Imaginatik

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Imaginatik will be attending the 5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) in San Francisco, CA on December 13th and 14th. We’ve partnered with our valued customer, The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) to develop and submit an open innovation paper describing our work together and the resulting economic impact.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Feeling trapped, break out of the box with Innovation Ecosystems We continue to fail to unlock the full potential of innovation. I continue to receive reports on the latest surveys on the management of open innovation and its progress. We are trapped in a ever decreasing cycle.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Evolutionary thinking makes Innovation different When we are conceptualizing organization structures and relationships in Ecosystem thinking and design we often begin by attempting to relate this to Natural Ecosystems. We need to stop trying to predict the unpredictable and instead build systems that can adapt to whatever comes.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested reading: 13 – Budgets for Micro-Innovations.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2023

A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted and waits to be transformed. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.”

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Software Review Software Innovation Technical Review 211

Destination Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

Spigit is a leading innovation management software company. They recently published a research paper entitled ‘Quantifying a Culture of Innovation.’ They found that four factors were particularly important for success with innovation and growth. Quantifying a Culture of Innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. What is Open Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative. It allows you to search and build on others specialization that “greater” innovation. Regretfully we are not yet fully equipped to manage these new innovation ecosystems.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Open innovation (OI) can be a powerful approach for organizations to find groundbreaking ideas, develop new products and solve difficult problems. I have been involved in hundreds of open innovation projects — I have seen huge successes and, of course, many failures. Don’t Do it Once. Don’t Do it Yourself.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Innovation is certainly a complex and dynamic process that involves many factors and actors and I certainly feel it has been shifting in its focus. I decided to ask GPT-4 what major shifts have occurred in how we approached innovation ten years ago and today. It was suggested that these were the following.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. Difference in approach to disruption.

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Change Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 196

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. For more insights on AI in innovation, explore our article on AI in open innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

I've been reading and thinking a lot lately about what is described as a "culture of innovation". I think a culture of innovation is kind of like a unicorn: it would be cool if it existed, and some people claim to have seen one, but when you get up close it's just a normal animal that happens to be missing a horn.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Connecting innovation, business, dynamics, and enterprise is crucial for creativity, growth, adaptability and growth.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Breakthrough innovation isnt about minor upgrades or gradual improvements. But what exactly qualifies as breakthrough innovation? How does it differ from other forms of innovation? To start, lets take a closer look at what breakthrough innovation really means. Its about making leaps that redefine whats possible.

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Change Innovation Artificial Inteligence Crowdsourcing 52

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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. The open innovation process here self-organizes the proper fit for start-up-to-problem-solution pairing.

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Yet2

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

In the beginning of 2020 business disruption was largely viewed as an “Airbnb” or “Uber” taking mind and market share from industry stalwarts. Today, business disruption is synonymous with COVID-19 closures and the corresponding economic slowdown. Disruption is really about a change in business as usual. And it’s not always bad.

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eZassi

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Guide to Business Model Innovation Business model innovation is a competitive strategy offering organizations a way to redefine their value proposition, operational structure, and revenue streams. What is Business Model Innovation? Companies that fail to innovate risk being displaced by more agile competitors.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Innovation is the unlocking mechanism.

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IdeaScale

MAY 23, 2017

Disruptive isn’t a dirty word, but it can be a scary one. Why does the word “disruptive” raise such fear among so many people? Uttering “disruptive” during a meeting can get you looks more along the lines of profanity. At the same time, disruptive innovation is what makes our lives better. Mindful Disruption.

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Disruption Open Innovation Industry Innovation Processes 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. Innovation as a dedicated activity still sits uncomfortably within many organizations. What is holding this innovation age back?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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Innovation Product Innovation Data Tools 203

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation . Gaining customer insights.

Underperforming Technical Team 189

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Project 189

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? They might feel they have this, I don’t.

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Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It's a sign of maturity and experience to be able to determine just where you are in a journey, and I think the time has come to put some stakes in the ground about just exactly where we all are in regards to our innovation journeys. For geological purposes I date the beginning of the corporate innovation phenomenon to 1997.

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Innovation Crowdsourcing Resources Open Innovation 174

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. In my first post.”

Innovation 189

Innovation Agile Design Collaboration 189

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They often don’t create the right innovation structure to implement their opportunities. Most organizations struggle with innovation. They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. “Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties.

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Yet2

AUGUST 6, 2019

Many large companies have open innovation portals. The snack food and beverage manufacturer has two separate open innovation portals that play a key role in the company’s strategic initiative and mission to empower people to snack right. Brigette Wolf , global head of SnackFutures Innovation at Mondeléz International.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. Many organisations now have the opportunity to look back at their open innovation programmes with an appraising eye. With some evidence behind them, they are weighing up the effectiveness of being open. How open is your organisation ?

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eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

The Ezassi Advantage: Enhancing Supply Chain Agility for Procurement Executives Why CPOs and Supply Chain Executives Should Pay Attention For Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), procurement leaders, and supply chain executives, staying ahead of disruptions while driving efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability is more challenging than ever.

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