Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Seven Idea Generation Fails. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Brainstorming is all group work.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Our 142-page brainstorm facilitation workbook. Our response to brainstorm session naysayers

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 26, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. Our 142-page brainstorm facilitation workbook. Our response to brainstorm session naysayers

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. Choose from a series of 40 brainstorm facilitation modules. Our 142-page brainstorm facilitation workbook.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Truth be told, we like our custom designs for a workshop a little better than what ChatGPT is suggesting because it builds towards connecting and developing the group of learners while creating a more significant project. This program showcases how to leverage AI to assist in generating or brainstorming ideas.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training In his TEDx talk, Dr Friis-Olvarius also noted that when they tried this training with a small group of 25 experts, the improvement was over 71%. We therefore never attempted to publish it.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Coming up with new ideas is part of any innovation process or framework. To scaffold thinking, participants should explore the domain first, and related domains, before group ideation. This might include brainstorming alone, prior to a group session. This done before ideation.

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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. During each round, participants are asked to write down three ideas on the topic you’re brainstorming. Conclusion.

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Betterific

AUGUST 22, 2016

In this installment of brainstorming with an innovator , we invite Laurie Steiner , who won our wireless innovation competition. I love doing these series, because we get to learn more about our members – what gets them going, why they do what they do, and how they come up with such creative ideas.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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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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Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

People are generally not in mindset to be creative. We need to get them to a mindset where they can be creative, if our purpose is to get the most creative ideas that are possible. Start your brainstorming session by playing a game that requires creativity. Idea Coach. Ideation and brainstorming is very serious business.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

We call this simple framework: Challenge, Ideas, and Action. From identifying the problem to brainstorming ideas and taking action to solve your problem, this simple framework can be incredibly easy to follow and helpful when you begin planning and implementing your own innovation or design thinking project. Stage 3: Action.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the people in your organization treat invitations to brainstorming sessions like jury duty summons? Do the ideas generated all-too-often underwhelm? Do people roll their eyes when the brainstorming is over, convinced that nothing new is going to materialize? If so, Idea Champions can help.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The IDEO design thinking process: This methodology is a five-step approach to problem-solving that involves empathizing with users, defining the problem, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing. Affinity diagrams: Affinity diagrams are a tool used to organize and analyze data by grouping similar ideas together.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

They can be an ad hoc group from your organization who have been invited to explore a new challenge, goal, or opportunity. Yes, as long as the replacement team member has read the Insight & Ideation Report from session #1 and has a clear understanding of what has preceded session #2. Participants do not need to be an intact team.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 8, 2017

The people in the first group with the fluid movements scored 24% higher in their creativity scores. So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. They then make gestures following your instructions as follows: “We will be open to ideas.” “We want big ideas.”

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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. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.

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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. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Generate a vast array of ideas and conceptual designs quickly. For a deeper understanding of how AI can enhance the ideation phase, explore our article on ai-driven design thinking strategies. Ideate AI models suggest a diverse set of potential solutions.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

Or you might even just think of the person in your business who is always the first person to come up with a seemingly great idea in a brainstorming session. And this is usually also very clear to see when teams and companies are trying to generate new ideas. But there is a huge problem with this. Verification.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, we are mostly used to the new digital reality, yet many still feel that online meetings might be appropriate for coordination but not suitable for ideation. What is ideation? We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creative process for generating and exchanging new ideas.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. How do you move from idea generation to rigorous idea development the right way?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations. 773-251-8567.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 10, 2023

A group of happy participants. Let’s start by reviewing the 5 steps of the Design Thinking process ( Empathize / Define / Ideate / Prototype / Test ) from a VR use case POV. In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Neutrality allows a group to be fully expressed within a structure, a plan. There are specific tools for visioning, problem framing, and ideation etc. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed. What happens, for instance, when someone is dominating a group?

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Analysis and Synthesis: grouping collected data and reframing the initial situation based on transforming data into insights. Ideation Tools.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. REGISTER NOW.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed. What is important to remember is that innovation is not the responsibility of any one of the specific groups mentioned above. The Three Pillars of what makes innovation work in any company.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

Learn the hands-on tools for conducting strategy, ideation, idea development, and implementation workshops. Tools ​and ​techniques ​for ​visioning, ​strategy, ​ideation, ​and ​concept ​refinement. In ​some ​organizations ​that’s ​the ​head ​person, ​in ​larger ​groups, ​it’s ​a ​high-level ​and ​empowered ​manager.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training!

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The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

To get started it may be useful to separate them into two groups: Divergence tools, focused on the generation of as many ideas as possible. Convergence tools, which strive to analyze, filter and merge ideas, in order to select the best ones. Analogy thinking produces 80% of ideas during the ideation session.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

I’m also a bit weary of chasing or developing the latest, greatest, and most sophisticated tool for ideation. And yes, that includes brainstorming, but more importantly, problem framing. It does take work, but anyone (or group) can improve their creative effectiveness. I’m getting back to basics.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the discovery phase, innovation experts can help with web scouting, market research, ethnographic studies, technology or design research, workshops, boot camps, empathy maps, and journey mapping to generate ideas. Tools that a firm uses to initiate ideation internally can also be applied to external stakeholders.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

It certainly doesn’t happen in most brainstorming sessions. When Mash-Ups are presented to groups who are unfamiliar with the technique many people just don’t get it. In any given group, the tools and approach I describe are not fool proof for all participating. Of course, write all ideas down in some fashion.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Start getting them to think about solutions for the small group of people who are working on projects, and allowing them to experiment alongside those early experiments. Help employees generate more future looking ideas by giving them prompts and frameworks that spark this type of thinking, which leads us to… 2.

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