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. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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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. If you need more pointers, swing by our article on how to use innovation to turbocharge your business strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation. And when you think of innovation transformation, there are many pieces that need to come together. What is an Internal Innovation Coaching System? But, that’s not all there is to it.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.”

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pinpointing these gaps lets you tweak and twiddle your strategy into a lean, mean innovation machine. For further intel, drop by our piece on integrating innovation into planning. Feedback Loops : Get a system going where folks can voice their thoughts. Check out connecting business strategy and the innovation process.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

At the recent The Innovators Handbook 2025 Launch Event, Michael McCarthen, an innovation leader at Chick-fil-A, Frank Mattes, founder and CEO at Lean Scaleup, and Gina OConnor, a Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, shared how to navigate these barriers and make innovation a long-term success.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

However, the business environment for corporate innovators has since shifted, and they are now being asked to do more with less. So, to cope with the challenges from both within the company and the external environment, it's time to upgrade the innovation management system, pushing for efficiency and outcomes.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

From that wave we've had successive efficiency strategies: Six Sigma (an outgrowth of the quality movement), business process re-engineering, lean, outsourcing and right-sizing. My concern with this approach is that we will tailor our systems and narrow our thinking and efficiency ourselves right into obsolescence.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

The same is true for innovation within an organization. Innovation process models serve as navigational charts, guiding businesses from idea inception to successful execution. What is an Innovation Process Model? What is an Innovation Process Model?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! If not, what is holding them back?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

For me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

For me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning. Let’s draw down on so much of John Hagel’s work on narratives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

Implementing OpenTable’s online reservation system was a huge challenge. To get the reservation systems into as many restaurants as possible, the OpenTable team would order internet service on behalf of the restaurant, pickup and deliver the equipment on the back of mopeds, and then run cables across the ceiling.

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

In this article, we explore how to master innovation management from three vital perspectives: people, process, and platforms. You’ll discover strategies for bringing the right people on board, setting up effective reward systems, and establishing clear stage gates.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. The result will be defense innovation with speed and urgency. Lean Innovation is a Process.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

Technology Exploration Emerging technologies like AI, IoT, and blockchain are powerful tools for driving radical innovation. These technologies enable entirely new capabilities, from predictive analytics to decentralized systems, which can unlock revolutionary business opportunities.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Innovation is challenging and complex, moving from a very nebulous world of trends and needs and emerging capabilities to a very definitive set of features and requirements. Develop a process or at least define a consistent set of tools.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They link innovation to their well-defined business objectives by establishing and maintaining dedicated innovation teams. Over 79 percent successful, innovative companies encourage innovative behavior throughout the organization. They support systemic innovation. They are tech-savvy. Conclusion.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Implement robust processes to guide innovation activities from ideation to execution. Develop a stage-gate process for managing projects through different phases and use methodologies like Agile or Lean for flexibility and efficiency. Fostering a culture of innovation is crucial.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 27, 2019

It is one of the early stages of the innovation process, and it is integral to the continued success of any organization. In fact, one of the most important parts of running a successful business is identifying the right concepts that can turn into real innovations that will help you meet your customers’ needs.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 17, 2015

HBR published an interesting article a year ago ([link] describing an innovation governance system that go hand in hand with our experience at Innovation 360 group. In the article Innosight describes a concept called the Minimum Viable Innovation System (MVIS). The system consists of four elements: Idea buckets.

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Innovation 360

DECEMBER 17, 2015

HBR published an interesting article a year ago ([link] describing an innovation governance system that go hand in hand with our experience at Innovation 360 group. In the article Innosight describes a concept called the Minimum Viable Innovation System (MVIS). The system consists of four elements: Idea buckets.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Can I blend frameworks?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! ” — Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, NCARB. Click here to download.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

These call for a different approach to the innovation process. We need to encourage the ‘art’ of not just minimum viable product practices from lean practices, but far more importantly minimum viable transformation that has at its core validated learning, how it all interacts to form a cohesive innovation delivery point.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Fresh combinations of technologies, processes, materials, people, trends, concepts, and other factors are what creates innovation. From the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (chocolate plus peanut butter) to the iPod (MP3 player combined with a buying system, iTunes) nearly any innovation combines existing things or concepts.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Not enough time taken to instill the needed mindsets/tools/rhythms We’ve had innovation teams tell us they’ve spent almost a year spinning their wheels with nothing to show for it.

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