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MARCH 26, 2025

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. It gives teams permission to explore and adapt while staying aligned with business goals and resource constraints.

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MARCH 26, 2025

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 model is designed to help organizations strike a balance between optimizing current operations and exploring new frontiers.

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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. What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building.

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MARCH 21, 2025

For example, AI can streamline ai for rapid prototyping and testing processes, reducing the time and resources required to bring a product to market. Predictive Modeling : AI can predict the performance of different prototypes, helping you identify the most promising designs early in the process.

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APRIL 1, 2025

By integrating AI into organizational design, you can streamline processes, improve decision-making, and optimize resource allocation. Optimized Resource Allocation : AI can help you identify areas where resources are underutilized or overextended, allowing you to allocate them more effectively.

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APRIL 1, 2025

This leads to more efficient use of resources and time, ultimately boosting productivity. Benefits of Integrating AI in Workflow Design Integrating AI into your workflow design offers numerous benefits. For more on how AI can be integrated into organizational design, visit our article on ai in organizational design.

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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. It provides a structured method to think through business design, adapt to market changes, and scale innovation efforts.

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APRIL 1, 2025

This can lead to better resource allocation, project prioritization, and overall team performance. Learn more about optimizing workflows with AI in our article on ai in workflow design. Benefit Description Improved Decision-Making AI provides actionable insights for better resource allocation and project prioritization.

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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. It promotes agility, customer focus, and data-driven decision-making by minimizing time and resource waste on ideas that may not deliver value.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Design Thinking : AI can assist in the design thinking process by providing data-driven insights and automating repetitive tasks. Learn more in our article on AI in design thinking. Rapid prototyping helps in identifying design flaws, gathering user feedback, and making necessary adjustments to improve the final product.

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MARCH 21, 2025

AI in Design Thinking : Enhancing the design thinking process by identifying user needs and generating creative solutions ( ai in design thinking ). Conducting this assessment helps you prioritize AI initiatives and allocate resources more effectively. For insights on this, read our piece on AI in design thinking.

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MARCH 21, 2025

It ensures that resources are allocated to concepts with the highest potential for success. Cost-Effectiveness : By automating the concept testing process, AI reduces the need for extensive human resources and manual analysis. This can lead to significant cost savings and allow you to allocate resources more effectively.

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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 is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies. It is widely used in agile innovation, design thinking, lean startup, and product development methodologies.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2024

The framework looks to 1) tap into collective intelligence, 2) accelerate innovation by cross-pollination, 3) enhance resilience and agility, 4) deliver superior customer experience, and 5) optimize resource utilization across the parties sharing in this interconnected ecosystem. Post two : Interdependence and Feedback Loops.

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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. Innovation Ecosystem in thinking and design has been emerging for me The value of ecosystem thinking and design to innovate solutions cannot be overstated.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Company Leveraging internal strengths, resources, and capabilities to create competitive advantages. Why Ohmae’s 3Cs Model is Important Many businesses struggle with poor market alignment, inefficient resource allocation, and ineffective competitive strategies. Financial stability and resource allocation.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Any construct of a Strategically designed innovation plan needs to work through different concepts and tools. We use a specific image of the three horizons within the conversation but by simply typing “ three horizons ” into the search bar on this site you do get to an extended resource around the 3H.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Consider a medical device company designing a new glucose monitor. It allows companies to differentiate their offerings based on unmet needs and design features that directly support the customer’s job to be done. This prioritization helps guide ideation and resource allocation. Design specifications and UX goals.

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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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MARCH 19, 2025

Align business resources with core competencies for maximum efficiency. Why Kays Distinctive Capabilities Framework is Important Many businesses struggle with competitive differentiation, resource misalignment, and strategic drift. Optimizes Resource Allocation Ensures businesses invest in areas that drive unique value.

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MARCH 21, 2025

For more strategies on incorporating AI into your innovation initiatives, visit our article on ai in design thinking. Efficient Resource Allocation : AI will optimize resource allocation by identifying the most promising projects and allocating resources accordingly. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. Ecosystem design will create new business opportunities. The need to channel your resources into more productive value-added activities is essential as ‘good’ resources are growing in scarcity. We need to make the business case.

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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. For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design. AI can help design experiments and analyze results.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 4, 2025

Comparing Operating Models to change to Business Ecosystems Forget how you operate in traditional business models if you are considering the value and benefits of applying Ecosystem thinking and designs. This enables organization to recognize and then to extract the real benefits out of Ecosystem thinking and Design.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

For me, a handy number of analytical or visualization tools applied to where and how the function and design of innovations fit help deepen the understanding and “bubble up” to the board the right questions they need to address in support of their decision for change. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs.

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MARCH 21, 2025

This helps you prioritize projects and allocate resources more effectively. For further reading on AI applications in innovation, visit our article on ai in design thinking. This capability is particularly useful for ai-driven market research and ai-powered trend analysis.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

Businesses often seek to prove that a new idea, product, or service will succeed before they commit resources to launching it. Design a test to validate or invalidate this assumption quickly and cheaply. In fact, uncertainty is one of the strongest fundamental fears most people suffer from. Consider a company developing a new app.

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MARCH 19, 2025

For example, Apples Hedgehog Concept revolves around designing premium, user-friendly technology that integrates hardware and software seamlessly, differentiating it from competitors. Preventing over-diversification and inefficient resource allocation. Improves Resource Allocation Directs investments into high-impact areas.

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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. Spot emerging trends and opportunities to inform product or service design. Environmental: Sustainability concerns, climate impact, resource use.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Why Value Disciplines Model is Important Many companies struggle with strategic ambiguity, lack of differentiation, and inefficient resource allocation. Guiding investment and resource allocation for maximum impact. Improves Resource Focus Ensures investments align with the companys primary value discipline.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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. Resource Swag : Make sure you’ve got the budget, crew, and tech ready to power your creative projects. Check out our piece on design thinking for planning.

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MARCH 18, 2025

Unlike later entrants who must struggle against established customer bases and supply chains, first movers can set industry standards, establish strong brand identities, and secure critical resources. Secure strategic resources and partnerships. Create barriers to entry for competitors. Leverage economies of scale and network effects.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Explore how AI can help in ai in workflow design. AI-powered data analysis can help you: Identify performance gaps Predict future trends Optimize resource allocation Enhance employee engagement For example, AI can analyze employee performance data to identify areas where additional training may be needed.

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