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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Importance of Innovation in Today’s Business Landscape In the current business landscape, innovation is not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity. Some of these challenges include: Aligning innovation with customer needs and market trends. Ensuring a timely and cost-effective product development life cycle.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction to New Product Development In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, the ability to innovate and execute new product development (NPD) effectively is a cornerstone of business success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

By leveraging AI, you can gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and trends, which are crucial for driving innovation and staying competitive in the market. AI in innovation management is not just about automating processes; it’s about augmenting your decision-making capabilities with data-driven insights.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions. Its a central concept in lean startup methodology and a powerful tool for product development teams looking to accelerate progress while conserving resources. The technology will work.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We discuss how challenging it is to develop completely new technology, the difficulty in describing its value and marketing it, and getting buy in for innovation processes in your company. 00:08:00 – Innovation is not a team sport, it is usually done by one or two people.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is the rallying cry of CBTW , a consultancy that delivers innovation technology solutions to companies around the world. With 3,000 employees across 21 countries, CBTW understands that collaboration is key to developing solutions that meet the evolving needs of its customers. The third challenge was resource allocation.

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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. Craving more on meshing business plans with innovation?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

The paradigm is that companies cannot afford to rely strictly on their own internal methods of innovation, but can buy or license processes or inventions from other companies. This helps to further their goals while also providing the opportunity to license or use joint ventures to share their under-utilized technology or processes.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 21, 2020

Managing the innovation process can help you improve customer experience with your brand.?. The solution is to combine customer data with product information to form innovative ideas. This process, known as idea management, is what drives business and improves the customer experience. The Idea Management Solution.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article explores the essentials of developing an effective open innovation strategy and the role of innovation management software in executing it, including tools for idea management, technology scouting, and trend management. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy?

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2022

I will go through each of them one at a time, and explain the positive and negative aspects of each: Different possible organisational locations for innovation resources: Option 1: A bridge between R&D and Sales / Marketing. Not directly involved in seeking new customer opportunities, rather just finding uses for new technology.

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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.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 1, 2025

This article explores the role of an idea evaluation matrix in the broader idea management process, detailing what it should includesuch as weighted scoring for fair assessment. Youll also learn how to integrate an idea classification matrix into your innovation process, ensuring that the best ideas receive the attention they deserve.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. How Does Globalization Impact Innovation Strategy?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

So, it covers a twenty-five-year period but recognizes that the last five years have seen a very different set of innovation accelerants. The second post , coming next, focuses on how organizations have become more collaborative, open and agile and deal with ideation and what tools and technologies seem to have emerged as the leading ones.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies. This model segments the innovation process into distinct phases, each culminating in a gate.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple. There are significant shifts underway towards digital innovation in R&D and new-product development. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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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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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. In his paper on Accelerating innovation, Dr. Cooper makes the case that “firms can respond quickly and pivot with innovations.”

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. In this post we will cover how to: Cut your development cycle time and free up working capital. The fastest growing companies interpret innovation through multiple lenses.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 10, 2019

It is our technology being applied through new approaches that are galvanizing the new potential within innovation. Adapting a product to the need of one person’s preference has been pushing the final adaptation to that persons need up the chain in production. I wrote recently ( here ).

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The most significant activities for investing in innovation management software are presently for events, challenges and campaigns, idea assessments, especially at the early stage, and product development filters.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Empower local teams: Allow local teams to lead the innovation process. Iterate Quickly and Stay Agile Emerging markets often require a more flexible, agile and iterative approach to product development. They bring essential cultural knowledge and unique perspectives that global headquarters may lack.

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Corporate Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

While these models of advanced work led to so many innovations and created tremendous broad economic value, though not always to the lab’s corporate owner, it is clear that large scale, insulated corporate research is no longer the most common model for entering new markets or developing technologies of the future.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

While digital transformation focuses on integrating technology into all aspects of a business, digital innovation goes a step furtherits about creating entirely new value through technology. Across industries, digital innovation is reshaping the way businesses operate. What is Digital Innovation?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined. AI technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling, which can significantly enhance the efficacy of the Stages and Gates process.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region. Last but not least, we can make innovation measurable using innovation accounting.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region. Last but not least, we can make innovation measurable using innovation accounting.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Evolution of AI in Business Strategy The journey of AI in the business landscape has seen a remarkable evolution, transitioning from a novel technology to a fundamental component of strategic planning. Resource Allocation : Determine the budget, personnel, and technology needed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

For example, one of the biggest idea killers is the inability for many companies to take really good ideas and get them prioritized in the existing product development process. With those basics in mind, you can do a lot of good innovation. This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas.

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ITONICS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Millenet: Caro, what makes your innovation management different from the competition? Durst: We continue to be the sole provider who covers innovation management with an integrated, end-to-end approach: from environmental scanning to trend and technology management all the way to innovation portfolios and roadmaps.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

An innovation activity begins with a problem or opportunity that you investigate, and learn more about, and discover needs, all of which is context, and the next deliverable is a set of viable ideas to solve the problem. Ideas are simply a waypoint in an innovation process or exercise.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

Innovation practices that are in step with the speed, uncertainty, and volatility of the new economy are still a promissory note, in this day and age. Few if any can point to systematic practices that realize corporate innovation in a reliable and continuous fashion. Innovation becomes an answer to a set of strategic questions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 19, 2021

Over the next few weeks I'll work up a couple of blog posts about what I think the outbreak, our reaction and the aftermath of COVID can tell us about innovation, creativity, new product development and more. I'm also going to address briefly the need for burning platforms as an impetus for innovation.

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