Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

Brainstorming 26

Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. REGISTER NOW.

Course 53

Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

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. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation.

Training 58

Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

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. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. It does not start and end with idea generation.

Roadmap 100

Roadmap Innovation Culture Engagement 100

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects. It’s the Only Kryptonite.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Is your organization doing continuous projects? ” “What!

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

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. The resounding success of TSYS’ Project WOW provides invaluable lessons for leaders in the financial sector looking to drive continuous improvement across all fronts.

Software Review 40

Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“TRIZ is a problem solving method based on logic and data, not intuition, which accelerates the project team’s ability to solve these problems creatively” Using the FORTH Method to Navigate Your Innovation Journey. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive. .

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

How To 98

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

How To 109

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

"As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire. The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. Thank you!" -- Candida G.

Brainstorming 31

Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Creativity LEAN 31

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. However, fast–forward nearly a quarter century, and we find that a lot has changed. milestones).

Innovation 40

Innovation Product Development Ideation Marketing 40

Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

There is a huge noise around what companies should do to find the big ideas. Compared to it, the discussion about the best way of turning those ideas into substantial businesses is almost silent. We think it is high time to change this. We have too many stakeholders with diverse and frequently changing intentions’.

Ideation 61

Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Unless this changes it will continue to erode the clients’ confidence in these service providers and they will be seeking increasing internal solutions to tackle their problems. Also innovation itself is going through really a massive change. The external innovation consultant needs to change.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. It is intended to make clear that start-ups pursue their corporate vision in a focused manner but that triggers such as customer feedback, tests or failed experiments sometimes require a drastic strategic change of the course. Top Model Principle.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57