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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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Innovators often create technologies or products, which have interesting capabilities or features, but rarely do they think through the actual use of the products and understand how they fit in with other products, services, infrastructure, channels and data that exist in a customer's life.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture. Corporate venture capital.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In a market where seamless experiences become more important, a too narrow application of "jobs to be done" risks solving only a fraction of the total customer need. Geoffrey Moore developed the concept of the "whole product" in the 1980s and the concepts are still true today, especially in high tech fields.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Cynthia Johnson co-founded the Santa Monica, CA-based marketing agency Bell +Ivy as well as the non-profit WonderKey, which provides tech to foster kids. She’s also on the advisory board for the tech, business, and educational advisory firm Millennium Alliance. That was what sparked my interest and the group’s.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

But no sooner had business begun to slowly recover from the pandemic than the job market began to experience an unprecedented evolution: the Great Resignation. Dealing with the loss of family and friends due to the pandemic and the mental health impact of the health crisis forced many workers to rethink their whole life vis-à-vis “work.”.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

From our perspective, innovation almost always impacts three constituents: the customers, the competitors or market, and finally the innovator itself. Innovators often act as if they can create innovations that affect the customer and the market, but the innovator is somehow immune from the impacts and potential changes.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Over 90% of the world’s leading banks are either exploring, experimenting (PoCs), or formulating a strategy for leveraging blockchain technology, says an Accenture survey. But when it comes to intra-organizational processes, challenges arise due to process design and lack of mutual trust. Areas of impact. Sample use cases.

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Matthew May

JULY 17, 2015

I’m not sure why so many companies delight in listing the technical specs of their products, as if they relate to anything remotely useful to human beings trying to make a decision in the real world. Right now I’m in the market for a very low-tech item: mountain bike tires. Take, for example, Apple.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Most commonly, traditional project management will continuously track how well a project is progressing and report this to management on a regular basis, while also having set milestones with dates where the status of the entire project can be reviewed. Unfortunately, innovation projects usually have none of the above criteria.

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Anaqua

APRIL 29, 2020

By David T Dickens, Senior Technical Support Engineer at Anaqua. When it comes to innovation in green technology, it’s not just the major corporations that are making the difference. Some investments are in areas where there is both a large tech infrastructure and clear effects of changing climate.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It could be too early or too late in the market window, or it could simply have the wrong pricing or distribution. To some extent failure demonstrates that your front end is exploring, discovering new ideas and technologies and stretching the definition of the company and its value proposition.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Almost all technical innovation is driven by the advance of underlying science, whether it is the number of transistors on a chip, or the amount of data we can send in a packet. So, while counting patents seems logical, we need to ask what is the purpose of the patent, and will the patent be converted into new products or technologies.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of AI in Business Strategy The journey of AI in the business landscape has seen a remarkable evolution, transitioning from a novel technology to a fundamental component of strategic planning. Sales and Marketing: Use AI to personalize marketing campaigns and predict sales trends.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

” Recently in Stanford Social Innovation Review, an article on the “ Adoption of Innovation ” by Benjamin Kumpf & Emma Proud is well worth the read as adopting any innovation process is a tough, slow one. Each of these needs a definitive engagement process by the business platform provider.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In today’s world, nothing seemingly ‘stands still’, and organizations, business models and market approaches are in constant flux. Applying technology across a connected platform environment begins to change that. Organizations are often too early or too late to market. Enabling technology and processes.

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Brunner

OCTOBER 6, 2023

An ‘Internet Tech’ Career Path: Dumb Luck or Planned Destiny? And what is motivating me still today to stay on top of this cutting-edge changing tech world we live in today? “For those of us who made a career out of internet tech, was it dumb luck to be in the right place at the right time?”

