Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

By embracing the impossibility of proof, you open the door to a more agile, efficient, and ultimately successful innovation process. Its to discover an idea that becomes great through careful refinement and real-world validation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This shared risk allows for bolder experimentation and innovation, as the potential downsides are not borne by a single entity. This dynamic interaction fosters a virtuous cycle where innovation begets more innovation, creating a continuously evolving and expanding ecosystem.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It paves the way for adopting methodologies, like the lean startup methodology, that streamline and enhance the innovation process. 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.

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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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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

For us, Agile still operates very well at the end of the innovation process – where it needs to be. The post The end of Agile? No, quite the opposite appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process. The post Shifting gears between design thinking, lean startup, and agile appeared first on Board of Innovation. Continue reading.

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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. Craving more on meshing business plans with innovation? That’s agility.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Adventurous as the word innovation may sound, an innovation consultant’s job consists for a large part in de-risking the innovation process. The post Shifting gears between design thinking, lean startup, and agile appeared first on Board of Innovation. Continue reading.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We need to get closer to ‘real-time’ This reliance on rapidly out-of-date understanding cannot be the basis for any justifications for high-stake bets when it comes to innovation. 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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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform development using the innovation stack, and supporting the innovation stack with a platform.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model. This is a great mode that I constantly refer back to with my clients, to convince them to think about innovation beyond product innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We need to design our systems to be highly agile.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Enable Autonomous Innovation Processes : With advancements in self-supervised learning and few-shot adaptation, generative AI could eventually handle end-to-end innovation workflows with limited human intervention. This could revolutionize the speed, scale, and adaptability of the innovation process itself.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Ideation Agile 147

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. It suggests that this framework offers a solution to the challenges and complexities of innovation management.

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Software Review Innovation Software Design 246

Innovation Excellence

MAY 2, 2019

Everyone is talking about how to speed up their innovation process. And with good reason… Starts-ups and digital business models are proving over and over again that they are winning at the innovation game. Or, at least make it more efficient. It is the current hot topic, especially amongst the multinational Goliaths.

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Idea Drop

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile. These are: Exploring innovation through more facilitated conversations and investigation designing pathways, roadmaps, blueprints and recognizing pattern recognition. Exploring and Aligning.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Everyone is talking about how to speed up their innovation process. And with good reason… Starts-ups and digital business models are proving over and over again that they are winning at the innovation game. Or, at least make it more efficient. It is the current hot topic, especially amongst the multinational Goliaths.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Agile innovation is transforming how companies develop new products and services, fostering a culture of flexibility, speed, and customer-centricity. As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, understanding and implementing agile innovation can be the key to staying ahead. What is Agile Innovation?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2024

These are the critical reasons we need a radical change in our innovation approaches We have been in very static, traditional approaches to innovation, very segmented and often insular. Using modular components allows organisations to experiment, learn from failures, and optimise their innovation efforts continuously.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The innovation process is constantly evolving. Companies that achieve innovation maturity demonstrate greater agility. According to an MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte’s fifth annual study of digital business, 81% of organizations site innovation as one of their strengths.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation. A new cycle of innovation. Innovation is seemingly more complex today.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Strategies for Reverse Innovation To successfully implement reverse innovation, companies need a strategic approach that prioritizes understanding local needs, embracing frugality, leveraging local expertise, and maintaining agility. Empower local teams: Allow local teams to lead the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

So, how do we undertake this need to think through and recognize a new innovative way of discovery. Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery.

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Engagement Generative AI Innovation Collaboration 162

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For me, the last six months or so I have been spending increasing time working with ChatGPT to gain different ways to look at focus areas I spend in advising and mentoring and where innovation links into my different work. I am going into new versions of PAH-1 , but let me share this opening design for AI-driven innovation.

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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. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For more on blending these techy tools into your strategy, take a look at our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. This throws light on fresh innovation chances. Go Agile : Embrace a get-and-go approach for quick tweaks and turns.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Artificial Inteligence 113

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, the need to bring the innovation management process is a constant technological advancement. We cannot afford to avoid changing our innovation processes as we deal with a far more complex and challenging world. Why change?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out connecting business strategy and the innovation process. Bringing change into your business isn’t a cakewalk, but with a good grip on why resistance happens and a sharp plan for keeping tabs on progress, you can turn innovation into a driving force.

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ITONICS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Once again, the Innovation Alliance successfully trained employees as Agile Innovation Managers. The participants furthermore learned all about the most recent and effective innovation tools alongside the whole innovation process. Innovation Alliance c/o ITONICS GmbH. From Opportunities To Ideas.

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