I simply enjoy innovation. I got ‘hooked’ ten years ago and have increasingly focused upon it until it is 100% of my business thinking. I research innovation, develop novel innovation solutions and frameworks. I provide these as solutions to add to my advisory, coaching and consulting work in innovation for individuals, teams and organizations.
Through my business, Agility Innovation Specialists, we aim to help grow your body of knowledge on innovation. Having this 100% focus we believe does provide the necessary additional intensity of focus needed for innovation success that someone who specialises can provide.
We research topics that relate to innovation for the future, applying what we learn to further develop organizations core innovation activity, offer appropriate advice on tools, techniques and frameworks so clients can achieve positive and sustaining results from their innovating activities. Web site: www.agilityinnovation.com
Recently a dedicated site for exploring the components of our ‘fitness’ makeup for innovation, is outlining my working towards an approach that can model what is dynamic and not that improves innovation performance. There are clearly dependancies and this evolving model attempts to provide answers to current performance gaps, and where to put a greater focus upon, to improve the innovation performance engine in capability and capacity building, to raise the game and align it more into the strategic needs. This dedicated site can be found at www.innovationfitnessdynamics.com
As for my personal journey of how I got to this point I can only say it has been varied, challenging but full of fun and learnings. This has taken me to live and work in Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Malaysia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, USA, Australia, and recently eleven years in Singapore, starting up businesses, turning them around or simply accelerating them and achieving their footprint within the world.
In mid 2008 I moved back to Switzerland from Singapore and presently focus my time between Asia and Europe for this innovation practice and its related sister company (www.hocaconsulting.com) that focuses upon related subjects important to growing organisations capability in today’s world. I work and move between my preferred bases of Switzerland and Singapore.
Innovation as a source for our growth fascinates me. I hope I can share some of this passion with you here on this site as I search for the DNA makeup of innovation.
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Paul Hobcraft
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