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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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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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. Innovation: The Reality-Making behind the Glamour. 2019 IdeaNation Topics.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 22, 2022

Bellingcat has received many awards and honours and it has changed how news and intelligence agencies gather and verify stories using OSINT methods. These are mighty achievements started by Higgins and a group of crowdsourcing amateurs sitting at their computers. The Bellingcat web site was blocked for Russian users.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Increasingly this internal focus is being replaced by a more powerful and effective approach – open innovation (OI). Crowdsourcing is a version of OI in which you typically throw out a challenge to a crowd of experts who separately compete with ideas to solve your problem. Put the right people on the case. Recommended Reading.

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Be-novative

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Open innovation is combining internal and external ideas to advance technology, product development, and so much more—including social good. Why crowdsource for social change? In today's digital age, the Internet connects the world like never before.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

Open innovation and crowdsourcing take closed doors and open them. This necessitates a dramatic change in the corporate culture from secrecy to openness. Where things are open would there be a benefit by packing them into a box? Innovate by changing the state of your offerings.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation. Think of crowdsourcing as a vehicle for getting well-informed results. Check out five of the top women innovators of all time in this entertaining blog.

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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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Focus on outcomes that effect real change. I often see first-time innovators bit by the crowdsourcing bug, and they come to us to scratch that itch. I often see first-time innovators bit by the crowdsourcing bug, and they come to us to scratch that itch. “I I heard about this crowdsourcing thing.

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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. What if some of the world’s most iconic companies worked together to solve problems?

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

“This synergy will enhance our powerful technology scouting tool Q-scout and empower our clients to supercharge their open innovation initiatives.” With the right tools, you can bring all of these elements together to present clear insights that help you make the decisions that matter. That’s where we come in.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

. “Large organizations sense they are missing out on radically different business opportunities and cast their envious eyes towards the young start-ups” Digital transformation – are you ready to transform and change your innovation approaches? “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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IdeaConnection

JULY 28, 2017

Without changes, the problems will clearly become worse over time. Here is a rundown of a few open innovation initiatives that have attempted to unclog our traffic-filled roads. Ford Motor Company’s Innovate Mobility Challenge – looked for solutions to transport challenges faced by different regions.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

Taylor and Ascione have long been champions of crowdsourcing, as they’ve built their program from the ground up, despite that not being part of their job description. They’re two shining examples of the intrapreneurial nature of open innovation champions. Together, they encompass the ePolicyWorks crowdsourcing team.

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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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IdeaScale

JANUARY 3, 2019

The financial sector is often seen as stodgy and slow to innovate, but the arrival of financial tech, or fintech for short, has forced change management and innovation strategy to the forefront. What trends in innovation will affect finance in 2019? Crowdsourcing And Open Innovation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

While creativity is central to any innovation strategy, it takes more than just ideas to be an innovative leader. Here are the skills you need to not just lead your industry, but change it. is fundamental to all innovation, and innovative leaders tend to ask why in all sorts of ways. Curiosity . Collaboration.

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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.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

Companies working in isolation may miss out on the vast pool of external knowledge and innovative ideas that could propel them forward. The closed innovation model can result in slower innovation cycles, higher costs, and increased risk of obsolescence in a rapidly changing market. But what is open innovation?

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2019

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In this article, I want to show you the 15 most important Innovation Frameworks and Theories which your companies need to be aware of and should be using. Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Intangible assets – increasingly people and the combination of their intellectual capital in knowledge, relationships and how they structure work will be the central focal point of innovation success. Connecting these four critical aspects becomes vital. Organising within Networks of Firms within multiple Ecosystems.

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100%Open

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The key word here is OPEN. We’re bringing our partners in innovation, organisations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. 3 – Open Innovation gets you ahead of the competition.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2019

Open innovation, intrapreneurship, crowdsourcing. No matter what methods your innovation strategy involves, we’re talking about how our new features and updates will help you build a stronger, more innovative company September 4th in our online webinar. Learn what’s new in our webinar.?. New Features.

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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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Planview

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Crowdsourcing solutions gives us the best chance of driving real, lasting change — in fact, 85% of the 2014 Best Global Brands have used crowdsourcing in the last ten years. The initiative is already making headlines — not to mention driving monumental change across the globe.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These talks can inspire innovation. Open innovation can be a tricky business. Innovation can be elusive, and sometimes your team needs a push to get back in the zone. “Necessity is the mother of invention” is a old adage about innovation, but it’s not one we often think about. Navi Radjou.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. Many organisations now have the opportunity to look back at their open innovation programmes with an appraising eye. With some evidence behind them, they are weighing up the effectiveness of being open. How open is your organisation ?

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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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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2019

This February and March, the Ideascale team toured Australia, running workshops in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, and Sydney to discuss crowdsourcing, open innovation, and most importantly, intrapreneurship, with a stop at the Brisbane Intrapreneur’s Summit. Your intrapreneurs are just a desk away.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The biggest reason is that innovation profits from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, which is gained by hiring and creating an organizational culture of diversity. Diversity and Crowdsourcing. This especially makes sense when you think about innovation in relation to crowdsourcing. Making All Voices Count.

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100%Open

JUNE 5, 2017

This week we’re launching our new free open innovation toolkit. We have designed our toolkit to be used by those new to open innovation and old hands alike. We’re changing over from the old to new toolkits on Wednesday 7th June, so after that date, all will be refreshed. So check out the toolkit here !

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Open innovation for social change?—?OECD’s OECD’s global challenge Open innovation is combining internal and external ideas to advance technology, product development, and so much more?—?including Why crowdsource for social change? including social good. That’s the type of world to drive forward!

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