Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Presently we drive efficiency and effectiveness but progressively into a crisis of our own making. Presently sustainability stays that concept that makes sense but is not yet embraced and accepted by the vast majority. But we are deluding ourselves. Demand outstrips supply. Sustainable innovation needs to shift our thinking.

Innovation 329

Innovation Change Disruption Resources 329

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While the leader has little to no control over the external competitive environment, they have astonishing influence over the internal performance environment, including employee engagement, morale, and productivity. How can leaders help their people flourish during extreme uncertainty?

Engagement 144

Engagement Disruption Competition Strategy 144

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Yet moving from the present position of offering specific products and services into a collaborating one, where they are part of an ecosystem of partners that are ‘connecting experience’ as against discrete products built on delivering totally different value propositions for the ultimate consumer is a highly daunting challenge.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Innovation Leadership Talking Points Innovation leadership is a critical component for driving growth and staying competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment. You want someone with a proven track record of success in innovation and the ability to communicate complex concepts in an engaging manner.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

Presently our Governments are obsessed with innovation- it sometimes feels it is the only game in town for future growth. The problem is we seem to be destroying more than we can build at present, yet a ‘few’ gain from these seeds of “destructive creation” while a majority don’t. The obsession with innovation- myself included!

Creativity 307

Creativity Innovation Industry Disruption 307

Leapfrogging

MAY 2, 2024

By working together, team members can complement each other’s abilities, leading to more innovative solutions and a competitive edge in the marketplace. Higher Employee Morale Team unity boosts job satisfaction and engagement. Another critical advantage is the boost in morale and job satisfaction among employees.

Engagement 100

Engagement Team Building Collaboration Strategy 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

First, we have to recognize Human capital is still the most crucial asset of any business—in fact, even in an age of ubiquitous technology, it is human skills, creativity, and capability that will form the competitive edge for any organization. We will continue to have basic components of a job. The Big Recognition Innovators All Need.

Artificial Inteligence 263

Artificial Inteligence Innovation Engagement Agile 263

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Organizations today are no different from the past; they seek fresh growth and establish new competitive positions. What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have. Combining data and human knowledge reveals this collaborative potential and a new set of competitive opportunities.

Design 209

Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 209

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We are increasingly recognizing all the different collaborative tools increasingly at our disposal We are exploring both platforms and forming ecosystems to radically alter the competitive edge previously seen to reside inside the single company. A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them.

Innovation 300

Innovation Design Collaboration Roadmap 300

IdeaScale

MAY 8, 2019

Do we have an advantage over our competition?” What advantages do clients tell us we have over our competition?” What advantages do we have over our competition?” Analyze Your Competition Your competition can point toward some fascinating places to innovate. is a yes or no question. Is your client base the same?

Competition 180

Competition Innovation Industry Examples 180

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The journey has forced me into terrain that presented diverse challenges to achieve fresh insights and traversed many a rugged landscape to get closer to my goal of offering organizations their innovation fitness and future landscape design, one designed to alter their present capabilities and capacity to innovate radically.

Innovation 190

Innovation Competition Resources Analysis 190

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The next group of factors to consider is making the clear assessments of competition, outlining the tactical moves to be considered market attractiveness, the ability to execute and what business model does the business case take to provide the fit and attract the commitment.

Innovation 322

Innovation Analysis Guidelines Project 322

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 6, 2024

Finishing with a important message on why Innovation Ecosystems Let me quote partly from that post and add some further views Traditional approaches to innovation, often isolated and siloed within a single organization, may not be sufficient in addressing the complex challenges and opportunities presented by the modern business environment.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Resources 163

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“ Organizations today are no different from the past; they seek fresh growth and establish new competitive positions. The ability to combine data, and human knowledge is revealing this new collaborative potential and a new set of competitive opportunities. Firstly, we need to ask, “Why change the innovation narrative?

Technical Review 209

Technical Review Innovation Software Review Design 209

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

A good strategy, well outlined should encourage innovation and gain engagement but it can equally determine how we break down our imposed boundaries by its strategic intent, to encourage exploring and extending on what we know into the what we need to know. Is this because innovation is not at the core of the business as it should be?

Strategy 204

Strategy Strategy Innovation Engagement 204

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

In the process, they are losing out financially, forgoing huge opportunities in not achieve future competitive positions or foregoing the chances to alter their market position radically. Imagine having these as your starting point for establishing the innovation direction, resourcing and contribution directly in engagements with the board.

Guidelines 342

Guidelines Innovation Strategy Strategy 342

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2017

We were provided a variety of insights in different presentations and demonstrations, of the technology they are working upon. Siemens is in some highly competitive industrial markets. This deserves a dedicated post on what I consequently learned, not through Siemens, but in a conference that Siemens presented at, in November 2017.

