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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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. Disruptive innovation: number of validated prototypes, learning milestones, venture partnerships.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2025

This approach redefines their role from a passive network to a responsive, intelligence-driven hub that continuously senses, learns, and guides the ecosystem. The emphasis is on agile governance, ecosystem sensing, knowledge sharing and human exchanges.

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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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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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MARCH 18, 2025

Learning Curve Benefits: First movers gain valuable market insights and operational experience that can be refined over time. 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.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A continuous learning and acquiring knowledge insights needs this rapid adaptability from the Dynamic Ecosystem. 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.

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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. Validated Learning: Lean Startup focuses on learning what customers actually want, not what you think they want, thereby reducing market risks.

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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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MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is not about imitationits about learning from others to accelerate progress, improve competitiveness, and inform strategic decision-making. Define the Scope and Objectives Begin by clarifying what you want to learn and why benchmarking is the right tool for the task. Heres a step-by-step guide to getting started: 1.

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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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MARCH 14, 2025

Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. Facilitates Continuous Learning and Improvement Encourages refinement of goals based on performance insights. Increase online sales conversion rate by 5% through improved website UX design. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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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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MARCH 27, 2025

Here are some key benefits: Personalized Learning : AI can create customized learning paths based on individual needs and preferences, ensuring that each employee receives the most relevant and effective training. Learn more about this in our section on personalized learning paths with AI.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. Encourages Continuous Learning and Adaptation Provides a feedback loop for refining strategies. T ime-bound Designed for a specific timeframe (e.g., Celebrate wins and learn from setbacks. Measure progress through quantifiable key results. quarterly, annually).

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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? Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. Facilitates Agility and Adaptation Allows businesses to pivot based on performance insights. Steps to ensure accountability: Designate KPI owners within relevant teams. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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MARCH 21, 2025

AI technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, enable you to analyze vast amounts of data quickly and accurately, uncovering patterns and insights that would be impossible to detect manually. Learn more about this in our article on personalization and targeted marketing strategies.

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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. Innovation needs reinventing.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Discovery-Driven Planning (DDP) is a strategic approach designed for uncertain, high-risk initiatives , where traditional planning methods may not be effective. Focuses on Learning and Adaptation Ensures strategies evolve based on real-world data.

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MARCH 21, 2025

By using machine learning algorithms and data analytics, AI can simulate various scenarios and predict the potential success of a concept. This leads to faster validation cycles and more agile decision-making. For best practices on integrating AI with human expertise, read our article on ai in design thinking.

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Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Innovation Management 130

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By registering you can view “on-demand” selectively or watch the whole event, explore the showrooms and simply learn, evaluate and assess what these concepts would mean for you in your own Industry 4.0 When we reflect on the remote work, rapid response and agility have all been tested in recent months.

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MARCH 20, 2025

For example, Apple uses the 3Cs framework to align customer expectations (premium, high-quality products), company strengths (design, brand loyalty, ecosystem integration), and competitor positioning (offering unique innovations that rival Samsung and Google). Create long-term value for both customers and the company.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This calls for some radical rethinking of the existing business and deciding the design of the future business. This calls for thinking through a different designed structure for the business and different skills needed. The shifting from the current state to the future designed state is no easy task.

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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

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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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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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

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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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We need to broaden out the whole process of rapid innovation application beyond the two current favorites of lean and design thinking. We need a greater innovation rapid prototype approach to the whole innovation process- test, learn, adapt, adjust, iterate, refine at speed and rapid scaling.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework lies the core, the different innovation stacks, and the learning components. Here, I want to briefly talk about the importance of the learning components that support the innovation design and especially the different innovation stacks.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the Value Disciplines Model To develop an effective strategy using the Value Disciplines Model , businesses must carefully evaluate and select their dominant discipline while ensuring minimum standards in the other two.

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MARCH 10, 2025

A well-designed contingency plan should: Identify potential risks and disruptions that could impact the business. Reviewing lessons learned from past incidents. When implemented effectively, contingency planning enables businesses to navigate crises with agility and emerge stronger in competitive markets.

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MARCH 5, 2025

The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a structured framework designed to facilitate successful organizational change. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. What are Objectives & Key Results (OKR)?

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