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. Moving an idea into a mainstream activity is one of the hardest aspects to achieve. To find out more contact me.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As such, these positions tend to require and develop problem-solving abilities — finding ways to use limited resources to make a positive impact. Adaptability and Agility. Your best way to avoid this is to cultivate adaptability and agility. So, are there jobs that are innately geared toward developing adaptability and agility?

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Creativity Agile Creative Thinking Tips 221

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 18, 2021

These benefits add up to more speed, more agility, clearer flexibility resulting in new, relevant products and services that can increase organic growth and provide solutions that differentiate you. We believe C.E.O’s ’s and senior executives play a vital role in the success or failure of innovation.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Organizations that lack the business agility to pivot could risk falling behind and losing their competitive edge. Inflexibility can lead to wasted resources, missed opportunities, and strategic drift, among other issues. What’s important is your ability to identify when to course correct and successfully execute pivots.

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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 platform enables organisations to connect different stakeholders, leverage external resources and facilitate the exchange of ideas and solutions.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 9, 2020

Getting them to allocate time and resource to new product projects proved difficult. ‘We Sales of current products and services were funding the payroll so they had to be protected with precious resources. The CEO gave a rousing and inspiring speech about our vision for innovation and agility. ‘Why mess with success?’

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2020

I was pondering some thoughts around the quest for growth, the demands for change, and the need to become nimble, agile, and more dynamic in what we do. We seem in ‘ pursuit of destruction ,’ and arguably, this is wrong on a planet of limited resources. Now that is dangerous as it takes us off our ‘chosen’ treadmill of pursuit.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Is it the right “mindset” or are we expending resources, precious ones because we are chasing the wrong metrics? the art of building Agility into your innovative thinking and approaches. Technology that connects and combines people and intelligence offer a real path to manage with speed, scale and agility.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2020

In contrast, dynamic capabilities are those higher-level competencies that determine a firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure both the resources and skills to possibly shape, they have the power to transform, and then be deployed to meet rapidly changing business environments, to take advantage of these changing conditions.

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Resources Innovation Agile Management 212

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. It’s not far-fetched to foresee a future marketplace where the depth of corporate resources is not the unequivocal determinant of success.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

They foster open innovation, where participants share knowledge and resources freely, leading to exponential growth in the generation and implementation of innovative solutions. Accelerated Time-to-Market: Shorter development cycles can be achieved through shared resources, expertise, and streamlined processes.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Talent acquisition and retention have become critical, especially for small businesses competing with large corporations with greater resources. Amassing an array of perspectives and talents helps cover individual weaknesses and blind spots, and cultivates workforce agility and adaptability. Power of diversity. Make it meaningful.

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Engagement Agile Report Resources 246

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The 3H can help tackle complex problems and draw out the future intent on sustainability; in its planning, resource allocations and skill gap identification to build capabilities and capacities to be ‘future-ready. Agility Innovation. We need to map the sustainability pathway across the three horizons.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We can jump in and learn from experiments and straightforward learning, burning up our precious time and resource. The strands that give me my personal energy and passion lie in work around agility, how innovation fits, relating this to the energy, and digital transformations, or the work-still-to-be-done , often termed the future of work.

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Faisal Hoque

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Agility has become the new organization currency in the age of AI. Agility, by definition, is an organization’s response to change and challenges driven by macro- and microeconomic conditions. BUSINESS AGILITY INDEX In a follow-on study conducted by my team in 2010, publicly traded U.S. We called this the Business Agility Index.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2024

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 platform enables organisations to connect different stakeholders, leverage external resources and facilitate the exchange of ideas and solutions.

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Change Innovation Design Collaboration 163

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are using agile methodologies to rapidly test and iterate on ideas, keeping up with the pace of change and market demands. This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

The direction you go requires the organizational focus to build the type of capabilities, resources, and processes to match this. Creating clear goals and linking/aligning innovation to those more agile strategies is a vital step before you get into the actual innovation concept stage.

