Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Operating sustainably is not only good for the environment but also good for business.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 148

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

The gender gap in tech is persistent, but it can be addressed by offering resources, fostering inclusive workplaces, and implementing policies that promote equity. The gender gap in tech remains due to a number of factors including lack of job security, gender bias, and work-life balance issues.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Leadership How To Software Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 24, 2022

The three degrees of ecosystem design- the innovating equation. In any ecosystem thinking and design, we do need to find this “sweet spot” for encouraging more innovation. Within business, ecosystem thinking and design have become central to how organizations go about their search for value and impact.

Design 183

Design Technical Review Software Review Collaboration 183

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. The innovative design has become paramount to these new offerings. Ecosystem design will create new business opportunities.

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Radical Innovation Technical Review Engagement Innovation 322

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.

Design 148

Design Technical Review Collaboration ChatGPT 148

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And now more than ever, in this prolonged pandemic that has fueled economic and social disparities, access to technology and the right technology tools are a critical part of that. One thing that emerged from the survey responses is that the accelerated shift to technology in 2020 and beyond has highlighted the need for broadband.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Technology Survey Software Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2024

My review of 2024 from a posting perspective has been a really positive one. The split between sites was fairly even as I continue to increase my focus on building the building case for Ecosystems, in thinking and design. We need to build out from open innovation into ecosystem thinking and design.

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Technical Review Open Innovation Innovation Design 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The work undertaken is often seen as a drain, not repeatable, and poor on the efficient definition of understanding we have in place today as the work undertaken, not yielding the returns if the concept is more radical due to time horizons or business model constraints. Today we live in a more connected world, technology has enabled this.

Technical Review 209

Technical Review Innovation Software Review Design 209

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. She and HPH staff designed a simple form for reporting tasks that were poorly designed, unnecessary, or just made no sense.

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System Technical Review Report Leadership 144

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

How often are they missing the strategic mark due to their inability to find that innovative pathway? Firstly the work mat offers an open design that gives a framework for a comprehensive dialogue of what is central to the make-up of innovation. I believe there is a real utility of purpose in this open design.

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Design Leadership Innovation Engagement 319

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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Technical Review Innovation Industry Technology 235

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. Equally the nature of much of production has been designed “on the fly” and the equally tough job of connecting the whole process up in a new integrated, fully connected system meets huge resistance.

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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When implementing responsible computing initiatives, companies run into a common problem: They rush to deploy their respective programs before they’ve finished designing them. 3) Have you designed RAI metrics, such as KPIs and OKRs? 8) Have you designed an implementation playbook?

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Design Roadmap Training Resources 139

Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future yet it is still the need for the human touch will still be essential. As we form more around ecosystem thinking and design, design thinking will be essential as the significant enabler to creative input.

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Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 97

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.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Technology Management Software Review 130

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation. It has grown from humble beginnings into a sophisticated technology capable of producing remarkable output.” Arthur D Little offer a well-stated position of innovation today in this detailed review.

ChatGPT 183

ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Innovation 183

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Their approach to solutions are designed to keep strategy visible and continuously aligned with operational execution throughout the initiative life cycle and in my opinion that becomes vital to push as hard as they can. It is a very fragmented market, constrained by the existing designs in place.

Innovation Management 200

Innovation Management Management Software Review Software 200

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 183

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.

Software Review 246

Software Review Software Innovation Design 246

Business and Tech

JUNE 20, 2023

According to the CDC, dental cavities are among the most common chronic diseases in children , and kids miss about 34 million hours of school due to unexpected dental complications. We offer innovative and flexible plan designs to ensure our members receive convenient access to dental and vision care,” Dr. Fry said.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Survey Analysis Company 246

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 8, 2019

My good friend and collaborator Paul Hobcraft is constantly reviewing new reports and creating insights of his own, which inundate me with more information. Most new technologies are first deployed to reduce costs or improve efficiencies. Lately I've been drinking from the firehose. Well, teaching may be a strong word.

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Artificial Inteligence Learning Technical Review Big Data 179

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The ability to manage innovation design, function, structure and process.

Design 130

Design Creativity Agile Resources 130

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The authors suggest a framework, Design for Dialogue, for reimagining their processes to mirror the back-and-forth collaboration of human dynamics to create an effective and adaptable human–AI workflow. At the heart of the framework are three primary components: task analysis, interaction protocols, and feedback loops.

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Design Analysis Collaboration Company 145

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 15, 2020

Kevin, without doubt, is an outstanding, knowledgeable technology evangelist for all things relating to the Energy Transition. I certainly believe we will see emerging a lot of new inventions and innovations to get the Electrolyzer based on PEM technology Industrial ready. ”( Bloomberg / Siemens).

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Technical Review Industry Technology Policies 208

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

New companies can gain access to robust technology quickly, piece it together and launch alternatives that reflect a more relevant, current and needed set of solutions. Is that due to it being “too risky” or the appetite for change, is less but due to what? source Wikipeda) Today the reversal is happening.

Software Review 212

Software Review Software Technical Review Innovation 212

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?

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Innovation Policies Collaboration 140

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the past few months, I have been writing consistently on the need to change our innovating process, thinking and designs into Innovation Ecosystem ones. I am focusing here on arguing for changing our innovation process on the Business-to-Business or Industry-to-industry, not the retail or consumer ecosystems and their designs.

Innovation 205

Innovation Technical Review Design Collaboration 205

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For me, the energy transition that the world is undertaking requires all forms of innovation, to offer technically advanced, as well as breakthrough solutions, to an incredibly complex system of energy delivery. The critical enabler will come from technology and systemic innovation. The societal inhibitor is a real impediment.

Management 214

Management Technical Review Innovation System 214

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. What is Design Thinking? Empathize : Understanding the needs of those you’re designing for.

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Design Thinking Design Artificial Inteligence Strategy 113

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. In Summary.

Collaboration 241

Collaboration Design Innovation Technical Review 241

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.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Design Thinking Design Analysis 113

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I am looking at this energy transition through the eyes of the innovator, as it offers so much in new solutions and designs that any innovator would love to be part of. Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.”

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Report System 145

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What companies and management don’t realise is that this is a completely normal human reaction.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 14, 2020

That will come from the use of the physical space and technology warning us of possible threats. Invention and innovation thinking will come to the fore; technology will be far more used to protect us, to notify us or alert us. We will become even more reliant on our smartphone.

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Technical Review Innovation System Meeting 344

IdeaScale

AUGUST 28, 2018

You look to them for information on trends, emerging technologies, psychology studies, and more. Some companies have success due to collaboration, sometimes it’s due to someone’s singular vision, sometimes it’s because of dogged persistence and sometimes it’s luck. If you’re like us, you love podcasts! How I Built This.

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