Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Following my last post, “ I aim to put more innovation into the front end of Energy “, I want to outline why I am focusing increasingly on this front end of the energy transition (FEE) within my innovation work. For me, it is the ability to apply the “multiplier effect” to any discovery and validation that accelerates the understanding of where the potential growth and impact points of a new business opportunity can occur.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 30, 2021

What does a Fishbone have to do with the Toyota Production system ? Five Whys. No, not five Y’s, like you see in an excited text message saying “Heyyyyy!!!” The Five Whys technique of figuring out problems in a business. This is a useful tool in finding reasons for manufacturing issues, customer service issues, and opportunities to innovate your offering in new ways.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 31, 2021

Overview: Join us Sept 14, 2021, 11 AM PST on Zoom as we discuss how the United Way Worldwide (UWW) innovation team used innovation strategy to fight the “invisible problems” and downstream effects of COVID-19. The Tsunami After An Earthquake. The COVID-19 pandemic was a sudden stress test on social safety nets across America and around the world. While relief was sent out relatively quickly, the sudden rise in unemployment, and ongoing impacts on markets, made it difficult for many to keep food

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Digital Tonto

AUGUST 29, 2021

Being in a position of responsibility means that you have to make decisions without all the facts, in a rapidly changing context, often in a compressed time frame. You do so in the full knowledge. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Following my last post, “ I aim to put more innovation into the front end of Energy “, I want to outline why I am focusing increasingly on this front end of the energy transition (FEE) within my innovation work. For me, it is the ability to apply the “multiplier effect” to any discovery and validation that accelerates the understanding of where the potential growth and impact points of a new business opportunity can occur.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Ether Gons, Founder of GroundControl and author of the Corporate Startup (with Dan Toma) and Innovation Accounting. We speak about what it takes to measure innovation progress, what companies and analysts get wrong, and how to think about metrics and KPIs in a different way. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Esther’s history with Startups in Holland, and the founding of Ground Control. 00:02:45 – What

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the business management context, continuous improvement means a never-ending effort to identify and eliminate the root causes of problems that produce errors or diminish customer value. Most often, it consists of many incremental improvements rather than one drastic change. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Japanese culture, which endeavors to improve on an ongoing basis.

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Board of Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2021

How do you evaluate which is the right agency to help your organization excel in innovation? We give you 7 tips on selecting and evaluating the right innovation agency and partner. The post 7 tips on evaluating an innovation agency appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Living a creative life is a goal for a lot of people. The idea of spending every day immersed in artistic pursuits exploring opportunities, even gaining a better understanding of what creativity means is exciting. Yet, this isn’t the current reality for most — life tends to get in the way. The reality is a need to achieve a balance. You have your day job to pay the bills while you try to squeeze in your creative activities somewhere between your family life, chores, and getting a few hours’ slee

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2021

Guest Post from Arlen Meyers A group of former and current providers convened recently to discuss how digital transformation can be both contributing to and alleviating burnout. Technofatigue, innovation fatigue and change fatigue are as ubiquitous as the Delta variant in unvaccinated people.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 30, 2021

Video marketing has become an important strategy for many businesses in today's digital world. There are about 5 billion videos vi.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Every year, we gather our colleagues from around the world for a week of team bonding, workshops, strategy sessions, and unwinding - we call it ‘Summer Office’. The post A summer office after a pandemic – what did we do? appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you have ever been exhausted after long sessions on videoconference, you are not alone. Now, just-released research shows that being forced to have the cameras on may be one of the main reasons why. A new study titled The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings set out to find out what difference it makes when we are forced to have our cameras on during video meetings, which have become much more common as more people work remotely.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Fail Fast Fallacy is that while we speak of failing fast, many corporate executives are not going to do so successfully because a) corporates continue to expect success b) the highest achievers are the ones being asked to fail … Continue reading →

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2021

You may not have heard of cheerscrolling yet, but you’ll benefit from trying to apply it to how you consume content on your ph.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Bolstering employee morale and unleashing motivation does not necessarily require offering expensive incentives or the implementation of big programs. There are cost-effective but tangible ways for organizations and team leaders to excel in these two areas. As a team leader, you play a central role in helping your team members and organization reach their full potential.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2021

How to transform innovative bottom-up initiatives into a movement spread across the company? How to scale your innovation program widely? Here are a few lessons learned from creating innovation programs in Europe, and tweaking them to Africa and Middle-East contexts.

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Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Operationalizing strategy is one of the most critical responsibilities of business leaders. Mapping out the direction for the organization and making choices that move the organization closer to its long-term goals is the essence of leadership. But, of course, it is more complicated than it sounds. Daily emergencies compete for attention and resources with top-level, so it is easy to lose focus on long-term goals.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As businesses are ramping up and asking employees to return to in-person work in offices, restaurants, hotels, and manufacturing firms, millions of people are leaving their jobs in search of something different, something more. What they’re looking for varies, but there are some common factors being reported. Over the last 18 months, workers have had time to think about what they really want and have decided that life is too short to settle.

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Sopheon

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Be prepared for change with clear mandates and trained rules for the unexpected. The post Why Innovation Governance Matters appeared first on Sopheon.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2021

In our second blog in this series of three, we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit that catalyzes change through “innovation evangelism”.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Just like Apple founder Steve Jobs did, by intentionally exercising your creative muscle, new opportunities naturally arise, and calligraphy is perfect for this.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 30, 2021

How Employees Can Affect Change. Employees are the core of organizations. They handle everyday tasks, schedule meetings, get work done, drive sales, fulfill orders, and keep the organization running. . For the most part, in traditional companies, the majority have no say on decisions made by executives, yet employees are the lifeline of the business.

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BMNT

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2021

This article originally appeared on Forbes. In the late 1990s, as the Age of the Customer was in full bloom, it was clear that the old ways of working were no longer going to cut it. The strain was especially felt with software development projects, which were becoming a major investment area for organizations. In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2021

84% of digital transformations fail, according to research by Michael Gale of PulsePoint Group.

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Kainexus

AUGUST 31, 2021

The modern, technology-driven business landscape offers countless opportunities to introduce new products and services to the market. Unfortunately, even the most innovative leaders with clear visions often fail to achieve their strategic goals. Many organizations can’t meet the challenge to effectively define, staff, and manage the set of projects and programs necessary to see the strategy succeed.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Brainstorming” as a concept was originally devised by Alex Osborn as a group ideation activity. Today, many people just consider individual idea generating (or thinking) as brainstorming – when it was originally meant to be a group experience…a brainstorming session. Alex Osborn’s book Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving is a classic foundational text if you’d like to get into the origins.

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ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Thomas Boermans, Head of Foresight at E.ON and passionate Energy Transition Manager, talks in our Innovation Rockstars Podcast about his mission to think, plan and implement the energy transition - at scale!

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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