Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. Defining Design Thinking Design thinking involves five key stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your innovation projects. This technology can be applied across various stages of innovation, from idea generation to product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI?

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 18, 2022

Design Thinking for Social Innovation. Social innovation is a means to develop and implement innovative and effective solutions to solve environmental or social issues. . Stanford Center for Social Innovation defines Design Thinking as “the ultimate solution that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just?

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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you approach innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your creative processes, streamline idea generation, and foster a culture of innovation within your organization. This makes AI an invaluable asset in the realm of innovation management.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2018

We all in the middle of a re-orientation of our ways to undertake innovation as a process and in its design. We are learning to connect in completely different ways. We are learning how to interact with a connected system as products move into products and digital, connected and combined.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Design Thinking Human-centered Approach to Innovation. This is where Design Thinking steps in to create better solutions, services, and experiences to solve our current problems. . This is where Design Thinking steps in to create better solutions, services, and experiences to solve our current problems. .

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MARCH 26, 2025

The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. Innovation often involves uncertainty. What is the Experiment Canvas?

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 9, 2020

When bringing people together to solve problems with design thinking, there may be more benefits to going remote than you think. Face-to-face design thinking workshops can be amazing. There is a certain energy, human connection and buzz that is pretty hard to reproduce in a virtual format. Increased accountability.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A game plan that’s clear as day lets you tie your business dreams to innovative efforts. Take a look at our guide on using innovation to drive business strategy development for more golden nuggets. Understanding the Role of Innovation Innovation is like the magic sauce, turning cool ideas into real outcomes that make a difference.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you manage innovation. By leveraging AI, you can streamline various aspects of the innovation process, from idea generation to product launch. Design Thinking : AI can assist in the design thinking process by providing data-driven insights and automating repetitive tasks.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. AI can also automate repetitive tasks, allowing innovation professionals to focus on more strategic activities. By using machine learning algorithms and data analytics, AI can simulate various scenarios and predict the potential success of a concept.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 23, 2022

Improve Customer Success with Design Thinking. Implementing Design Thinking can help with customer success. . Design Thinking can help better focus on the demands of customers and support people’s needs by providing them with appropriate products and services. . What is Design Thinking?

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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your innovation processes, streamline collaboration, and drive more effective outcomes. This allows you to make more informed decisions and accelerate the innovation cycle.

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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

(This is guest post by Alejandra Gonzalez , a seasoned business model strategist, product owner, and innovation coach. In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. Speed of learning comes from reflective practice.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency. Benchmarking is not about imitationits about learning from others to accelerate progress, improve competitiveness, and inform strategic decision-making.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

In order to succeed as a professional innovation manager, you need a variety of skills. From being able to manage bureaucracy to coming up with ideas in the first place, here are the 6 Most Important skills you need to be an effective innovator: 1. Innovation relies on the implementation of a creative idea. Creativity.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 16, 2022

Design Thinking Can Help Grow Sales. Many businesses, in recent years, have started implementing Design Thinking to achieve more productive and profitable results. Identifying and understanding people’s preferences in designing products and services is key to growing sales. It acts as a human connecting agent.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. What is Design Thinking?

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Design Thinking the People-centric Modern Organization. Designed thinking can be leveraged to create better and more empathy-based organizations. . Empathy, along with self-awareness are the most important cornerstones of emotional intelligence, and foundational to design thinking. . Who is impacted?

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. And the Design Management Institute found that design-driven organisations outperform the S&P 500 by a whopping 219%.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 8, 2019

That’s what design thinking is all about, and it offers powerful new tools for innovation strategy. Thinking With Design Design thinking draws from user experience thought processes and has three pillars: empathy, ideation, and experimentation. It begins with communication.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Learn how to gain empathy when practicing design thinking. Empathy is an important element in design thinking and human-centered design. In this guide, we’ll cover what empathy for design thinking means as well as how to learn empathy to apply to your innovation- and design thinking-focused projects.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing advanced tools and methodologies to enhance creativity and efficiency. As an innovation professional, you can leverage AI to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and predict future trends.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 18, 2023

A Crash Course in the Basics GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Are you interested in facilitating a design thinking session at your workplace or for another organization? Have you learned about design thinking and want to get started or deepen your skills?

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Blueprint for Bouncing Back: A Design Thinking Guide to Unemployment Life’s journey is peppered with unpredictable twists and turns. Creating a structured daily routine that emphasizes self-care, continuous learning, and proactive job-seeking can be a beacon during these times. Skill enhancement leading to diverse career paths.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Innovation isn’t just a shiny new product; it’s about jazzing up your services, tweaking those internal gears, and shaking up your business playbook. To truly make the thrilling leap with innovation, go bold—foster an atmosphere where creativity and a bit of daring flourish.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Capturing Attention in the Digital Age: A Design Thinking Approach In the modern digital landscape, attention is the new currency, surpassing traditional commodities in value. This methodology, rooted in empathy and iterative learning, comprises several stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. What is Design Thinking?

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

AI Meets Design Thinking: Crafting a People-Centric Business Future Imagine this — a customer service agent can deeply empathize with a frustrated customer because an AI assistant analyzed the customer’s tone and background to provide insights ahead of time. The agent knows just how to console them — that’s the future we can build.

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APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. It challenges conventional thinking and encourages exploration by shifting the lens through which problems are viewed. What is SCAMPER?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Break these negative mindsets to unlock innovation through design thinking. This article is part 2 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking. . Changeable Mindset #1: Student mode.

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