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MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your innovation processes, streamline collaboration, and drive more effective outcomes. This allows you to make more informed decisions and accelerate the innovation cycle.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. This data-driven process minimizes guesswork and informs go/no-go decisions.

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MARCH 26, 2025

This structured, data-driven approach reveals innovation opportunities that might otherwise remain hidden. By using ODI, organizations can build offerings that align more precisely with market demand, increase customer satisfaction, and create lasting competitive advantage. Providing a prioritized innovation roadmap backed by data.

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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. For more on how AI can be integrated into different innovation methodologies, visit our article on ai in innovation management.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For more insights on how AI can be utilized in different stages of innovation, explore our article on ai in innovation management. Here are some key advantages: Enhanced Data Analysis : AI algorithms can process and analyze large datasets quickly, providing you with valuable insights that would be difficult to obtain manually.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. This makes the path to market smoother and more predictable.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For instance, AI can assist in ai for idea generation by analyzing market trends and customer feedback to suggest new concepts. Additionally, AI can be integrated into ai in design thinking to streamline the design process and improve user experience. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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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. This structured approach helps companies avoid innovation imbalance.

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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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MARCH 26, 2025

Disruptive Innovation is a framework that describes how new products or business models can transform industries by offering simpler, more affordable, or more accessible alternatives to existing offerings. As they improve and gain market traction, they shift industry standards and expectations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. By validating ideas early, you can identify potential flaws, understand market needs, and refine your concepts before significant investments are made. This process helps in minimizing risks and maximizing the chances of developing successful products or services.

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MARCH 21, 2025

For more information on how AI can enhance your creative processes, explore our article on ai in design thinking. AI-powered tools can also assist in other areas of innovation management, such as ai-driven market research , ai for rapid prototyping , and ai in product roadmapping. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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MARCH 26, 2025

Developed by Alexander Osterwalder, this tool allows organizations to design, describe, analyze, and iterate on their business strategies. Map out alternative models when pivoting or entering new markets. It provides a structured method to think through business design, adapt to market changes, and scale innovation efforts.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Innovation Lifecycle Management (ILM) refers to the systematic process of managing the journey of an idea from inception to market release. For innovation professionals, understanding each phase is crucial to ensure that new products or services are successfully developed and launched.

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MARCH 26, 2025

What is White Space Innovation? White Space Innovation is a strategic framework used to identify and pursue growth opportunities beyond a companys current product lines, markets, or business models. This approach encourages curiosity, risk-taking, and adaptabilitytraits essential for thriving in uncertain markets.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Traditionally used in manufacturing and operations to track metrics like production time, cost efficiency, and quality, benchmarking has evolved into a broader innovation and strategy tool. It now applies across business functions, including customer service, technology, marketing, supply chain, and product development.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market. AI in innovation management is not just about automating processes; it’s about augmenting your decision-making capabilities with data-driven insights.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. Let’s relax….wrong;

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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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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.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws. Innovation keeps strategic planning fresh by finding new angles and solutions to old headaches.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Futility of Proof in Innovation Why is it impossible to prove an innovation will succeed? Markets evolve, customer behavior shifts, and competitors adapt. Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. Because the variables influencing success are outside of your control.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

What is Agile Innovation Template? Agile Innovation is a dynamic approach to project execution that breaks initiatives into small, manageable tasks, enabling organizations to rapidly adapt to market changes. Innovation is no longer optional in todays fast-paced business landscape.

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MARCH 3, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can fundamentally transform your consulting practice and gain a competitive edge in the market. Predictive Analytics : AI’s predictive analytics can provide foresight into market trends and client needs, helping you stay ahead of the curve. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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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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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.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The S-Curve Mapping template is one of the most helpful tools I’ve come across for helping individuals determine where their business stands within the current market landscape. . S-Curve Mapping is the process used to identify where a business sits in the current innovation ecosystem compared to other businesses in the market.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

Social innovation refers to both the new strategies, concepts and ideas innovated to meet the social needs of society (including, but not limited to, working conditions, education, health, and community development) as well as the social processes of innovation, including open innovation techniques.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Market Share Are you David or Goliath in the market? Innovation Rate Anything fresh on the menu lately? Grab more wisdom on keeping the innovation fire burning in our piece on staying ahead in today’s ever-tumbling world. It’s a hands-on human-centric process all about coming up with fresh, out-of-the-box solutions.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I took a look at 1) how can AI drive innovation in different ways, 2) would this require a new operating model and 3) how the innovation workflow will require a transformational change to the operating model and 4) the outcome of a fundamental rethinking of how innovation is approached and executed.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum. Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process.

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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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