Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 5, 2024

Exploring Complexities of Business Ecosystem Collaborations Why should “we” step into the realm of ecosystem collaborations? Collaborations are challenging but exciting and potentially rewarding, but they radically differ in how you conduct business. I offer here many distinct aspects and strategic advantages.

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Collaboration Disruption Design Industry 130

IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2024

Implementing and Building Ecosystem Designs While ecosystem-based approaches offer numerous advantages, there are also challenges and potential barriers that organizations may face. Ensuring alignment and effective collaboration among participants with different goals and priorities can be challenging.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. For me, cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Agile Ideation 147

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? This involves moving computing power, data storage, and decision-making to the edge of operations.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The Interconnected Business Ecosystem framework is pioneering in its approach, which aims to help organizations navigate the complexities of today’s business landscape through this interconnected, collaborative ecosystem approach. They constantly search for adapting, evolving and collaborating to thrive and grow.

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Design Collaboration Roadmap Agile 182

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Design thinking is a methodology for problem-solving and innovation that is characterized by its human-centered, iterative, and collaborative approach. It encourages the creative exploration of ideas and the development of innovative solutions.

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Design Thinking Design Collaboration Creativity 130

Ecosystems4Innovating

AUGUST 27, 2024

Thinking & designing Business Ecosystems to build innovation differently Why should we think about the potential within Business Ecosystems? What does thinking and designing for Business Ecosystems mean? Design products, services, and business models that are modular, adaptable, and easily integrated with others.

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Design Collaboration Industry Examples 97

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Design thinking isn’t just a fancy buzzword—it’s all about shaking things up in how we plan strategically by spotlighting creativity, focusing on the customer, and trying stuff out to see what sticks. For the lowdown, catch our piece on how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the significance of team collaboration cannot be overstated. Collaborative efforts are the cornerstone of high-performing teams and are critical for driving innovation and achieving outstanding business outcomes.

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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. Innovation is undergoing a radical change, in opening up to technology, collaborative thinking and the value of generative AI thinking. Encourage collaboration between AI and human experts.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 208

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Design thinking always requires the Human Touch. Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future, yet the need for the human touch will still be essential. Critical thinking and empathy are essential within the design process that AI cannot fully capture.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Encouraging a Collaborative Environment Teamwork doesn’t have to be a dream. Designated Roles : Assign people like conflict coaches or managers so no one’s left guessing who’s in charge. When disharmony turns into collaboration, you won’t just survive, you’ll thrive.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Strategy Strategy 124

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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Design Innovation Collaboration Innovation Management 182

Idea to Value

APRIL 21, 2022

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with award winning designer Ayse Birsel. Ayse has been voted one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, is a bestselling author, and has won international awards for designing everything from furniture to cars to toilet seats to vegetable peelers.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Understanding Team Collaboration Collaboration within a team setting is a cornerstone of modern organizational success, driving innovation, problem-solving, and efficiency in today’s complex workplace. Higher Employee Engagement Teams that work collaboratively often report higher levels of engagement and job satisfaction.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Within the series of four posts, I have been emphasising that cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution, the necessary parts need connecting.

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Collaboration Engagement Innovation Resources 147

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

JULY 28, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Travis Isaacs , Vice President and Chief Design Officer, Webex Collaboration, Cisco. Travis, leads a global team of designers, writers and researchers for Webex, a leading real-time collaboration platform. TI: As Chief Design Officer at Webex by Cisco, every day is truly different.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Prof Uli Weinberg, Director der HPI School of Design Thinking and President of the Global Design Thinking Alliance. We speak about how Design Thinking has changed over time, where it is going and how it needs to be taught in a different way to stay relevant.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 24, 2022

The three degrees of ecosystem design- the innovating equation. In any ecosystem thinking and design, we do need to find this “sweet spot” for encouraging more innovation. Within business, ecosystem thinking and design have become central to how organizations go about their search for value and impact.

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Design Technical Review Software Review Collaboration 182

Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Dynamic Ecosystems build future ecosystem resilience and including participation as the core to thinking evolution and discovery, to exploit and expand to what is possible, through ecosystem-centric thinking and design.

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Design Collaboration Trends Disruption 72

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

The Essence of Team Collaboration Team collaboration is the bedrock of modern organizational success, fostering an environment where ideas can flourish and goals can be achieved through collective effort. Benefits of Effective Team Collaboration The advantages of implementing team collaboration best practices are manifold.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Redefining Conflict Resolution: The Design Thinking Way Business conflicts have been a staple challenge since the advent of commerce. Among the most promising approaches is Design Thinking, traditionally associated with product design and user experience but increasingly recognized for its potential in resolving disputes.

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Design Thinking Design Ideation Collaboration 118

Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves understanding the needs and perspectives of users, prototyping, and testing potential solutions, and iterating until the best solution is found. .

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2022

Broader collaborations will become central for future organizations to find ways to cooperate, network and build relationships, that recognize the partnership value, to achieve a sustainable, future business that offers impact and connected design for customers to value, that meets their changing needs.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Future of Team Collaboration As the professional landscape evolves, team collaboration has been rapidly transitioning to the virtual realm. Online collaboration platforms have become the backbone of this transformation, enabling teams to work together seamlessly, irrespective of their physical locations.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Future of Team Collaboration As the professional landscape evolves, team collaboration has been rapidly transitioning to the virtual realm. Online collaboration platforms have become the backbone of this transformation, enabling teams to work together seamlessly, irrespective of their physical locations.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Video Project 100

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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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It is the value of having good, interactive, highly particpative workshops breaks much of those initial barriers to allow the hard work to begin in a more cohesive and collaborative way. I believe any design of workshops must meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding. For example: 1.

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Design Engagement Creativity Collaboration 243

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Virtual team building activities play a pivotal role in fostering communication, collaboration, and a cohesive culture within distributed teams. Benefits of Virtual Team Building Activities Virtual team building activities are designed to bridge the gap between remote team members, creating a sense of unity and shared purpose.

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