Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Design Thinking for Business Creativity Design thinking’s the secret sauce for spicing up your strategy. Here’s how design thinking breaks down: Empathize: Get cozy with your customers’ needs and woes. Using combos like design thinking and SWOT ensures that innovation isn’t floating by itself.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan. Agile’s all about being quick on your feet and staying nimble with projects.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Verification and Validation: It’s critical to validate the generated ideas to ensure they align with your organization’s goals, are technically feasible, and have real-world applicability. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

Idea Generation: This is the initial stage where new ideas are created. It can involve brainstorming sessions, crowd-sourcing ideas from employees or customers, and conducting market research to identify unmet needs. Here, ideas are evaluated based on feasibility, strategic alignment, and market potential.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

It outlines the steps and methodologies needed to develop, evaluate, and implement new ideas, ensuring they align with the organization’s overall strategic objectives. This framework serves as a blueprint for how a company approaches innovation, from idea generation to the successful launch of new products or processes.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. The weekly sessions are FREE.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

By fostering a culture of ideation, companies can tap into the collective creativity of their workforce, leading to a diverse range of ideas that might not surface in a more hierarchical or rigid environment. This collective ideation can help businesses stay agile and responsive to changing market conditions.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Which is best?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Verification and Validation: It’s critical to validate the generated ideas to ensure they align with your organization’s goals, are technically feasible, and have real-world applicability. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Design Thinking: A human-centered approach to problem-solving, design thinking emphasizes empathy and understanding the user’s needs. Lean Six Sigma is widely used to drive innovation in both product development and process optimization, ensuring that businesses stay agile and effective.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It is where we need to question workflows and processes, as openness has become increasingly central to our thinking and development-building process. I do believe the principles of design thinking, agile development, ecosystem thinking and design coupled with AI integration offer a radically exciting innovation ecosystem approach.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. Click on the course title to register.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. For organizations, MCPS is a foundational framework for building a culture of constant creative improvisation in order to innovate.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

Classic Improv games are adaptable for visioning, exploration, problem framing, idea generation, solution development, and planning. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed? Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not?

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They may know frameworks, like Design Thinking or Agile, and a few tools, but very few have the extensive training and experience at hands-on facilitation required to make a difference. Do any of the following Seven Fails ring true? Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It enables agile responses to internal and external changes, ensuring the organization can navigate uncertainties effectively. Innovation and Agility: Single Organization: Within an organization, the hierarchy fosters a culture of innovation. It builds those dynamic capabilities required in today’s uncertain environment.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Design Thinking puts an emphasis on this exploration, it’s a fundamental built into their framework, excellent!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Power tools and techniques for identifying new markets (Design Thinking). Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation. The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.”

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. But without creative belief and culture, advanced tools are likely to fail. It’s not creativity AND innovation. Creativity IS Innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. Keep in mind these activities are not just “energizers” — they are critical learning steps. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Exploring the latest design thinking and open innovation frameworks will help you drive innovation effectively within an established organization or growing venture. You will be exposed to agile-development principles and techniques for technical problem-solving. Design thinking for innovation. Idea generation.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Exploring the latest design thinking and open innovation frameworks will help you drive innovation effectively within an established organization or growing venture. You will be exposed to agile-development principles and techniques for technical problem-solving. Design thinking for innovation. Idea generation.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training?

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

They observe that the transfer rate from the promising ideas generated in the vehicles mentioned above into substantial business is too low. By definition, they’re designed to look further ahead and explore terrain that is not yet on the corporate map. They are based on agile / lean start-up / test-and-learn principles.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Innovation Training. Why innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There also seems this perpetual dilemma of clients’ wishes that are hard to reconcile with operational realities to turn their organizations from being focused on effective and efficient into agile and adaptive ,required for innovation. Also innovation itself is going through really a massive change.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In working with this extended innovation funnel model we have made one more interesting observation: The chances for identifying and implementing successful breakthrough innovations are greatly increased if the individual stages are orchestrated by Design Thinking (see e.g. here).

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