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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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

James Watt and the steam engine. When I was in high school, my science teacher thought it was funny to ask “What was the name of the man who invented the steam engine?” Only steam engines predated Watt’s design by almost 60 years. Watt steam engine. Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. cotton gin.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Operating sustainably is not only good for the environment but also good for business.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Paul MacCready (1925 – 2007) was an aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first human-powered aircraft. He was fascinated by engineering and airplanes from a young age. Early efforts to build human-powered aircraft had featured wooden designs, which proved too heavy. Paul MacCready. Some used catapults to launch the craft.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Having people at the centre of designs enables more intelligent, rapid and lasting innovation. Tony touched on how digital technology is being used to solve today’s present issues and how working with the comprehensive digital twin and having people at the heart of the design make a significant contribution to some current challenges.

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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.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Ted Hoff : An American electrical engineer who, working at Intel, invented the microprocessor. She collaborated with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, providing the first algorithm intended for a machine. Ada Lovelace : The 19th-century English mathematician and writer, widely recognized as the worlds first computer programmer.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 25, 2022

Emerging Trends in Design Thinking Innovation. According to Tim Brown, Executive Chair of IDEO, “Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.”.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Design Thinking the People-centric Modern Organization. Designed thinking can be leveraged to create better and more empathy-based organizations. . Empathy, along with self-awareness are the most important cornerstones of emotional intelligence, and foundational to design thinking. . Focus on the Issues.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2019

He designed a programme which created thousands of random circuit designs. Eventually the process yielded completely novel and effective designs. Since then this approach has been used successfully in various fields – particularly in engineering and component design. Most were terrible and were eliminated.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, engineers invented the semiconductor in the United States, but the nation produces about 10% of the world’s supply today. The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. For more than 50 years, U.S.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 7, 2017

Two groups of engineering students were given a similar task – to design a bicycle rack for a car. The first group was shown an existing but poorly designed roof rack for bicycles. They looked at all the issues with the current design and then set out to come up with something better.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The shifts from the predictable to managing in (total) uncertainty required a factory of significant flexibility in design understanding, digitally prepared and physically able to be reconfigured. The manufacturing steps are engineered by an Autonomous Factory- the factory design of of the future.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2021

There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future. A sustainable design that turns today’s promise of decarbonization into a real, meaningful one that delivers tangible and quantifiable solutions in product and the extended supply chain.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Redefining Conflict Resolution: The Design Thinking Way Business conflicts have been a staple challenge since the advent of commerce. Among the most promising approaches is Design Thinking, traditionally associated with product design and user experience but increasingly recognized for its potential in resolving disputes.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

where technology, digital solutions, greater customer insights, where a new breed of designers, engineers, scientists, and software talent are combining built through a platform and new innovation ecosystems thinking, are all emerging. We have to recognize the days of simple product innovation are dwindling. coming from industry 4.0

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. One famous case is the dismissal of the digital camera concept by an engineer in the 1970s.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Roni Lev, Software Engineer at Planview. In the same way, to be a Software Engineer you need to have an extensive knowledge of programming languages. Roni Lev, a Software Engineer, is one of the faces behind the Planview Clarizen software and he knows a thing or two about all the above. .

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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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Destination Innovation

JULY 29, 2021

The Mum deodorant company took on Helen Barnett Diserens as a designer in the late 1940s. He saw it as a mechanical engineering challenge rather than a medical challenge. In the early 1940s a Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, went for a walk with his dog in the Jura mountains. Adapt an idea from elsewhere. Use a random input.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are seeing many digitally aware organizations like Apple, Amazon, Salesforce all recognizing their future innovation is reliant on innovation and digital to be tied at the hip, wedded together in a design that builds towards satisfying customer needs. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product.

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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. It is a very fragmented market, constrained by the existing designs in place. Take Aras and its solutions.[1].

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Beyond the Daily Grind: How Design Thinking Can Illuminate Your Life’s Purpose In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it’s easy to get caught up in the routine, to lose sight of what truly matters to us, and to wonder if there’s more to life than the daily grind. This is where the concept of “purpose” comes into play.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Blueprint for Bouncing Back: A Design Thinking Guide to Unemployment Life’s journey is peppered with unpredictable twists and turns. Incorporating Design Thinking into the Unemployment Phase Design Thinking isn’t just a buzzword for the corporate world; it can be a lifesaver during unemployment.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

AI Meets Design Thinking: Crafting a People-Centric Business Future Imagine this — a customer service agent can deeply empathize with a frustrated customer because an AI assistant analyzed the customer’s tone and background to provide insights ahead of time. The Renaissance of Empathy: Design Thinking Design Thinking emerged from this shift.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

PA Consulting suggested five innovation killers – fear, lack of focus, innovation engine failure, the wrong ROI and a natural reluctance to truly invest in building the right innovation capabilities. XPLANE , visualization thinkers who apply a design thinkers approach, produced brilliant visualizations of the organizations needs.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 5, 2023

Orchestrating Design Thinking and AI for a People-Centric Business Future The tapestry of business evolution tells a remarkable story. Products were no longer simply created and sold; they were designed to meet customer needs and solve their problems. From the onset of marketing in the 1950s to today, we’ve seen clear transformations.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Lead Scoring in B2B Sales: Transforming the Process with Design Thinking Lead generation and qualification is a critical aspect of B2B sales success, but it’s also a time-consuming and complex process. Benefits of Using Design Thinking for Lead Scoring Using Design Thinking to score leads have several benefits.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 29, 2021

It is where a manufacturer deliberately designs and manufactures their product in such a way that it will only work as it did initially for a limited (sometimes predetermined) amount of time, or order to encourage (or force) the consumer to purchase replacements again in the future. This is what is known as planned obsolescence.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Capturing Attention in the Digital Age: A Design Thinking Approach In the modern digital landscape, attention is the new currency, surpassing traditional commodities in value. Having explored the complex landscape of the attention economy, let’s now look into how Design Thinking serves as a strategic tool in navigating this environment.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While in the Japanese Navy he met an electrical engineer, Masru Ibuka, and in 1946 the two men decided to form a business together. They founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Corporation and their first product was an automatic rice cooker which failed to sell well. Akio Morita was not only a brilliant engineer.

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Viima

APRIL 26, 2023

The design sprint is not just about design, not only for designers, nor it has anything to do with running. A problem, after all, is at the core of good design and successful innovation. Don’t judge a book by its cover or a process by its name.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2018

We all in the middle of a re-orientation of our ways to undertake innovation as a process and in its design. It is how we design and explores “smart” products and for this we are reliant on others, having a growing dependency on external parties. We are learning to connect in completely different ways.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 28, 2024

We tend to see change as an engineering problem. There is a desired end state, so we design a logical strategy to achieve it, build a timeline and execute the plan. That’s why we need to think less like engineers and more like gardeners. It seems that, with some will and determination, we should be able to push through.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Problem Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing are the center points of the interdisciplinary product team. Product Management establishes the vision for exactly what we should make, Engineering/Development designs and builds it, and Marketing figures out how to get customers to buy it.

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