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. It is this ‘raw’ power of technology that is transforming much. This often needs different perspectives to form the final position.

Innovation 174

Innovation Technical Review System Change 174

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities. Being transparent about the UX process helped some respondents foster trust between themselves, their product managers, and the technical staff on their scrum teams.

Agile 111

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 111

Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Its team has 35+ years of combined experience in digital and e-commerce, strategic planning, customer experience, operational, and technical expertise. With a network of experienced and reliable partners and specialists, it believes in LEAN, AGILE, and PRAGMATIC strategies. That’s where we come in.

Culture 98

Culture Technical Review Software Review Roadmap 98

Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

As increased consumer awareness transforms markets and government policy, and as technology creates so many unexpected shortcuts, I believe that this trend will only continue in the future. These would then share products, tech and insights with the company which had opened the hub, allowing for future development.

Innovation Management 69

Innovation Management Change Management Technical Review 69

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Deep-tech innovation, which harnesses advanced scientific understanding to create groundbreaking technologies, has seen significant growth — and investment — over the past decade. While methodologies such as lean don’t transfer directly, deep-tech startups can adapt parts of the approach.

LEAN 28

LEAN Technology Tools Culture 28

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Their role extends beyond mere presentation, as they are expected to be thought leaders, setting the stage for discourse and innovation throughout the event. Engaging Presentation Skills Beyond expertise, the speaker’s ability to deliver the content in an engaging manner is paramount.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Engagement Meeting Culture 130

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? The elephant in the room is that the new technology requires a truly different approach. Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods.

Technical Review 55

Technical Review Ideation Innovation Big Data 55

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Failure is not an option When we must balance the needs of those we serve, with the expectations of those with the most decision making power in the organization, how do we try bold, potentially high impact solutions when a new opportunity or challenge presents itself? Their vision is opportunity, equity and well-being for all San Diegans.

LEAN 75

LEAN Change Case Study Underperforming Technical Team 75

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

In recent years our innovation understanding and its management have significantly changed, due to numerous factors that have been happening. These have been advances in technology, methodology or design- thinking and we do need to stop and think about how we could do ‘things’ differently by asking “what is possible?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation LEAN Software Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? Often we don’t allow ourselves the time, presently seen as a luxury, to call for a comprehensive review of our innovation infrastructure, yet we ought to. We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

Innovation 113

Innovation System Design Innovation Processes 113

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Rick’s article just gave me the chance to go back and review my thoughts and relate his excellent suggestions and thinking into some of the work I have written about in this area. This questioning of present approaches to Business model innovation has brought me back to the very point Rick has raised.

Innovation 157

Innovation Leadership Design Strategy 157

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? Often we don’t allow ourselves the time, presently seen as a luxury, to call for a comprehensive review of our innovation infrastructure, yet we ought to. We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

Innovation 113

Innovation System Design Agile 113

CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

And today, on top of providing value, leaders are tasked with ensuring technical components go smoothly. Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” Be fully present in the moment with your participants.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Video LEAN 52

CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. That is the blessing and curse of igniting technologies. Of course things are different.

LEAN 97

LEAN Technical Review Policies Learning 97

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” We get unwanted results due to a specific set of behaviors. We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking. Going back and reminding myself.

System 147

System Innovation Design Resources 147

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The other real forces of innovation change in this relatively short period, have come from a greater explosion of Lean Management principles and incorporating Design thinking into our work. Speed is dominating at present then “ Scale ” and the constant worries over the” Execution ” of the new value proposition.

Innovation 150

Innovation Technical Review Change Agile 150

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

On top of this, from an incumbents’ point of view, there are legitimate reasons for rejecting a new technology. But incumbents would be willing to make changes if a new technology proves to be truly disruptive and the long-term benefits are worth it. It will become a hotbed for innovation in 2016 and the coming years.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Underperforming Technical Team Management Innovation 100

Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Through understanding the different types of innovation, and identifying what’s present in environments where innovation does occur, we’ve begun to see consistent patterns for companies that continuously innovate within corporate environments. Even then, there’s two prevalent types of risk: technical risk and market risk.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review How To Innovation Disruption 63

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There is this sense that consultants are resolutely staying very internally driven, self-promoting, still trying to convey the story of innovation mastery, when clearly this is lacking in rapidly changing market and technology conditions and due to this staying ahead of the knowledge curve are actually failing the client.

