems4Innovating
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Marketplace Design can drive bottom-up Ecosystem designs. Do Marketplace designs drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems? Marketplace designs can indeed drive the adoption of platforms and ecosystems. The success of any Marketplace is engagement- making it attractive to participate and contribute.
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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 9, 2023
I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.
Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.
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The building blocks of open innovation lead towards Business Ecosystems.
Paul Hobcraft
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges: Description: Design and launch innovation challenges that involve a broader network, inviting external contributors to solve specific business problems or contribute novel ideas.
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Pitch me on why Innovation Ecosystems are better than my present open innovation approach
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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Emerging Blueprint for thinking through the Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 22, 2024
The Hierarchy Of Ecosystem Needs- A Blueprint View Several vital considerations come into play in developing a blueprint to thrive and find solutions amidst growing complexity and uncertainty that argues for a different business approach, with Ecosystem thinking and design being central. Actionable Steps: Conduct regular risk assessments.
The Potential Returns of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 16, 2023
This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. This agility allows them to seize new opportunities, stay ahead of competitors, and effectively navigate uncertainties and disruptions in the business landscape.
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Design Thinking needs a Human Touch in a World of Technology and AI generative thinking
Ecosystems4Innovating
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future yet it is still the need for the human touch will still be essential. As we form more around ecosystem thinking and design, design thinking will be essential as the significant enabler to creative input.
Recommending we change to the Composable Innovation Framework
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 28, 2024
Designing a Composable Innovation Framework During May and June 2023, I worked through and concluded my thinking on why we needed to change our Innovation approach. 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.
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The planning out of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework
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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Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban and Design Sprint: how to combine agile practices and gain more efficiency
mjvinnovation
JANUARY 8, 2021
We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. The practice is very common within agile logic. When everyone knows exactly where the company wants to go and the expected quantitative results, the team’s engagement, and alignment are higher.
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The critical differences in understanding Dynamic Ecosystems.
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 11, 2024
Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Environmental Factor: Inclusivity is promoted through open collaboration platforms, events, and policies that facilitate the entry and engagement of diverse participants.
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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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PI Planning in Agile: Boosting Efficiency with Flow Metrics
Planview
OCTOBER 6, 2022
PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile? Challenges to Efficient PI Planning in Agile.
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Making Agility Compatible For You
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. We all need to seek out that badge of “agility”.
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Breaking Down Complexity to allow Dynamic Ecosystems for Innovation.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 13, 2024
This requires all businesses to face rapidly changing business environments to design their response rates and abilities to react differently. In any future design we can’t continue to behave in linear ways. How radical will this be? If you can begin to identify complexity that hampers effectiveness, you can start to remove it.
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Legacy Innovation Group
APRIL 1, 2019
Images and Metaphors — Finding the Right Agile Organization Design. Mid–sized and larger organizations often struggle immensely with finding an organization design that allows them to grow and stay agile at the same time. Agile organizations display equal shares of balance and structure. There are many.
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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 9, 2024
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. Design thinking: Design thinking is another methodology that is gaining traction in innovation.
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Cultivating Success: Exploring the Link Between Organizational Culture and Business Performance
Leapfrogging
APRIL 3, 2024
A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.
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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design
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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