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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Meeting Culture Innovation Groups 318

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Displaying openness to new ideas Engaging with innovative technologies and methods personally Being visible in the innovation process Empowering Employees to Innovate An essential talking point by top innovation keynote speakers is the empowerment of employees. Speaking Style Engaging, dynamic, thought-provoking.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 12, 2023

Elevating Executive Engagement by Embracing Empowerment and Emotional Intelligence In the business world, stepping into a new leadership role often presents a labyrinth of challenges. It instills a sense of ownership in team members and leads to greater commitment and engagement.

Engagement 118

Engagement Leadership Collaboration Culture 118

Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But if you do not have such an app or you just want something more immediate and engaging then try setting up an innovation market. Each idea is assigned a champion who will act as presenter and salesperson for the idea. Set up stalls (or separate rooms) where the presentations will take place. Here is it how it works.

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Marketing Brainstorming Innovation Project 237

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Presently we drive efficiency and effectiveness but progressively into a crisis of our own making. Presently sustainability stays that concept that makes sense but is not yet embraced and accepted by the vast majority. But we are deluding ourselves. Demand outstrips supply. Sustainable innovation needs to shift our thinking.

Innovation 329

Innovation Change Disruption Resources 329

Leapfrogging

MAY 2, 2024

Team members who feel part of a united group are more likely to be engaged and committed to their work, which in turn can reduce turnover rates and foster a sense of loyalty to the company. Higher Employee Morale Team unity boosts job satisfaction and engagement. Increased Efficiency Collaborative efforts streamline processes.

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Engagement Team Building Collaboration Strategy 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Why engage in changing to Innovation Ecosystems Following on from my last two posts related to recognizing the importance of Innovation Ecosystems we need to ask what makes these dynamic, interconnected and engaging, from a diverse groups perspective? The post Innovation Ecosystems need you to engage and openly embrace?

Engagement 114

Engagement ChatGPT Innovation Open Innovation 114

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

The report emphasises that the energy transition required is of such scale and speed it cannot be achieved without sustained support and equally significant engagement and participation from citizens, whose lives will be affected in multiple ways. In present-day reality, this doesn’t happen.

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Report Innovation Technology Policies 345

Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

To engage and retain customers, companies must be prepared to promptly meet buyers wherever they are with the information they need to close a deal. This means balancing a strong digital presence that allows for instant engagement and timely responses, while also ensuring in-person options are available and offered with care.

Engagement 236

Engagement Marketing Report Meeting 236

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They can, through shared platforms achieve a closer relationship with the customer, to understand their needs and experience through increased collaboration, and engagement. New economic value has to be ‘seen’ and believed in, so people can engage and work towards making the necessary changes.

Design Thinking 283

Design Thinking Collaboration Design Radical Innovation 283

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Tony Hemmelgarn, the CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software , presented “Human-centred Innovation” at the Hannover Messe show (April 12 th to 16 th , 2021), which was held in a virtual environment. Siemens is paying for my engagement, not for promotional purpose. The powerful engine with digitalization. Opinions are my own.

Software 279

Software Innovation Technology Design 279

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The growing concerns of several intertwined issues need addressing as they will initiate a significant change to the Business and how it operates and presents itself to the world. A critical assessment of the present business and how it will “project” into the future is needed. Agility Innovation.

Disruption 312

Disruption Meeting Resources Engagement 312

IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2020

This occurs either within the company or through the use of crowdsourcing and presents more opportunities for bringing people together. The IdeaScale platform presents several unique benefits. The ability to boost engagement is another advantage of using the IdeaScale platform. This further encourages engagement and innovation.

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Report Marketing Software Idea Management 246

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Companies that create and nurture a culture of care have more engaged employees and reduced turnover. By putting well-being at the heart of the employee experience, Limeade reduces burnout and turnover while increasing well-being and engagement — ultimately elevating business performance. Backed by science.

Culture 262

Culture Report Engagement Resources 262

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 2, 2021

Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present. The fundamentals of the method were outlined by John B. Robinson from the University of Waterloo in 1990. We have the power to create a better future.

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System Policies Roadmap Technical Review 280

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 11, 2019

Look at the skills predicted to decrease in 2022, many of which are still being taught in our schools, and many that we continue to traditionally focus on within our present work. By taking a more outward action, even we can get re-engaged to influence and change things that can make a difference.

Artificial Inteligence 263

Artificial Inteligence Innovation Engagement Agile 263

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2023

In this piece, the author outlines three techniques — physical, mental, and linguistic — to engage your audience. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly, sustaining it.

Engagement 98

Engagement 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2024

Managers who want their teams to be more engaged in meetings need to foster a safe, inclusive team culture, which requires a deep understanding of their team’s unique dynamics. The author presents several strategies for encouraging employees to engage during meetings.

