Transitions towards Innovation and Business Ecosystems

I am a “transition advocate” for innovation, ecosystems, energy, and sustainability. I explicitly focus on the industrial and energy systems that are radically changing our world, which provides me with a platform to understand, build, and recommend many dramatic changes taking place that are relevant across all business environments.
  • Transformational insights are seen at the front end of the transitions that we are all undertaking where innovation drives these changes. These observations are providing the “fuel” to underpin my supportive advisory & mentoring services to a client. This dynamic environment nurtures my understanding of what is evolving and what impact and growth opportunities this has for a business to explore and exploit by taking the innovator’s perspective into the assessment of the need of a client’s energy and industrial transition as my areas of focus to validate the value and worth of Ecosystem thinking and design.
  • My primary role is advising and coaching in building innovation and ecosystem capability and capacity. The principal focus then is to support and build internal capacity and develop the external capabilities to undertake any transformation journey and make the undertaking sustaining, built on future-orientated approaches.
  • I break my business out into dedicated focal topics into “big transforming” points of impact, applying understanding and insights that are in my mind complementary, synergistic or clarifying new emerging intersections, for growth potential that has value-adding impact and business model change.
  • The combination of innovation within ecosystem thinking and the design approach has arrived, capitalizing on the value points of digitalisation combined with technology and human ingenuity; both in the Industrial IoT world and finding a growing place and pace in the Energy Transition, each is having, in my view, a very different combination effect for value creation and business impact.
My Innovation intent has been central to this period in consulting, mentoring, coaching and advising business entities, start-ups, not-for-profit and government agencies. This intent has progressively ‘funnelled down’ into recognizing the value of ecosystems as the business design for innovation in the future to thrive and deliver more significant value creation, especially in the Energy Transition underway. I run a specialized advisor and mentoring business called Agility Innovation based in Switzerland. It has an intense focus on its clients’ needs and is always looking to contribute to their specific journey. Consistent contributions from my posting sites, paul4innovating. com and ecosystems4innovating.com, provide much of the “creative” fuel in my contributions and worth in advisory work.
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Agility Innovation Specialists are presently based in Switzerland Paul Hobcraft’s profile can be viewed on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hobcraft-innovation/ Contact Paul Hobcraft on his email:  paul4innovating@gmail.com

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Jeffrey Phillips and I have collaborated over a number of years and I have always felt these have been highly productive, original in thinking and truly valuable.

One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change.

I wanted to extract part of this white paper”Critical Interplay Innovation Business Models Change 6-2“(goes to PDF), in this post, as it offers all involved in innovation a structure to break down innovation into its different models of application. It describes some important observations we often forget when innovating. Continue reading “The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change”

Confronting Your Darwin Effect through Innovation

Confronting Your Darwin Effect through innovation

It is so hard to let go! It is so often harder to carry on, but determination prevails!

I have been working away, call it my labour of love, with plenty of frustrating moments but have “pushed on” through sheer determination, on my thinking through the ‘harnessing’ of the dynamics within innovation.

The journey has forced me into terrain that presented diverse challenges to achieve fresh insights and traversed many a rugged landscape to get closer to my goal of offering organizations their innovation fitness and future landscape design, one designed to alter their present capabilities and capacity to innovate radically. Continue reading “Confronting Your Darwin Effect through Innovation”