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”.

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Agile LEAN Exercises Management 100

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. Applying some of our learnings from 2020, we are experimenting with a new model in 2021.

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Conference Meeting Brainstorming Agile 286

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are all presently learning a new practice. We need to ditch much of the endeavors that make up a legacy of past practice, and think forward, to which the term next practice becomes the learning spot. Agility, adaptability & innovation. Agile product development. Theory Y management. Enterprise Architecture.

Learning 163

Learning System Agile Competition 163

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It is identifying the critical capabilities and being adept and agile enough in learning from these, to embed them into the changing culture. We are having to adjust our learning to have increased levels of higher human-centered approaches, through exploiting design thinking, to learn and adapt.

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Design Thinking Collaboration Design Radical Innovation 283

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Embracing Failure and Learning A culture that accepts failure as a stepping stone to success is more likely to innovate effectively.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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.

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Creativity Learning Change Training 257

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

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

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The structure of our business today cannot afford to try and stand alone, it needs to extend beyond its traditional supporting partners, it needs to learn to collaborate with a whole new range of partners, even some previously competitors, to radically adapt to the different world we live in.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. 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

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 5, 2021

I'll present my case and let you be the judge. While using a generalist is less efficient, the generalist brings several things to bear that specialists often lack: - Bring experience or knowledge from other industries or functions - today, we can get a lot of learning from other people, functions, businesses or industries.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Agile Analysis 218

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

The most impressive presentation I reviewed in 2017 was the one from Munich Re, held on 21st November 2017 under their investor day event. It is so refreshing to see how Munich Re are venturing out, exploring and exploiting in multiple ways to learn a new innovation pathway. This updating is in sales, retention and service outlooks.

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Innovation Technical Review Industry Agile 82

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.

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Agile Creativity Change Learning 52

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 sobers us all up until we can find those excuses to go on another innovation ‘bender’ that allows us to personally learn more but then face this return back inside.

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Innovation Design Agile System 179

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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. We have the constant need to “refresh, rebuild and redesign” many of those innovation parts as we learn we change and improve.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Roadmap 300

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.

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System Change Management Analysis 230

CMOE

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The leaders at each of these levels perform different duties, but no matter where you sit in the organization, agile thinking matters. The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies. Simply endeavoring to implement the agile process will not suffice.

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Agile Company How To Technical Review 78

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I think of the Gartner Hype Cycle here as we have gone through each of the stages of recognition of the application and the learning from this; we have the innovation triggers first, then a peak or inflated expectations, followed by troughs of disillusionment and finally by the slope of enlightenment, to give a new plateau of productivity.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 183

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2017

We lack the agility and flexibility to respond to what this all means in both its implications and potential, for sensing and seizing new value creation from understanding this. It is going to be through greater collaboration, sharing and exchanging we can learn a new form of ’emerging’ management practice.

Management 164

Management Learning Collaboration Agile 164

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2023

White-collar workers might be especially vulnerable in the short-term.The speed of this adoption presents an opportunity for companies to step up their pace of innovation, however — and if enough companies to go on offensive, then we won’t have to worry about AI unemployment.

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Company Agile Artificial Inteligence Innovation 145

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This shift presents a unique opportunity for SMEs, whose inherent agility gives them an edge in adopting and innovating with AI. Generative AI has the potential to close content, insight, and technology gaps that large corporations typically have over their smaller counterparts.

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Generative AI Company Agile Video 131

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Organizations have learned what can work remotely and what can’t and are applying those lessons to post-pandemic work design over the last year. However, innovation strategists and departments will likely be called in to help determine the most effective schedules and policies as we learn every workplace and culture truly is different.

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Meeting Policies System Conference 244

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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LEAN Industry Learning Analysis 196

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I concluded ” There is a lot to learn and understand in exploring the approaches that the Chinese are taking in their thinking about what makes their Ecosystems and Platforms work. Yet will the present “way of life” constantly need to build scale and deliver momentum-changing forces that propel China onto the world?

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Disruption Innovation Technology Creativity 291

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The structure of our business today cannot afford to try and stand alone, it needs to extend beyond its traditional supporting partners, it needs to learn to collaborate with a whole new range of partners, even some previously competitors, to radically adapt to the different world we live in.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It needs to have established the key dependency decisions, the honest assessment of the key aspects in the likelihood of success by determining the milestones to identify and move towards, the critical spotting of the gaps in critical competencies that are present today. These need to be recognized as constantly fluid, adaptive and agile.

Innovation 208

Innovation Design Collaboration Agile 208

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.

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Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 183

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have. Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking.

Design 209

Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 209

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need to approach innovation differently through connected agility, have speed and automation more central, and provide roles for a great diverse set of participants. The concept revolves around breaking innovation into modular building blocks, enabling organisations to achieve greater agility and efficiency in their innovation efforts.

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Software Review Software Innovation Design 246

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. It is how we connect, learn and share information will lead to fresh insights and new discoveries. Being fully connected-up will teach us to be adaptive, agile and alert.

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Industry Disruption Technology Data 238

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 Design Innovation 213

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.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Agile Innovation Management 133

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It advocates: Determine a Use Case for the new technology or approach Train people to be more proficient users of the new technology Start small - find small successes This advice was true for the following list of management concepts: ERP Lean Agile Six Sigma Doing business on the internet and I suspect many, many more.

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Training Innovation Tools LEAN 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

MARCH 23, 2019

Sopheon is delivering the right “on-market” message that they “provide support for speed, agility, and adaptability – all critical enterprise capabilities in the digital era” They are claiming they are actively building business partner ecosystems. The nature of the present constraints.

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Innovation Management Management Software Review Software 200

ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. Intentional change and learning.

Learning 69

Learning Change Agile Leadership 69

Digital Tonto

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Businesses need to internalize new technologies like AI and adapt to new realities like hybrid work, but still struggle to adopt decades old skills related to lean manufacturing, agile development and cultural competency. Yet to be effective, we have to put that learning to work. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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Change LEAN Tips Agile 126