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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Design Collaboration Trends Disruption 72

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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Agile Design Report Technical Review 133

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

When we reflect on the remote work, rapid response and agility have all been tested in recent months. The shifts from the predictable to managing in (total) uncertainty required a factory of significant flexibility in design understanding, digitally prepared and physically able to be reconfigured.

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Artificial Inteligence System Industry Agile 320

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. Real-Time Insights : AI systems can process data in real-time, providing you with up-to-date insights that are crucial for making timely decisions.

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Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Data 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So little is said or discussed on changing the innovation system, it seems organizations are (really) comfortable with incremental or experimental innovation as the extent of their ambition. Here’s why you should consider transitioning from a closed internal system to a vibrant, interconnected innovation ecosystem: 1.

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Innovation Agile Open Innovation Generative AI 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2025

Get instant strategy processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Getting Started with the First Mover Advantage To successfully capture first mover advantage, organizations must plan meticulously and execute with agility. The following steps outline a structured approach to harnessing this advantage: 1.

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Roadmap 130

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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Design Collaboration Roadmap Agile 182

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

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. To maximize the benefits of AI, it’s essential to foster collaboration between AI systems and human teams.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Innovation Management 130

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. Does it make sense? Does it make sense to you?

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Engagement System Innovation Design 205

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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Design Thinking Design Agile Culture 156

Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. What tools or systems will track data? Increase online sales conversion rate by 5% through improved website UX design. Stay agile and adjust SMART Metrics based on real-time performance data.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 130

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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Generative AI Design Innovation Innovation Processes 162

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. It is the dynamics within the innovation system that can make it transformational.

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System Innovation Design Resources 147

Leapfrogging

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.

Agile 130

Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 130

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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Design Innovation Agile Collaboration 138

Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. T ime-bound Designed for a specific timeframe (e.g., Foster a Culture of Accountability and Learning A strong OKR system promotes ownership, responsibility, and continuous improvement. Agile Planning Frameworks – Ensures adaptability and continuous iteration.

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Strategy Strategy Software Review Technical Review 130

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. Applying Design Thinking to Schizophrenia Care.

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Design Thinking Design Examples Agile 108

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.

Design 130

Design Creativity Agile Radical Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Software Review Innovation Software Design 246

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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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

A well-designed contingency plan should: Identify potential risks and disruptions that could impact the business. For example, Microsofts contingency planning includes : Cloud-based disaster recovery systems. Disaster recovery plans Restoring IT systems and data. Assign roles and responsibilities to ensure effective execution.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

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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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2020

I was pondering some thoughts around the quest for growth, the demands for change, and the need to become nimble, agile, and more dynamic in what we do. If we don’t change these all the energy as individuals, we deploy to be seen and valued as nimble, fluid, and agile have such limiting impact. So I started to think a little more.

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Change Agile Innovation System 265

Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

Workforce: AI systems operate independently, handling tasks traditionally done by humans. Real-World Example: Many regional manufacturing companies continue to rely on paper-based systems and manual quality checks, missing opportunities for automation and efficiency gains. Level 6: A.I.-driven Level 7: Autonomous A.I.

Software Review 131

Software Review ChatGPT Underperforming Technical Team Generative AI 131

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. Designing the complete rapid innovation application process. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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Innovation Processes Innovation LEAN Agile 206

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

For example, Amazon prioritizes Operational Excellence by offering low-cost, fast delivery through its advanced logistics and supply chain systems, while Apple focuses on Product Leadership with continuous innovation in its technology ecosystem. Prioritizes agility, experimentation, and early adoption of trends.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Leadership Competition 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What condition of ‘readiness’ in design, capabilities and capacity4. These form the ‘way forward’ in discussions, resolution and design. This approach we take offers a comprehensive solution to the innovation business case and its methodology and it belongs to its owners Agility Innovation Specialists.

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Innovation Guidelines Analysis Agile 321

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. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Often we forget to reinforce the very design within our organizational structures, we leave role structures incomplete and uncertain, or we always seem to be changing them, before they have had any real chance to ‘form and storm.’ It can’t solve complicated product design solutions in thirteen weeks.

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Innovation Design Creativity System 253

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 systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business.

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Change Innovation Design Collaboration 162

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.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

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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System Design Innovation Data 191

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation, yet already we’ve seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working systems, more targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and more acceptance of mobile and web apps as productivity tools.

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Meeting Policies System Conference 244

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process. Most of our organizations today, really lag on this engagement, let alone on building a more adaptive and agile innovation process being ‘fed’ by the technology solutions we have available to us today.

Technology 178

Technology Change Innovation Agile 178

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. coming from industry 4.0

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Industry Innovation Collaboration Design 222

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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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Design Thinking 113