Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Recently, I got caught up in some announcement by Siemens, where they announced the acquisition of Mendix, the Low-Code providers, for the explicit purpose to combine Mendix with Siemens MindSphere, claiming it has the potential to cover off all elements of the Smart App Stack. That got my attention.

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MARCH 3, 2025

These insights can guide strategic decisions, improve efficiency, and streamline processes, helping organizations adapt to market dynamics more effectively. For more information, visit our article on ai-driven market analysis. For more information, visit our article on ai-driven market analysis.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Competitive Analysis is a structured framework that enables organizations to evaluate their position in the market by assessing competitors strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and performance. It is particularly useful for product development, market expansion, pricing strategies, and overall business positioning.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of Product Development Product development has transformed significantly over the years, adapting to changes in consumer behavior, market demands, and technological advancements. This method, while structured and predictable, often leads to challenges in adapting to changes and longer time to market.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Speed and Efficiency : AI can quickly process information and generate ideas, significantly reducing the time required for brainstorming sessions. Data-Driven Insights : AI tools can provide data-driven insights, helping you make informed decisions and prioritize the most promising ideas.

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MARCH 11, 2025

For example, Googles objective might be : Enhance global search experience to make information universally accessible and useful. Best practices for tracking progress: Set review cycles (weekly, monthly, or quarterly). Adjust OKRs based on feedback and market changes. T ime-bound Designed for a specific timeframe (e.g.,

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MARCH 19, 2025

It proposes that companies must focus on one of three primary value disciplines to achieve market leadership and sustainable success : Operational Excellence Delivering low-cost, reliable, and efficient products or services. Improve customer retention and market differentiation. Align internal capabilities with market needs.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Key benefits include: Enhances decision-making Helps organizations develop well-informed strategies. For example, a software startup conducting a SWOT Analysis may identify its strong technical team (Strength), limited marketing budget (Weakness), increasing demand for automation tools (Opportunity), and growing competition (Threat).

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 8, 2020

The seeming slowdown in innovation is also partly due to expansion in outcome-based industries like finance and healthcare that are more difficult to measure than how many widgets one produces. Innovations like virtualization and utilizing proxy servers has been a boon for software research, development, and production.

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APRIL 7, 2025

This can lead to more effective strategies and a competitive edge in the market. For more information on employee training, check out our article on ai in employee engagement. For more information on cultural diagnostics with AI, visit our article on cultural diagnostics with ai. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Men met in smoke-filled back rooms, traded information and, much like Adam Smith described, conspired against the public to raise prices and increase profits. As ProPublica described in an investigative article about RealPage’s “Yieldstar” software, companies are using algorithms to do essentially the same thing.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In fact, studies suggest that up to 42% of failed innovations stem from a lack of market need. In this guide, we’ll explore the key components of idea validation, the frameworks that make it effective, and how dedicated software can transform your process. What is Idea Validation?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 4, 2025

Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures For strategic alliancessuch as joint ventures, co-development agreements, or go-to-market collaborationsthe emphasis shifts to shared investment and governance. Capturing this information in a central repository ensures its available to other teams and future projects.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

What we should finally accept, a platform connects all users, both internally and externally in their ability to share their knowledge and information in exchanges, in one environment to cultivate collaborations and continuous collaborative creativity. The majority of the present software providers fail to grasp this.

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APRIL 1, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can gain deeper insights into your organization’s structure, culture, and performance, enabling you to make informed decisions that drive success. This leads to more informed and strategic decisions that align with your organizational goals.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you are anything like me, you will have discovered how convenient and informative podcasts can be. Unlike a lot of other information on the internet, podcasts can be a great source of information direct from the mouth of an expert. If you are looking for a podcast on the science of creativity, this is the best one.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Whether it’s refining products, solving complex challenges, or gathering market insights, companies are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing to stay competitive. Finally, well look at how idea management software helps organizations structure and scale their crowdsourcing initiatives for maximum impact. What Is Crowdsourcing?

