BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. To do SOMETHING to make the space a little creative, we’d arrange the tables and chairs every which way.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Meeting Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

But none of them, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. You need focused imaginative, divergent, visioning, strategic, and conceptual thinking.

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Training Creative Thinking Innovation Creativity 62

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

However, frameworks have built-in assumptions, such as, there’s motivation to innovate, and that the culture is aligned with an innovation effort. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. There is no innovation without creativity.

Innovation 70

Innovation Creative Thinking Design Thinking Creativity 70

BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. So, it’s time to announce an innovation program, because that will undoubtedly fill the growth gap facing your brand. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? What expectations or limits are in place on an innovation strategy?

Strategy 87

Strategy Strategy Innovation eBook 87

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Role of Leadership in Fostering Innovation As a leader, you have the unique capability to shape the mindset and culture of your organization. Your actions and attitudes towards innovation can either stimulate a fertile environment for creative thinking or stifle potential breakthroughs.

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Leadership Strategy Strategy Innovation 100

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore several powerful innovation techniques—ranging from problem-solving frameworks and ideation methods to hackathons and structured innovation programs. Both play a crucial role in driving enterprise innovation, but they serve distinct purposes.

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Ideation Innovation Brainstorming LEAN 52

KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete purpose or hurdle against which the innovation program is supposed to act.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing Creativity 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. What’s needed is energy AND knowledge about How To Do Innovation. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

Training 48

Training Innovation Idea Generation Creative Thinking 48

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Innovation is an exciting and inspiring topic, but if you don’t deliver concrete examples of applied innovation – ideally through success stories – its power will quickly fade out. Innovation can generate noise and become disruptive (not only to the market but also to the company).

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Technical Review How To Software Review Innovation 68

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Several people asked recently about questions to help identify innovative thinkers in sales. While we have done a bunch of strategic and creative thinking skills workshops for sales teams in the past several years , we have never put together a specific diagnostic on this topic. An Innovation Posse.

eBook 40

eBook Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking Innovation 40

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These companies have hardwired innovation into their framework and have ingrained innovation into their organization’s culture, but how exactly do you define a ‘culture of innovation’? The organization has been built with innovation in mind to facilitate creativity and curiosity at every turn.

Culture 98

Culture Culture of Innovation Company Technical Review 98

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2019

And Innovation Emergencies Happen. Unfortunately, many organizations don’t have a formal innovation program, and so, they wait until the proverbial poop hits the fan. The key benefit : Taking positive, immediate, creative, and thoughtful action to address your challenge.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Ideation 45

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This public* course is at a significant discount to on-site courses delivered directly to organizations by Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi). The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs. Managing innovation projects.

Design Thinking 9

Design Thinking Ideation Training LEAN 9

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These companies have hardwired innovation into their framework and have ingrained innovation into their organization’s culture, but how exactly do you define a ‘culture of innovation’? The organization has been built with innovation in mind to facilitate creativity and curiosity at every turn.

Culture 52

Culture Company Culture of Innovation Technical Review 52