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.

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Leapfrogging

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. White Space Innovation in Innovation In practice, White Space Innovation serves as a catalyst for transformation.

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MARCH 26, 2025

What is the 70-20-10 Innovation Rule ? The 70-20-10 Innovation Rule is a strategic framework that guides organizations in allocating time, budget, and resources across three categories of innovation: core, adjacent, and disruptive. This structured approach helps companies avoid innovation imbalance.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way innovation professionals approach product roadmapping and strategic planning. AI tools can process information at a speed and accuracy that surpasses human capabilities, providing you with insights that drive innovation forward.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your innovation projects. AI algorithms analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and provide insights that can drive decision-making processes.

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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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2024

A few weeks ago, I saw an article in Fast Company about the layoffs at IDEO , one of the world’s most respected Design Thinking firms. In fact, IDEO was one of the pioneers of Design Thinking back in the late 1970s, but the process of using Design Thinking as part of innovation work really exploded in the 1990s and 2000s.

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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 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you approach innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your creative processes, streamline idea generation, and foster a culture of innovation within your organization. This makes AI an invaluable asset in the realm of innovation management.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you manage innovation. By leveraging AI, you can streamline various aspects of the innovation process, from idea generation to product launch. Design Thinking : AI can assist in the design thinking process by providing data-driven insights and automating repetitive tasks.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

For that, we require ingenuity in our abilities to break through present seemingly difficult barriers in technologies, and this calls for breakthrough innovation. The importance of innovation is across the board. Innovation is required in all areas of research, development, demonstration, and deployment, to have equal focus.

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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. Innovation often involves uncertainty. What is the Experiment Canvas?

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Leapfrogging

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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

But heres the uncomfortable truth: you can never prove your innovation will succeed. The Futility of Proof in Innovation Why is it impossible to prove an innovation will succeed? Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. Innovation requires the same humility.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Rapid Prototyping is a method used to quickly create physical or digital models of a product idea using tools like CAD (Computer-Aided Design), 3D printing, and iterative development software. The process encourages experimentation and validation, allowing for faster design cycles, improved usability, and better product-market fit.

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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. Through regular use, the Context Map Canvas becomes a living reference that supports strategic foresight and adaptive innovation. What is Context Map Canvas?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. Instead of building a rigid business plan based on speculative projections, DDP encourages teams to identify key uncertainties, design experiments, and refine the strategy as new information emerges.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing advanced tools and methodologies to enhance creativity and efficiency. As an innovation professional, you can leverage AI to analyze vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and predict future trends.

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Leapfrogging

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. SCAMPER in Innovation SCAMPER plays a strategic role in innovation by helping teams move beyond status quo solutions. What is SCAMPER?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. My fun has been piecing these together to lead me to my suggested Vertical and Horizontal Framework for achieving a different innovation management design. Innovation Stacks become essential.

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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. There are new ways to capture, extract and deliver value.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Validating new ideas is crucial in the innovation process. This process helps in minimizing risks and maximizing the chances of developing successful products or services. AI can also automate repetitive tasks, allowing innovation professionals to focus on more strategic activities.

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Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Innovation Management 130

Leapfrogging

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

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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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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MARCH 26, 2025

Developed by Alexander Osterwalder, this tool allows organizations to design, describe, analyze, and iterate on their business strategies. The tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation, nonprofit planning, and product development. Follow these steps to apply it to your innovation project. Are assumptions validated?

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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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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. 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.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency.

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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. Make clear the different types of innovation, and demonstrate why it’s important.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. 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.

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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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Board of Innovation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Experimentation is a key component of any innovation validation track, regardless of industry, goal, and even budgets. Innovation validation helps lower the risk of our innovation processes, and allows for informed decision making as we move forward.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Six Thinking Hats in Innovation In innovation projects, decision-making is rarely linear. The Six Thinking Hats framework provides a disciplined yet flexible way to structure this process. Below is a step-by-step guide for applying the framework in innovation projects. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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