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. How to Change the Culture of the Military with Crowdsourcing. Learn how to create value while changing the pace of your organization. Build Engagement with Ideation to Improve Patient Outcomes.

Crowdsourcing 195

Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation Programs Technical Review 195

IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

As an innovation strategist at IdeaScale, I focus on helping our clients think creatively about how best to engage their crowd and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to source ideas for new products and services and improve processes. Scenario planning is a great way to visualize how your business landscape may change over time.

Crowdsourcing 0

Crowdsourcing Tools Trends Engagement 0

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. I’ve been teaching innovation courses to groups of their both their senior and future leaders for a couple of years now to try to help them build this innovation capability.

Strategy 249

Strategy Strategy Innovation Course 249

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

You can learn from others, you can adapt but you need to clearly understand where you are in your own evolution and capacity to undertake change. How they evolve, in new growth, in their changing business model, in their innovation, in their capabilities to manage the “spread” of activities required to transform.

Engagement 235

Engagement Groups Industry CTO 235

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We have seen a consistent change over the years to move towards a more inventive engineering and discovery mindset within our innovation approaches. Through a blend of pattern recognition, predictive analytics and exploring cognitive computing we can change much with innovation. Accelerating the inventiveness within us all.

Design 233

Design Technical Review Innovation System 233

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

Innovation 186

Innovation Radical Innovation Design Big Data 186

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This, of course, is where the process starts. Lesson #3: Ownership Drives Change That meant some adjustment. “At Spotless made a culture change, allowing anybody with an idea to control the ownership of it via an innovation platform. Lesson #2: Have A Goal Once you have a beginning, you need a concrete ending for your process.

How To 195

How To Innovation Culture Innovation Processes 195

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Let me tell you about this as it recognises how things are changing in our world and certainly in my world, in particular. We are doing nothing but constraining the change occurring all around us at a limited pace and speed by placing the wrong lens on this. My own pace of change needs to speed up.

Disruption 261

Disruption Technology System Change 261

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform’s ability to offer multiple values will influence many of the client’s adoption decisions over the choices their business will engage with. Platforms help manage the difficulties of transitions we are all undergoing and change how we see the world through a broader collaborative set of lenses.”

Technical Review 183

Technical Review Innovation Engagement Collaboration 183

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you just diving into innovations, this sort of strategic conversation can change the goalposts, alter the perspective, and can give the innovation a more focused framing to build propositions around. The need for a real alignment of strategy and innovation.

Learning 246

Learning Innovation Leadership Strategy 246

IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

Law enforcement has no choice but to adapt to changing technologies and the changes that technologies cause among the populations they serve. Innovation may not change what police officers do, but it can improve how they do it. Police in the Australian state of Queensland serve over 700,000 square miles.

Innovation Management 189

Innovation Management Management Software Innovation 189

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Everything about our current landscape is changing, from how we communicate to the avenues we have for connectivity. As with most changes in the modern workplace, the biggest transformations begin with the right leadership. leaders will foster a transparent and creative culture that isn’t afraid of agile changes and evolution.

Industry 220

Industry Leadership Artificial Inteligence Training 220

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Often we are inherently resisting to exploring change as it becomes risky and far more demanding. One absolute critical one that needs resolution is achieving alignment and engagement of innovation understanding throughout the organization. Is this because innovation is not at the core of the business as it should be?

Strategy 204

Strategy Strategy Innovation Engagement 204

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are many benefits from having an intense course of one-on-one coaching, irrespective of the level of responsibility you have for innovation within your organization. They can offer a series of directions and courses of actions to be considered. Each mentoring or advisory engagement will be different. They can be timely.

Innovation 150

Innovation Engagement Course Tips 150

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 6, 2020

Employee Engagement Is About Building Trust. As a leader, one must cautiously observe the engagement level of teams in order to keep the energy of excitement in the workplace going. Communication, with the intention to build trust, is the main KEY to employee engagement.”. Seven Ways to a Better Communication Channel.

Engagement 80

Engagement Technical Review Project Training 80

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 28, 2019

Not too many people seem to remember the stock market crash of 2008, but of course that was a decade ago. There is of course the famous and perhaps misquoted statement by Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier, who replied "too early to say" when asked about the impact of the French revolution. The second option is to take a long view.

Course 155

Course Marketing Exercises Change 155

IdeaScale

MAY 18, 2021

In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy. The most vivid changes are in the focus of campaigns and who’s becoming involved.

Report 130

Report Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement 130

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Of course, much of what we have will still remain. This does need a real change but can we achieve it? Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve.

Innovation 179

Innovation Design Agile System 179

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course this is not just an AI or ML issue. And, once all of these machines are trained, who oversees the transition from one model to another to do multiple diagnoses, or when will a generalist human be "good enough" because they can move between different issues more easily and perhaps more rapidly and effectively than machines?