Industry 187

Industry Technical Review Competition Technology 187

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Within two posts, I want to provide my outcomes, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, in my opinion urgently needed. The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks.

Design Thinking 239

Design Thinking Design Creativity Training 239

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 6, 2020

Your preferred place after you have accessed the competitive situation and what needs to differentiate yourselves, by being realistic about your present operational performance and rigorous evaluation of how you can perform. You need to arrive at your preferred place after you have first accessed the competitive situation.

Innovation 201

Innovation Resources Competition Change 201

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The idea behind MVP is that a product is designed and presented to customers and their behavior is monitored. A startup-corporate partnership offers growth opportunities by providing competitive advantages to corporates. A simple request is put forward: startups must present their views and ideas on a particular topic.

Change 187

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 187

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2021

Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. For me, this can come from engaging and mapping ideas that have sustainability within them into a Three Horizon Sustainability Framework. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future.

Design 307

Design Resources Technology System 307

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As any idea or concept evolves the more you ‘flesh this out’, it changes by this fresh input, energy, and understanding but it needs greater engagement and collaboration to meet these increased customer experience demands. The Status Quo is history.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This speed can be a critical differentiator in competitive industries. Collaborative Competition (Coopetition) : Ecosystems encourage a balance between competition and collaboration. Collaborative Competition (Coopetition) : Ecosystems encourage a balance between competition and collaboration.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Innovation Policies Collaboration 140

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

The majority of the present software providers fail to grasp this. We move from specific owners like marketing into organization engagement and ownership contribution. Platforms perform really good jobs of making this enterprise engagement happens. In Summary. Then why are we not screaming for this solution?

Software Review 186

Software Review Software Innovation Collaboration 186

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). ” Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present.

Crowdsourcing 200

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2020

It is through the nature of these complexities we achieve competitive advantage and can deploy more of the flow of knowledge for those new sources of new profit and wealth creation. 2) There is the inherent complexity found with any organization and presently managed through striving to be more efficient and effective.

System 228

System Competition Design Management 228

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2017

The customer has become absolutely central to this transformation and the drive towards the 4th Industrial revolution is driving this transformation wholesale across all industries and services engaged in business. We need to fundamentally transform our processes by opening up and engaging with customers.

Report 168

Report Technology Engagement Data 168

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You may have been taking classes, conferring with colleagues and reading articles for years without realizing that you were engaging in continuous learning. Because everyone is always super busy, it should be a given that employees will have to give up something they’re doing now in favor of engaging in continuous learning.

Learning 178

Learning Innovation Leadership Conference 178

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Technology Scouting and External Technology Integration: Description: Engage in technology scouting to identify cutting-edge innovations externally.

Open Innovation 148

Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration Design 148

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

In this post I want to explore the potential returns I feel are gained from adopting this “ Final Perspective, the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework” following my recommendation that innovation needs to change, to embrace and adopt a new view of the Innovation Management process to change our present thinking.

Agile 183

Agile Collaboration Innovation Competition 183

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

Presently our Governments are obsessed with innovation- it sometimes feels it is the only game in town for future growth. The problem is we seem to be destroying more than we can build at present, yet a ‘few’ gain from these seeds of “destructive creation” while a majority don’t. The obsession with innovation- myself included!

Creativity 212

Creativity Innovation Industry Disruption 212

IdeaScale

JUNE 5, 2019

Gaby Howe of Station Houston, a technology park that aims to build on Houston’s innovative past for current start-ups, noted in her presentation that what drove her organization was a high-profile failure. What matters more is how that technology is applied to your business model and how that differentiates you from the competition.

Open Innovation 157

Open Innovation Conference Innovation Knowledge Base 157

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.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Equally nearly all our larger business organizations are still locked in the past, or attempting to catch up to the present but in random ways. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

Innovation 179

Innovation Design Agile System 179

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

All of us are at present, caught up in the terrible spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Although we feel trapped in the present, worried over daily events and what they might mean, we must look beyond, we do need to look towards the future, to recognize there are challenges ahead but equally opportunities.

Innovation Processes 187

Innovation Processes System Innovation Design 187

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Their speech not only serves to inform but also to inspire and motivate attendees to engage with the event’s agenda and goals. Their role extends beyond mere presentation, as they are expected to be thought leaders, setting the stage for discourse and innovation throughout the event.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Engagement Meeting Culture 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2020

We are searching for what makes up the present system and what needs to be part of the future to create a ‘best’ innovation capability environment that is sustainable in the longer-term. Entering into Competitive Battle – the Dynamics of Rivalry, the Uniqueness of You. Knowing the limits of human engagement.

Resources 215

Resources Innovation System Design 215