Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Feeling trapped, break out of the box with Innovation Ecosystems We continue to fail to unlock the full potential of innovation. I continue to receive reports on the latest surveys on the management of open innovation and its progress. I asked Googles NotebookLM to provide a podcast of this series.

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Innocentive

JANUARY 23, 2018

Agile has taken over and transformed the software industry — you would be hard pressed in 2017 to find development teams who have not implemented at least some of the concepts. even corporate behemoth General Electric has gotten on board.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Open innovation (OI) can be a powerful approach for organizations to find groundbreaking ideas, develop new products and solve difficult problems. I have been involved in hundreds of open innovation projects — I have seen huge successes and, of course, many failures. Don’t Do it Once. Don’t Do it Yourself.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2019

Vincent Maret is corporate director Open Innovation at Bouygues Corp. His goal is to drive competitiveness through innovation, leveraging agile methods, fostering open innovation programs, and supporting Bouygues business units in their transformation.

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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.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 19, 2021

Open innovation often requires global teams with national culture differences to work together, which presents some challenges. The post The Secrets to Making Open Innovation Projects Work appeared first on InnovationManagement. Here’s how to navigate them.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Use Building Blocks Through Open Innovation Strategies to exploit your Ecosystem thinking and design approaches. Open Innovation Platforms and Networks: Description: Implement open innovation platforms and networks to connect with a broader ecosystem of innovators.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

Innovation ecosystems are dynamic and interconnected communities of individuals, organizations, and institutions collaborating to accelerate the development and commercialization of new ideas, products, and services. Why Embrace Innovation Ecosystems?

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2017

I was at a committee meeting recently and one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision making – the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision making” actually meant, I was informed that it meant accelerating planning by making fast decisions that did not need to be “perfect”.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

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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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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2017

He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. Knudstorp revolutionized the corporate culture. Previously the company was focused on producing very high quality old-fashioned toy products with long development cycles. References and further reading: How Lego Clicked – The Guardian.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. Working in innovation ecosystems. ” In summary.

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eZassi

JANUARY 8, 2025

Business Model Innovation is Crucial in Todays Market The rapid pace of technological change and evolving customer expectations demand constant reevaluation of traditional business models. Companies that fail to innovate risk being displaced by more agile competitors.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2024

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every business knows it needs to innovate. There is no shortage of pundits, blogs and conferences that preach the gospel of agility, disruptive innovation, open innovation, lean startups or whatever else is currently in vogue. What isn’t so clear is how to go about it.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In a world where thousands of startups emerge each year, companies looking to stay competitive need to engage actively with this innovation ecosystem. Startups often bring fresh ideas, new technologies, and agile development approaches, but identifying the right ones to collaborate with or invest in can be complex.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What are open innovation hubs? Startup, Corporate Venture, Open Innovation Hubs: who is who in the world of digital transformation. It is in this context that terminologies such as Startup, Corporate Venture and Open Innovation Hubs arise. Open innovation hubs. After all, what is a Startup?

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IdeaConnection

APRIL 20, 2018

The Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer aims to provide an agile, open environment where ideas can flourish and be turned into marketable products. It will be somewhere customers, incubators, startups, universities, SMEs and other partners can innovate together in a shared space.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 21, 2023

Ecosystem thinking is becoming central to our future as we open up to greater co-creation and collaboration opportunities, exploring broader open innovation initiatives. We need to continue to learn, simply in growing within ourselves and what we are inspired to work upon.

Innovation 195

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The collaborators are seeing the combined value and individual gain in this more open approach. Innovation emerges out of the Industrial 4.0 We need to recognize that we are increasingly becoming reliant on platforms, networks, greater connected relationships that are working collaboratively in ecosystems.

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eZassi

MARCH 11, 2025

This approach allows corporations to enhance their innovation capabilities, foster partnerships with agile startups, and gain competitive advantages in rapidly evolving markets. Through CVC, corporations can diversify their innovation efforts, mitigate risks, and stay agile in an uncertain business environment.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. Every time we begin to call on innovation, we face negative forces.

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Innovation Innovation Programs Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Every business knows it needs to innovate. There is no shortage of pundits, blogs and conferences that preach the gospel of agility, disruptive innovation, open innovation, lean startups or whatever else is currently in vogue. What isn’t so clear is how to go about it. It can all be overwhelming.

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LEAN Conference Agile Management 93

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. However, recently there have been a number of startups providing a software solution to enable companies to set up innovation challenges, have thousands of people submit their ideas, and then evaluate and manage these ideas in a more structured way.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Many are applied today but the recognition of the leveraging of speed, scale and impact this needs to bring brings these into a sharper focus to resolve : Agile Innovation Processes: Rapid ideation, prototyping, and iteration cycles enabled by generative AI will demand more flexible, adaptive innovation processes.

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Imaginatik

APRIL 7, 2017

These VENs are a specialized form of the topic of ‘open innovation’ that we’ve described in previous blogs. The VENs value-add to the ‘open innovation’ movement is that pools of experts do not need to register and be vetted multiple times for each large corporate innovation initiative.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Let’s talk about open innovation. There are a few different definitions of open innovation out there, could you tell us how you see it at Accel IQ? These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Currently, a lot of companies have a lot of programs that provide some aspect of innovation. This could be a brainstorming group, an incubator, a market research team that conducts ethnography, an open innovation scouting team, or other innovation activities or components.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

By breaking down barriers to participation, crowdsourcing helps organizations tap into a wealth of collective intelligence while driving faster and more agile innovation. By engaging employees, customers, and external experts, companies can access innovative solutions that drive efficiency and growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we share more data, we are breakng down organization silo’s and achieve far more comprehensive overviews to identify different levels of innovation complexity. Work at being adaptive, fluid and agile, make these the constant way of working. take a look at this learning view within a comprehensive innovation framework.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Relationship management needs to keep focusing on enhancing, driving innovation and knowing how to adapt this within the whole concept. Ecosystems that ultimately produce new business models rest on a large capacity for agility within the participating organizations. No easy task.

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Innovation Collaboration Design Technical Review 241

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

Customer co-creation is becoming more co-jointly involved in innovation , gaining insights into customers’ deeper needs and preferences. It emphasizes the ability to leverage and combine existing resources, knowledge, and technologies in novel ways to drive innovation.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence Innovation 147

mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept. The 3 types of open innovation.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. Let’s talk about open-source innovation. Define Objectives: Know why you’re embracing open innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy. #2 Throw open innovation to encompass perspectives from throughout the organizations AND outside the organization. 6 Stays Agile. What’s innovative will continue to change. A 5-Step Innovation Strategy Formula. Who Needs Vision Statement Examples?

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