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Providing a prioritized innovation roadmap backed by data. Consider a medical device company designing a new glucose monitor. This approach increases innovation efficiency by replacing guesswork with evidence. Design specifications and UX goals. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Design for holistic value.

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Innovation Roadmap Ideation Analysis 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Policies 140

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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. Spark creativity in process design or service enhancements. A customer service process causing delays. What is SCAMPER?

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Ideation Idea Generation Brainstorming 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The Context Map Canvas is a strategic tool designed to help organizations understand and navigate the external factors that influence innovation and business performance. The Context Map Canvas offers a practical framework to understand these influences and incorporate them into the innovation process.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Roadmap Trends Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Experiment with alternative distribution, pricing, or engagement strategies. Scale innovations without being constrained by existing structures. This approach encourages organizations to challenge industry orthodoxy and design innovations that meet latent or emerging needs, often leading to breakthrough value creation.

Disruption 130

Disruption Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Technical Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense? Does it make sense to you?

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APRIL 3, 2025

The Value Proposition Canvas is a strategic innovation tool designed to ensure that a product or service aligns closely with what customers truly want and need. This tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation teams, product management, marketing, and customer experience design.

Software Review 130

Software Review Roadmap Tools Strategic Thinking 130

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APRIL 3, 2025

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core concept from the Lean Startup methodology, designed to help organizations test new ideas quickly and learn from real customer feedback. Its especially useful in digital product development, service design, and business model innovation. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

AI in innovation management involves using machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, and predictive analytics to streamline and optimize various stages of the innovation process. Risk Mitigation : AI can help you identify potential risks and challenges early in the innovation process.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Roadmap Analysis Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

We need to shift our validation into implementation and then refinement, through innovation. This pathway design needs to state a robust, reliable, and affordable net-zero emissions energy system in clear stages of transition, say 2029, 2039, and 2049. We need innovation to drive change and behavior.

Innovation Processes 187

Innovation Processes Innovation System Design 187

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Innovation does need reinventing as a discovery process. Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before.

Engagement 162

Engagement Generative AI Innovation Collaboration 162

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Innovation needs reinventing.

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Generative AI Design Innovation Innovation Processes 162

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Heres how the MVP fits into innovation strategy: It accelerates time-to-market by launching quickly and iterating based on data. It validates assumptions about user behavior, pricing, and engagement. If users engage regularly and express interest in additional functionality, the team can expand with confidence.

Software Review 130

Software Review LEAN Development Team Review Roadmap 130

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MARCH 26, 2025

It proposes that approximately 70% of innovation investment should focus on improving existing products and processes, 20% on expanding into adjacent markets or offerings, and 10% on exploring transformative, disruptive ideas that could redefine the business. Designing tailored processes for idea selection, development, and scaling.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 130

IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2017

Improve your innovation process with gamification. The ideal moment in any innovation process is when innovating becomes fun. That’s where gamification comes in, and it can blast your innovation onto a whole new plane. Gamification is the addition of game-like ideas and rewards to a work process.

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Innovation Processes Crowdsourcing Innovation Competition 145

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MARCH 26, 2025

In a real-world project, White Space Innovation might look like a legacy logistics firm exploring on-demand mobility services, or a health insurance company developing wellness apps to engage members outside of claims-based interactions. Below is a step-by-step guide to using the template effectively in your innovation efforts.

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MARCH 21, 2025

AI in innovation management is not just about automating processes; it’s about augmenting your decision-making capabilities with data-driven insights. Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Data 130

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MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking in Innovation Benchmarking plays a critical role in real-world innovation projects by providing data-driven insights that inform both strategy and execution. One of the most valuable contributions of benchmarking is its ability to remove guesswork from innovation planning. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Comparison Technical Review Data Competition 130

IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. A well-implemented strategy is key to any innovation process, but that doesn’t mean finding one is easy.

Innovation Processes 162

Innovation Processes Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation 162

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. Here I offer a different perspective of innovation that leads to proposing such a change. I will go into the final proposed components in my next post.

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Design Innovation Collaboration Innovation Processes 182

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APRIL 3, 2025

This approach promotes parallel thinking, where participants explore different angles of a situation one at a time, rather than engaging in adversarial or chaotic discussions. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Skipping the Red Hat Feelings matter, especially in user-centered design. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Analysis Project 130

Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

Heres how this works in practice: Engage with High-Quality Feedback : Instead of relying on hundreds of survey responses, have deep, meaningful conversations with a smaller group of potential customers. Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply.

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Survey Innovation Analysis LEAN 178

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. They are a call to action and engage those listening to the narrative to make a difference. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital. Growing faster by changing your innovation narrative.

Innovation 318

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

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.

Design Thinking 185

Design Thinking Design System Creativity 185

Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

AI can automate routine tasks, allowing you to focus on high-value client engagements. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! These strategies will position you as a forerunner in AI-driven business innovation. This will help you design a tailored training program.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Case Study Analysis Innovation 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

Software Review 222

Software Review Innovation Software Innovation Processes 222

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2023

It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

Collaboration 147

Collaboration Engagement Innovation Resources 147

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.

Design 138

Design Innovation Agile Collaboration 138

Leapfrogging

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.

Design Thinking 140

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

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.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Then innovation can finally play its true part in discovering, leveraging and delivering new value and impact. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. Innovation is benefitting from the 4 th Industrial Revolution. It shifts our thinking and the management of innovation dramatically.

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Industry Innovation Collaboration Design 222

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Design matters, no matter the product. 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.

Design Thinking 113

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. The need for digital platforms and ecosystem designs has grown to achieve this collaborative environment.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Artificial Inteligence 208

Leapfrogging

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Value Proposition Canvas helps business leaders make better decisions about what matter to them as a company and where they should be looking to engage with customers. The post The Value Prop Canvas Tool Will Speed Up Innovation Processes in Your Business first appeared on. About the Author .

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Innovation Processes Tools Software Review Innovation 130

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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