Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 23, 2016

I certainly believe we are in need of a fresh approach to innovation. We are facing unprecedented challenges, sluggish growth and an increasing competition from unexpected sources. We need to increasingly deliver better end results; as more distinctive, bolder and delivering greater value to our customers’ needs. Can we change our thinking? The power of technology, software and the use of the cloud is combining in new powerful ways.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 21, 2016

Everyone who has a naturally creative spark knows the dreaded feeling. The moment you realise that you’re actually being discouraged from having ideas because other people think they’re a waste of time. Have you ever experienced this: Your boss, manager or CEO decides that they need to come up with some new ideas for something. […].

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Exago

JUNE 22, 2016

Exago’s one of the top 5% happiest organisations to work in, ranking eleventh in the Happiness Works – Happy Company 2016 initiative, among 209 surveyed participants. Now in its fifth edition, every year, Happiness Works assesses the overall well-being and. Read More. The post We’re in the top 5% of firms ranked by Happiness Works! appeared first on www.exago.com.

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HYPE Innovation

JUNE 8, 2016

This is the Red Queen, one of the famous characters in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. And whilst she is an undoubtedly intriguing person, someone you might want to get to know better, here’s a word of advice. Don't try playing chess with her – you’ll very soon find yourself out of your depth! There are three problems you’ll have to confront if you do decide you'd like to give it a go.

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Tim Kastelle

JUNE 19, 2016

I’ve been running Lean LaunchPad programs for a couple of years now, and all along, I’ve thought that the number of customer development interviews that a team does is a good indicator of how successful they’ll be. And when we measure interview numbers against progress on the Investment Readiness Levels , the correlation is very strongly positive.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 14, 2016

I've made a simple drawing to illustrate what many of you already know. Too many people in the innovation arena are apt to talk about ideas, which are relatively easy to get, but fail to consider the effort involved to move from an idea stage to an innovation stage. I've often compared this to the amount of force it takes to get a rocket into orbit.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2016

In Bangladesh, 70% of the population live without regular electricity, often in tin-sided huts which can reach 45°C inside. This simple solution is made from recycled materials and can cool a room by 5 degrees, making life much more bearable. It works by the same underlying physics as a refrigerator, where pushing a gas through a small hole causes a cooling effect once the gas expands again on the other side.

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Exago

JUNE 17, 2016

Exago’s 3.5 Idea Market release has arrived, offering a flexible workflow that fits your company’s reality and innovation programme. Answering clients’ identified needs, we continue the evolution path: 3.5 offers significant workflow options to meet your specific idea management process. The post Exago’s brand new 3.5 release is out, and it’s more flexible than ever appeared first on www.exago.com.

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HYPE Innovation

JUNE 22, 2016

Co-development partnerships. Broad business networks. Independent networked organizations. Meta organizations. Collaborative arrangements. Temporary networks of innovation. Global networks of partners…. … Whatever you prefer to call them, innovation ecosystems are a core element in the growth of any organization. The reason is simple: having a diverse “entourage” of past, present, and future open innovation partners with whom to share risks and ideologies as well as reduce new product or service

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 15, 2016

Until your movement is able to attract the support of those who do not immediately agree with you, it’s nothing more than a protest. Related posts: What Marketers Can Learn From The Civil Rights. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 21, 2016

Ralph Ohr and I were exchanging ideas today via Twitter, and we were talking about a recent study of German executives that looked at why innovation failed in German companies. The top three reasons why innovation didn't move forward came down to fear, uncertainty and doubt. Oh, those weren't exactly the words that were used, but in context for today's post they'll work nicely.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 11, 2016

In the past few days, I have had some exchanges on twitter with Jairo H Venegas and Ralph-Christian Ohr on different thinking around the three horizon methodology. We share similar views on its value and partly how it can be applied. Ralph and I exchange constantly and occasionally meet up together. Actually, we need another meeting Ralph to catch up and explore these mutual innovation value points.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 15, 2016

A light bulb went on for me as I was reading a series of reports from Deloitte University Press on disruption. When I was reading this, I remembered the terrific value we all seemed to have obtained from the pioneering work of Doblin and its ten types of innovation when it came out some years back. I felt this nine patterns of disruption has the same huge potential to frame and dialogue around the potential within disruption.

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Exago

JUNE 9, 2016

Giving you easy access to new sources of innovation, open innovation practices allow you to ask different questions of different communities. The post How to conquer your audience appeared first on www.exago.com.

