Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Fusing” human engagement with technology enablement involves creating a harmonious integration of human collaboration and technological tools to enable an ecosystem’s successful development and operation. You need those things before technology can add any value. Is that possible?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

The paradigm is that companies cannot afford to rely strictly on their own internal methods of innovation, but can buy or license processes or inventions from other companies. This helps to further their goals while also providing the opportunity to license or use joint ventures to share their under-utilized technology or processes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Automakers must forge strategic partnerships, invest in local R&D, and cultivate a brand identity that resonates with Chinese consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2024

Many global companies tend to overcome those challenges by minimizing their foreignness and assimilating into the local environments. By embracing a nuanced approach that acknowledges and leverages foreignness, companies can not only navigate but thrive in unfamiliar territories.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Firstly why are business ecosystems emerging as a real competitive force? It is not one single product that is chased in crowded, highly competitive fields. We see that the most valuable companies emerging today are largely based on sophisticated platform business models where ecosystems are vital to their health.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, in general, investing in innovation can be a good way to drive economic growth and help a company or economy recover from a recession. Many successful companies have been able to weather recessions and even thrive during difficult economic times by investing in innovation and new products or services.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

If the capabilities of AI systems continue to evolve, the technology will radically alter how companies stay ahead of new challengers.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 20, 2021

By now it is common knowledge that solar energy has been becoming more and more affordable as the technology develops and economies of scale blossom. Competition from more entrants into the market as it gains profitability encourages a drive to continue innovating. Supply chains and distribution networks improve the more they are used.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? Cosmetics, Hanifa, and the PGA Tour to understand these companies’ strategies. The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 22, 2022

This is the practice of innovating and co-creation in collaboration with people outside of your company. Partnering with other companies, like suppliers or manufacturers, to innovate around integrating and optimising processes to make the entire supply chain more efficient. A typical company vertical supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2024

China’s hybrid “state capitalist” system, driven by centralized planning and fierce competition, has led to dominance in critical technological fields and emerging markets.

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Idea to Value

JULY 15, 2020

He studied all 100 Idealab companies, as well as 100 others, both successful and unsuccessful, and analyzed their cases. The problem with timing is that every innovation only has a relatively small window of opportunity that happens when the technology and customers are ready, but there isn’t much entrenched competition.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

How are they carried out using modern technology? When those from established firms are more transparent and can share competitive insights with the younger firm, an important business relationship develops. Want to learn more about collaborating with other companies to form great ideas that will shape the future?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

In the near term, the report describes a net-zero pathway that requires the immediate and massive deployment of all available clean and efficient energy technologies, combined with a major global push to accelerate innovation. For advanced batteries, this pathway to commercialisation is being funded by capital markets.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How Traditional Ad and PR Agencies Can Compete with Tech Companies in the Digital Era WPP, Publicis, and Interpublic are three of the largest multinational advertising and public relations companies in the world. Apart from WPP, Publicis and Interpublic, other key players in the region include Dentsu, Omnicom, and Havas.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

Simultaneously, the COVID lockdown exposed huge pockets of the United States that do not have access to modern tools nor technology to educate our young. Learn what your company, your nonprofit, your organization, your schools, and YOU can do to help bring digital literacy to young people in your community.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water. There are three drivers of AI scale: community, commonality, and coordination.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The explosion of AI startups in dozens of sectors masks something many of them share: They are increasingly built on top of standardized technology from a few AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. This puts a premium on strategy over proprietary technology.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 25, 2022

As retail evolves its digital and automated methods for servicing customers, the approach and the technologies protecting retail are getting a whole lot smarter. Naturally, this made it all the more necessary to leverage technology to both accomplish our goals and learn from the available information. It keeps us competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Generative AI has the potential to close content, insight, and technology gaps that large corporations typically have over their smaller counterparts. This shift presents a unique opportunity for SMEs, whose inherent agility gives them an edge in adopting and innovating with AI.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We are seeing such forces, trends, technologies that are enabling these and in some very distinctive ways, we are seeing many more radical concepts emerging from China first. Any company today is undoubtedly forced to rethink its digital strategy. How far are we prepared to push innovation boundaries through technology?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 24, 2022

This thinking is recognizing a network of interlinked companies that dynamically interact. This set of dynamic interactions enables both an increased intensity of purpose from cooperations to seek out different levels of competitive advantage. Perhaps we have a new innovation equation to explore and exploit more.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 5, 2021

Customers are increasingly demanding contactless payment options, and retailers that can create a seamless contactless experience will lead the competition. Offering this payment option requires companies to replace traditional credit card readers with NFC readers that accept both traditional cards and contactless payments.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 9, 2023

Some of the key companies leading the way in AI and ML include Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM. These companies have invested heavily in research and development in these areas and have released several products and services that utilize AI and ML, such as Google’s TensorFlow and Amazon’s SageMaker.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One of the best ways to assess what proportions your company should allocate to different types of innovation projects is by looking at your current and desired innovation portfolio. Some companies, like technology companies which need to produce new offerings more quickly, might have a ratio that is more like 45-40-15.

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Idea to Value

MAY 12, 2020

While many of the most impactful innovations of our time are based on advanced technology and decades of research and development work, there are likely just as many that are actually just novel but surprisingly simple approaches to solve a known problem. They can be turned into a source of competitive advantage. Dig deeper.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company. Customer obsession.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

How does the technology help drive results?” Our platform increases efficiency, especially for on-site teams, enabling property management companies to grow and scale more effectively.”. But it takes more than just great technology to be a trusted growth partner in this industry. How easy is it going to be for them to use?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. By dynamically assembling and reconfiguring innovation processes and resources, companies can quickly adapt their strategies , products, and services.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2024

Every so often a new business model, often enabled by technology, takes the world by storm, attracts a lot of hype, eventually proves unable to live up to the headlines and disappears or becomes a shadow of its former self. Direct-to-consumer companies. Image via Startups.com Every era of competition,

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. How has technology helped empower the modern property manager? Barbara Corcoran: Real estate technology is booming, and for good reason. Dylan Lenz Founder and CEO, Naborly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. Specifically, the authors suggest that companies should consider a version of RenDanHeYi.

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