Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

Project management : Effective project management skills are essential for keeping cross-sector collaborations on track. Cross-sector innovation collaborations require a variety of tools and resources to support effective communication, collaboration, and project management.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This process, known as ideation, plays a pivotal role in helping companies generate new concepts, solve problems, and stay competitive. The ideation process is designed to overcome these challenges, providing a structured approach for systematically generating, evaluating, and implementing ideas. What is the Ideation Process?

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It’s built on the foundation of iterative progress, where you can assess and adjust the direction of a project throughout its development. Choosing the right methodology depends on your projects specific requirements, team size, and organizational culture. It allows for flexibility and rapid adaptation to feedback and change.

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eZassi

AUGUST 30, 2022

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. To focus on the best and “throw the bad ones away” a strategic, competent company needs an Innovation Resource Management tool. Manage & Automate Ideation. Collaboration & Ideation.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

What are the best tools for brainstorming in 2022? These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. Here are some tools to inspire and help you overcome barriers to innovation. Google Docs & Google Sheets. Lucidchart.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ideation sessions have become an essential tool for businesses striving to stay ahead. Whether you’re looking to solve a specific problem, develop a new product, or simply encourage creative thinking, the approach you take to an ideation session can significantly impact the quality and feasibility of the ideas generated.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By 2027, global spending on digital transformation is projected to reach an astonishing $3.9 Companies that fail to innovate digitally risk being left behind as competitors leverage new tools, business models, and strategies to drive efficiency. trillion (Source: Statista ). What is Digital Innovation?

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. There’s no question that teams are capable of great things when working remotely, and there is no shortage of project management tools, virtual whiteboards and prototyping software out there to help.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 19, 2025

Companies that simply bolt on new tools without rethinking their strategy often see little impact, while those that take a structured, strategic approach gain real competitive advantages. The companies that succeed arent just those that adopt new tools, but those that rethink how they operate.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

After working with more than 100 clients, we have noted one of the most critical factors in the success of an innovation project: if you outsource all of the work on your innovation projects, they will fail. Yet, without training your team on the methods and tools of innovation, the breakthrough thinking will be resisted.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And the biggest drop is in what proportion of projects will be for transformational innovations. So appetite to invest in transformational projects which are seen as more risky will be lower at the higher levels of many companies, based purely on psychology and neuroscience. Nonetheless, this is not all bad news.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Well also examine the common challenges businesses face during implementation, share effective strategies to bridge the gap between ideation and execution, and discuss how idea management software can accelerate and simplify this journey. Once the strongest ideas are selected, implementation ensures that they are effectively brought to life.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

To address these challenges, it is crucial to employ virtual team communication tools that facilitate clear, consistent, and accessible dialogue among team members. These tools can significantly mitigate the hurdles of remote collaboration, ensuring that your team remains synchronized and productive.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Engaging in exercises that visually and mentally push your limits is important to flex your creative muscles, but also help highlight details or changes in a project that you wouldn’t have noticed before. Creative thinking exercises enable you to move away from these solutions and find new ones that meet the specific needs of your project.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming on a whiteboard. What is the worst outcome you can think of?

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. Let your next ideation session be the one that creates your organisation’s next big idea! Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity. Knowing how to make full use of the ideation process is another entirely.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. Let your next ideation session be the one that creates your organisation’s next big idea! Ideation: Planting the seeds of creativity. Knowing how to make full use of the ideation process is another entirely.

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Ideation How To Creativity Case Study 98

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Ideation is a necessary step in the innovation process , but it’s only one step. In the Ideate stage, you’re collecting ideas from your source community. Having the right tools and processes in place as you innovate is essential. Here’s one process: Ideate. Do you have a process in place to do that? Build a Team.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. In this case we will use the Qmarkets platform as an example, as we have achieved some very good results applying this tool. Innovation Exploration vs Exploitation.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

You may experience a brilliant spark of innovation and ideation and lose it just a minute later, or you can commit to incorporating new changes into your business plan and soon after forget the important steps. Without this, it’s much harder for people to come together and ideate as a team. Applications of Online Whiteboard Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The integration of AI tools for design thinking offers new avenues for enhancing and streamlining this methodology.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2020

Online collaboration tools for innovative work remotely. If you and your teams have found yourselves working more remotely, you may be interested in this collection of top remote working, meeting, communication and facilitation tools that can increase your collaboration, impact, productivity, and ease while working virtually or from home.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Tools and Methods for Creative Strategy Development Want to shake things up in your business strategy? You’ll find that the right tools and methods will give your strategy a good dose of creativity. Ideate: Fire up those brain cells and come up with a bunch of ideas. Toss some innovation into the mix.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Fusing” human engagement with technology enablement involves creating a harmonious integration of human collaboration and technological tools to enable an ecosystem’s successful development and operation. Consider tools for communication, collaboration, data sharing, and decision-making. Is that possible?

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 14, 2025

These pillars guide their efforts, ensuring every project aims to address real customer issues while remaining adaptable and scalable. Their initial experiments leveraged AI to streamline routine tasks such as interview script generation, assumption mapping, and ideation. This is something that the team can add, she emphasizes.

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Idea to Value

MAY 5, 2017

After working with more than 100 clients, we have noted one of the most critical factors in the success of an innovation project: if you outsource all of the work on your innovation projects, they will fail. Yet, without training your team on the methods and tools of innovation, the breakthrough thinking will be resisted.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose. AI Ideation Demo (Generate Ideas with Artificial Intelligence on OpenAI).

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Hackathons have emerged as a key tool for organizations aiming to spark creativity and solve complex problems quickly. Hackathons have become much more than short-term competitions—they’re now strategic tools for companies to inspire innovation, improve teamwork, and generate ideas that have the potential to drive real business results.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, the term “innovation accelerator” can refer to several types of initiatives: Corporate Accelerators: Programs run by companies to nurture internal projects or collaborate with startups to bring new solutions to market. This support accelerates the development process and helps teams move quickly from ideation to execution.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Power of Innovation Management Successful innovation doesn’t stop at ideation—it thrives on meticulous planning, execution, and adaptation. Generating and Refining Ideas Innovation begins with ideation. The software also visualizes risks and contingencies, ensuring projects stay on track. Why Ezassi?

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Innov8rs

APRIL 1, 2025

Teams can face an overwhelming number of projects disconnected from business strategy and have no clear way to decide which initiatives deserve resources. A critical step is selecting and prioritizing projects to ensure they align seamlessly with business strategy. “Innovation needs to be linked to strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This shift has prompted innovation to develop tools and design approaches that support these changes in several critical ways based on four global aspects: Learning from real-time data : Traditional analytics models and past performance data may not be entirely relevant in today’s ever-changing business landscape.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Knowing how to use DT tools can transform even your daily routine into a problem-solving strategy. Do you know what these tools are? Continue reading to understand what Design Thinking is and how DT tools can be the turning point for your business! What are some Design thinking tools ? Analysis and Synthesis Tools.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Enhanced Ideation Many workplaces prioritize efficiency, favoring the quickest ideas rather than the best ones. However, strategic thinking encourages a deeper, more deliberate ideation process. Keep a strategic mindset that looks at the context of a project. Do I assign projects to people with the right skills to complete them?

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Risks of Sole Reliance on LLMs and AI in Technology Discovery: Why Human Expertise is Still Essential LLMs and AI tools are inad e quate as primary technology discovery tools. However, as efficient as these tools are, they can create a false sense of security in the New Product Development arena.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling.

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