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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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. Comedy improvisation games and story telling are already integrated with MCPS.

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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. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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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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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.

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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. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices.

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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

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. A framework is a scaffold.

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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. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge.

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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. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They are based on agile / lean start-up / test-and-learn principles.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Innovation requires a different mindset and approach than normal operations. Do your people know them? If they don’t it’s a way to significantly up your game.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. Despite the considerable success achieved during this short period, there were some clear limitations to this ‘analogue’ idea-gathering approach.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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. Power tools and techniques for identifying new markets (Design Thinking).

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Contact GFi for pricing and registration information. .

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Adapt or die.

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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. The need for ecosystems, platforms, the greater use of analytics, big data and reliance on technology.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

For the specific case of business model innovation, our improved and advanced version of the Lean Canvas has proven its value since it allows an easy entry into more general business model canvas frameworks.

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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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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. Setting up a lean but motivated central team that drives various innovation programs across the organization is critical for success. Agility is not an option. At each stage, there are metrics that need to be tracked.

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