Planview

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Agile coaches are tasked with guiding teams through complex transformations, but they must do so without the traditional power to enforce changes. The following are key roles and responsibilities that define an effective Agile coach.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. Working in the innovation space offers you the opportunity to grow and learn what this means and how it works for you.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Agile Engagement 263

Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. To minimize resistance: Foster a culture of open communication and continuous learning. Lead Successful Change Management Projects! Below are common obstacles and strategies to overcome them.

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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 Brainstorming Meeting Agile 286

Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. Get instant change processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Project Recommendations for Success Implementing Key Outcome Indicators can present certain challenges.

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Roadmap Tools Change Project 130

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By sharing, you learn and continue to build on this knowledge. You actually blend your own creation and learn from others, and that combination effect curates even greater knowledge and application. We can jump in and learn from experiments and straightforward learning, burning up our precious time and resource.

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Innovation Agile Learning Project 242

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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Idea to Value

MARCH 14, 2025

At this stage, AI is present in everyday tools and devices without the people or company knowing that it is even using AI. This integration improves efficiency and reduces the learning curve because employees do not need to switch between multiple tools. Level 1: Unaware A.I. They think there are just standard features.

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Software Review ChatGPT Underperforming Technical Team Generative AI 131

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. Becoming Agile and Beyond. The Agile track “Becoming Agile and Beyond” was focused on two main themes: Agile Program Management and Agile Transformation.

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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.

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Learning System Agile Technology 162

Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success. To minimize resistance: Foster a culture of open communication and continuous learning. Lead Successful Change Management Projects! Below are common obstacles and strategies to overcome them.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Roadmap Tools 130

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 Radical Innovation Design 282

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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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 Disruption Change 257

Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

Learn more about this in our piece on ai-powered decision making. Learn about this in our piece on ai-powered process optimization. Data visualization capabilities can present complex data sets in an easily understandable format, facilitating better decision-making. This proactive approach can save your clients time and money.

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Change Artificial Inteligence Software Review Analysis 130

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 Agile Resources Engagement 311

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 Ideation Innovation Processes Leadership 113

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.

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Collaboration Innovation Technical Review Disruption 273

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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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.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 173

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 Innovation Processes 178

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 Agile Technical Review Roadmap 82

Planview

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Our all-day executive event explored advanced strategies for digital product delivery, and leaders from companies leading the shift presented breakout sessions. Five sessions with varied organizations sharing lessons learned and advice for making the shift. We had nearly 4,400 registrants in all.

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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 Roadmap Collaboration 299

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 Innovation Agile 182

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 Learning Change 52

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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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

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.

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Management Agile Learning Collaboration 163

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

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 290

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 Innovation Disruption Technical Review 273

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 Agile Industry Analysis 195

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.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Agile 207

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 Innovation Collaboration Design 182

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 Innovation Software Design 246

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.

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Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 208