Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2025

This approach to business ecosystems fosters continuous innovation and works towards lasting competitive advantage through its interconnected parts. There is a boundless potential of applying the interconnected ecosystem design so it can radically reshape and define continuous innovation, customer-centricity and enduring market leadership.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? 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.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 11, 2025

Is the horizon the past or the future in innovation dynamism? Innovation has entered its death spiral as many have known it. I mean it, innovation is starved, bleeding from a lack of resources, finances and top leadership resolve. Lets start by defining innovation ecosystems.

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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

The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. Innovation often involves uncertainty. What is the Experiment Canvas?

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

But heres the uncomfortable truth: you can never prove your innovation will succeed. The Futility of Proof in Innovation Why is it impossible to prove an innovation will succeed? Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. Innovation requires the same humility.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2025

Key characteristics include adaptability, collaboration, resilience and continuous innovation, driven by network effects and decentralized decision-making. The emphasis is on agile governance, ecosystem sensing, knowledge sharing and human exchanges.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

(This is guest post by Alejandra Gonzalez , a seasoned business model strategist, product owner, and innovation coach. In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. For the company where I worked, that was far too long and risky.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The building always the Innovation Business Case offers a unique approach to tackle one of the real problem areas within innovation- making the case compelling. One of the toughest aspects within Innovation is making the Business Case. It is no different for understanding your innovation fitness.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Feeling trapped, break out of the box with Innovation Ecosystems We continue to fail to unlock the full potential of innovation. I continue to receive reports on the latest surveys on the management of open innovation and its progress. We are trapped in a ever decreasing cycle.

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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

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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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Innovation party: Cooking up new ideas and exploring cutting-edge solutions. Is it innovation, syncing up on strategy, or crafting killer business plans? 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.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Central to investing and exploring innovation, leveraging network effects, capitalizing on synergies and diversities to deliver into decision making the best options and value. Dynamic ecosystems are not just about collaboration and innovation; they are also about creating value for the entire ecosystem.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

For example, Teslas pioneering work in the electric vehicle market has allowed it to dominate EV technology, build a robust charging network, and benefit from the learning curve in battery technology innovation. The following steps outline a structured approach to harnessing this advantage: 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. We need to shift our innovative thinking from static to dynamic.

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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. Through regular use, the Context Map Canvas becomes a living reference that supports strategic foresight and adaptive innovation. What is Context Map Canvas?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency. Traditionally used in manufacturing and operations to track metrics like production time, cost efficiency, and quality, benchmarking has evolved into a broader innovation and strategy tool.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Innovation Rate Anything fresh on the menu lately? For a deeper dive, see how to marry business strategy and innovation. Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. For further intel, drop by our piece on integrating innovation into planning.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. They asked customers to help design new products. Lego was an early adopter of a concept which is now all the rage in innovation circles – the minimum viable product. Collaborate to innovate. Innovative use of Video.

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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. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Innovation needs reinventing. The building out of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation. Jeffery and I go back within the innovation space a long way. Here is the link to the recording. We believe C.E.O’s

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The core is establishing an innovative collaboration foundation to reach dynamic collaborations across a diverse ecosystem of partners that unlocks collective prosperity. In any interconnected business ecosystem design, two pivotal components work in tandem to ensure the system’s overall health, adaptability, and success.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Often our innovation activities face the same dilemma. Innovation needs time, it needs evolution and resolution but also speeding up. The need for innovation results has sped up considerably. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Having an innovating passion. So many multiple strands constantly need to be pulled together to build a complete innovation picture. Innovation ‘speaks to us all in different ways and has multiple meanings. Innovation needs to speak to us. I like to think of myself as an innovation journeyman.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. AI can also automate repetitive tasks, allowing innovation professionals to focus on more strategic activities. Benefits of Using AI for Concept Testing Using AI for concept testing offers several advantages that can enhance your innovation management process.

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