Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It gives the big shots at the top a game plan, making sure resources aren’t thrown around like confetti at a parade. For more on similar topics, mosey on over to our article on how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process. Encourage Creative Thinking Make space for new ideas and brainstorming.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Design thinking: Design thinking is another methodology that is gaining traction in innovation. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often. Lean startup: Lean startup is a methodology that helps organizations validate their ideas early and often.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. At its core, design thinking involves five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) framework, and is designed to speed up and reduce risk for a huge variety of types of innovation projects. [If If your company is interested, the L.I.V.E.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The journey, by and large, is slow, linear, does not allow for change, and is governed by scheduling resources, versus based upon customer need or value creation. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. .

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Lean Innovation Project Management: Putting in place a structure which teams can use to focus limited time and energy on progressing ideas quickly, and validating progress. Time, Resources & Funding: The organisation provides the resources required for people to devote time and run experiments around innovation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

At IdeaScale we help Kane is Able and many other clients achieve their continuous improvement strategies such as Lean, Kaizen or Six Sigma. Third, remember you’re designing for agility which means you’re only making a commitment to explore and evaluate. IdeaScale makes it easy to implement a high-level methodology (e.g.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Vanguard Chief Technology Officer Mike Carr breaks down the four key elements that drove their success: Cloud Migration: Moving to public cloud gave developers faster access to resources and let them focus on creating features instead of managing infrastructure.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With lean budgets for innovation a reality at many large organizations, managers are often reluctant to allocate funding and staff to projects they perceive as risky, or that don’t help them achieve their short-term performance metrics. Successful innovation requires aligning your innovation model to your business strategy. Venture Boards.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Problems such as climate change, health care, and social inequality that not only transcend sectoral barriers but leverage the unique strengths of those involved in resources can create more innovative and effective solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome. We need to question differently and often the “ why change ?”

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. Narratives are different.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. Narratives are different.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Sounds ideal. See the disconnect?

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?” Each business has a need, to grow, to add value, to beat or at least equal competition, or should do.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” Success to the Successful— Two or more efforts compete for the same finite resources. Now apply these to why innovation often fails, they constrain what we do.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. This book by Nathan Furr covers tips and techniques learned from design thinking, innovation, and the lean startup business model which has grown in popularity in the last few years. The Lean Startup. New Releases in 2021. Find it here. Find it here.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ingredients for Innovation Success Despite the renaissance in innovation approaches ushered in by luminaries like Steve Blank, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Janice Fraser, and Eric Ries, most innovation departments lack the basic ingredients of success- strategy, resources, scale and methods. You rarely win without a strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The respective leaders had ample resources and experience at their disposal. They followed best practices of design thinking, lean startup, and rapid prototyping to turn early-stage ideas into high-potential opportunities. On the surface, both of the example companies did everything right. The Best-Laid Plans.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

Resource Allocation : In a lot of companies, there are no official resources for innovation. Instead, intrapreneurs have to hustle and scrape for resources that can be pulled from them at any moment. In fact, there can be conflict for resources, which the core business inevitably wins. Be Authentic.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. What are your objectives and intended results? Unrealistic expectations of first projects.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2015

I think we are simply just fiddling with the deckchairs, incremental changes as the innovation ‘ship’ plows on, into more treacherous water, underestimating the hidden icebergs that cannot be appreciated until something happens. Innovation is heading for its own Titanic moment.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2019

This is where Lean Agile principles come into play. Keeping the Ball in Your Court: Understanding Lean Agile Principles. This process can lay solid foundations for sustaining In the context of sport, something analogous to the Lean process would be to create new team compositions that compensate for the absence of injured players.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. The keys to getting resources.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions. Encouraging your team to think outside the box and challenging the status quo are central themes that innovation speakers address.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! If a good idea pops up, by all means resource it and get it into action. ” “What!

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Innovation needs structure.

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This thinking in “markets” and “technologies” changed with the rise of customer centricity, human centered design, and design thinking in the mid-2000s. And in comparison, global issues like climate collapse, finite resources, waste, contamination, animal extinction etc. put “unmet customer needs” to shame.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Design Thinking puts an emphasis on this exploration, it’s a fundamental built into their framework, excellent! Projects change culture. Projects are essential.

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