Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Adaptation to increasing complexity Traditional linear business models struggle to navigate today’s rapidly changing environment. Consider how platform businesses using ecosystem principles have transformed industries from retail to transportation to financial services through greater collaboration. Financial performance.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Improved Collaboration : AI-powered collaboration platforms facilitate better communication and coordination among team members. These platforms can integrate various tools and data sources, making it easier to share information and collaborate effectively.

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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. We are trapped in a ever decreasing cycle.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Today, innovation is recognized as a systemic phenomenon, where multiple actors interact and collaborate across different domains and levels 1. Innovation ecosystems are networks of organizations and individuals that co-create value through innovation 2. zdnet.com The post Has innovation changed over the last ten years?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2024

If we fail to recognize that innovation is vital to our business, to sustain it to enable it to grow, we eventually die. We need to foster collaboration between individuals, organizations, and institutions, creating a symphony of ideas that resonate far beyond the boundaries of any single actor.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

There is a misconception that corporate innovation is simply innovation in a corporate environment when in truth it is a much more involved process. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. As such, MVP is a way startups are changing the corporate innovation landscape.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

This article explores the core concept of breakthrough innovation, how it stands apart from radical and disruptive innovation , real-world examples of industry-changing advancements, and proven strategies companies can use to achieve it. To start, lets take a closer look at what breakthrough innovation really means.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Implementing AI in your decision-making processes can result in: Faster time-to-market for new products Reduced costs of innovation Improved alignment with market demands For instance, AI can play a powerful role in ai for rapid prototyping and ai for concept testing , ensuring that your innovations are both viable and aligned with consumer needs.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Whether you’re new to innovation or have years under your belt, this simple guide that explains the different types might help. Open Innovation. Closed Innovation. Process Innovation.

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Planview

AUGUST 15, 2017

To better understand complex and connected challenges in the developing world, the United Nations (UN) , the international organization tasked with bringing nations together, turned to Spigit to power their open innovation challenge , #SDGInsights. Why is the UN leveraging open ideation? Collaborating with the world.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. Where open innovation and closed innovation models differ is the question of who should be included in these conversations. Or is a more collaborative approach more effective?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. Measuring innovation in ecosystems has real differences. As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

Organizations must embrace innovation ecosystems to harness the power of innovation and drive transformative change effectively. What are Innovation Ecosystems? Why Embrace Innovation Ecosystems? Continuously Adapt: Adapt strategies and approaches as the ecosystem evolves and new opportunities emerge.

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Competition Innovation Roadmap Collaboration 173

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems. Organizations must rethink their innovation strategies and approaches and focus on opening up to building these interconnected ecosystems. Open collaboration should be at the top of my mind- far more than today.

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Innovation Open Innovation Collaboration Design 147

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 6, 2024

Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Evolution and Revolution My definition of innovation ecosystems is that they, “innovation ecosystems are dynamic, interconnected networks of diverse actors and resources that come together to collaborate to drive innovation opportunity and create a more compelling value.”

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Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Resources 162

IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 221

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. Accelerating the inventiveness within us all.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

The topics are diverse and offer valuable insight into what it takes to innovate in the ever-changing technological landscape of today. From training and education to open innovation, support for SMEs and more, it’s all at your fingertips. How to Change the Culture of the Military with Crowdsourcing.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation Programs Technical Review 195

HYPE Innovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

More and more businesses are shifting from a user-centered design process to a collaborative experience as companies see the potential to benefit from their customer’s ideas and suggestions as a way to improve their products and services. This change also involves a shift in perspective from designing for users to designing with users.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. Transformational innovation is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, to achieve. They confront, conflict and compel change.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging.

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Industry Innovation Collaboration Design 222

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 transformation journey is still part way complete.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 21, 2023

Completing transitions through innovation, ecosystems and sustainability thinking Today, our innovation activity needs to transition through collaborating and co-creating, applying ecosystem thinking and platform designs for business. Combining innovation, ecosystem and sustainability is a step change for many.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is no uniform approach to innovation, and different ideas may take different paths, but you can create a structure and steps to guide the idea along the journey. Big, wide-ranging changes, new products, and others can be put to the entire company.

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Crowdsourcing Case Study Innovation Management Creativity 211

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach.

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Innovation Agile Design Collaboration 189

PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe.

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Software Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 98

Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

Open innovation and crowdsourcing take closed doors and open them. They ask all comers to suggest ideas for specific challenges and they collaborate with many outside companies and inventors to bring new products to market. This necessitates a dramatic change in the corporate culture from secrecy to openness.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 22, 2022

He and his collaborators analysed hundreds of short videos and were able to authenticate their locations using geo-location tehniques. Bellingcat has received many awards and honours and it has changed how news and intelligence agencies gather and verify stories using OSINT methods.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.” This needs more investigation.

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Software Review Software Innovation Technical Review 211

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 11, 2024

Innovation will evolve very differently, linked tightly to the organization’s future design, no more cutting it loose, housed separately or outside the core. Then, my question here is asking Gemini to go deeper into what has changed since 1999, more specifically, looking at the impact of Ecosystems, technology, and platforms.

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Collaboration Innovation Trends Artificial Inteligence 147

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? The IM software market is stirring.

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Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

Ezassi is a cutting-edge open innovation platform that helps organizations streamline their procurement and supply chain processes through advanced scouting, ideation, and technology discovery. Ezassi helps organizations identify and source eco-friendly materials, reduce carbon footprints, and collaborate with sustainable suppliers.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. Enter startup scouting , a process that allows established companies to systematically discover, evaluate, and collaborate with startups poised to make a meaningful impact.

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