Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world. Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them?

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Business and Tech

JUNE 28, 2023

Djang is not alone — in a recent survey conducted by Lightspeed, 68% of retailers said that adopting new technologies, including inventory management tools, had resulted in a positive impact on their businesses. But those legacy POS solutions are increasingly untenable due to expense and the difficulty of using and maintaining them.

Technical Review 246

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It adjusts and you learn. We need to be highly adaptive and that comes from a greater technology understanding. So, we seek out greater applied science knowledge we will use it to support and develop practical applications based on technology and innovation. Learning to work and listen more with the outside of our organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 9, 2020

A growing reality might be that many people will be forced to stay at home until a vaccine is found, due to their risk of infection. If we need to learn anything, it is simply that the world is going to be VERY DIFFERENT, so we need to start re-engaging differently. Travel might become off-limits for many. Guardian Article. .”

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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. Whether your innovation process is need driven (finding a need and then finding a solution) or emergent technology or idea driven (having a technology or idea and seeking a market) ideas represent a recurring theme.

Technical Review 235

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world. Technology offers them the transforming means but can they, as leaders, take their people with them?

Collaboration 273

Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” 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. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The core premise of the strategic concept of “proximity” is that, thanks to digital technologies, value is being created closer and closer to the moment of demand — not just in time but also physically closer.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

The growing fears are that we are falling behind the need to meet the Energy Transition required goals to the World has agreed to by 2050, set to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. These technologies are at widely varying stages of development. Tracking Power which is not on track to meet the SDS goals. annually.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation. It has grown from humble beginnings into a sophisticated technology capable of producing remarkable output.” Arthur D Little offer a well-stated position of innovation today in this detailed review.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 20, 2022

New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Due to the fact that technology-driven exponential change affects everything, manufacturing businesses must always keep up. . Five Tech Trends Impacting the Manufacturing Industry.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The second step then, after getting that feedback, is to design and implement a process to meet those expectations, including both what the employees and the supervisors expect. A few years ago, there was a shift by some companies when it came to performance reviews; the standard was conducting employee performance reviews on an annual basis.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Each year, IdeaScale meets with innovators from all over the globe who gather to share best practices on the management and delivery of ideas. The topics are diverse and offer valuable insight into what it takes to innovate in the ever-changing technological landscape of today. What Is IdeaNation? 2019 IdeaNation Topics.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.” It is evident innovation must be way broader than just technological RD&D. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. Equally the nature of much of production has been designed “on the fly” and the equally tough job of connecting the whole process up in a new integrated, fully connected system meets huge resistance.

Industry 213

Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 9, 2019

What fascinates me presently is the energy transition currently being undertaken, due to the enormous amount of innovation options being considered and applied. New technologies are changing the very nature of how energy is going to be produced and delivered over the next ten to twenty years.

Technical Review 177

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence System Innovation 177

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For me, the energy transition that the world is undertaking requires all forms of innovation, to offer technically advanced, as well as breakthrough solutions, to an incredibly complex system of energy delivery. The growing concern today is we are not raising the deployment rate; it is currently far too slow to meet the potential by 2050.

Management 214

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

T he potential value of abundant data and information is greatly constrained by the technical challenges of storing, processing, sharing and analyzing it. Technological risks to information, from hacking to cybercrime and privacy concerns to identity theft are on the rise. We can learn fast and respond by making the invisible, visible.

Technical Review 179

Technical Review Innovation Report Disruption 179

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

I recall reading that up to now, each digital technology change was a separate era of change, to absorb and adapt towards, yet today we are facing something seemingly different, a collision, a whole mash-up of disparate technologies and systems, that seem to be heading for such an explosion of change, a post-digital transformation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow. They survive and thrive due to that uniqueness and attraction. As we learn to collect all this incoming knowledge (data-driven) this will then impact our own innovation programmes and require them to be more adaptive, dynamic and fluid.

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Collaboration Design Innovation Technical Review 241

IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2021

What more can they learn from IdeaScale’s network of innovators? March proved the busiest month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees began working remotely, which meant using technology to attend meetings, collaborate on ideas, and sell products. Campaigns must be reviewed to determine their success.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Dealing with the loss of family and friends due to the pandemic and the mental health impact of the health crisis forced many workers to rethink their whole life vis-à-vis “work.”. This is evident in a recent report from MIT Sloan Management Review , which found more employees quitting their jobs to run away from toxic workplace culture.

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Policies Technical Review Culture Underperforming Technical Team 246

Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back in 1990, Dr. Michael Hammer, the father of business process reengineering, wrote a seminal Harvard Business Review article titled “ Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate.”. Currently, we are unable to conduct in-person, face-to-face meetings. In other words, create a virtual version of the live meeting.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 8, 2024

But given that kids are unlikely to completely leave technology behind, podcasts can also be among the benevolent digital alternatives we need. Now, media giants like Netflix, Amazon, and Warner Brothers are entering the fold to meet the rapidly growing demand for content. Yes to more free play for children. Yes to less social media.

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Learning Survey Engagement Video 96

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Due to that broad range of industries and products, “competition doesn’t necessarily come from a nontraditional peer set. “We do a cross-divisional cross-functional review of those ideas. And once we select finalists from that pool of ideas, we take it to a tech-savvy, external jury.” Better Results.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Cynthia Johnson co-founded the Santa Monica, CA-based marketing agency Bell +Ivy as well as the non-profit WonderKey, which provides tech to foster kids. She’s also on the advisory board for the tech, business, and educational advisory firm Millennium Alliance. That was what sparked my interest and the group’s. What is WonderKey?

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Technical Review Agile Crowdsourcing Groups 130

TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

How does it meet customers’ needs? Proving your Business Model Works - Build, Define, and Review But how do you prove your numbers? Finally, review the numbers with your partners. Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach.

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CTO Technical Review Report Project 156

Leapfrogging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

So it makes sense that with kids’ obsession to games, Instagram and texting, mobile phones have been banned from most classrooms to allow for “un-distracted” learning. But banning phones may actually be a dis-service to our ever tech connected youth. Concerns about phones in class are understandable.

Software Review 100

Software Review Technical Review Disruption Tools 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Cities can only become attractive places to live if we make this energy transition and that will require new physical systems that meet the needs of expanding cities. Urban transitions are both physical and technology solutions. So today we are doing something but tomorrow we have to really learn to work even harder.

Technical Review 184

Technical Review Engagement Change Management 184

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. Are we leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning enough from the explosion of data to identify patterns and insights leading to emerging concept creation?

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CVC units often focus on securing a competitive advantage by investing in startups with innovative technologies or business models that align with the corporation’s strategic goals. By engaging with and investing in startups, companies can gain insights into emerging technologies, trends, and business practices.

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Technical Review Engagement Marketing Competition 100

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. Which means they do not believe small changes over time, failing, learning and adjusting can or will have a meaningful impact. Twitter: rgmcgrath. Tiffani Bova. What is your definition of “innovation”?

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Business and Tech

MARCH 24, 2022

So, in the same way well-being boosts our immune system, culture serves as a company’s immune system, giving it the resilience to meet inevitable challenges. I learned everything I could about the connection between well-being and productivity, and I made a lot of changes to my life based on what I found out.

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