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 6, 2015

Is a major innovation in a technical setting all that different from a major societal change? Now Gandhi was talking about social or societal change, but all of these ideas apply directly to innovation in a technical or corporate sense as well. They don't align to existing business models. Gandhi made it, but just barely.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 30, 2022

But how do large companies really track, identify, and launch initiatives that create value from these emerging technologies? Here are the 10 most popular tech scouting questions we’ve been asked over the years, and some best practice advice on what you can do to focus your efforts to maximize output in the short-, mid-, and long-term.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our panel of experts discusses the political, technological, social, and educational resources the cannabis industry needs to succeed. What kind of technology should cannabis businesses be prioritizing today? Yes, most definitely. Juanjo Feijoo COO and CMO, Weedmaps. Jennifer Lujan Senior Director for Social Impact, Eaze .

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To do that I'm going to argue in this relatively short post that innovation has three important deliverables: problem definition, ideas and solutions. Let's review the deliverables and the activities between them to understand what I mean. Those two activities create context and content.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration in Today’s Business Landscape The business world today is characterized by constant technological disruptions, the rise of virtual workplaces, and the globalization of talent. Managers and leaders must understand how to effectively implement these technologies to facilitate innovative team collaboration.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction to New Product Development In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, the ability to innovate and execute new product development (NPD) effectively is a cornerstone of business success. Ideate Solutions : With a clear problem definition, brainstorm a wide range of creative solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I could outline countless ways to work through different examples, set about a strategic and operational digital transformation roadmap, to combine effective knowledge from people and excellence gained from what you need to do in IT and your technologies to get this going, but I will not here, as this is an opening primer, not a solution.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

“A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leaders and alliances” – (a wikepedia definition). Christensen that began back in 1995.

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ITONICS

JUNE 19, 2018

In this blog post, we would like to shed light on some of the most aspiring and cutting-edge tech start-ups we have discovered at CeBIT 2018. . VISCOPIC’s interactive mixed-reality applications can close the gap between the interaction of theory and practice by illustrating railway technology and making it tangible.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Rick’s article just gave me the chance to go back and review my thoughts and relate his excellent suggestions and thinking into some of the work I have written about in this area. Rick asks the question here of “ where the business model innovation at hand is best served by a build, buy, partner or invest approach.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices. We don't have to look far in the corporate scrap heap to find firms that were leaders (Nokia, Kodak) but became obsolete due to a failure to notice changes in the market.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 8, 2016

OutManeuver with Xlibris, after finding out that the traditional book publishers would take nearly twice as long, and provide about the same amount of marketing support: zero. If you've ever tried to read a quarterly financial reconciliation from a book publisher, you'll know the definition of obfuscation.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

–based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that is adaptable, innovative, and collaborative can better withstand market fluctuations and respond to challenges swiftly and effectively. Another effective method is the cultural audit, which involves a comprehensive review of company policies, procedures, and practices to see how they align with the desired culture.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The State of Value Stream Management Report 2023 , in particular, stands out due to its inclusivity, drawing data from respondents across various organizational sizes, ranging from nimble startups with 1-99 employees to massive enterprises boasting 50,000+ personnel.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 29, 2019

This is a key component in deriving the best possible return on investment done on marketing and trade promotional activities. An effective TPF solution offers the capability to forecast the sales uplift and ROI that can be generated due to a particular trade promotion. This aspect is crucial to help model future promotions.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

Creative Construction , by Gary Pisano at Harvard Business School, is such a book, in part due to the preeminence and influence of Harvard in the conversations about innovation that have been taking place since Christenson’s ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ was published in 1997. Now the real work begins. [1]

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2021

By definition , it’s about doing something new that hasn’t been done before. There aren’t reliable benchmarks or market size studies available either. For most businesses, the riskiest parts are typically related to customer demand, but there are also cases where this could be something different, such as technology.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Innovation during this time was focused on technology - especially weaponry. The 1960s through the 1990s were boom years (discounting the Oil embargo) mostly due to dividends we reaped from the investments in technology and the space race. What emerges about innovation from this review of history?

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