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. The weekly sessions are FREE. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation. The idea sweet spot But tackling all three risks at once can be overwhelming. This is by design. your riskiest assumptions.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Lean Coffee. As you discuss ideas and action items, document them as cards.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

An innovation process model is a structured framework that outlines the steps involved in taking an idea or solution from concept to implementation. It encompasses the entire lifecycle of innovation, including stages such as idea generation, development, testing, and commercialization.

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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? Can I blend frameworks?

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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

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. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Almost always.

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

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. They’ve never been included in one overarching model.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. GFi is now offering a new version of MoshPit to discover ideas that exploit new digital technologies.

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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. The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. This calls for dual thinking and organizational design to optimize the two orientations” The value of exploring frameworks that ‘ inform’ innovation cannot be overstated.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Sessions often fail to find breakthrough ideas. Facilitators need to adopt experiential learning tools in their sessions designs. Innovation Session Designs Need More Variety. When you design innovation sessions: Use a variety of experiences. Do Improv games.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2015

Don’t get hung up on whether to use Lean, or Design Thinking, or CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail , or some arcane method history has hung around your neck. Look, there are a million methods to do innoation, including those methods I espouse. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

In recent years the focus has been on creating highly efficient organizations that apply lean principles to both management and operations. The sequential steps of insight development, idea generation, idea elaboration, and experiment design can be managed using a variety of tools.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

Depending on the companies’ objectives, these innovation centers are mostly autonomous, designed as corporate accelerators, incubators, Digital Labs or in a blended form. Hackathons’ or comparable formats are used to bring together external ideators with internal experts for drumming out disruptive ideas.

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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

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! However, customers often don’t know what they need or want.

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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! There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes.

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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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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

There is no reason why a MoshPit session can’t be done within any other innovation method, be it Design Thinking, Lean, or whatever your organization uses. This is a process oriented towards big “I” innovation, not incremental, although that might fall out. My vision is this front-ends a yearly innovation cycle.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. How can we do this?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. How can we do this?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Project WOW methodology offered by A+B is designed to engage employees and empower them to put forward new improvement suggestions, through workshops, training programs, and brainstorming sprints.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

He later evolved it into a broader model involving opportunity identification, opportunity analysis, idea generation, idea selection, and concept definition — much of what has today come to be known as Innovation Management. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process.

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Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business. Big Data is high on everybody’s radar and used as input to identify opportunities.

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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

The emphasis on thinking through new business models, combining design thinking, lean management, customer development, prototyping, experimenting outside the lab, collaborating with clients, finding different partners, the different exploitation of research techniques are all breaking out in different forms and combinations.

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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). Capabilities to be built up.

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

Idea Generation and Capture: Creating an environment that encourages new ideas from all levels of the organization. Evaluation and Prioritization: Assessing the potential impact, feasibility, and alignment of ideas with strategic objectives. Use tools and methodologies like Lean and Agile to optimize innovation processes.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. There is still some negative feeling and judgment behind the word failure. In startups, where experimentation is rooted in work culture, failing is often called “pivoting”.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the activities and skills which are required for a team to ideate, design, test, iterate and pilot a new innovation. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. These 23 capabilities are as follows: 1.

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