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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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. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . My new message about innovation is — get back to basics first — and that means the spark of it all, creativity. With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. Ideas are still needed to fill pipelines! I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. Give them time to read, absorb, and jot down ideas, alone.

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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. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They share insights that can reshape the way your organization approaches creativity and problem-solving. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team. Ideation and Creativity Ideation is the heart of innovation, where creativity blooms.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming. In today’s post, we will go beyond our previous brainstorming templates post to share additional templates you can use in regards to ideation activities and exercises.

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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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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. He trains other facilitators on his methods.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Lack of training/skills or experience Another problem with innovation as a discrete project is a lack of training. In most discrete innovation projects, the ideas generated are not distinguished from existing products or services, and thus many times the activity is deemed unsatisfactory or even a failure.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

Denver, Colorado — Innovation & Facilitation Training — Two Public Courses. day Advanced Facilitation Training workshop. Register for the training(s) here. . Advanced Facilitation Training. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions. Here’s his BIO.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. One of the biggest advantages of brainwriting exercises is their ability to include all participants in the brainstorming and ideation process.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Identifying High Potential Leaders To cultivate a thriving atmosphere that embraces innovation, it’s crucial to identify and nurture high potential leaders who can drive change and inspire creativity within an organization. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. The Role of AI in Design Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various facets of business operations, including the creative and iterative processes within design thinking.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions. The Convergence of AI and Design Thinking The union of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Design Thinking heralds a transformative era for creative problem-solving in business and innovation.

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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? Generative Design : AI can generate design ideas based on specified criteria or constraints.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Whether your naming project is renaming or looking for descriptive names, business names as an entrepreneur, names for social media, or a brand identity that fits a brand strategy, we can help you brainstorm and converge on the best potential names. The post Naming Workshop appeared first on Innovation Training | Design Thinking Workshops.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

But, we got started, getting some initial training from Tim Hurson , who wrote Think Better, a great book on innovation thinking, creativity and facilitation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. With AI, we can generate a plethora of ideas, sift through them, and quickly identify those with the most potential.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. This is a compelling and informative training course. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively. A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The client started by saying he wanted to do a brainstorming session. It wasn’t brainstorming that was needed. As it turns out the session was really more about idea development and elaboration. ” We designed a creative session plan to achieve our better understood goals. Get the Training for Facilitation.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is a methodology that combines creative and critical thinking to allow information and ideas to be organized, decisions to be made, situations to be improved, and knowledge to be gained. This shift allows design thinkers to focus on higher-level creative and strategic activities. What is Design Thinking?

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Goofy, incomplete briefs that send your creatives off on a wild goose chase.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 27, 2016

Big thanks to Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, for this timely article on the importance of deferring evaluation during the ideation phase of a brainstorming session. This principle of "deferring evaluation" of ideas until later has been a bedrock principle of brainstorming ever since.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Organizations spend a great deal of time and energy investing in training, speakers, communications, systems, frameworks, and assessments. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Believe it or not, you can train people to have more fun.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do.

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Creativity is not a gift but a skill we can train with proper tools. When we introduce somebody to innovation methodologies, especially those focused on business models, the role of creativity topic usually comes up. The most common question is whether we need to use creativity or not to innovate. Analogy cards.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2016

Apparently 89% of the Fortune 100 companies conduct it, and often use the results to determine not only training requirements but sometimes even job placements for the individuals. In reality, you’re not likely to get any more or better ideas by having these people in the room at the expense of more quiet colleagues.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

They outperform their peers in productivity, creativity, and overall results. This strategic approach enables teams to apply experiential learning towards creative problem-solving, thus driving the organization forward. But what distinguishes these teams from the rest?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. Frameworks become a competitive advantage when you use them in more creative ways. In spite of many success stories it’s not done nearly enough.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do.

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