I have planned to explore in three simultaneous blogs, a trilogy of blogs, the three horizon model more extensively. It is a most valuable one to build into your thinking about strategy and innovation. This is the final blog of the trilogy on the Three Horizon Framework and offers my thinking on an emerging framing … Continue reading “The Navigation of the Three Horizon Framework- An Emerging Guide.”
I lived for about fifteen years in Asia until a short while ago, and in the before and in the in-between period, I travelled there a lot and often felt the pull of different cultural thinking. Participating in Asia, watching how Asia has evolved has been a real experience, that stays with you as something … Continue reading “The dual forces within our cultural thinking”
Today, we are valuing organizations in completely different ways than some years back as intangible capital grows in importance. In the past we were valuing organizations purely on their tangible assets, the ‘hard’ (easier to) quantify assets, shown on the balance sheets as the basis for the value of the organization. Today that is not … Continue reading “The importance of managing our intangible capital is the key for today’s innovating business.”
Recently I was going through my files and was amazed how the use of seven came up to form some sort of magic seven frameworks. I’m not sure if we can blame this all on the “seven wonders of the world” but ‘seven’ has some magic perhaps when it also comes to listing. Is it … Continue reading “Everything seemingly comes in seven or does it?”
So here we are already in December. Budgets are being argued, numbers fixed, concepts and plans discussed, and those higher hopes that you can build out for a successful 2011 through innovating differently beckons. Tell me what did we learn from 2010 from an innovation perspective that we can build upon in 2011? Here are … Continue reading “Reflections from a tough 2010 for innovating differently in 2011”
Gary Hamel is amazing, he is constantly thinking about the future and lays out how to get there; he has been doing this repeatedly for years, this time it is discussing the innovation drags we presently have and how they are holding back the 21st Century business models. One quote of his seems to hit … Continue reading “Shifting to the 21st Century Business models”
My last week was spent in the UK and it was a fascinating trip when it came to advancing my thinking on innovation. Innovating through new Business Models was constantly being discussed in the meetings, workshops and the conference I attended. It is becoming a lightening rod for growth and change. Let me try and bring … Continue reading “Research, platforms and collaboration for Business Models”
My name is Paul Hobcraft. I see myself as an innovation journeyman. I simply enjoy innovation in all its forms. I got ‘hooked’ twenty plus years ago and since then have increasingly focused on innovation until it is 100% of my business thinking and activities today across different social, business and institutional needs. I work … Continue reading “About Paul”