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TechEmpower Innovation

MARCH 4, 2024

AI empowers businesses to craft more impactful marketing campaigns by utilizing data analytics for content personalization and market trend forecasting, thereby significantly enhancing campaign relevance and effectiveness. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Many organizations face difficulties in establishing effective innovation programs, often due to misaligned strategies, unclear processes, and inadequate tools. Understanding market positioning and competitive landscape.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beyond just building a great software solution, I learned that to build a technology business, it’s critical to figure out how to navigate explosive growth and the need to scale. I educated myself on SaaS metrics and benchmarks, customer support models, sales techniques, marketing, and even pitching to investors.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2018

If only we can get them prised out of the engineer, data scientists, or software experts hands. This now allows us to have far more multiple options and it is the graph database behind this that is providing the structure, relationships and detailed information about the topic you are wanting to find out more.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 13, 2017

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 3, 2021

Today innovation has become a lifeline for businesses who have had to pivot and adjust to recent market changes. Idea software helps organizations do this by providing a structured innovation framework that can be launched across an organization. Below is a summary of each stage of the idea management software workflow: 1.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 25, 2022

Dr. Rusty Bishop Chief Marketing Officer, Bigtincan. Retailers will use their information to curate a custom experience for each shopper. Lori Greiner: Due to the pandemic, there are different challenges facing small businesses today, depending on what that business is. Steve Prebble CEO, Appriss Retail.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Overview: Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information, software solutions, and other services for professional sectors, has been running its own innovation awards for over a decade. Due to that broad range of industries and products, “competition doesn’t necessarily come from a nontraditional peer set. .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2020

Decentralization: Individuals must be able to draw on local knowledge to inform their own choices. While reading, I was reflecting on our own software, specifically which stages satisfy all five of these criteria. One of the most used stage types is Review, i.e. ReviewScale or Assessment. This satisfies all five.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Most commonly, traditional project management will continuously track how well a project is progressing and report this to management on a regular basis, while also having set milestones with dates where the status of the entire project can be reviewed. To do this, management usually want as much data to inform their decision as they can get.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Choosing an innovation software or platform and seem to make things a bit more complicated while getting started. The right innovation software is key to the success of your strategy. The right innovation software is key to the success of your strategy. Having this information easily accessible and organized is key.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 23, 2023

This can include everything from understanding the competitive landscape, to identifying potential customers, to developing go-to-market strategies. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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IdeaScale

JULY 31, 2019

For an informative overview of input and output metrics, you can download our Innovation Metrics infographic. How many ideas were selected for further review? For example, measuring market share and profit margins before and after implementing a product or process innovation can be informative. Input” Metrics.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 21, 2017

If you’re tired of not being able to compete with bigger companies in your industry due to a lack of research and development (R&D) budget, the good news is that’s no longer a problem. Today, however, the Internet and information economy has changed the story. What is Open Innovation. The Shift in R&D.

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Planview

JANUARY 9, 2025

At the time, many leading software companies already knew how to organize people through a product-oriented mindset. Results like higher productivity and faster time to market made this emerging concept of a product operating model catch fire and grow. These structures and practices are called the product operating model.

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Planview

MAY 31, 2024

Value Stream Management (VSM) is crucial in software development as it provides a comprehensive view of the entire workflow, from ideation to delivery. This visibility is necessary to manage the productivity of development teams and ensure that software is delivered on time, on schedule and on budget. Top 3 Features of VSM Software 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed. Innovation software management continues to be sold piecemeal, so often just bolted onto the other parts already in place, not being optimized.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The S-Curve Mapping template is one of the most helpful tools I’ve come across for helping individuals determine where their business stands within the current market landscape. . S-Curve Mapping is the process used to identify where a business sits in the current innovation ecosystem compared to other businesses in the market.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

New analytics approaches powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can identify real-time data patterns, helping anticipate trends and inform decision-making. Our innovation tools and design approaches must evolve due to the potential of bringing humans, technology and AI into this interplay thinking.

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