Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach.

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Acuvate

MARCH 4, 2019

In order to understand at what point ‘data’ transitions into being ‘big data’, and what its key elements are, it is imperative that we study the 5 Vs associated with it: Velocity, Volume, Value, Variety, and Veracity. What is Big Data. Big data volume defines the ‘amount’ of data that is produced.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These sessions can improve their understanding of AI’s impact on business operations, making them more adept at leveraging technology for strategic advantages. Skill Enhancement AI Application Decision-Making Predictive modeling and data analytics. Innovation Leadership AI-driven simulations and creativity exercises.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2018

We all in the middle of a re-orientation of our ways to undertake innovation as a process and in its design. We are building our innovation in new collaborations and diverse networks of expertise and understanding. So are you learning a new innovation language? There is this need for a new language for innovation?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 8, 2019

It seems every day there are new reports on digital transformation and innovation. At the same time I've had the honor of chairing the Innovate Carolina conference , where the theme considered the interplay of innovation and digital transformation, and I'm teaching a class at NC State on digital transformation and innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

AI technologies can automate routine tasks, analyze complex data sets, and provide insights that were previously unattainable. Whether you’re dealing with big data, customer insights, or operational inefficiencies, AI can offer tailored solutions to meet diverse business needs. Join the Consultant's Master Class!

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Since I write about innovation regularly, I often receive questions about "the future" of innovation. Who really knows anything about the future of innovation, when many of us don't fully comprehend all of the tools and activities for innovation that are available to us now. I don't think any company will have a choice.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

As a follow up to my previous post about the intersection of digital transformation and innovation , I wanted to conduct a thought experiment to illustrate why the real impact of all the impending change from digital transformation and innovation will be business model related. You be the judge.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 11, 2019

A few years ago, big data was a brand new frontier for businesses, and few could afford to leverage the technology on a large scale. Today, it’s much more accessible for companies of all sizes, and the field of big data has begun to mature.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

We are seeing a very distinctive advantage in embracing digitalization into innovation. The potential of combining digitalization and innovation insights offers significantly more potential for sustaining growth and building a greater connection into the needs of our customers. We need to digitize our innovation activities fully.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future, yet the need for the human touch will still be essential. This can lead to a radically different approach to developing innovative solutions, ones that need to consider the interplay between humans, technology, and generative AI.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming business case, for transforming the innovation management structure. The new combination is the new connections through people and things (IoT) that we can achieve a new innovation potential. Our innovation systems are lagging significantly behind.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The advice is meaningful and probably useful, conveyed thousands of times about new technologies or new approaches. For innovation and digital transformation, perhaps we should be a bit more unreasonable. The same is true for innovation. Digital Transformation First, we've skipped a step. They call it digital transformation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Yet2

JANUARY 9, 2023

As leaders in Open Innovation, at yet2 we strive to innovate ourselves. Using Big Data in our own scouting activities has been an investment we’ve been making over the few years. We believe the most important step to get right in any Big Data strategy is having access to high-quality and unique data sets.

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IdeaScale

JULY 31, 2018

Just over a decade ago, we were spending a little over $5 Billion on financial technology – today we’re spending nearly $78 Billion. Here are two reasons that the financial sector should anticipate disruption: New Technology. To learn more about innovation in the financial sector, download our complimentary infographic on the subject.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

What are Europeans loss is the UK’s gain, in being unshackled from others, not just lagging behind in digital technology and innovation but actually blocking it for the “collective union” Europe offers incredible history, the same as Asia. Let me take my area of focus – Innovation and Digital Technology.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

the digital landscape and physical technologies are growing increasingly connected. There’s a closer relationship between people, objects, devices, and the data we generate every day. uses close alignment with innovative technology to ensure that manufacturers can gain critical insights about day-to-day operations.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. We need to draw on insights, creativity but most importantly have a growing sense of the context we are thinking through to search for new ideas, concepts, and eventual new innovating solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation. Perhaps we can today.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am on a personal mission to convince innovation software providers, corporations and innovators to change how they undertake innovation. In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. ” I do think we need to restate the current barriers to innovation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 17, 2020

Is your innovation strategy built solely on creativity? As Edwin Goutier explains in a recent IdeaScale Nation podcast, Innovation is about more than being the most creative person in the room. To attain this goal, innovation is needed. Goutier’s Approach to Innovation. How Emerging Trends Drive Innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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Innovation Leader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Swiss Re Digital Catalyst Jerry Gupta discusses his approach to working with Big Data and AI, including why teams often fail when working with new technology.

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Acuvate

JUNE 28, 2019

ZDnet defines today’s digital transformation as , “using digital technologies to remake a process to become more efficient or effective. The idea is to use technology not just to replicate an existing service in a digital form, but to use technology to transform that service into something significantly better.”. 4 Big Data.

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Board of Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Belgium is a high magnetic forcefield when it comes to attracting innovation talent. Innovation touches almost every sector of this small northern European country, from fashion technology, to the famed comic book movement, to the way we use the Internet of Things to process big data at speed at one of the largest ports of.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 4, 2019

In the seven years since IBM’s Watson beat two human champions in the game show Jeopardy, cognitive technologies have gone from a science fiction pipe-dream to a platform for essential business initiatives. Clearly, if you don’t have a plan for cognitive transformation, your chances for survival will be somewhat dim.

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Corporate Innovation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In my book and previous posts I build a broad case for the importance of big data and AI in next-generation mobility , and provide several examples of data that is being collected, or can be collected, in a variety of transportation and logistics situations. Six Use Cases For Autonomous Vehicles.

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IdeaScale

JULY 3, 2018

In a recent survey, researchers found that seventy-five percent of hospital executives at a location with 400 or more beds are planning to build an innovation center. But when I read this study, what I took away was the fact that hospital executives are beginning to respond to dramatic shifts in trends and technology in a collateral manner.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 8, 2020

It was the Spaniard Alfons Cornella, a technology expert and best-selling author, who gave rise to the concept there by the early 2000s. Here, let’s reflect on Infoxication at the business level, which has to do with the concept of Big Data, as we will see throughout this article. As you saw, the problem is a given.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 1, 2019

When we are really innovating we are actually working on the Work-to-be-done, it is a far more exciting activity than constantly focusing on work done, that we need to do to refine, it, to make it more productive, efficient and effective. Technology is enabling us to look more towards the “work to be done” as the place to be.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

These technologies analyze a wide range of datafrom emotional cues in speech to decision-making patterns. Personalization Tailors coaching plans to individual needs using personalized data. Data-Driven Insights Utilizes big data to provide actionable, evidence-based recommendations.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sustainability is no longer a constraint on businessits a catalyst for innovation, growth, and resilience. Companies that embed sustainability into their innovation strategies are not just reducing risk; they are unlocking new market opportunities, improving efficiency, and strengthening customer loyalty.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

Data Analysis Technique Benefits Machine Learning Algorithms Identifies hidden patterns Natural Language Processing Analyzes customer feedback and sentiment Big Data Analytics Processes large datasets efficiently These insights aid in making more informed decisions and crafting tailored strategies for your clients.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 10, 2020

At the same time, insurers have also understood that they need a Big Data strategy for various purposes. Continue reading and understand how Big Data can help insurers avoid headaches and financial damage! What is Big Data. ” Real Time Big Data. ” Real Time Big Data.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In part 1 of this post , Ralph revisited key innovation issues that were already addressed by us three years ago. It turns out more essential than ever for corporations to find ways how they can balance their innovation portfolio and to evaluate which structures, strategies and resources they have to put in place.

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