IdeaScale

APRIL 8, 2020

Machine-readable technology is one of the most important innovation processes in use by organizations today but poses key challenges for government entities. Avoid publishing shapefiles or tab files due to their complex and proprietary of their formats. Citizen experience is driven by technology.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Innovation Data Innovation Processes 246

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

What is White Space Innovation? White Space Innovation is a strategic framework used to identify and pursue growth opportunities beyond a companys current product lines, markets, or business models. White Space Innovation in Innovation In practice, White Space Innovation serves as a catalyst for transformation.

Roadmap 130

Roadmap Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Trends 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. At its core, this tool supports a disciplined approach to innovation, one that balances creativity with accountability. Corporations launching internal innovation programs.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Roadmap Project Tools 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

The tool is widely used in startups, corporate innovation, nonprofit planning, and product development. By enabling quick revisions and visual brainstorming, the Business Model Canvas encourages ongoing improvement and innovation. Follow these steps to apply it to your innovation project. Lead Successful Innovation Projects!

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Tools Project Resources 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

S-Curve Mapping is a strategic innovation tool used to understand the evolution and performance trajectory of technologies, products, services, or entire industries. Each phase reflects different levels of growth potential, innovation activity, and competitive pressure. What is S-Curve Mapping?

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Trends Analysis 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management. By leveraging AI, you can enhance your innovation processes, streamline collaboration, and drive more effective outcomes. This allows you to make more informed decisions and accelerate the innovation cycle.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Idea Generation Innovation Processes 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Rapid prototyping is commonly used in engineering, manufacturing, product design, and service innovation. Whether its a tangible product or a digital interface, the technique helps bring ideas to life with minimal delay, making it an indispensable tool in the innovation toolkit. Consider: What idea or concept are you testing?

Software Review 130

Software Review Technical Review Tools Design 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Business Case in Innovation In innovation projects, a business case plays a crucial role in determining the feasibility and potential impact of new ideas before committing significant resources. Leadership is reviewing proposals for capital investment. An organization must choose between competing innovation opportunities.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Roadmap Analysis 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

Financial modeling is particularly essential in innovation projects, where investments must be justified, resources need to be allocated wisely, and potential returns must be clearly understood before execution begins. Financial models in innovation projects help to: Forecast market penetration and customer growth.

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Project 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

Benchmarking is a strategic process that involves measuring an organizations performance, practices, or processes against industry leaders or top-performing companies. The goal is to identify performance gaps, set realistic improvement targets, and adopt best practices that drive innovation and efficiency.

Comparison 130

Comparison Technical Review Data Competition 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Importance of Fostering Leadership Practices Fostering effective leadership practices is crucial for driving cultural innovation within your organization. AI can play a significant role in this process by providing insights and tools to enhance leadership development.

Leadership 130

Leadership Culture Artificial Inteligence Innovation 130

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.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Roadmap Idea Generation Generative AI 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of innovation management by providing powerful tools to enhance consumer insights. 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.

Artificial Inteligence 130

Artificial Inteligence Analysis Trends Data 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Embracing AI can lead to significant improvements in efficiency, decision-making, and innovation. Characteristics of AI-Ready Cultures Building AI-ready cultures involves fostering an environment that supports and leverages AI technologies. This includes promoting a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Culture Training Data 130

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

Innovation 249

Innovation Technical Review Innovation Processes Creativity 249

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For me, there is never enough talked about innovation risk. Innovation is held back so often because the quantification of risk cannot fit into an organization’s current assessment and measurements of risk. Innovation risk leaves many executives very uncomfortable. So I always welcome discussion on risk and innovation.

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Innovation Industry Technology 235

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

In innovation projects, the MVP approach helps businesses explore ideas, experiment with solutions, and learn through real-world interactions. Minimum Viable Product in Innovation In real-world innovation initiatives, the MVP model plays a critical role by turning abstract concepts into actionable experiments.

Software Review 130

Software Review LEAN Development Team Review Roadmap 130

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

Design 232

Design Technical Review Innovation Agile 232

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I have been struggling for quite some time with innovation’s increasing difficulties in influencing growth and achieving real impact. I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. ” constrained them.

Technical Review 208

Technical Review Innovation Software Review Artificial Inteligence 208

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today.

Technical Review 200

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration System 200

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.

Software Review 222

Software Review Innovation Software Innovation Processes 222

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Embrace the future if AI-driven innovation. As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation. As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation.

ChatGPT 182

ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Innovation 182

Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

In many cases, its not due to a lack of creativity, but a lack of clear direction. Without a focused approach, product innovation becomes a gamble instead of a growth strategy. This guide explains product innovation, how it differs from other forms of innovation, and what it takes to develop a winning strategy.

Product Innovation 52

Product Innovation Technical Review Strategy Strategy 52

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Innovation Agile 182

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have called this the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework – here is why and what went into this proposal that I feel should be adopted for managing innovation in the future. We need to shift our innovative thinking from static to dynamic.

Software Review 246

Software Review Innovation Software Design 246

Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Lead Successful Innovation Projects! Get instant innovation processes Get expert tools & guidance Lead projects with confidence Learn More Enhancing Employee Engagement with AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance employee engagement by providing valuable insights and facilitating continuous improvement.

Engagement 130

Engagement Culture Artificial Inteligence Analysis 130

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

Well, I also believe these apply equally as innovation frictions. So I decided to builds out of their friction analysis, building on the thoughts offered in the report, adding the innovation perspective. So here I am suggesting constraints that need tackling in reducing the innovation friction points, theirs was for blockchain.

Technical Review 178

Technical Review Innovation Disruption Report 178

eZassi

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology discovery and scouting are essential activities for enterprise innovation programs and R&D departments to identify emerging technologies, startups, and market trends that can drive competitive advantage. Technology Scouting Reports identify specific solutions or partners.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Report Analysis 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 26, 2023

You need to discover your innovation pathway. I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. Let me start.

Software Review 182

Software Review Innovation Technical Review Collaboration 182

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.

Innovation 204

Innovation Technical Review Design Collaboration 204

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 20, 2019

I'm writing a series of posts that examine some of my lessons learned after over 15 years of corporate innovation consulting. Past posts have included the concept of needing a why and a how for innovation , why ideas need a sponsor and how to understand the range of innovation options your company will consider.

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Idea Generation Innovation Processes Strategy 235

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Jim is Honorary Professor at Aston Business School (UK) and Editor in Chief of Research-Technology Management, a peer-reviewed journal for practitioners of innovation, technology and research management. 00:05:00 – The importance of Innovation accounting. Jim’s website: [link].

LEAN 220

LEAN Technical Review Innovation Processes Technology 220

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Secondly, if open innovation has gone way beyond a one to many relationships into a many to many then does the reliance on single entity software provision makes sense? So often client solutions and their needs have considerable lag.

Innovation Management 200

Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns.

Report 212

Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. It is equally holding a new form of innovation back, one that is highly collaborative where partners come together to work on more complex problems. trillion in value to global manufacturing.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Innovation Design 213

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

As a report, the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) is a whopper, at 450 pages, although 50% of this is detailed economic profiles and data tables for each country within the index. Yet the innovation message is for us all. Both of these policy issues are very much part of the incumbent innovator’s dilemma to resolve.

Technical Review 182

Technical Review Policies Innovation Report 182

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the rest of what innovation needs to be built upon.

Innovation 174

Innovation Technical Review System Change 174