Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

It is particularly useful in situations where assumptions outweigh factssuch as launching a new venture, developing disruptive products, or entering unfamiliar markets. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

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. Spark creativity in process design or service enhancements. Use design sprints to validate assumptions. What is SCAMPER?

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Underperforming Technical Team Ideation Idea Generation Brainstorming 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

In this period of such disruption, we do need to hang onto our beliefs, objectives, and goals, both short and long term. We need to shift our validation into implementation and then refinement, through innovation. In any innovation process, these “proof points” become “go / no go” decisions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, AI can be integrated into ai in design thinking to streamline the design process and improve user experience. Benefits of Integrating AI in Innovation Processes Integrating AI into your innovation processes offers numerous benefits. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Resources Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures.

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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success.

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LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 100

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2023

You developed and are using a best-in-class Innovation Process. You start by talking to consumers, studying mega-trends, and scanning the globe for emerging technologies and disruptive offerings. Once you find a problem and fall in love with it, you start dreaming and designing possible solutions.

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Innovation Processes Disruption Innovation Trends 98

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design.

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Design Innovation Agile Collaboration 138

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. What it is: One of the most important theories of innovation, but one which is usually completely misunderstood. This might seem like a strange thing to say, but the most important thing to realise about Disruptive Innovation is that most people completely misinterpret it.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By blending innovation into your strategy, you’re cooking up a plan that’s as flexible as a yoga guru and keeps you ahead of the pack. For a deeper dive, check out our piece on connecting business strategy and the innovation process. They make sure your company stays in the game, no matter how much the market shifts.

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Innovation Agile Creativity Brainstorming 113

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Agile Innovation helps businesses stay ahead of disruption, maximize operational efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. Whether businesses are launching new products, improving internal processes, or adopting emerging technologies, Agile Innovation provides the strategic foundation needed to remain competitive.

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Agile Innovation Project Leadership 130

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pulling in innovation is a must-have in today’s fast-moving scene, as detailed in our note on strategy’s need for innovation in disruptive times. Toss some innovation into the mix. Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Design Thinking 113

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When they are constantly scanning reports on the “state of innovation” it can often lull them, to give some that warm glow, others quickly being dismissive, disregarding many of the key messages as “not applicable to me”. Then disruption suddenly hits. Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation?

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

Explore the future with new opportunities by innovating. As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Not many innovation resources required.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Resources Project 309

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Then innovation can finally play its true part in discovering, leveraging and delivering new value and impact. as a major game-changer “.

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Industry Innovation Collaboration Design 222

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100

System Design Innovation Handbook 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. We still lack the alignment to strategy as this remains unclear, poorly communicated and lacking in this critical connecting up of strategy and innovation.

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. 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.

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Agile Innovation Collaboration Design 182

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

We all see around us increasing disruption caused by digitalization. The powerful effects of digitalization are opening up different business opportunities, the chance to design different business models and get far closer to the ultimate need, to understand the customers wishes from the products and services they are wanting to buy.

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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.

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Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Innovation Case Study Design Agile 147

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Their enterprise software approach is moving the innovation management market in a very positive way, they are connecting it up. They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption. It is a very fragmented market, constrained by the existing designs in place. For me, Sopheon has the right vision.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Some of the most impactful innovations dont come from high-tech labs in advanced economiesthey emerge from the ingenuity of resource-constrained markets. Now, these solutions are disrupting industries in wealthier economies, proving that innovation thrives under constraints.

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Innovation Agile Software Trends 52

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

Business transactions that take days and are costly to manage via intermediaries are prime for disruption by nimbler competitors. The Innovation Perspective view here is this : Innovation suffers from a lack of automating the innovation process, something I find not just arcane but nonsensical in today’s technologically connected world.

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Technical Review Innovation Disruption Report 178

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The risk of being highly scaled is fast becoming a point of disruption for others. The shedding of legacy can equally liberate innovation. The changes we are undergoing around a new strategy design play towards innovation outcomes. Any plan of future actions needs to be designed in different ways.

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Innovation Software Review Design Software 222

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Ideation Agile 147

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches. The core is far more found at the edge, in the collaborating capability and networks we form and this needs very different organizational design. Building new innovative collaborations.

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System Innovation Collaboration Design 159

Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Innovation Processes Innovation Innovation Management Disruption 52

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

That’s because your pace of innovation, or your rate of improvement, has compounding, exponential, returns and thus a clear competitive advantage. As long as you keep improving at that consistent pace, your competitors can only catch you if they move even faster – or if they change the game entirely by disrupting the market.

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Competition Innovation Software Marketing 300

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. It is by leveraging the platform; organizations can create a more seamless and efficient innovation process.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Design 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Innovation Technical Review System Change 174

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Often, flexibility and innovation will be needed to figure out certain steps. So rather than a free-for-all, your innovation leader should be looking for specific ideas about the future. Design A Refinement Process. The final step, once your innovation has been winnowed, refined, and considered, is to begin executing it.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Strategy 173