Artificial Inteligence 233

Artificial Inteligence Training Data Technology 233

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). Why mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation.

Crowdsourcing 200

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Of course many of these conversations revolve around innovation and new product or service development (or the lack thereof), and how people are engaged in their work and their roles. People are deeply engaged and get great enjoyment from their work. Time passes without notice. Too much experience with too little challenge?

Innovation 185

Innovation Artificial Inteligence Engagement Creativity 185

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Change Underperforming Technical Team 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. Of course what “sits” on the platform will be different but it has much that can adapted and aligned in the principles of any design. Even board members can become more engaged- oh careful, that is for many a dream or a nightmare!

Product Innovation 221

Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review System 221

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The status quo of the existing places an increasing drag on the forces of change. Am I happy with this, no of course not but in my view “nothing can change until something does change” What do I mean by that? My thought is what do you expect if boards are not as engaged as per the HBR report above stating?

Report 212

Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Both of these approaches urgently requires a radical change. We move from specific owners like marketing into organization engagement and ownership contribution. Platforms perform really good jobs of making this enterprise engagement happens. For me, I have become increasingly impressed with where the PLM providers are going.

Software Review 186

Software Review Software Innovation Collaboration 186

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

It quickly became simply sold as a process, just like Six Sigma, it became limited by those jumping on the latest concept not being true design thinkers, apart from attending a short course or two. Fun and engaging perhaps but it needed to be separated and contained. Then it is suddenly “ Huston, we have a problem. ”.

Design Thinking 239

Design Thinking Design Creativity Training 239

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2017

The customer has become absolutely central to this transformation and the drive towards the 4th Industrial revolution is driving this transformation wholesale across all industries and services engaged in business. We need to fundamentally transform our processes by opening up and engaging with customers.

Report 168

Report Technology Engagement Data 168

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Question how resources must be shifted to new areas, how deeply threatening such changes can be, how protective inertia emerges as the enemy of destabilizing innovation. Indeed, the more successful we have been in the past, the stronger the resistance to any subsequent change in the innovation course. Interested to learn more?

Innovation 190

Innovation Competition Resources Analysis 190

IdeaScale

JUNE 5, 2019

Encourage your team to think of even the most disruptive technology as simply a tool that can be used to engage with challenges in new ways, and to ignore the hype. Tying into the above, an ongoing theme across the conference was the need to roll with changes as they arrive and accept what they demand. Be Adaptable.

Open Innovation 157

Open Innovation Conference Innovation Knowledge Base 157

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Reality simply is, when “most of the innovation is exploring the unknown to change the known for something better,” then organizations seem to go into a certain “lock-down” when it manages the innovation-risk equation. Of course, the more you invest in innovation, the likely the risks will increase.

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Innovation Industry Technology 235

Planview

APRIL 29, 2024

One takeaway from the research is this: As important as it is for executives to shape a company’s strategy, it’s equally necessary for them to direct the course of strategy implementation—with leadership, guidance, oversight, and support. Employee engagement can be the missing link between strategy and execution.

Engagement 69

Engagement Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 69

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I set out to engage 100% in innovation work, it has been quiet a journey of discovery and then translating the parts. Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Its areas of focus: [link].

Innovation 154

Innovation Engagement Collaboration Agile 154

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 26, 2023

How much is talked about, advice offered and sometimes that deep down nagging feeling, innovation understanding does not really change; it is the people managing it as they often seem to be simply passing through this innovation period onto other things or vanishing in pursuit of different career interests. It amazes me.

Software Review 183

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Collaboration 183

IdeaScale

JUNE 12, 2018

Of course, these are just a few of the ways that IdeaScale customers utilize IdeaScale. Others will use it for sustainability ideation, employee quality of life, business model innovation, social change, and more, but these were some of the key use cases that IdeaScale sees over and over again.

Ideation 133

Ideation Video Project Course 133

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This shapes what we do and how we can respond to navigate an increasingly dynamic and ever-changing world. Innovators, particularly those engaged in constant exploration and opportunity spotting, can indeed benefit from a heightened awareness and sensitivity to their environment. Awareness of differences becomes essential.

Innovation 163

Innovation ChatGPT Creativity Trends 163

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The climate crisis is escalating faster than most people imagined, and we must act now to change critical dimensions of the tasks, structures and day-to-day practices of our companies. A CDP report found that some companies (those who are positioned to win or adapt) also see potential in responding to climate change. L eading the Way.

Crowdsourcing 130

Crowdsourcing Disruption Engagement Industry 130

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation as a project Of course, almost all innovation is a project - starting with a specific need or desire to create a new product or service, or to generate new revenues or gain new market share. Some will be short and focused on incremental change, while others are longer and focus on more disruptive ideas.

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Project Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training 160