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

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 14, 2021

It's just one of several, but I think I like it the best: a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. Several important things to note about this definition: It is a plan of action or a policy - that is, strategy is extenuated over a period of time. Strategy is not a momentary action or a project.

Strategy 219

Strategy Strategy Innovation Policies 219

Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

The biggest obstacle impacting women today is the subconscious biases impacting perception of competence,” said Shaddix, whose background includes marketing and tech policy research. Overcoming adversity. Follow up regularly with specific updates about how you acted on their advice. Leading the way.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Training Technology Software Review 246

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 24, 2020

Technologies are emerging based on several solution needs: Ones that are grid edge in design, meaning more customer-facing and power-flow controls. Each of these initiatives “demands” new technology design. These new technologies need to break into the existing lifecycle of energy design to substitute incumbent solutions.

Innovation 223

Innovation Design System Technology 223

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

Innovation 189

Innovation Technical Review Innovation Programs Collaboration 189

Destination Innovation

JULY 13, 2017

Policy makers advise that people should retrain into higher skilled professions. Design humorous, provocative or eye-catching marketing campaigns. Robots can not only absorb a large body of knowledge and rules. They can also adapt and learn on the job. Where does that leave the displaced humans? The standard answer is education.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Policies Analysis Trends 130

IdeaScale

AUGUST 31, 2021

While relief was sent out relatively quickly, the sudden rise in unemployment, and ongoing impacts on markets, made it difficult for many to keep food on the table. It teamed up with a major consulting firm to design a social innovation challenge. Were there unexpected resources that came to the fore?

Survey 225

Survey Social Innovation Policies Strategy 225

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The technological and digital innovative solution needs to focus on the overall system design and the operation needs. The value within such a highly evolving market like energy transitions, the functional effects can be related to the risks of the dysfunctional. Does it make sense?

Technology 215

Technology Innovation System Design 215

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Dyson disrupted the vacuum cleaner market by creating bagless vacuum cleaners, a concept that challenged the traditional vacuum design and improved performance. LEGO’s User-Generated Content Platform : LEGO Ideas is an online platform where users can submit their own LEGO set designs.

Strategy 176

Strategy Strategy Software Creativity 176

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

But no sooner had business begun to slowly recover from the pandemic than the job market began to experience an unprecedented evolution: the Great Resignation. How do your HR leaders design work models to ensure both employee productivity and well-being? Workplace policies should also reflect your corporate culture.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Policies Culture Underperforming Technical Team 246

HYPE Innovation

AUGUST 5, 2015

(open) innovation activities are associated with reduced research costs, risk spreading and bringing ideas to market more quickly – I would like to share with you a few tips on how to design an innovation event (day) for your small and medium-sized organization or your business community/ circle including clients, suppliers, universities and even policy-makers. (..)

Design 100

Design Engagement Innovation Management Tips 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Innovation Policy : An innovation policy provides guidance and direction for the innovation program, defining the types of innovation that will be pursued, how innovation projects will be prioritized, and how intellectual property will be managed. In any document, feedback and suggestions should be actively sought.

Innovation Programs 147

Innovation Programs Innovation Policies Collaboration 147

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Deployment here is not just in the market, but it is in commercializing concepts; from the invention, concept validation, prototype stages, demonstration, integration into our parts of the system, through to full scale to commercialization and final proof of stability, and offering financial and justifiable returns.

Management 214

Management Technical Review Innovation System 214

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 15, 2020

In the past two weeks, the Germany Government announced its new Hydrogen Policy, quickly followed by the European Unions Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen. It can address a wide variety of existing and new markets where electrolyzers can play a significant role. Why Hydrogen? Exploring this further. “

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Industry Technology Policies 207

Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What are the ASBN’s three policy areas and how do they affect business? The American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) works with its members to develop a vision and policy framework for a sustainable market-based economy. The circular economy envisions a new way of consuming and producing goods that is regenerative by design.

Policies 130

Policies Design Training Creativity 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Innovation needs to be broader than just being conducted through technological research and development; it requires a more significant integrated innovation model with business models, policies, processes, and market design as part of the solutions.

Change 147

Change Innovation Policies System 147

Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Somalia’s famines are typically intensified by international policies designed to fight terrorism. Tensions between counter-terrorism and humanitarian action policies also make it difficult to aid Somalia for fear that the aid would be misappropriated. Potential solutions to Somalia’s struggles.

Policies 136

Policies Marketing Resources Survey 136

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In some recent posts, I argued that we need to adopt a broader innovation ecosystem thinking and design. Still, barriers do need to be consciously built into any new thinking as ones “to be resolved” in any new solution design. They need a more fluid, highly adaptive design. Let me outline many of these here.

Innovation 162

Innovation Software Review Technical Review Creative Process 162

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Is it because of this traditional way of working, designed into the company, that we are all becoming disengaged and disenchanted with what we do? But still, our advanced societies find it hard to make robust policy for a complex innovation system.” Innovation flies in the direct opposite to this need of corporate design.