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Learning Innovation Leadership Strategy 246

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. Environmental Factor: Facilitating easy connectivity, knowledge-sharing platforms, and mechanisms for resource exchange enhance the network effects within the ecosystem.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To work through these we are all being asked to transform but there has to be a clear end, a return for all this energy and resources it requires, that we are being asked to spend? We are facing tough challenges within the business world. How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Agile Adoption of External Innovations: Description: Adopt an agile approach to assimilating external innovations. By leveraging external resources, companies can reduce time-to-market for innovative products and services. Solicit feedback, preferences, and insights to enhance product and service development.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Design 148

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

By leveraging the resources and capabilities of other organizations, the potential to scale the innovation efforts in new ways, across different channels, not open to one organization and give different levels of speed from the establishment and reputations the partners have built up in their respective markets.

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Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration Design 148

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2024

This is one of openly collaborating and co-creating in different Ecosystem structures and designs to provide a greater diversity of opinions, knowledge, and resources. Enhance Resilience and Adaptability : Ecosystems inherently promote resilience by distributing risks, sharing resources, and enabling collective adaptation to disruptions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud tools and technologies are influencing the future of data science work in two key areas: scaling resources and improving workforce agility. If organizations want to make use of these capabilities, though, they also need to develop strong data security and privacy frameworks when operating in a cloud environment.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By integrating the agility and fresh perspectives of startups, established companies can adapt more quickly to industry changes and consumer demands. These collaborations can also provide startups with valuable resources, including market access, brand credibility, and operational expertise.

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Innovation Collaboration Agile Technical Review 147

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2023

Also, what are the additional dependencies for sustaining innovation capabilities that are becoming vital to understand so an organization can place the appropriate resources behind them, build upon a sustainable future and leverage these innovation dynamics? Good resources are scarce ; how do we identify them to deliver impactful innovation?

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Innovation Resources System Agile 205

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To work through these we are all being asked to transform but there has to be a clear end, a return for all this energy and resources it requires, that we are being asked to spend? We are facing tough challenges within the business world. How and where does innovation fit will clearly depend on this transforming effect.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Managing limited resources while attempting to innovate and stay ahead of competitors. 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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This is one reason why ideas like agile and rapid sprints seem so compelling. But what about lean startup, rapid sprints, agile But aren't there entire methodologies that are meant to get to good ideas faster? Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Is it access to knowledge, markets, opinions or is it spreading risk and resource sharing or enabling the flows in knowledge, ideas, capital- what else really distinguishes it and makes it a must to have. Agility and Adaptability : Ecosystems are naturally adaptive due to their diversity and interconnectedness.

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Technical Review Innovation Policies Collaboration 140

Planview

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This blog post explores how utilizing the right mix of Agile work management solutions can boost productivity and empower product teams to achieve their goals effectively, with each tool playing a crucial role in this intricate symphony of success. The company’s strategic goal is to become a leader in the AI-driven analytics market.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Focus Areas : Market expansion Resource sharing Co-creation of products/services Distinctiveness and Value : Distinctiveness : Focuses on the interconnectedness of businesses and the strategic cooperation needed to optimize for example, market approaches, go-to-market, extending and consolidating value chains and supply networks.

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Collaboration Entrepreneurship Agile Disruption 130

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. This iterative process aligns with the lean startup methodology and agile product development practices, which emphasize flexibility and rapid iteration.

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Product Development Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 21, 2024

Unlike siloed approaches, explicit ecosystem thinking encourages organizations to tap into external expertise, share resources, and co-create solutions, leading to a more innovative culture. Agile Responses: Why Ecosystems? Ecosystems support agility. Complex Problem Solving: Why Ecosystems?

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ChatGPT Collaboration Agile Design 163

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is especially challenging when a company is trying to run multiple innovation projects simultaneously, but like every other company also has limited staff, resources and budget to allocate. The innovation will likely require a large number of iterations and changes throughout the project, requiring time and resources to complete.

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