Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way you manage innovation. By leveraging AI, you can streamline various aspects of the innovation process, from idea generation to product launch. Design Thinking : AI can assist in the design thinking process by providing data-driven insights and automating repetitive tasks.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2020

We have to get to a net-zero emissions energy system as quickly as we can. For that, we require ingenuity in our abilities to break through present seemingly difficult barriers in technologies, and this calls for breakthrough innovation. The innovation process becomes a clearly defined and well-disciplined one; it has to be.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For more information on how AI can enhance your creative processes, explore our article on ai in design thinking. AI-powered tools can also assist in other areas of innovation management, such as ai-driven market research , ai for rapid prototyping , and ai in product roadmapping. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

For more insights on how AI can be utilized in different stages of innovation, explore our article on ai in innovation management. Here are some key advantages: Enhanced Data Analysis : AI algorithms can process and analyze large datasets quickly, providing you with valuable insights that would be difficult to obtain manually.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Finally, Discontinuity signals the decline or replacement of the current solution by a new wave of innovation. By mapping where a product or technology lies on the S-curve, organizations can better allocate resources, decide when to innovate, and anticipate market transitions. A market segment or customer solution.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Disruptive Innovation is a framework that describes how new products or business models can transform industries by offering simpler, more affordable, or more accessible alternatives to existing offerings. As they improve and gain market traction, they shift industry standards and expectations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Map out alternative models when pivoting or entering new markets. By organizing innovation strategy into distinct building blocks, the Business Model Canvas improves decision-making and accelerates the path from idea to execution. Once each block is completed, review the full canvas as a system. Are assumptions validated?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Innovation Lifecycle Management (ILM) refers to the systematic process of managing the journey of an idea from inception to market release. For innovation professionals, understanding each phase is crucial to ensure that new products or services are successfully developed and launched.

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Artificial Inteligence Roadmap Idea Generation Generative AI 130

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 30, 2020

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

The primary goal of an MVP is to minimize risk by validating key assumptions about customer needs and market demand before investing heavily in full-scale development. In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions.

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Software Review LEAN Development Team Review Roadmap 130

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners?

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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

MAY 22, 2017

They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches. There is a significant transformation of the value lying within this extended system of collaborators and organization design. We are entering a new innovation era as the conditions for this are coming together.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The real need is delivering a new integrated innovation engagement platform. We need not only a new innovation management system, we need a modern engagement platform. It is the “combination effect” that is evolving at increasing speed and complexity for connecting the parts up in a full innovation engagement platform.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

For example, an innovation team evaluating a new subscription service might use the hats as follows: White Hat: Review market data and competitor analysis. Examples: Should we enter a new market segment? Rank ideas or decisions using a voting system or matrix. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Analysis Project 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Select Units or Teams to Evaluate Determine the scope of the assessment: Entire organization Business units or functions Product teams or geographic markets Each unit will receive a rating for competence and commitment, placing it in one of the four quadrants. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can create a more agile and adaptive organization, capable of responding to market changes and emerging opportunities. Improved Employee Engagement : AI can help you understand employee sentiment and engagement levels through tools like sentiment analysis and feedback systems. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” We, in general, all seem to remain constantly disappointed at the end results of our innovation efforts. We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

This can lead to more effective strategies and a competitive edge in the market. By fostering an environment that supports AI, organizations can achieve greater success and innovation. Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Ensuring that your organization has the right data systems and governance policies in place is critical.

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Technical Review Culture Training Data 130

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum. Check out our article on mixing business strategy with the innovation process. Craving more on meshing business plans with innovation?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2019

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

In a turbulent marketplace, when complexity can add even more confusion, it is important to have a simple and straightforward innovation system. Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. Innovation Processes .

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

In a turbulent marketplace, when complexity can add even more confusion, it is important to have a simple and straightforward innovation system. Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. Innovation Processes .

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System Design Innovation Handbook 100

Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check the Score : Put systems in place to see how your innovative ventures are paying off. How to Dig Up Innovation Gold : Market Recon : Get real with market waves and hear the buzz from customers. Market Grip : Keep tabs on your spot in the market night thanks to your killer offerings.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Artificial Inteligence 113

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I took a look at 1) how can AI drive innovation in different ways, 2) would this require a new operating model and 3) how the innovation workflow will require a transformational change to the operating model and 4) the outcome of a fundamental rethinking of how innovation is approached and executed.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We need to change our thinking and design in the digital insight part more specifically within and along the innovation process. Technology in all its forms is altering the innovation game but are we adapting to this radical change potential? Digital threatens (thankfully) this entire incremental pathway.

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Technology Change Innovation Agile 178

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2019

Much of our innovation work today is caught up in out-of-date information, poor and inadequate data, restricted research and limited market understanding. We need to digitize our innovation activities fully. Why does the combination of digitalization and innovation have such a transforming effect?

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 12, 2018

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. The chart below shows the responses to a questionnaire I administered called the Innovation Value Chain survey , and it demonstrates what an air sandwich looks like in practice.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

This guide explains product innovation, how it differs from other forms of innovation, and what it takes to develop a winning strategy. Youll also learn how the product innovation process works and how idea management helps turn raw concepts into products customers actually want. Once collected, ideas must be validated.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

.” I do think we need to restate the current barriers to innovation. These barriers do not ‘magically’ change by delivering what I believe moves us to a better system for innovation, that of an ecosystem and platform architecture. Organizations are often too early or too late to market.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 8, 2023

To make these actions explicit, it is essential to identify and modularize the components of the innovation stack, which represents the knowledge operations within an innovation system. These components are oriented towards learning, knowledge, creativity, design, and testing—essential tasks in the innovation process.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. We need a radically different comprehensive innovation system solution.

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Software Review Innovation Software Design 246

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From linear to systemic : Innovation used to be seen as a linear process where ideas were generated, tested, and implemented in a sequential manner. Today, innovation is recognized as a systemic phenomenon, where multiple actors interact and collaborate across different domains and levels 1.

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Artificial Inteligence Change Generative AI Innovation 173

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the past few months, I have been writing consistently on the need to change our innovating process, thinking and designs into Innovation Ecosystem ones. I continue to gather, reflect and construct the “how and what” structure of this redesigned innovation (ecosystem) process/system.

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