Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pace. The prospect of new innovation potential will eventually work through into the world of Industry 4.0 Innovation is ready for those accelerating and being fully committed to their 4IR journey. Innovation is the unlocking mechanism.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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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? They might feel they have this, I don’t. million.

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Innovation Management Software Review Management Technical Review 200

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 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.

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Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Conference Innovation 173

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Finding opportunities for Innovation and Growth is hard work. I believe any design of workshops must meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding. Which end of the innovation spectrum do we need to go? Find ones that are 100% focused on engaging with and accelerating innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The effectiveness of social media for outbound marketing activities, i.e. getting the news out about new products offerings, and interacting with customers, is well known. Social media is incredibly effective for conveying marketing messages and for receiving rapid customer feedback.

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Tools Product Innovation Marketing Innovation 104

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

So, after over a decade of innovation consulting, I can say without doubt that companies that are just starting to innovate have it much better than those that were attempting it years ago. That's because as more companies try more innovation, more tools are vetted, more methods explored and exposed.

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Company Innovation Disruption Open Innovation 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It is always welcome to read a thoughtful article that reminds me, no, it actually inspires me, by reinforcing my own belief that innovation is progressing, even if this is sometimes frustratingly slow. So the article “ Want to Win at Business Model Innovation? But this work is merely the table stakes for staying in the current game”.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered 71 different methodologies for implementing innovation in your organization. Innovation Cycle (Avans). Open Innovation (Chesbrough).

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Some of the most innovative solutions emerge when businesses crowdsource ideas from employees, customers, and even the general public. But what is crowdsourcing, and why are so many organizations using it to drive innovation? Great ideas dont just come from boardrooms or R&D departments.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Consumer demands have never been higher, and large organization who don’t innovate will eventually die (think of Blockbuster or Xerox). Large organizations like these can no longer exclusively rely on the internal R&D team or employee base to produce the product innovation and insights that will keep them in the game.

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Open Innovation Software Technology Innovation 40

InnovationManagement

AUGUST 2, 2021

As two intermediaries from Hamburg that foster open and cross innovation processes, Science Scout (an initiative of Hamburg Innovation) and Cross Innovation Hub (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft) joined forces to start a discussion around the stimulation and measurement of open and cross innovation processes.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Case Study Survey 142

Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(including one that makes Radical Innovation easy) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a rolling stone, and that means you gather no moss!

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Radical Innovation Innovation Design Thinking Open Innovation 132

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. Producers of innovation need to transition radically into a different innovation delivery & design structure.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity. What Exactly is Business Innovation?

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

It's almost inevitable that innovation will grow to become an amorphous blob of ideas, techniques, processes, "experts", software and a host of other things. Now you can have chocolate beer, artisanal beer, birch beer, pumpkin beer, beer from the mountains, from the coast, etc) and a host of other products and services.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity. What Exactly is Business Innovation?

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Innovation Innovation Programs Open Innovation Technical Review 95

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 4, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Innovation is something different that creates value. It’s no secret that the military and NASA are birthplaces of incredible inventions (something new) and innovations (something […] Sometimes it’s big, new to the world, world-changing things. Sometimes, it’s both.

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Yet2

MAY 28, 2019

In mid-May, yet2 sponsored the NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry conference , organized by the European Networking Group. de Chabot-Tramecourt explained to the audience how innovation has changed at Janssen over the years and how they handle the specific challenges of: Higher regulatory requirements. A complex environment.

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Trends Industry Conference Innovation 58

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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100%Open

AUGUST 27, 2019

Innovation, I hear you say. Innovation can be driven by numerous factors. An example of technology driving innovation was the ATM in the banking industry. . According to Harvard Business School, the supply side of innovation also impacts the financing of technological development. This is the beauty of open-innovation!

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

The CPG Industry aims to continuously reinvent itself as the online shopper experience and the in-person retail customer both demand personalized, convenient, in stock, economical, and exciting products. Utilize Open Innovation for R&D. Open Innovation is a proactive strategy complementing your R&D department.

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Industry Innovation Ideation Open Innovation 52

Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton If you’re like most people, you’ve faced disappointment. Maybe the love of your life didn’t return your affection, you didn’t get into your dream college, or you were passed over for promotion. And sometimes, that hurt lingers for a long time. Until one day, something happens, and you […]

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

A Reflection on 10 Years in Open Innovation. When 100%Open was spun out of Nesta 10 years ago, open innovation was interesting. Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies. The business case for open innovation . The development of open innovation.

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Guide 4 Innovating

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Building the workshop ready for innovation is deliberately designed to help you think through many productive innovating and creative opportunities. Look constantly outside your organization to ‘see’ and collaborate from the values of applying open innovation principles and techniques. For example: 1.

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Wazoku

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Global partnership delivers a unique proposition for any organisation seeking to solve business challenges and drive innovation. Idea management scaleup Wazoku has announced a major new partnership with US open innovation firm InnoCentive , which will create the world’s most comprehensive and powerful innovation platform and community.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

After relying on cost and operational efficiencies to grow the bottom line, many businesses are emerging from an innovation slumber post-recession. The importance of innovation in driving this growth is resurfacing to the top of the agenda. Now there is an imperative to refocus on organic growth.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 29, 2017

As retailers strive to reinvent their customer experience and drive loyalty, many are opening innovation labs or centers that are focused exclusively on digital efforts or product innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the past week or so, I have been looking a little harder at the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry relating to innovation, it left me a little frustrated. I felt that warm and fuzzy feeling, as I read all too often those comforting words or platitudes of how “innovation is vital to us” and one of the “highest areas of focus.”

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Artificial Inteligence Collaboration Technical Review Industry 138

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2017

The new innovating world we face in the 21st Century. Her opening insight is in the twenty-first century we are all requiring more reliance on social technologies that are designed to allow the different technologies to emerge and be allowed to integrate, due to the diversity and diffusion of knowledge. I liked this thinking.

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Wellspring

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Although open innovation serves as a path towards greater openness in product innovation and organizational growth, it is not immune to the typical failures that can be found within any business system.

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Open Innovation Innovation Programs Product Innovation System 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation used to be something that would happen in a physical setting, be it in a workshop, a laboratory, research center, etc. Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. Benefits of Online Innovation. Benefits of Offline Innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation used to be something that would happen in a physical setting, be it in a workshop, a laboratory, research center, etc. Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. Benefits of Online Innovation. Benefits of Offline Innovation.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Open Innovation 40

mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For many companies, innovation means taking products and services and changing them in detail: color, shape, features, size, etc. However, this form of incremental innovation alone does not work anymore in many markets. In summary, innovation is always a big challenge – it needs to be understood, first, and foremost.

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