Posts by Paul Hobcraft
Your Journey of Innovation Fitness Dynamics
How do we become innovation fit? I believe we need to raise our game and provide a greater fitness to the way we manage innovation. The dynamics of innovation need to be understood.
Read More9 Ways to Put Dynamic Tension in an Innovation System
There is a growing need for having some dynamic tension within the innovation system; this helps generate the better conditions for innovation to thrive. We are learning more on the better tools, techniques, and approaches available but here are some general thoughts to put some opening stakes in the ground for my (our) future thinking around.
Read MoreExploring Frameworks and Methods as an Innovator
Over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know, or at least have an opinion upon. I encourage you to explore these as all have innovating connecting value to bring into your own thinking and referencing of innovation capability building.
Read MoreRelating to the New Innovation Era
I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have been making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise.
Read MoreWhy We Must Rethink Applied Innovation Services
Many of those innovation tools that have been emerging in recent years have now built up a powerful body of validation, and they become necessary to know and practice yet often miss the basic building block needs of innovation. We need to do better, we need to design a completely new innovation process that takes into account all that has evolved in recent years.
Read MoreThe Edge is our New Emerging Adaptive Core
I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management. I…
Read MoreBusiness Needs Innovation Ecosystems
The significant transformation taking place around exploiting technology and digital management has made ecosystems and platforms a mainstream prospecting need, in most of our businesses today. We must engage in what all of this m
Read MoreSignificant Shift in the Innovation Consulting World?
It always catches you by surprise when one of the leading players within the innovation space makes a change. In this case, Innosight has been acquired by Huron, a fellow professional services firm, one that has the vast majority of their business in the United States
Read MoreBuilding Differentiating Capabilities for Innovation
I would argue there is the real, urgent need is to make the innovation capabilities and capacities as distinctive and unique as the circumstances ‘we’ are facing today and in the future but also highly adaptive and flexible, so you can be ready to call upon each of the components when needed, in new combinations that deliver on the resul
Read MoreFacing the New Innovating World in the 21st Century
This week my research was moving around issues of complexity within innovation and I came across a great paper, written by Deborah Dougherty called “Organizing for innovation in complex innovation systems”. Dougherty is attempting to reframe these into problem resolutions from breaking down discovery into four distinct channels. I liked this thinking.
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