Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Innovation is challenging and complex, moving from a very nebulous world of trends and needs and emerging capabilities to a very definitive set of features and requirements. The real challenge in what I've written is in culture.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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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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Course Training Idea Generation Innovation 26

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? 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. Almost always. People really want to do good work.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. REGISTER NOW.

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Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

A well-structured innovation pipeline ensures that new ideas are systematically developed, refined, and brought to market, transforming potential opportunities into tangible results. However, navigating the complexities of innovation processes requires strategic planning, expert involvement, and robust measurement techniques.

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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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Software Review Software Design Thinking Innovation Management 52

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These are tactical approaches that can be applied in specific scenarios to spark innovation. Innovation methods, on the other hand, refer to overarching frameworks or structured approaches that guide the innovation process over time. Leadership support and alignment with broader business goals are also crucial.

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Ideation LEAN Brainstorming Innovation 52

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

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. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections.

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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.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Innovation Creative Thinking Design Thinking Culture 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation. Defining an innovation process is not innovation.

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

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. Not enough time taken to instill the needed mindsets/tools/rhythms We’ve had innovation teams tell us they’ve spent almost a year spinning their wheels with nothing to show for it.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

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.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation. Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation. Making innovation a continuous effort.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Studies show firms that treat innovation as a science and manage and measure it like any other business function are more successful. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it. Guest innovator.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. More and more we also see firms opening up their innovation funnel at this stage to allow for external concepts to be pulled into the innovation funnel.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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