Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI?

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Weave these innovation ideas into your business targets, making them vital parts of your big picture. 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.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Whether you are involved in ai for idea generation , ai in design thinking , or ai for rapid prototyping , AI can provide valuable inputs at every stage of the innovation process. You may need to invest in training your team or hiring experts to ensure a smooth integration process.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. What is Design Thinking?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. What is Design Thinking?

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MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Design thinking involves five key phases: Empathize : Understanding the human needs involved.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s review the three stages of this design thinking framework. This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking and Part 2: Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them. .

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An exploration of resources and advice for design thinking in education. Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. The five main stages of the design thinking process can create better experiences for our stakeholders.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Move Perk Play with Ideas Inspires out-of-the-box problem-solving Supply Creative Stuff Speeds up getting those fresh ideas off the ground Keep an Eye on Your Tactics Keeps your plans sharp and ready for anything By making creativity a staple of your company culture, you’re setting up a forward-thinking, resilient business.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 9, 2021

How to facilitate a design thinking workshop for digital transformation. Digital transformation is a significant and common challenge for organizations and thus a great design thinking project. Leaders, facilitators and design thinking project leaders also have to be creative about working virtually.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Get Training! When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. And yes, this can be trained. Almost always.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

AI Initial Investigative Work: Before diving into full-scale AI generative thinking, preliminary research and development becomes necessary. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping. This step involves testing and refining the concepts.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

AI Initial Investigative Work: Before diving into full-scale AI generative thinking, preliminary research and development becomes necessary. 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.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

This is a high value training. Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. One very different aspect of this training is the time spent on exploring how to do Concept Blending. Here’s a page with details.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. Idea Evaluation and Prioritisation: Figuring out which ideas have more potential than others, and which fit the strategic goals.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Sometimes you need to walk away from the challenge and give your mind some time to reflect and think in the background. Generate Many Ideas. Generate as many ideas or thoughts as you can related to the challenge. Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone. Take a Break.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Begin your journey towards innovation culture transformation by investing in innovation training programs and developing strategies for innovation leadership. As you embark on this transformational journey, remember that your actions and commitment can inspire your team to think differently and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Provide your employees with innovation training programs and innovation mindset training to equip them with the tools they need to contribute effectively to your innovation goals. Offer innovation training programs that equip your team with the skills to think creatively and tackle problems in novel ways.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS Training Available on April 29th, 1 to 4:30 Eastern. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

Whatever tool you decide to use, make sure it’s easy to access across devices, updating in real time, and provides a fluid way for you to arrange and interact with ideas generated throughout the exercise. The post Brainwriting Template appeared first on Innovation Training | Design Thinking Workshops.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Design Thinking for Naming. With our company, we’ve committed to using an innovative framework of design thinking to go step-by-step through a naming process. Design thinking is a creative process utilizing personas for branding that will help us create and select the best idea from the input of your team.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk.

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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! Are your people trained in innovation process? Are your people trained to do innovation?

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, many people just consider individual idea generating (or thinking) as brainstorming – when it was originally meant to be a group experience…a brainstorming session. Participants attempt to build upon, integrate, and develop ideas that have already been voiced in the session. IDEO Brainstorming Rules.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Whether you are working together in person or remotely, design thinking software tools such as Miro can help make the innovation process easier than ever. Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming.

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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . 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. Creativity can be trained , and in many different ways.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. Gregg Fraley has trained innovation professionals around the world.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice. Seven Facilitation Fails. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure these leaders are equipped to fulfill their role in shaping innovation, it’s essential to provide them with the right tools and training through leadership development programs and leadership development workshops. Provide training and resources to build confidence in new methods and technologies.

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