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MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. It helps organizations assess what is changing in the environment around themand how those changes affect strategy, decision-making, and execution.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. Innovation often involves uncertainty. What is the Experiment Canvas?

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MARCH 26, 2025

Instead of building a rigid business plan based on speculative projections, DDP encourages teams to identify key uncertainties, design experiments, and refine the strategy as new information emerges. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Providing a prioritized innovation roadmap backed by data. Consider a medical device company designing a new glucose monitor. This approach increases innovation efficiency by replacing guesswork with evidence. Design specifications and UX goals. Monitor Market Changes and Update Outcomes Customer needs evolve.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For more information on how AI can enhance your creative processes, explore our article on ai in design thinking. AI-powered tools can also assist in other areas of innovation management, such as ai-driven market research , ai for rapid prototyping , and ai in product roadmapping. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

A fact none of us can ignore is the planet, our world is undergoing significant change, and this is so much human-made. Our energy sources need radically changing to building our future on clean energy, generated by fossil-free energy sources. We need to shift our validation into implementation and then refinement, through innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your innovation processes, streamline collaboration, and drive more effective outcomes. This allows you to make more informed decisions and accelerate the innovation cycle.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. This process helps in minimizing risks and maximizing the chances of developing successful products or services. For more information on how AI can enhance your innovation management, explore our articles on ai in innovation management and ai for idea generation.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times. We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, AI can be integrated into ai in design thinking to streamline the design process and improve user experience. Benefits of Integrating AI in Innovation Processes Integrating AI into your innovation processes offers numerous benefits. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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MARCH 26, 2025

Developed by Alexander Osterwalder, this tool allows organizations to design, describe, analyze, and iterate on their business strategies. The tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation, nonprofit planning, and product development. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Disruptive Innovation in Innovation Disruptive Innovation plays a pivotal role in shaping real-world innovation strategies, particularly for startups, R&D teams, and organizations seeking to future-proof their business models. Scale innovations without being constrained by existing structures.

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MARCH 26, 2025

It enables innovation teams to envision the next horizon of value while keeping the core stable and profitable. Getting Started with the White Space Innovation Template The White Space Innovation process involves both strategic analysis and creative exploration. Needs: Are customer needs changing or newly emerging?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. Here I offer a different perspective of innovation that leads to proposing such a change. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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MARCH 21, 2025

AI in innovation management involves using machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, and predictive analytics to streamline and optimize various stages of the innovation process. Risk Mitigation : AI can help you identify potential risks and challenges early in the innovation process.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking in Innovation Benchmarking plays a critical role in real-world innovation projects by providing data-driven insights that inform both strategy and execution. One of the most valuable contributions of benchmarking is its ability to remove guesswork from innovation planning. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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MARCH 26, 2025

It proposes that approximately 70% of innovation investment should focus on improving existing products and processes, 20% on expanding into adjacent markets or offerings, and 10% on exploring transformative, disruptive ideas that could redefine the business. Designing tailored processes for idea selection, development, and scaling.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For more insights on how AI can be utilized in different stages of innovation, explore our article on ai in innovation management. Here are some key advantages: Enhanced Data Analysis : AI algorithms can process and analyze large datasets quickly, providing you with valuable insights that would be difficult to obtain manually.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Innovation needs reinventing.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 28, 2024

Designing a Composable Innovation Framework During May and June 2023, I worked through and concluded my thinking on why we needed to change our Innovation approach. A radical change from far to often a linear one, into a new, more up-to-date, and dynamic solution for managing innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

AI in innovation management is not just about automating processes; it’s about augmenting your decision-making capabilities with data-driven insights. Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. Often they’ll tell you they mean revolutionary change. Challenges in “Buy-In”.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By managing these stages effectively, you can streamline your innovation processes and enhance the chances of success for new initiatives. Introduction to Leveraging AI in Innovation Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how you manage the Innovation Lifecycle.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

What is Agile Innovation Template? Agile Innovation is a dynamic approach to project execution that breaks initiatives into small, manageable tasks, enabling organizations to rapidly adapt to market changes. Enhance Market Responsiveness: Adjust strategies quickly in response to changing customer needs or competitive pressures.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Break these negative mindsets to unlock innovation through design thinking. This article is part 2 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking. . When it comes to design thinking, it can be deadly to the process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design. Innovation design does need a comprehensive solution to address the complexities of modern innovation.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By blending innovation into your strategy, you’re cooking up a plan that’s as flexible as a yoga guru and keeps you ahead of the pack. For a deeper dive, check out our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. It’s a hands-on human-centric process all about coming up with fresh, out-of-the-box solutions. Here’s how design thinking breaks down: Empathize: Get cozy with your customers’ needs and woes.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Gen AI will be the innovation game-changer Everywhere you turn it seems to be all about Gen AI and how it will change the world. Any fundamental change is exactly that- full of fear and opportunity. So where does innovation fit within this? We need a game-changing approach.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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