Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

We are a long way away from fully capturing the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4I)R in an inclusive and holistic way. To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. The biggest reason is dealing with the fear of the unknown – a lesson in 4IR change management.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I'm returning today to one of my favorite activities - a book review. The book I'm reviewing today is entitled What about the Future? It was written by Fred Phillips, who is a professor and also the editor of the journal Technological Forecasting and Societal Change.

Technical Review 191

Technical Review Policies Technology Change 191

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

The gender gap in tech is persistent, but it can be addressed by offering resources, fostering inclusive workplaces, and implementing policies that promote equity. The gender gap in tech remains due to a number of factors including lack of job security, gender bias, and work-life balance issues.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Leadership How To Software Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 21, 2020

Still, it is how we all undergo the changes needed in a radically different set of economic circumstances. The change in our world is even a little scary, it actually is giving me a little “angst.” ” When you change paradigms , you’re changing how you think about something.

Change 310

Change Roadmap Disruption System 310

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The day before the main event I was included in the Industry Analysts visit to the Siemens Technology Center, at Neuperlach in Munich. We were provided a variety of insights in different presentations and demonstrations, of the technology they are working upon. Siemens is in some highly competitive industrial markets.

Industry 187

Industry Technical Review Competition Technology 187

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework ( the Three Horizons ) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models. There’s little change required for external constituents.

Change 174

Change Technical Review Disruption Innovation 174

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. These are: The constant exponential of technology and its power to change is forcing up to change.

Radical Innovation 322

Radical Innovation Technical Review Engagement Innovation 322

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. Combining technology and innovation gives me real optimism for innovation, does it for you?

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Innovation Industry Technology 235

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

Change 174

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 174

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture.

Change 187

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 187

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What may surprise you even more is that the student transportation industry is a particularly egregious offender, with over 90 percent of the nation’s 500,000 school buses running on diesel and emitting 8.4 The technology and resources exist to make student transportation more sustainable, both in the short term and the long term.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Technology Resources Industry 246

Idea to Value

JANUARY 23, 2023

Up until the industrial revolution, most products were produced by small companies with only a handful of employees. However, the industrial revolution, and especially the development of the assembly line, allowed factories to expand production and employ significantly more people to produce things.

Management 302

Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 302

Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2019

As part of a new series of articles I’m writing called Everything Transformed , I’m focusing on the widespread disruption of just about every industry on the planet. The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. It’s no wonder Plug and Play created a vertical focused on travel and hospitality.

Disruption 127

Disruption Industry Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 127

Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2019

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. It was IBM’s loss, as her later work at MIT, Xerox and DARPA on VLSI microchip design revolutionised the industry. Sally Ride. Sally Ride.

Change 256

Change Software Review Innovation Technical Review 256

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In an expansive interview, real estate expert Steve Weikal explains how technology is changing the housing market for the better. Steve Weikal Head of Industry Relations, MIT Center for Real Estate. Sometimes we joke that the real estate industry still runs off of a 41-year-old technology called the spreadsheet.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Technology Management Software Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. My eyes are rolling on these.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Conference Technology Data 222

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. Innovators often act as if they can create innovations that affect the customer and the market, but the innovator is somehow immune from the impacts and potential changes.

Change 130

Change Technical Review Disruption Innovation 130

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Overview: New agricultural, processing, and manufacturing technologies are changing what we eat, how long it keeps, and how we store it. Climate change and urbanization are reducing the amount of farmland available while rising incomes and diversifying diets are creating more demands for unique foods around the world.

System 249

System Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 249

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For me, the energy transition that the world is undertaking requires all forms of innovation, to offer technically advanced, as well as breakthrough solutions, to an incredibly complex system of energy delivery. For such a significant change to happen, we need to focus on a massive global scale.

Management 214

Management Technical Review Innovation System 214

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2017

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Report 154

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.

Design Thinking 148

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 148

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2024

My review of 2024 from a posting perspective has been a really positive one. Innovation inside the one company is (very) outdated and does not take account of the significant changes occurring in technology enablement or solving increasing complex challenges. I believe these are a new core of organization design. “

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Open Innovation Innovation Design 100

Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry. Now the disruption is accelerating.

Software Review 130

Software Review Change Technical Review Disruption 130

Daniel Burrus

APRIL 20, 2022

Manufacturing is quite literally a backbone to so many other industries, generating components for medical devices, automobiles, electronics, and machinery that keeps everything progressing forward. New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Trends Technology Software Review 94

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2019

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market. One participant talked about the role that large corporations could play, and sometimes do play, in commercializing new technologies.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review Project Product Development Marketing 248

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them? We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 15, 2020

Kevin, without doubt, is an outstanding, knowledgeable technology evangelist for all things relating to the Energy Transition. I certainly believe we will see emerging a lot of new inventions and innovations to get the Electrolyzer based on PEM technology Industrial ready. Why Hydrogen?

Technical Review 208

Technical Review Industry Technology Policies 208

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We need to be highly adaptive and that comes from a greater technology understanding. We have seen a consistent change over the years to move towards a more inventive engineering and discovery mindset within our innovation approaches. It adjusts and you learn. Accelerating the inventiveness within us all.

Design 233

Design Technical Review Innovation System 233

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

Our environment is in such a significant crisis when you witness the changing weather patterns increasingly becoming unstable and unpredictable. Something has to change and change as quickly as humanly possible. These technologies are at widely varying stages of development. All are under great stress.

Policies 190

Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 190

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

T he potential value of abundant data and information is greatly constrained by the technical challenges of storing, processing, sharing and analyzing it. Technological risks to information, from hacking to cybercrime and privacy concerns to identity theft are on the rise. Inaccessible information. “T Information risks.

Technical Review 179

Technical Review Innovation Report Disruption 179

IdeaScale

JULY 27, 2017

For decades, it was the technological leader in photography. The Harvard Business Review’s autopsy of how Kodak lost its way reveals what happened. That making the “right” moves doesn’t mean much if you ignore where your overall industry is heading. Ignoring change is often a bad idea. The Music Industry.

Technical Review 186

Technical Review Case Study Video Innovation 186

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.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

Software Review 212

Software Review Software Technical Review Innovation 212

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 17, 2022

No, I am not talking about every start-up trying to disrupt their industry. I am talking about the original theory of disruptive innovation, as outlined by Professor Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article in 1995. Do you know what disruptive innovation is?

Disruption 221

Disruption Technical Review Innovation Marketing 221

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2024

Hippo is poised to disrupt the insurance industry, but can it weather the effects of climate change?

Change 140

Change Strategy Strategy Disruption 140