Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Improved Collaboration : AI-powered collaboration platforms facilitate better communication and coordination among team members. These platforms can integrate various tools and data sources, making it easier to share information and collaborate effectively.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By understanding the nuances of ai-driven market research and ai in open innovation , you can better prepare for integrating AI into your innovation management strategies. Identifying Areas for AI Integration AI can be utilized at various stages of the innovation lifecycle to streamline processes and enhance outcomes.

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innosabi Innovation Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Open innovation has become an essential strategy that involves collaborating with external partners—we’re talking startups, customers, and even research institutions—to generate new ideas and solutions for businesses. While the approach holds immense potential, implementing it effectively comes with several challenges.

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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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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This is more than just a way to better understand who shops with you, though; with the right platform, it can be a source of powerful innovation. What Is Open Innovation? Traditionally, innovation in companies has been “closed.” When Should I Use Open Innovation? How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 11, 2025

Yet we must make the case for innovation to change before it is to late So what are many of those changing conditions in innovation practice?

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eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

Ezassi is a cutting-edge open innovation platform that helps organizations streamline their procurement and supply chain processes through advanced scouting, ideation, and technology discovery. Ezassi helps organizations identify and source eco-friendly materials, reduce carbon footprints, and collaborate with sustainable suppliers.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. AccelIQ Digital is a global consultancy based in Houston, Texas, with a mission to help enterprise businesses unlock the benefits of this outward-looking, collaborative approach to innovation.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Whether you’re new to innovation or have years under your belt, this simple guide that explains the different types might help. Open Innovation. Closed Innovation. Social Innovation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

Without a focused approach, product innovation becomes a gamble instead of a growth strategy. This guide explains product innovation, how it differs from other forms of innovation, and what it takes to develop a winning strategy. Next, well look at how product innovation actually unfolds in practice.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems. Organizations must rethink their innovation strategies and approaches and focus on opening up to building these interconnected ecosystems. Open collaboration should be at the top of my mind- far more than today.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Open Innovation as a paradigm on itself is on its quest to touch base.

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HYPE Innovation

APRIL 27, 2016

A few months ago, The Economist published an excellent piece on how the fashion for making employees collaborate had gone too far. We wrote about the trend too here on the blog, explaining how excessive collaboration harms organizational performance and stifles innovation (hint: overworking employees for only marginal gains).

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They often don’t create the right innovation structure to implement their opportunities. Most organizations struggle with innovation. That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. Open Innovation Networks. first appeared on.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. Defining Open Innovation. Dr. Szajnfarber characterizes innovation as coming in different forms.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

Innovation ecosystems are dynamic and interconnected communities of individuals, organizations, and institutions collaborating to accelerate the development and commercialization of new ideas, products, and services. Why Embrace Innovation Ecosystems?

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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. Measuring innovation in ecosystems has real differences. As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 6, 2024

Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Evolution and Revolution My definition of innovation ecosystems is that they, “innovation ecosystems are dynamic, interconnected networks of diverse actors and resources that come together to collaborate to drive innovation opportunity and create a more compelling value.”

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InnovationManagement

MAY 19, 2021

Open innovation often requires global teams with national culture differences to work together, which presents some challenges. The post The Secrets to Making Open Innovation Projects Work appeared first on InnovationManagement. Here’s how to navigate them.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Moving from innovation to execution calls for more than just a good idea; it needs tools like innovation management solutions to guide it. Charting the Path Execution is one of the key struggles of any innovation strategy, in part because you generally have to work backward. Draw on your entire pool of talent.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 17, 2016

So in a three-part series I want to set risk in a better strategic and operational framework but to begin with until we address the alignment issue between a firm’s strategy and the linkage of the innovation activities, innovation fails to make the essential boardroom connections. The third is to manage trade-offs.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Radical Innovation 124

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Startups often bring fresh ideas, new technologies, and agile development approaches, but identifying the right ones to collaborate with or invest in can be complex. Enter startup scouting , a process that allows established companies to systematically discover, evaluate, and collaborate with startups poised to make a meaningful impact.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Understanding these distinctions is key to developing strategies that lead to transformative success. This article explores the core concept of breakthrough innovation, how it stands apart from radical and disruptive innovation , real-world examples of industry-changing advancements, and proven strategies companies can use to achieve it.

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Yet2

MAY 14, 2024

Yet, many organizations struggle to harness the full potential of Open Innovation (OI) beyond initial scouting efforts. This is where “ Unlocking Impact from Open Innovation ” steps in as a guiding light, offering insights honed from over 25 years of practical experience by yet2 , your leading Open Innovation partners.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This type of collaboration provides innovative solutions quickly, and it allows for new answers to old problems. Working collaboratively from different spaces gets results efficiently.?. This is an amazing opportunity to learn about internal crowdsourcing from some of the industry’s most respected and innovative leaders.

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eZassi

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Guide to Business Model Innovation Business model innovation is a competitive strategy offering organizations a way to redefine their value proposition, operational structure, and revenue streams. Collaborate Across Teams Leverage ideation platforms to gather diverse insights.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 5, 2020

Innovation is a buzzword in the corporate world today. If you aren’t on board with collaborating to form ground-breaking ideas, you won’t stay ahead in the fast-paced digital age. Successful innovation management derives from a mindset that welcomes new ideas and allows for a certain amount of risk.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 27, 2025

From advanced AI-driven capabilities in startup scouting to significant improvements in user engagement and system accessibility, read on as we review how these innovations are propelling your own innovation strategies with Qmarkets in 2025 and beyond.AI-Enhanced Enhanced Startup Scouting Research.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

The closed innovation model can result in slower innovation cycles, higher costs, and increased risk of obsolescence in a rapidly changing market. But what is open innovation? Open innovation offers a compelling alternative by encouraging collaboration beyond the company’s own boundaries.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Well also explore the key benefits of crowdsourcing and outline strategies for building a successful crowdsourcing program. The term was popularized by Jeff Howe in 2006, when he described how businesses could leverage online communities to source innovative ideas.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

Leadership in innovation is more than positivity. Innovation is about skill as much as talent. While creativity is central to any innovation strategy, it takes more than just ideas to be an innovative leader. is fundamental to all innovation, and innovative leaders tend to ask why in all sorts of ways.

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100%Open

JUNE 10, 2019

As a “newbie” to the innovation sector, I have to admit I had some help from the jargon buster. I’ve also come to understand that open innovation is no longer a novelty concept, rather a part of the culture at the heart of many companies, including Carlsberg , Argos , and Oxfam. Opening innovation up. Bring it on!

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Within INSPIRE (standing for Integrated Support of oPen Innovation pRofessionalization initiative), a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under H2020, we have investigated in depth Open Innovation (0I) practices in SMEs across Europe with a view to distilling lessons about how to improve the supply chain and deploy a dedicated (..)

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