Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? 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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

What is the 70-20-10 Innovation Rule ? 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 structured approach helps companies avoid innovation imbalance.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 4, 2025

Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. As a highly credentialed coach who coaches many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an Agile Coach Certification Program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions.

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IdeaScale

JULY 21, 2024

Building a thriving innovation culture is every organization's dream. When employees feel like cogs in a machine, their innovative spirit gets stifled. Yet, many companies struggle to unlock the creative potential of their workforce. They become passive observers, watching ideas fizzle out due to a lack of support and recognition.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. So defining stories and narratives, you see the growing potential of having a good narrative for your innovation activities. ” So for innovation, narratives do become vital.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

But heres the uncomfortable truth: you can never prove your innovation will succeed. The Futility of Proof in Innovation Why is it impossible to prove an innovation will succeed? Innovation requires the same humility. However, this isnt a cause for despair. Consider a company developing a new app.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 3, 2025

AI can automate routine tasks, allowing you to focus on high-value client engagements. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! These strategies will position you as a forerunner in AI-driven business innovation. These strategies will position you as a forerunner in AI-driven business innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way innovation professionals approach product roadmapping and strategic planning. AI tools can process information at a speed and accuracy that surpasses human capabilities, providing you with insights that drive innovation forward. Increased Efficiency Automate repetitive tasks.

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Artificial Inteligence Roadmap Analysis Innovation 130

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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2021

Often we do not stop and think of the real differences culturally in how we want to0 engage and build relationships between the East and the West. Participating in business and engaging socially with Asia, watching how Asia has evolved has been a real experience that stays with you as something hugely valuable.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

The needs of Innovation Coherence. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs. They are not drawn into the need for change and its implications from an innovative perspective. Building our capacity to innovate needs understanding and reflects the organization’s business activities.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The search is seemingly on to find greater value, which will increasingly coalesce around different innovation ecosystems. In many different ways, we need to form significantly more relationships that increasingly matter to each organization, add value and insight, and bring external expertise inside to work on ‘greater’ innovation solutions.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2025

While this can save time and mental effort, it may also lead to a reduced engagement in the deeper thought processes that underpin critical thinking. Participants who heavily relied on AI tools were less likely to engage in independent analysis and problem-solving. These results were also statistically very significant.

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Tools Artificial Inteligence Study Engagement 217

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. Innovation has a critical role in delivering new solutions to drive this energy transition we are undergoing. What does this all mean for innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 11, 2025

Is the horizon the past or the future in innovation dynamism? Innovation has entered its death spiral as many have known it. I mean it, innovation is starved, bleeding from a lack of resources, finances and top leadership resolve. Lets start by defining innovation ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. Our first conversation called the Fundamental building blocks for innovation success (13 minutes), links here , introduces the series and the areas of our focus. Achieving innovation alignment always needs clear framing.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2020

We need to shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning but how can we liberate creative energy, how can we achieve higher engagement? Yet the very best thing is to encourage connected minds for value-creating opportunities and knowledge sharing for innovation to flow across an organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A game plan that’s clear as day lets you tie your business dreams to innovative efforts. Take a look at our guide on using innovation to drive business strategy development for more golden nuggets. Understanding the Role of Innovation Innovation is like the magic sauce, turning cool ideas into real outcomes that make a difference.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The need for transformational innovation. Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. Transformational innovation is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, to achieve. The value of analytical thinking becomes paramount.

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HYPE Innovation

MARCH 20, 2025

Innovation isnt just for R&D teams or leadershipits a company-wide effort. Yet, one of the biggest challenges organizations face is engaging employees in innovation while they manage their daily responsibilities.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. The challenge s of centralized innovation. Let’s look into why that is the case. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2021

So if you are voting for a continuance of affordability expecting an abundant world, then our innovation stays locked into incremental improvements to keep forcing the price down and demand up. Sustainable innovation needs to shift our thinking. Innovation can drive this in new, highly imaginative ways. So how do you vote?

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2023

Margot Robbie as Barbie in the 2023 Film directed by Greta Gerwig Barbie, the iconic fashion doll created by Ruth Handler and launched by the American toy company Mattel in 1959, was highly novel when launched and the brand has continued to innovate in many ways since then. This was a novel concept in the toy industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations do have real differences and my aim is to draw these out in this series. Creativity and innovation : Participants must be able to generate creative ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. The Perks of Innovation in Your Game Plan Let’s face it: innovation is the secret sauce in any killer business strategy. Being innovative lets businesses flip the script and dive into ventures nobody’s dared to try.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Improve employee engagement and retention. Enhances Stakeholder Engagement Builds trust with customers, employees, investors, and governments. Encourages Innovation Drives new business models in sustainability, circular economy, and social impact. Enhance brand reputation and stakeholder trust.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding Innovation Innovation is the lifeblood of businesses seeking to thrive in a rapidly evolving market. Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack The Coach for Innovators Amplifiers, a small group of global business game changers, started engaging in monthly dialogue sessions in 2022.

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