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”.

Agile 100

Agile LEAN Exercises Management 100

Planview

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization. If you didn’t get to attend these engaging sessions, read on to get the scoop! Becoming Agile and Beyond. How to Build High-Performing Agile Teams.

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Agile LEAN Roadmap Meeting 98

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The growing concerns of several intertwined issues need addressing as they will initiate a significant change to the Business and how it operates and presents itself to the world. Agility Innovation. A critical assessment of the present business and how it will “project” into the future is needed.

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Disruption Meeting Resources Engagement 312

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

After months of testing online event tech and virtual platforms, connecting with members, and getting advice from peer organizations, it became apparent that online events were presenting new challenges for the meetings industry. Overcoming challenges.

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Conference Meeting Brainstorming Agile 286

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. You want someone with a proven track record of success in innovation and the ability to communicate complex concepts in an engaging manner.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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.

Engagement 114

Engagement ChatGPT Innovation Open Innovation 114

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

We are presently facing a profound set of changes in the conditions that businesses operate within in the immediate years ahead, that of the fear of business contagion; these will need a different set of innovation shifts and responses to counter this and seize new opportunities. Business contagion requires different innovative responses.

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Agile Innovation Change Disruption 219

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Innovation impacts new thinking, ideas, concepts, and ways to present something new. Legacy systems plague the ability to break out of our present traps of silos. It is all about the translation points in innovation guidance and finding the time to engage with the external catalyst of innovation understanding. That is my place.

Innovation 242

Innovation Agile Learning System 242

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Yet moving from the present position of offering specific products and services into a collaborating one, where they are part of an ecosystem of partners that are ‘connecting experience’ as against discrete products built on delivering totally different value propositions for the ultimate consumer is a highly daunting challenge.

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Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This doesn’t mean you need a history in the same field — alongside presenting your hard and soft skills, your transferable skills can show why you are a good fit for the role. You’ll generally find the jobs which build EQ are those that see you engaging closely with other people. Adaptability and Agility. Conclusion.

Creativity 221

Creativity Agile Creative Thinking Tips 221

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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. Making the innovation case in a well-structured process gives greater opportunity for identification and realization. To find out more contact me.

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Innovation Analysis Guidelines Project 322

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

If we remain in our present states, then what I suggest as a ‘frozen state’ remains, we default back to what we know, based more on repeating patterns, believing everything is orderly based on efficiency, effectiveness, and doing what is necessary to manage daily. So to name a few: We need to firstly unfreeze. But keep reiterating like mad.

Creativity 257

Creativity Learning Change Training 257

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Equally nearly all our larger business organizations are still locked in the past, or attempting to catch up to the present but in random ways. It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile. Can we go that route in our organization design?

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Innovation Design Agile System 179

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2020

It involves planning along with engagement and enactment; it encourages agility. Investing in a mapping of your innovation fitness landscape can significantly contribute to this understanding and advance organizational performance in the critical areas that offer it present and future value.

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Resources Innovation Agile Management 212

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have. We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. There is a real need for a new conceptual innovation framework. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality.

Design 209

Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 209

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them. For some time we have recognized the present innovating was simply not working. Our present poor performance in growth lies often within our existing innovation systems and their design. Impact and Intensity become the new mantra.

Innovation 300

Innovation Design Collaboration Roadmap 300

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. We often need to approach change in a non-linear fashion as no recognized patterns or present system approaches or behaviours work. There are many interconnected (constantly moving) parts.

Innovation 190

Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 190

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Creative thinking exercises help alleviate the difficulty of engagement and stagnation when innovating and allow people to think outside the box. Brainwriting.

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Exercises Creativity Creative Thinking Innovation 243

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.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 183

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

In this post I want to explore the potential returns I feel are gained from adopting this “ Final Perspective, the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework” following my recommendation that innovation needs to change, to embrace and adopt a new view of the Innovation Management process to change our present thinking.