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HYPE Innovation

JUNE 16, 2016

Are we seeing a change in mentality within large organizations towards encouraging individuals to ‘break out and become more intrapreneurial within their part of the business?'. Is this tapping into the increasing desire to be part of creating something new, to grab back the engagement needed, that sense of identity and a growing sense of ownership?

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 8, 2016

The crazy predictions Ray Kurzweil made a decade ago don’t seem so outlandish now. Related posts: The Singularity: Apocalypse or Nerd Rapture? Facebook, Instagram and the Singularity. Business. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 6, 2016

I'm a sports guy. I like all kinds of sports. Grew up playing baseball, football and running track. When my kids came along naturally they adopted other sports than the ones I was familiar with so I've learned to "love" swimming and soccer. If you know swim meets you'll appreciate the joke we pass around our family: I hope my last day on earth is at a swim meet, because they never end.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 23, 2016

I certainly believe we are in need of a fresh approach to innovation. We are facing unprecedented challenges, sluggish growth and increasing competition from unexpected sources. We need to increasingly deliver better end results; as more distinctive, bolder and creative, delivering greater value to our customers’ needs. Can we change our thinking to achieve this?

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Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

Innovation

Idea to Value

JUNE 24, 2016

There is an old joke that women are better multi taskers than men. My girlfriend tried to tell me this joke while we were out walking once, but I didn’t understand it until I stood still 🙂 On a more serious note though, is it actually possible to multi task? The research seems to suggest […]. Originally published at Are you one of 2.5% of people who can multitask?

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Exago

JUNE 28, 2016

Exago’s partner ASO Company brought together over 100 innovation and human resources managers and some of Turkey’s leading firms – such as Siemens, LinkedIn and Vodafone – for its Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship Conference, this month in Istanbul. At the. Read More. The post ASO Company holds innovation and intrapreneurship conference in Istanbul appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 13, 2016

When you are looking at a tricky problem try specifying the ideal answer in a world where there are no constraints. What would a perfect solution look like if we had unlimited resources to achieve it? In the book, Idealized Design [i] , Russell Ackoff, Magidson and Addison describe how Bell labs did just such a thing with the telephone. In the 1950s the VP of Bell labs challenged teams of engineers to design ‘the telephone system with which we would replace the existing system if we were free

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 12, 2016

What makes Google special is the way it’s been able to integrate an entire portfolio of innovation strategies into a seamless whole. Related posts: Google’s (not so) Stupid Strategy. How Google. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 23, 2016

I think there are few firms that were more innovative than Intel. Notice that I'm using the past tense. Intel, lead by an excellent leader in Andy Grove, had a passion for being the best. Grove's focus - "only the paranoid survive" kept Intel as an industry leader and innovator. When I was younger, working for Texas Instruments, Intel seemed to constantly reinvent the computing industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers. They execute to their own understanding and often the innovations end up as not strategically aligned. That is plainly wrong, not knowing the strategic objectives it is one of the principle causes of innovation failure and requires fixing.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2016

Believe it or not, this isn’t the only innovation website out there, and I’m not the only innovation consultant in the world. Shocking news, I know 😉 There are some excellent other authors out there on the subject, and occasionally they will release something so insightful that it is my duty to let you know about […]. Originally published at Excellent review of the latest 2015/2016 innovation consulting reports.

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Exago

JUNE 1, 2016

From talent spotting through to technology scouting and the development of special connections with main stakeholders, the benefits of open innovation are many, no matter the type of industry or how big or small your organisation. The post Innovation beyond closed corporate walls appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 5, 2016

What is impeding innovation in your business today? I asked this question at a Master Class on Innovation I ran recently for senior executives leaders in large organizations. The answers included many corporate culture issues such as: - We are risk averse. - There is a fear of failure. - There is a fear of the unknown. - People like to stick to the ways they have always done things. - Departments work in silos and do not co-operate. - People want to avoid blame when things go wrong.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 26, 2016

The truth is that an organization doesn't find its soul by looking inside itself, but by finding its place in the world. Related posts: The Efficiency Paradox. 6 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 8, 2016

There are a few relatively hide-bound industries in the US that have to date been somewhat impervious to real innovation. If you've followed this blog you know that I believe traditional retail banking is one of those industries. Retail banking is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Another industry ripe for innovation is the book publishing industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers.That is plainly wrong, it is one of the principle causes of innovation failure. This lack of alignment and top leadership engagement is one of the main issues on why many organisations seem to just simply ‘limp’ along in their innovation activity.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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