Innovation 60

Innovation Technical Review Collaboration Leadership 60

hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Quality Circles, and continuous improvement all stemmed from that quality approach. Had innovation been so much of an act of common-sense or of serendipity, why adopt so much of technology or management thinking?

Management 74

Management Innovation Technical Review Ideation 74

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it.

Disruption 47

Disruption Technical Review LEAN Software Review 47

Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

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Handbook 59

Handbook Innovation eBook Technical Review 59

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A trippy, out of body experience that would have been impossible to pull off if not for this amazing new technology. At one point I’m convinced Brett Bailey is not just whispering in my ear but leaning on my shoulder. Performed with due gothic seriousness, it gets under your skin by sounding so real.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review LEAN Trends Creativity 58

Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But of course not all of our organizations are as flush with cash as Apple, which gives the company the luxury to invest in creating the future while managing through the uncertainties of the present. Go Bargain Hunting In a downturn, good deals can be found in the form of technology licensing and acquisitions.

Innovation 59

Innovation Technical Review LEAN Resources 59

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There is the shift to more open-sourcing, the profound shifts that technology and digital transformation is having upon all our worlds is allowing a very different “connecting” innovation to come into play. We have seen an amazing transformation in how we socialize through the use of technology and the smartphone.

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Collaboration Software Review 100

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

O’Reilly and Michael Tushman review and condense the research done so far on the subject. They may initially come from a customer insight or a technological discovery (market pull or technology push). On the technical level, pre-production units are being built and the supply chain is being set up.

Radical Innovation 67

Radical Innovation Technical Review Innovation Ideation 67

Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

As technology solution providers emerge from the unprecedented volatility of the last couple of years, services leaders are asking what are the most important capabilities that they need to master? A conventional definition of digital transformation describes it as “the novel use of digital technology to solve traditional problems.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Conference Software 52

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. In years of presentations working at an agency, I learned to sense the tension building before a design was revealed. Agency designers can create great visions that fail to be executed. Does a designer just make pictures?

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

Interactive presentation software rather than static PowerPoint presentations. In the end, 87% of IBM badge earners say they’re more engaged due to the program. Lean on simplicity to create a more enjoyable learning experience. Juggling too many multimedia elements may confuse participants.

Training 52

Training Engagement How To LEAN 52

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Often, it’s due to the speed at which they can innovate and this has a lot to do with their size. This tendency is present in teams of companies like Apple, Microsoft or Amazon, and probably in your company as well. Top Model Principle.

Company 57

Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Faisal Hoque

MARCH 26, 2025

We live in an era of rapid technological change, where the rise of AI presents both opportunities and risks. This requires shifting from exploitative business models that prioritize efficiency to people-centered leadership that actively seeks to restore and enhance resources, whether human, environmental, or technological.

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence Leadership Technical Review ChatGPT 52

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Innovation LEAN Agile 42

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. Day 5: Present the solution and plan for implementation.

Design Thinking 74

Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Become both human-centric to help people manage their transition through the challenges of the global pandemic and enable them to exploit the range of accelerating technological advances in the digital age. Aligning technologies, processes, artifacts and behaviours as a holistic system: What is our appetite for risk?

Innovation 64

Innovation Technical Review Agile Collaboration 64

mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

The present and the future will belong to companies that think about co-creating and putting the focus of their strategies on their employees, customers, and service providers. It starts with a week-long sprint in which all planning stages are dynamically reviewed. The Urgency of Strategic Repositioning. MJV was born with this mindset.

Agile 52

Agile Design Thinking Technical Review Competition 52

Outside Innovation

JUNE 30, 2015

Instead, ask customers to share their strategies and plans with one another for peer review. Your team will learn a lot more about what your customers value and need by listening to your customers' present their strategies to one another. Build close relationships with your top business and technical execs.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Meeting LEAN Tips 40

Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Metrics-Driven Leadership: The Spine of Objectivity In an era dominated by data and rapid technological advancements, the paradigm of leadership has gravitated towards a model that emphasizes numbers, results, and predictability. Let’s explore this synthesis.

Design Thinking 62

Design Thinking Leadership Design Ideation 62