Meeting 145

Meeting Engagement Strategy Strategy 145

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While the leader has little to no control over the external competitive environment, they have astonishing influence over the internal performance environment, including employee engagement, morale, and productivity. The author presents four practical strategies to help you engage employees under the most unforgiving of circumstances.

Engagement 144

Engagement Disruption Competition Strategy 144

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They provided an outstanding virtual showroom packed full of innovations, product presentations and use cases are exhibited in an exciting real 3D environment. A product brochure to support this event showcasing the innovations discussed and presented by Digital Enterprise at this event is available here.

Artificial Inteligence 320

Artificial Inteligence Industry System Agile 320

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

If we remain in our present states, then what I suggest as a ‘frozen state’ remains, we default back to what we know, based more on repeating patterns, believing everything is orderly based on efficiency, effectiveness, and doing what is necessary to manage daily. So to name a few: We need to firstly unfreeze.

Creativity 257

Creativity Learning Change Training 257

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Yet moving from the present position of offering specific products and services into a collaborating one, where they are part of an ecosystem of partners that are ‘connecting experience’ as against discrete products built on delivering totally different value propositions for the ultimate consumer is a highly daunting challenge.

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Technical Review Disruption Innovation 273

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

We presently meet and participate in the Siemens #SIEx community together , and each time I find the opportunity to talk with him, I learn from him. He is a great teacher to engage with and passionate about diversity in opinion and knowledge sharing. I do recommend you should certainly follow Antonio Vieria Santos ( @AkwyZ ).

Innovation 329

Innovation Competition Technology Industry 329

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2017

A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them. For some time we have recognized the present innovating was simply not working. Our present poor performance in growth lies often within our existing innovation systems and their design. Impact and Intensity become the new mantra.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Roadmap 300

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Future products are increasingly engaging the consumer as they evolve and respond to “data” and knowledge supplied back. At present, the best solution available to deliver a complete, inter-connected innovation process or system seems to be lying in the hands of the product lifecycle players under PLM.

Software Review 222

Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

After months of testing online event tech and virtual platforms, connecting with members, and getting advice from peer organizations, it became apparent that online events were presenting new challenges for the meetings industry.

Conference 286

Conference Meeting Brainstorming Agile 286

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Demonstrate engagement. Be present and focus on the conversation (e.g., Respond verbally to show engagement (“That makes sense. close your laptop during meetings). Ask questions with the intention of learning from your teammates. Offer input, be interactive, and show you’re listening. Tell us more.”).

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Tips How To Meeting Groups 237

Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That presents a challenge in dealing with sleep disorders. Treatments like digital cognitive behavioral therapy (eCBTi) have been shown to be highly effective for many common sleep disorders, for example, but it is often difficult for people to even learn about eCBTi, much less engage with it.

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Survey Learning Study Engagement 246

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2020

So as I investigate, build and explore the Energy transition by taking Hydrogen as the first one to explore through the three horizons approach, I get a high-level sense of the different phases that we need to pass through, moving from the present to the future. Presently Hydrogen is in exploratory phasing.

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Resources System Change Technology 336

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

Presently our Governments are obsessed with innovation- it sometimes feels it is the only game in town for future growth. The problem is we seem to be destroying more than we can build at present, yet a ‘few’ gain from these seeds of “destructive creation” while a majority don’t. The obsession with innovation- myself included!

Creativity 307

Creativity Innovation Industry Disruption 307

Idea to Value

AUGUST 10, 2022

A meta-analysis by Schutte and Malouff looked at the impact which curiosity-enhancing activities, like training, ways of presenting information or workshops, had on a sample of more than 4,496 participants in 41 controlled scientific trials. According to some research which was just published in 2022, the answer is YES.

Analysis 233

Analysis Creativity Training Groups 233

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It is where there are engagements in deeper meaning and relationship growing, that can only emerge from sharing perspectives. We have two perspectives for this community to thrive in, the insiders working within a business like Siemens, and those outside, looking in, mutually engaging. There are no easy answers.

Engagement 235

Engagement Groups Industry CTO 235

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As employees learn how to develop business cases, present their ideas to executives and clients, and refine their concepts in clear language, they’re upskilling and becoming more engaged with their work. Common language engages more employees and encourages more sharing as people know what is being said.

How To 195

How To Innovation Culture Innovation Processes 195

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2021

Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. For me, this can come from engaging and mapping ideas that have sustainability within them into a Three Horizon Sustainability Framework. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future.

Design 307

Design Resources Technology System 307

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What is needed is something more radical and cohesive than we presently have. The increased ability to deploy, activate and utilize multiple organizations’ resources and assets requires these digital platforms to constantly exploit latent potential through the network and relationship engagements that engage in mutual pursuit.

Design 209

Design Artificial Inteligence Innovation Collaboration 209