Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Evolutionary thinking makes Innovation different When we are conceptualizing organization structures and relationships in Ecosystem thinking and design we often begin by attempting to relate this to Natural Ecosystems. We need to stop trying to predict the unpredictable and instead build systems that can adapt to whatever comes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

AI’s role in innovation management includes: Idea Generation : AI algorithms can analyze market trends and consumer behavior to suggest new product ideas. Design Thinking : AI can assist in the design thinking process by providing data-driven insights and automating repetitive tasks.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Feeling trapped, break out of the box with Innovation Ecosystems We continue to fail to unlock the full potential of innovation. I continue to receive reports on the latest surveys on the management of open innovation and its progress. I asked Googles NotebookLM to provide a podcast of this series.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We have many innovation outcomes to choose from, including incremental, distinctive, radical or disruptive. Today we focus more on open innovation where a greater external diversity combines with internal expertise to generate the potential for something fundamentally different.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystem co-operations can allow you to align with others, totally outside your existing relationships, so you can enter new markets, explore new concepts and design, that would have been impossible as an individual organization. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them.

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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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Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. Where open innovation and closed innovation models differ is the question of who should be included in these conversations. What is Open Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

In the event, I was asked what the difference is and why we should shift from today’s traditional innovation models to this interconnected one where innovation ecosystems are the foundation. So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

So as I read about the solution that Aras provides to the designers within Manufacturing to manage PLM complex systems and products, you have to wonder why this cannot be extended into all innovation’s management. A truly open innovation platform. Aras PLM Product Innovation Platform.

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Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 221

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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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

Accelerator programs benefit corporations by providing them access to innovative and disruptive startups. This allows corporates to manage these disruptive forces rather than compete directly with them. Difference in approach to disruption. The concept is more broadly related to product development and UX design.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.” Any thoughts?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2024

Open up your CEO’s innovating thinking to make the jump Innovation must rely increasingly on interconnected organizations organized around a central focal point of value and impact. If we fail to recognize that innovation is vital to our business, to sustain it to enable it to grow, we eventually die.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources.

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System Design Innovation Handbook 100

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Is it because of this traditional way of working, designed into the company, that we are all becoming disengaged and disenchanted with what we do? Extracting innovation has become very complex. Competitors are disrupting – even ones who were not around 12 to 24 months before. Which do you undertake or are actively considering?

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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. Working in innovation ecosystems. Digital Transformation.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This requires all businesses to face rapidly changing business environments to design their response rates and abilities to react differently. It is the connecting up of opportunities with the ability to design the solution in highly exploratory and exploring ways of learning that begin to break down complexity and see new ways to evolve.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. Many organisations now have the opportunity to look back at their open innovation programmes with an appraising eye. With some evidence behind them, they are weighing up the effectiveness of being open. How open is your organisation ?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Yet2

AUGUST 6, 2019

Many large companies have open innovation portals. The snack food and beverage manufacturer has two separate open innovation portals that play a key role in the company’s strategic initiative and mission to empower people to snack right. And then there’s Mondeléz International. Register today to claim your seat!

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

This article explores the core concept of breakthrough innovation, how it stands apart from radical and disruptive innovation , real-world examples of industry-changing advancements, and proven strategies companies can use to achieve it. To start, lets take a closer look at what breakthrough innovation really means.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them. I had the chance to take a look at the new book “Built to Innovate” by INSEAD professor Ben Bensaou. It’s the foundation of organizational design. Open Innovation Networks.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ecosystem Resilience: Characteristics: Dynamic ecosystems are resilient and capable of withstanding shocks and disruptions due to the diversity of participants and the redundancy of resources. Creating the right environment involves fostering trust, promoting open innovation, and investing in the development of participants.

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eZassi

MARCH 11, 2025

The Hidden Challenges of Corporate Venture Capital (And How to Overcome Them) Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) groups have grown in popularity as a vehicle to drive disruptive innovation and growth. Compared to traditional R&D efforts or large-scale M&A, CVCs can deliver impactful results faster, often with less financial risk.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 1997 Clayton Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma and it sparked a revolution. It seemed that for years all anyone could talk about was disruptive innovation. That was until Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation in 2003 and that got hot.

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eZassi

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology discovery and scouting are essential activities for enterprise innovation programs and R&D departments to identify emerging technologies, startups, and market trends that can drive competitive advantage. Ezassis technology discovery services are designed to uncover these opportunities through tailored research programs.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring. .

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

I spent the majority of my adult life managing organizations and I always felt enormous pressure to innovate, but whenever I went looking for guidance, what I found was a confused jumble. Disruptive innovation, design thinking, open innovation, lean launchpads and on and on.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. Innovation Focused on Purpose-Driven Purchases.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What are open innovation hubs? Startup, Corporate Venture, Open Innovation Hubs: who is who in the world of digital transformation. It is in this context that terminologies such as Startup, Corporate Venture and Open Innovation Hubs arise. A startup is a company designed to expand rapidly.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Over time we've managed to codify some basic syntax and taxonomy for innovation, but it still remains a highly fragmented, diverse industry with solutions ranging from design innovation to "open" innovation to crowdsourcing and the latest twist: digital innovation, I suppose combining digital transformation and innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

Good if you want to build an innovation competency Learn how to leverage open innovation to use the ideas of others. You can, for example, leverage a good external innovation company in one product group or setting, while hiring and building innovation competencies in another group.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 6, 2020

As mentioned above, the immediacy of the information age, coupled with the speed of exponential technological change and digital disruption , creates a solicitude in the hearts of every entrepreneur. “I One of the first iterations of the Tesla Roadster was designed to go from zero to 60, and then 60 to 120 by shifting only one gear up.

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