Agile 183

Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 183

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Within two posts, I want to provide my outcomes, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, in my opinion urgently needed. The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks.

Design Thinking 239

Design Thinking Design Creativity Training 239

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

Change 174

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 174

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.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

Traditional approaches to innovation, often isolated and siloed within a single organization, may not be sufficient in addressing the complex challenges and opportunities presented by the modern business environment. What are Innovation Ecosystems?

Competition 174

Competition Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 174

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.

Agile 52

Agile Creativity Change Learning 52

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. What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have. Clear strategy leadership, a different organisational culture but with an emphasis more on partner engagement.

Technical Review 209

Technical Review Innovation Software Review Design 209

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

They gave fragmented insights for the future, much seemed to be retrospective and caught in the present or simply trying to catch up. We are seeing the converge at present but how will these diverge is going to challenge institutions, governments, our present national borders and where and how we live.

Industry 238

Industry Disruption Technology Data 238

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It is where there are engagements in deeper meaning and relationship growing, that can only emerge from sharing perspectives. We have two perspectives for this community to thrive in, the insiders working within a business like Siemens, and those outside, looking in, mutually engaging. There are no easy answers.

Engagement 235

Engagement Groups Industry CTO 235

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 5, 2021

I'll present my case and let you be the judge. COVID has reset the operating model for many businesses, sending many people to work from home, where they have less engagement with a broad assortment of people from different functions, so they tend to work primarily with their small work teams, again limiting experiences and breadth.

Underperforming Technical Team 218

Underperforming Technical Team Data Agile Analysis 218

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2020

I wanted to go back to one of my favorite frameworks, the Cynefin framework for partly thinking through the “ known-unknown-unknowable ” in our present world. In any chaotic situation, as we presently are, the overriding need is to stabilize and determine the constraints to quickly establish some level of order.

System 230

System Change Management Analysis 230

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

It presents an idea, a concept, a prototype, a piece of knowledge that provides the catalyst to be exploited in a broader community as the next step and so on. This is where the engagement from the top of the organization becomes pivotal. It cascades. It is where we fit understanding and fresh knowledge within the innovation web.

Innovation 246

Innovation Engagement Resources Strategy 246

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I set out to engage 100% in innovation work, it has been quiet a journey of discovery and then translating the parts. Agility Innovation Specialists. Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation. Many executives engaged in innovation are time-starved. Its areas of focus: [link].

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Innovation Engagement Collaboration Agile 154

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 17, 2022

We are all struggling to transform ourselves in our business to reflect the current economic difficulties we all presently seem to be facing including shortages, disruptions, and dealing with inflation and economic downturns and massive climate change challenges. the art of building Agility into your innovative thinking and approaches.

Agile 183

Agile Design Change Resources 183

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Technology Scouting and External Technology Integration: Description: Engage in technology scouting to identify cutting-edge innovations externally.

Open Innovation 148

Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration Design 148

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

70% of Open Nation’s Presenters are Women. The Wolters Kluwer Presentation. We’ve got some truly innovative companies hosting us this year: Fictiv has been described as the “AirBnB of Manufacturing” where you can rapidly prototype using 3D printing and agile together. And Cloudflare is the leader in online security.

Crowdsourcing 133

Crowdsourcing Ideation Agile Innovation Management 133

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The efforts to extract efficiency and effectiveness from operations, supporting services and customer engagements to track productivity, do the same efforts and management focus go into innovation? Innovation will be central to this; it will be based more on agility, being highly adaptable, flexible and acting at speed.

Innovation 190

Innovation Design System Software 190

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Past experience can be enough to assist complicated but complex becomes more problematical as it is ambiguous, uncertain and presents a uniqueness in its challenges. It needs to be more agile and flexible. Hierarchy and delegation are flattening out and seeking engagement. how can we reverse engineer scaling up?

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Innovation Software Review Design Engagement 222