Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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Design Technical Review Innovation Agile 232

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Bias showed itself as I came up through the multifamily industry and then in technology with investors, peers, competitors, and prospective customers.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Technology Management Underperforming Technical Team 246

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Companies that embrace White Space Innovation aim to break out of stagnation, stay ahead of disruption, and create long-term competitive advantage. It allows teams to imagine, prototype, and test new business possibilities that aren’t limited by current processes, technologies, or assumptions. AI, automation, renewable energy).

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Roadmap Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Trends 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

This technology can be applied across various stages of innovation, from idea generation to product development. Additionally, AI can be integrated into ai in design thinking to streamline the design process and improve user experience. Cost of Implementation : The initial investment in AI technology can be high.

Resources 130

Resources Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation 130

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. Our unique approach to technology scouting, partner identification, and expert engagement is designed to: Keep the innovation pipeline full.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile Disruption 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Contingency Planning: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Contingency planning is the process of proactively preparing for potential risks, disruptions, or crises that could impact an organizations operations, strategy, or financial stability. Supply chain disruptions Supplier failures, transportation issues.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. Ecosystem design will create new business opportunities.

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Radical Innovation Innovation Technical Review Engagement 321

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

Mullin’s Seven Domains Model: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects The Seven Domains Model , developed by John Mullins , is a strategic framework designed to help entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors evaluate the viability of a new business venture or strategic initiative. What is Mullin’s Seven Domains Model?

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Software Review 130

ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. The crucial first step in managing this is to accept responsibility for recognising and disrupting your internal structures, mental models, mindsets, and habitual behaviours.

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Disruption Creative Thinking Creativity Technical Review 52

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2025

For example, Tesla differentiates itself through a strong innovation capability (battery technology and self-driving AI), a loyal brand reputation, and an integrated architecture that includes manufacturing, software, and charging networks. Creates sustainable advantage by introducing unique offerings that disrupt industries.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 130

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.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Report Analysis 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

How often are they missing the strategic mark due to their inability to find that innovative pathway? Firstly the work mat offers an open design that gives a framework for a comprehensive dialogue of what is central to the make-up of innovation. I believe there is a real utility of purpose in this open design.

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Innovation Design Leadership Engagement 319

Leapfrogging

MARCH 12, 2025

Change Impact Analysis is a structured framework designed to assess and manage the effects of organizational change. Without a structured approach, organizations risk disruptions, resistance, and unforeseen challenges that can derail change initiatives. Technology: Are system updates or new software implementations needed?

Analysis 130

Analysis Change Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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Design Technical Review ChatGPT Collaboration 147

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them?

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Collaboration Innovation Disruption Technical Review 273

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.” source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

Software Review 211

Software Review Software Innovation Technical Review 211

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of Product Development Product development has transformed significantly over the years, adapting to changes in consumer behavior, market demands, and technological advancements. Agile product development is a powerful approach that can help you navigate the complexities of today’s disruptive world.

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Product Development Agile Software Review LEAN 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. Equally the nature of much of production has been designed “on the fly” and the equally tough job of connecting the whole process up in a new integrated, fully connected system meets huge resistance.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

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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Innovation Collaboration Design Technical Review 241

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture. Corporations and startups operate differently by nature due to the differences in their culture and business environment. Difference in approach to disruption.

Change 196

Change Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 196

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 21, 2020

Innovation has been central to this for twenty years, but this has ‘funneled down’ into recognizing the value of ecosystems as the business design for innovation to thrive and delivering more significant value creation. We are entering a position of significant disruption.

Change 310

Change Roadmap Disruption System 310

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Their approach to solutions are designed to keep strategy visible and continuously aligned with operational execution throughout the initiative life cycle and in my opinion that becomes vital to push as hard as they can. They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption. For me, Sopheon has the right vision.

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Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. This is a useful way to think about the initial 3H outcome.

Design 138

Design Innovation Agile Collaboration 138

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 9, 2020

A growing reality might be that many people will be forced to stay at home until a vaccine is found, due to their risk of infection. The previous reliance on showcasing their latest products or technology will be less at physical events but in digital environments through a range of social mediums. Possible, very possible.

Technical Review 321

Technical Review Engagement Creativity Change 321

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

T he potential value of abundant data and information is greatly constrained by the technical challenges of storing, processing, sharing and analyzing it. Technological risks to information, from hacking to cybercrime and privacy concerns to identity theft are on the rise. Inaccessible information. “T Information risks.

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Technical Review Innovation Disruption Report 178

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Matthew Lieberman who is the Chief Marketing Officer of PwC US/Mexico and an innovative executive at the crossroads of marketing, media, and technology. ML: I am so excited about utilizing emerging technologies—these are key to our transformation. How we then apply this to our marketing strategy is key.

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Technical Review Generative AI Marketing Tools 59

Daniel Burrus

APRIL 20, 2022

New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Due to the fact that technology-driven exponential change affects everything, manufacturing businesses must always keep up. . Five Tech Trends Impacting the Manufacturing Industry.

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Technical Review Trends Technology Software Review 96

IdeaScale

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. It turns out, getting buy-in from the board of directors can be particularly vexing due to the typical board makeup, their strengths, and their skills gaps. Boards Don’t Prioritize Innovation. Demonstrating ROI of Innovation.

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Project Technical Review Innovation Disruption 185

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

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. I like the way Aras are designing their PLM platform system in broad functional designs.

Product Innovation 221

Product Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Innovation 221

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 19, 2022

Horizon Two is the mid-point between “incremental’ change in Horizon One and “disruptive” change in Horizon Three. Companies innovating with this horizon anticipate “breakthrough” innovation, usually extending a known technology into a new market, or introducing new technologies or capabilities into the existing marketplace.

Change 173

Change Technical Review Innovation Disruption 173

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

We need to address this incompatibility, we need to integrate and harness the innovation management system and bring it completely up to date and integrated in design and function. The dizzy array of strategic choices will totally disrupt existing business models if they are right in their design.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Technology Innovation Internet of things 100

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. For example, there are often processes that are specifically designed to eliminate risks and control change. Need a contract reviewed by your legal team?

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Agile Innovation Technical Review Software Review 326

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Organizations have been plagued in the last two years by major shifts that have disrupted business and threatened their profitability. 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.”. employers $36.4

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Policies Culture Underperforming Technical Team 246

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Then disruption suddenly hits. Technology trends lay in the seventh position in this “biggest strategic challenges.” Both, for me a little damming for preparing for a disrupting world or positioning innovation as the future catalyst for growth. The other valuable point for me was another insight from the survey. “

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I am looking at this energy transition through the eyes of the innovator, as it offers so much in new solutions and designs that any innovator would love to be part of. Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.”

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Technical Review Software Review Report System 145

The BMI Lab Blog

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes, companies approach us with requests like “I have developed a new technology but how do I build a business around it?” or “Our technology is superior to our competitors’ – why don’t our customers see that?”. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the world’s leading companies reportedly work on integrating this technology.

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Technical Review Technology Disruption How To 85