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PAUL HOBCRAFT

Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation Specialists; an advisory business that focuses on stimulating sound innovation practice. He helps build innovation capability and capacity for organisations, teams and individuals. Agility Innovation research topics that relate to innovation for the future, applying the learning to further develop organizations core innovation activity, offer appropriate advice on tools, techniques and frameworks.
Paul’s personal journey has been varied, challenging but fun. This has taken him to live and work in Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Malaysia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, USA, Australia, and recently eleven years in Singapore. Paul is based in Switzerland and presently focuses his time between Asia and Europe. Welcome to read more at: www.agilityinnovation.com

Organizing within Networks of Collaborators

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. 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.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:30:21-08:00January 27th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: adaptation, Collaboration, collaborative consumption, collaborative innovation, ecosystem, global market, networks, organizational structure, sharing economy, strategic partnership, transformation, value proposition, value stream|

The Dynamism in Chinese Ecosystems and Platforms

Today we have to “think China” when it comes to looking for the dynamism within Ecosystems and Platforms. They are leading, exploring and extending the thinking beyond our more limited ambitions in the West. It is the environmental conditions coming together or being explored and exploited that make China stand out in its dynamism in this area.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:10:07-08:00November 17th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: alibaba, Change Management, china, Competition, competitive advantage, digital platform, dynamism, ecosystem, in-depth article, innovation networks, innovation platform, Platform Disruption|

Reducing Confusion, Promoting Diffusion

In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. Concluding the discussion, in part three the author reviews faulty innovation practice and argues in favor of recognizing innovation as a value enhancing and organizational life-changing event we need to move towards increasingly.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:33:18-08:00January 31st, 2013|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Business Model Innovation, complex systems, confusion, education, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation training, knowledge sharing, leadership, motivation, openness, question, skills management|

The Real Value of Knowledge Exchange

In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. Continuing the discussion, in part two the author investigates the various aspects of modern knowledge exchanges including their psychology, mechanisms and complexities that govern them.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:29:40-08:00January 17th, 2013|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: education, innovation psychology, knowledge exchange, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer|

The Role of Education and Learning for Innovation

In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. In part one he opens the discussion by exploring some of the biggest challenges faced by organizations today and provides encouragement to explore emerging practices.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:22:38-08:00December 27th, 2012|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Competition, education, Innovation Culture, innovation management standards, innovation standards, innovation standarization, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, learning|

Preparing Ourselves for Innovation Standards

There has been a continued debate around finding and adopting a set of standards for innovation. I blow a little hot and cold on this - not dependent on the time of day but the very “force” that is pushing the agenda along. Far, far too many who push for standards often have very narrow agendas, where this fits their commercial purpose and you get the feeling that they are not as aligned to the broader innovation communities as they should be.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:09:17-08:00November 22nd, 2012|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: community, europe, innovation drivers, Innovation Management, innovation standards, Innovation Strategy, policy, siloing, standard, trends|

Winning at New Products –Creating Value through Innovation

In a completely revised and updated fourth edition, Robert Cooper reminds us that his Stage-Gate process has become the most widely used method for managing new products in industry today. Stage-Gate is an ideas-to-launch process that encompasses a solid body of knowledge and best practice gleaned from studies of thousands of new product developments.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:08:15-07:00September 29th, 2011|Categories: Book Review|Tags: Book Review|

The Open Innovation Guru: A Discussion with Henry Chesbrough

Henry Chesbrough continues to be an influential voice in open innovation. Paul Hobcraft caught up with him on a recent trip to Denmark – and sought clarity on Henry's latest work in open service innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:07:25-07:00May 12th, 2011|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: Innovation Management, Interview|

An Open Innovation Reference Framework – Reducing Innovation’s Mysteries

Can we bring an open collaborative spirit to understanding, describing and prescribing innovation methods? Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Philips believe we can and that it will greatly simplify the innovation process. Here's the beta version of a collaborative open innovation framework.