Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

AI Initial Investigative Work: Before diving into full-scale AI generative thinking, preliminary research and development becomes necessary. Verification and Validation: It’s critical to validate the generated ideas to ensure they align with your organization’s goals, are technically feasible, and have real-world applicability.

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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. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks.

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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 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

AI Initial Investigative Work: Before diving into full-scale AI generative thinking, preliminary research and development becomes necessary. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping. This step involves testing and refining the concepts.

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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. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. The weekly sessions are FREE.

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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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Design Thinking for Naming. With our company, we’ve committed to using an innovative framework of design thinking to go step-by-step through a naming process. Design thinking is a creative process utilizing personas for branding that will help us create and select the best idea from the input of your team.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Whether you are working together in person or remotely, design thinking software tools such as Miro can help make the innovation process easier than ever. Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It is where we need to question workflows and processes, as openness has become increasingly central to our thinking and development-building process. I do believe the principles of design thinking, agile development, ecosystem thinking and design coupled with AI integration offer a radically exciting innovation ecosystem approach.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

Whatever tool you decide to use, make sure it’s easy to access across devices, updating in real time, and provides a fluid way for you to arrange and interact with ideas generated throughout the exercise. The post Brainwriting Template appeared first on Innovation Training | Design Thinking Workshops.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. There is no innovation without creativity.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! Are your people trained in innovation process? Are your people trained to do innovation?

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session. Use Diverse Springboards to Scaffold Thinking. Give them time to read, absorb, and jot down ideas, alone.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. Frameworks become a competitive advantage when you use them in more creative ways. The reason? A framework is a scaffold.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2019

If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Which is best?

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”. Creativity and idea management. List of courses. Course highlights.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice. Seven Facilitation Fails. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”. Creativity and idea management. List of courses. Course highlights.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Training is not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Many companies are creating, adapting or partnering with others to provide an innovative space for fostering ideas, creative thinking, exploring new technologies and prototyping. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here’s a method that can be especially beneficial when people are stuck, unable to consider ideas beyond those that they pre-conceive as being “the only options.” It helps us get out of the box that inhibits free-flowing idea-generation, prototyping, or other behaviors that we know benefit the creative process.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. Gregg Fraley has trained innovation professionals around the world.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” such as solitary list-writing.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup. How can we do this?

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

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. Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup. How can we do this?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup. How can we do this?

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, many people just consider individual idea generating (or thinking) as brainstorming – when it was originally meant to be a group experience…a brainstorming session. Participants attempt to build upon, integrate, and develop ideas that have already been voiced in the session. IDEO Brainstorming Rules.

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