Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I have called this the “ new innovation era ” where technology is underpinning so much of innovation’s activity and outcomes. A very extensive review of risk I wrote in suggesting “ Developing a new framework for risk and innovation” Yet this post is not about the risk but the emerging possibilities.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In an expansive interview, real estate expert Steve Weikal explains how technology is changing the housing market for the better. Sometimes we joke that the real estate industry still runs off of a 41-year-old technology called the spreadsheet. The second thing that’s happening is we have all of this new technology.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Geoffrey Moore developed the concept of the "whole product" in the 1980s and the concepts are still true today, especially in high tech fields. Whole product refers to the idea that the majority of customers don't want to buy untested, unproven technologies. A seamless experience is almost by definition a designed experience.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

This is where technology enables these connections and triggers different thinking in the quest for moving toward more extraordinary valuable solutions—the “connected” value of behaviours thinking ecosystems and operating on collaborative platforms. The build-up and validation in the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Innovators reading this report should start worrying about how to get back the impact and value new innovation needs to deliver.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Many organizations face difficulties in establishing effective innovation programs, often due to misaligned strategies, unclear processes, and inadequate tools. Are there unmet customer needs that innovative solutions could address?

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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. No easy task.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 28, 2018

You look to them for information on trends, emerging technologies, psychology studies, and more. How I Built This. Why We Like It: You really get a sense of how many different ways there are for an idea to grow. Why We Like It: You really get a sense of how many different ways there are for an idea to grow. HBR IdeaCast.

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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?”. “Build only products that customers want” – sounds easy, right? However, in practice, this can be quite hard.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 6, 2024

Innovation Ecosystems are richer due to this diversity, different knowledge and market intelligence a broader group can bring into the thinking. Why is this thinking and designing in Innovation Ecosystems important today? *It How to convince Business Organizations to consider Innovation Ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. What is Design Thinking? Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This report provides a definitive innovation benchmarking document for leaders in strategy, R&D, design, and other innovation roles inside large organizations. Is that due to it being “too risky” or the appetite for change, is less but due to what? Apologies if I might have felt uncomfortable on this point.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 8, 2018

In today’s dose of inspiration, I wanted to give you an insight into one of the most innovative technologies of the past few years which has the potential to revolutionise entire industries: machine learning. If you want to be a startup on the cutting edge of buzzwords, you have two major avenues right now.

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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. How these are fully and successfully integrated remains a challenge for most to resolve today. It is this ‘raw’ power of technology that is transforming much.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Preparing for a Successful Offsite The foundation of an effective strategy offsite design lies in meticulous preparation. Designing the Offsite Experience The offsite experience is pivotal in determining the success of an executive strategy session.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

These being, firstly a decline in the level and speed of innovation , partly due to lower investments in research and development and also a continuing uneven adoption of innovation across individual economies and the world at large. Both of these policy issues are very much part of the incumbent innovator’s dilemma to resolve.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Innovators often create technologies or products, which have interesting capabilities or features, but rarely do they think through the actual use of the products and understand how they fit in with other products, services, infrastructure, channels and data that exist in a customer's life.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Management 144

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Digital technology has been involved in the energy system for decades. What is new, is the pace of digitalization occurring through technological innovation, providing solutions that enable the energy system to be transformed? Digitalization brings us closer to the end-user – knowing your grid edge and how to respond.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here’s how to get your strategy in tip-top shape: Mission Statement : What’s your reason for waking up every morning? To spice up your planning process, including getting creative with design thinking, pop over to how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2023

image source Introduction Companies rely heavily on hiring talented tech professionals to gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving technology-driven world. However, finding and hiring the right tech talent can be daunting. A company’s success often hinges on the quality of its tech talent.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Learn how to get those creative juices flowing with tools such as: Google Docs Visual Thesaurus Coggle and more. How Does Globalization Impact Innovation Strategy? New technologies and ideas can spread quickly across the world, closing the gap to bring these matters together. Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. How to Connect with Customers. With today’s technology, you can connect with customers online as well as in-person. Review the unsuccessful ones too.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 24, 2024

We must emphasise the importance of ecosystem governance, providing a comprehensive structure for designing a practical framework. These could involve a governing body or council with representatives from different ecosystem participants or a more decentralized approach leveraging technologies like blockchain.

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CMOE

AUGUST 19, 2021

Collaboration is crucial to your team’s success but how can you increase collaboration at work? Organizations consist of team members who possess a wide variety of skills, so team leaders must understand how to leverage these skills to benefit their employees’ development and the organization’s strategic goals.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Joseph Brookes about the Innovation Metrics Review , a report that assesses the way Australia is currently measuring innovation, and then makes recommendations on how it can be improved. The review was released by the new government on September 30th 2022. Topics and Insights . (01:00)

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 1, 2022

Recently caught up with Jacob Borgeson on the Tech Backstage Podcast. The Tech Backstage Podcast is a live streamed video podcast that goes behind the scenes with today’s leaders of industry to learn what technologies are solving business problems, and how Design Thinking applied to the future of technology is impacting the world.

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Data Technical Review Marketing Design Thinking 118

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems. By showing a more compelling rationale, you can showcase how effective business cases have led to successful change initiatives and increased ROI in the use of human, technology and AI combinations.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Optimize value : How to develop their ideas into strong value propositions and business plans, how to work together with others to optimize the value of these over time. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources. Organizational Alignment .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Optimize value : How to develop their ideas into strong value propositions and business plans, how to work together with others to optimize the value of these over time. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources. Organizational Alignment .

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Over 90% of the world’s leading banks are either exploring, experimenting (PoCs), or formulating a strategy for leveraging blockchain technology, says an Accenture survey. How to get started with blockchain. But when it comes to intra-organizational processes, challenges arise due to process design and lack of mutual trust.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2019

She worked at MIT, IBM, Xerox PARC and DARPA and invented dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools. It was IBM’s loss, as her later work at MIT, Xerox and DARPA on VLSI microchip design revolutionised the industry. However, her journey was not a simple one.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Why You Should Embrace AI in Your Business Planning Embracing AI in your business planning is not just about keeping up with technology trendsit’s about seizing opportunities to innovate and outperform competitors. Scalability: Design AI systems that can scale with your business, accommodating growth and expansion.

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Artificial Inteligence Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

A brand is continuously determined by the service and how it fits within the individual’s life. This is having a more connected set of components coming from technology, built into the value proposition. As technology continues to change the way we do business, we move from being internally directed to externally driven.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 29, 2024

Breaking down Resistance to Business Ecosystems Resistance to Business Ecosystems does need to be broken down and addressed to realize the power of Ecosystem thinking and Design and its growing value to Enterprises. So why are we not doing this today?

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Technical Review Collaboration Culture Data 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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