Posts by Paul Hobcraft
How 2017 will Accelerate and Deliver the New Innovation Era
So what are the critical paths of the New Innovation Era? It is the powerful effects of different conditions, solutions and forces combining that will deliver the new innovation era in accelerated forms in 2017. We have a perfect merging of conditions that will have a transforming storm effect on innovation that are converging rapidly…
Read MoreMoving Into a New Innovation Era
Coming your way in 2017 There is a profound shift taking place, relating to innovation. Increasingly we are seeing a growing dissatisfaction on the impact that innovation is having; in growth, in returns, in market and customer impact. There is a search for new solutions. One of the implications is this growing recognition that innovation…
Read MoreMoving the Crowd in a New Direction
The use of crowdsourcing: the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing. The…
Read MoreThinking Through a Crowdsourcing Initiative [2/3]
Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Partnering with experts in this field will help overcome many of these barriers or at least have reassuring suggestions for resolving them. Let’s take a look at some of…
Read MoreWhere is the Crowdsourcing Movement Heading? [1/3]
Author’s note: This is a three-part series. Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of…
Read MoreInnovation Needs Different Thinking Horizons
Paul Hobcraft makes the case that different types of innovation operate and evolve over different time horizons and explains the three emerging horizons that need different treatment for innovation.
Read MoreWalkabouts are needed for learning and testing ourselves
How often do you pause for thought, even simply for ‘just those few minutes,’ so as to allow yourself to openly question where you are and what you are attempting to do? We keep relentlessly moving on, like a wandering herd of buffalo, always looking for fresh pasture, those new feeding grounds. It’s not good. Of…
Read MoreBuilding Capability, Capacity and Competency in the Innovation Core
For innovation to grow and be sustained, we need to consistently build our innovating resources, they give delivery of the healthy living cells to promote and sustain us in new value potential.
Read MoreCoaching to Overcome the Ten Innovation Intractables
If you could ask a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages it would make such a difference to our innovation performance and engagement. I think this might need a good external facilitator as my recommendation, one who has deep innovation knowledge and expertise, able to manage the ‘dynamics’ within the room.
Read MoreThe Connecting Art of Selling Outcome-Based Solutions
The typical linear and often siloed mindset that we have for much of our innovation thinking within our business organizations has to rapidly fall away. We are in the ‘cusp’ of a fundamental change that technology, platforms, and connected ecosystems will bring into the mix for connecting and collaborating in dramatically different ways than the past.
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