Leapfrogging

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. Spot emerging trends and opportunities to inform product or service design. Conduct workshops or collaborative sessions to: Validate findings.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Evolutionary thinking makes Innovation different When we are conceptualizing organization structures and relationships in Ecosystem thinking and design we often begin by attempting to relate this to Natural Ecosystems. We need to stop trying to predict the unpredictable and instead build systems that can adapt to whatever comes.

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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. The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. Ecosystem design will create new business opportunities.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Technical Review Engagement 321

ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. The crucial first step in managing this is to accept responsibility for recognising and disrupting your internal structures, mental models, mindsets, and habitual behaviours.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collaboration and Co-creation across diverse organizations sharing a common purpose are needed far more today to break through and provide new innovating solutions. The more disruptive you seek to make your solution, the more the ecosystem must be shaped, changed, or created. There is a caveat to this need to change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. Spark creativity in process design or service enhancements. Use design sprints to validate assumptions. What is SCAMPER?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

visual from [link] collaboration-the-missing-standard/. For this we need help, we need collaborators wanting to not just navigate back but more to navigate forward. However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Improved Collaboration : Agile fosters a collaborative environment where cross-functional teams work together towards common goals, enhancing innovation and productivity. Agile product development is a powerful approach that can help you navigate the complexities of today’s disruptive world.

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Product Development Agile Software Review LEAN 100

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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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2024

An ecosystem design in thought and design so organizations can act differently on strategies, business models, leadership, and customer engagement to build new value and worth. Innovation ecosystems increasingly need to be designed to offer more sustainable and socially responsible solutions.

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Collaboration Open Innovation Design Resources 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

where technology and diversity of experiences and broader market potential are demonstrating significant growth opportunities in more collaborative and co-creative ways. In contrast, internal systems can become rigid over time, potentially missing out on disruptive innovations or shifts in the market.

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Innovation Agile Open Innovation Generative AI 100

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 Agile 130

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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Agile Innovation helps businesses stay ahead of disruption, maximize operational efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Encourage teamwork across departments and external partners to drive creative solutions. Encourage collaboration with customers and stakeholders to refine solutions.

Agile 130

Agile Innovation Project Leadership 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

visual from www.amle.org collaboration-the-missing-standard/. For this we need help, we need collaborators wanting to not just navigate back but more to navigate forward. However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Learning Change Disruption 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 22, 2021

visual from [link] collaboration-the-missing-standard/. For this we need help, we need collaborators wanting to not just navigate back but more to navigate forward. However, I am not sure many of you feel the same; it seems disruption is in everything we need to undertake in what is coming towards us in change.

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Collaboration Learning Change Disruption 130

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, consumer behaviors shifting, and new market entrants disrupting traditional industries, your ability to innovate determines your potential for growth and sustainability. Here’s how you can combine these approaches: Design Thinking : Begin with empathy.

LEAN 100

LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

So as I read about the solution that Aras provides to the designers within Manufacturing to manage PLM complex systems and products, you have to wonder why this cannot be extended into all innovation’s management. The whole momentum of collaboration becomes accelerated. A truly open innovation platform.

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Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 221

Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Design Thinking Human-centered Approach to Innovation. This is where Design Thinking steps in to create better solutions, services, and experiences to solve our current problems. . This is where Design Thinking steps in to create better solutions, services, and experiences to solve our current problems. . Society Disruptions.

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Design Thinking Design Innovation Creativity 118

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Technology is a fundamental disrupter or enabler; it is the catalyst for making this change. Markets are changing significantly, and collaboration and partnerships are rapidly forming and coalescing around the concept of Ecosystem thinking and Platform design. This potentially is a radically different business entity design.

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Design Collaboration Disruption Resources 189

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Power of Disruptive Innovation Understanding Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovation, a term you might have encountered frequently in today’s business lexicon, refers to a process where a product or service starts at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves upmarket, eventually displacing established competitors.

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Disruption Examples Innovation Product Development 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. Having people at the centre of designs enables more intelligent, rapid and lasting innovation. Using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, the need was to design and simulate air quality.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, AI can be integrated into ai in design thinking to streamline the design process and improve user experience. Collaborate with AI Experts : Work with AI specialists to understand the technical aspects and capabilities of AI tools. Ensure that your data is accurate, relevant, and up-to-date.

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Resources Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2021

That collaborative mindset enables innovation to progress and eventually emerge from all the dialogues, exchanges, and contributions. That collaborative mindset enables innovation to progress and eventually emerge from all the dialogues, exchanges, and contributions. Then thirdly, we go into the process design stage shown.

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Innovation Roadmap Collaboration Design 279

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. Any construct of a Strategically designed innovation plan needs to work through different concepts and tools. Taking action in designing your innovation alignment.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Resources 312

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. as a major game-changer “.

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Industry Innovation Collaboration Design 222

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Less than 30% of manufacturing companies are actively rolling out Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale” No wonder we presently have trouble attracting many businesses onto platforms when they are still very much behind in deciding or deploying a strategically thought-through IIoT digital design, that is connecting everything up.

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Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

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.”

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Software Review Software Innovation Technical Review 211

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. Technological disruption is altering all we do. This was the most disruptive space for innovation and technology to be applied.

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Disruption Technology System Industry 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 5, 2025

A well-designed GTM strategy helps organizations: Identify the right customers and understand their needs. For example, Slacks GTM strategy targeted tech-savvy businesses seeking workplace collaboration tools , allowing it to gain rapid adoption among startups. Influencer & Partner Marketing Collaborating with industry leaders.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We have many innovation outcomes to choose from, including incremental, distinctive, radical or disruptive. Today we have technology as an enabler and applying innovation ecosystem thinking in designing open platforms so this network of experience can be exchanged, shared and developed.

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Innovation Disruption Leadership Guidelines 311

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. 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.

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