Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. CPS first started being used in the early 1950’s, created by the founder of brainstorming, Alex Osborn.

Creativity 98

Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed. Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*.

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Meeting Project Training Brainstorming 67

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices. By incorporating AI into the brainstorming process, teams can overcome cognitive biases and explore a broader design space. Test AI systems simulate user interactions for immediate feedback.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

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.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

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. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. It’s all useful, but you can drown trying to make it useful in projects. Deliberate, realized, built-into-projects, creativity. It’s not creativity AND innovation.

Creativity 71

Creativity Training Creative Thinking Innovation 71

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach. Collaboration Platforms : Collaboration and project management platforms like Slack, Trello, and Miro provide digital spaces where cross-functional teams can collaborate in real time, regardless of geographical location.

Design Thinking 147

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. In spite of many success stories it’s not done nearly enough. The reason? A framework is a scaffold.

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

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

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.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

CREATORS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Business Units themselves are then responsible for the implementation and commercialization of those ideas generated by the cross-functional innovation team. The idea is that innovation efforts are once again dispersed throughout the organization and become core to strategy, execution and capabilities within and across functions.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Innovation Culture Idea Generation 40

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Why innovation?

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Then there is usually not enough communication about what is done with the few ideas that do have merit. Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training?

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45