Posts by Paul Hobcraft
Defining Innovation Capital
Innovation capital is made up of many different assets that are often context specific and interconnected and this makes it hard to build without taking a broader, more holistic approach to developing your capabilities, capacities and competencies to innovate. You ‘map’ and align these to fit your strategic goals and aspirations.
Read MoreWe Are Pushing Away From the Old Innovating 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. We…
Read MoreIs innovation really important to you?
How can we establish Innovation as the vital link to a process of change and strategic direction options? One that lifts the debates of managing today’s business by linking it into the future and then turning this thinking into a series of plausible and coherent set of activities? Innovation can drive change, change is required. …
Read MoreReflecting on our Innovation Practices
Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. They have driven much of our thinking and reacting. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the…
Read MoreBuilding Differentiating Capabilities for Innovation
We so often get caught up in the building of our capabilities. In some ways, I keep attempting to “peel the innovation onion†in explaining the need to focus on building the capabilities in different ways but to be honest, it needs these various approaches to an ever-changing environment. A different intensity of innovation onion…
Read MoreInnovations Degrees of Connectivity, Interactivity and Sharing
We often forget it is our people that really make innovation work. They determine the ideas, drive these forward to deliver them as new innovative concepts into the world. People connect the fragmented pieces or dots within innovation from being random and intangible, into being explicit and tangible. In the past, we have often believed…
Read MoreDigital Technology is Changing the Innovation Game
Digital technologies are beginning to have a real impact on the methods, approaches, and rates of our innovation outputs. Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding. We continually learn, often at our cost, that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago. This ‘knowledge’ is becoming out…
Read MoreFusion, Flow and Fluidity are needed in our Management Practices
We are caught in a real tug of war within much of what we do in business today; in our responses and reactions to many of the dramatic business conditions we are facing, many deteriorating or being challenged by greater global competition. We are facing a very uncertain future if we base our actions on…
Read MoreThe Essential Connection Between Strategy and Innovation
Most organizations are seeking solutions to the necessary connections between Strategy and Innovation. The connection between the two is often broken. Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Yet how often do we fail to connect the innovation’s we design and execute…
Read MoreWe are in need of a common language for innovation
Any innovation common language needs working upon. It firstly needs recognition it is in our best interests to find a common point. It needs to be relevant to each of us, it must be current, appropriate, accurate and highly visible throughout the entire organization. It also needs to be allowed to grow and flourish, to…
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