Innovation 222

Innovation Innovation Programs Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 10, 2020

I see myself as the Outsider looking into the Energy World and still struggle in the world of Engineers, Scientists, and Policy Makers. The significant potential for new market design, different business models, and system operation solutions offers a real business opportunity that needs triggering.

Innovation 261

Innovation System Design Change 261

Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

In cities in the USA the Restoring Inner City Peace (RIP) programme was designed to reduce violence by teenagers by shocking them with visits to prisons and mortuaries. Marketing departments have long used trials to test offers. They then launch their radical new approach with a fanfare of marketing expenditure.

Innovation 198

Innovation Groups Examples Marketing 198

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This includes both processes and policies. For instance, a cross-functional team can be assigned the task of designing a socially innovative campaign. By doing so, you are designating resources to the act but not isolating it from the organization altogether. Separate it from the business units, but don’t isolate it from them.

Social Innovation 245

Social Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Change Innovation 245

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 25, 2021

How Innovation Marketing Helps Disruptors Launch New Products. Innovation marketing is a discipline that encompasses activities and novel processes to introduce and deliver entirely new products. Innovation marketing is playing a leading role in securing and increasing the success of products in markets that are becoming saturated.”.

Marketing 81

Marketing Innovation Web Development Web Developers 81

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In fact, research shows that companies practicing open innovation achieve faster time-to-market and often realize higher revenue from new products. Faster Time to Market : Leveraging external resources can shorten development cycles, allowing companies to respond to trends and customer needs more swiftly.

Open Innovation 52

Open Innovation Software Innovation Management Strategy 52

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 24, 2016

Whilst the practice of “build-test-fail-learn-iterate” can lead to elegant innovation and superior user experiences in relatively simple, linear 1:1 company-customer markets such as consumer goods or tech, in markets characterised by many stakeholders with often competing interests, design thinking is less effective.

Design Thinking 75

Design Thinking Design Technical Review Marketing 75

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 9, 2019

A radical redesign of the energy system in the supporting policies, regulations, and subsidies in existence today and needed to make this a fully greener energy system. The dependence on innovation to transform the system through technological solutions, market redesign, and new business models.

Technical Review 177

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Innovation System 177

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

For policy makers around the global all working to design the most optimum innovation conditions they might not be considering enough the true effects their individual policy decision means, it might actually be undermining the very thing they are attempting to achieve.

Policies 100

Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 100

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 9, 2020

There will be a very different set of winners and losers in marketing understanding and communicating their offerings. Guardian Article. We are about to enter a very different business and social world, where the name of the game will be to hold onto what we have got and fight for survival.

Technical Review 321

Technical Review Engagement Creativity Change 321

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2023

So far, we are doing a poor job of this as markets, solutions, opinions, and financial support are all highly fragmented. Tacking emerging and developing markets is even harder to achieve an energy transition. To make the transformation in just under 30 years is a massive task.

Innovation 147

Innovation Policies Report Groups 147

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Any governance design needs to be clean, robust, open and transparent , not opaque and closed to a selected few as this opens up to criticism, cynicism or favouritism. Be the warning point of change- be that in scope, markets, delays or changes. Having those rules of the road or guiding principles really helps.

Innovation 195

Innovation Guidelines Report Resources 195

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Start-up Ecosystem as a distinct entity helps in developing targeted policies, support structures, and resources to foster entrepreneurship and drive economic growth through new venture creation. This stage is crucial for testing, validating, and refining innovations, ensuring they can survive in the market.

Entrepreneurship 130

Entrepreneurship Policies Engagement Disruption 130

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 2, 2021

No, when I am talking about understanding the future, I'd like it to be a bit more practical - say a future two or three years from now, with just enough notice about the impending changes that my company can structure new solutions in order to meet shifting market demands. Why do we fail to act on this?

Artificial Inteligence 196

Artificial Inteligence Trends Data Marketing 196

Christensen Institute

JANUARY 10, 2023

Since the book’s release, members of the Global Prosperity team have presented our ideas on market-creating innovations (MCI) in more than 30 countries , developed an MCI bootcamp , and written numerous articles on the critical role of market-creating innovations in igniting prosperity globally. Financing market-creating innovations.

Marketing 114

Marketing Project Design Policies 114

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

IRENA serves as the primary platform for international co-operation, be a center of excellence and a repository of policy technology, resource, and financial knowledge on renewable energy. To date, we have not generated co-ordination in policies, collaborations, and commitments to shared risks. We need to be more pioneering.

Technology 162

Technology Report Innovation Artificial Inteligence 162

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2020

Still, these are not connected up as we do not yet have a Hydrogen infrastructure, market, or overarching policies to build into a movement that shifts the energy needle. There is so much to validate, prove, and certainly scale. We have some exciting pilots, even some full commercial-scale projects.

Resources 336

Resources System Technology Change 336

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities. Adjust policies, procedures, and organization practices to facilitate new idea implementation. Gaining customer insights.

Underperforming Technical Team 189

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Project 189