Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The search is seemingly on to find greater value, which will increasingly coalesce around different innovation ecosystems. In many different ways, we need to form significantly more relationships that increasingly matter to each organization, add value and insight, and bring external expertise inside to work on ‘greater’ innovation solutions.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 22, 2022

For the past decade or so, one of the most popular ideas in innovation has been around Open Innovation. This is the practice of innovating and co-creation in collaboration with people outside of your company. Collaborating with a startup on a specific new challenge.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. The increasing need for collaborating and extracting external expertise contains increasing cost and investment. The need for radical innovation changes the present position. Ecosystem design will create new business opportunities.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Collaboration and innovation are more critical than ever. This is where innovation management software plays a pivotal role, enabling institutions to foster collaboration and drive meaningful change. Collaborative Innovation in Education

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recent research suggests that when resources become limited, many business leaders’ inclinations are to become risk-averse and protect their own interests, fostering a culture of conservatism and prioritizing stability over innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2021

Mapping any innovation journey can be complicated. There is a fairly detailed journey needed to be undertaken for mapping out your future direction of innovation. Let’s get straight into it, and the process and sequence needed within any innovation journey. Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com.

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HYPE Innovation

JULY 26, 2021

While product-oriented innovation is well-established as a business practice, innovation in service-oriented sectors, such as legal, accounting, and consulting, has had a slower progression – until now.

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HYPE Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For some organizations, an innovation program is a “nice-to-have”, sometimes struggling for time and attention against other corporate initiatives. This is not the case at Linklaters, one of the UK’s “Magic Circle” law firms – which places innovation at the core of its purpose and embeds innovation at the foundation of the firm’s strategy.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Innovation thrives when ideas are shared, refined, and executed with precision. But in today’s fast-paced world, managing innovation across various teams, campaigns, and communities can quickly become a juggling act that drains time and resources.

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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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the biggest questions I am getting from businesses at the moment is what the potential impact of a recession or the slowdown of the economy might have on their innovation efforts. And according to a new report by Innovation Leader and KPMG USA called “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead.”

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2021

When we talk about innovation, we often talk about harnessing people's creative energies, and then turning that energy into something of value. How can we help people collaborate and create new things?

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IdeaScale

JULY 16, 2023

In this post, we're excited to reveal our latest addition to our innovation management portfolio— the all-new IdeaScale Whiteboard, what you can do with it, and our vision for the product. In remote-first, globally distributed workplaces, getting everyone on the same page can be super challenging.

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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2021

Innovation and creativity are two things that are necessary in order for teams to operate well in the workspace. Especially, when they are involved in collaboration, brainstorming, and ideation, innovation is critical to your success. Work From Home Innovations. You never get to choose when innovation strikes.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. What is an innovation culture? The question we need start with is to actually define what an innovation culture is. Why is an innovative culture so important?

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HYPE Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the first part of our Innovation in Legal Services blog series, we shared what innovation in the legal services sector looks like, the ways it differs from product-focused innovation, and why it is important for innovation to be at the core of a legal services practice.

Innovation 246

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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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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As we close out the year, I have been looking back and recognizing the transformation concept for innovation, which has been central to my work and, more importantly, moving forward in where I go in my innovating focus in 2024. The story builds upon the four threads that move innovation into our need for innovation ecosystems.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? Companies that survive do both.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation. Design Thinking and Innovation. Takes a Holistic View of Problems.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. Innovation has a critical role in delivering new solutions to drive this energy transition we are undergoing. What does this all mean for innovation?

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In our race to enable and support hybrid teams, our reliance on collaboration software has inadvertently caused us to forget the art of true collaboration. The pandemic forced us to rely on digital platforms for communication and creativity.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 14, 2020

Innovation is going to become central to overcoming huge global problems of keeping our distance, inventing, and implementing the solutions to keep our “social distance” and know we are safe or not. Invention and innovation thinking will come to the fore; technology will be far more used to protect us, to notify us or alert us.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

Innovation is essential for all organizations. The corporate innovation landscape is always evolving. Idea sharing is the first step in the innovation process. Take advantage of IdeaScale’s innovation services to get the most out of your crowdsourcing experience. IdeaScale Innovation Services.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. We need to shift our innovative thinking from static to dynamic.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2024

Open up your CEO’s innovating thinking to make the jump Innovation must rely increasingly on interconnected organizations organized around a central focal point of value and impact. If we fail to recognize that innovation is vital to our business, to sustain it to enable it to grow, we eventually die.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 13, 2023

Converging ideas and thinking brings out creativity and different innovative solutions Innovation ecosystems are gaining good traction to build out a more robust innovation management system that can offer the interconnected network of organizations the opportunity to create and commercialize new ideas, concepts, products and services.

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