Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

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. Comedy improvisation games and story telling are already integrated with MCPS.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) framework, and is designed to speed up and reduce risk for a huge variety of types of innovation projects. [If If your company is interested, the L.I.V.E.

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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 you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail. If you don’t take calculated risks, and continue to take them, you will fail.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

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. The session is engaging, highly kinesthetic, intense, fun, demanding — and highly productive.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

There are many possibilities for accomplishing the goal within the leader’s purview, so with the team, they brainstormed ideas and settled on increasing user engagement as a path to increasing customer spend. Periodically observe behavior like agile ceremonies, without taking over. Increase the frequency of check-ins.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. In spite of many success stories it’s not done nearly enough. The reason?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

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. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence. Where design thinking ends, Lean Startup begins.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

An Agile Business Strategy. Agility and the ability to iterate, test and refine strategic direction is the key to success. Agility and the ability to iterate, test and refine strategic direction is the key to success. Agile was software’s antidote to the inflexible waterfall system. Brainstorm solutions.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Warm-ups, energizers, meeting planning, brainstorming, positive critique, and sketch comedy improvisation games are demonstrated and done by workshop participants. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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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. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions. It immerses participants in the relevant theory and systematic practices critical to organizational growth.

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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. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. We appreciate the analog nature of these tools, because teams gather around the boards and discuss, brainstorm and share.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming. And this isn’t necessarily their fault, as most professional brainstorming facilitators are using rules which were first introduced in the 1950s and have long since been proven to be ineffective.

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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. There has never been a more critical time for financial firms to prioritize innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

What’s required is an approach that leverages Design Thinking and/or Lean/Agile and, in addition , does deliberate concept blending (what I call a MoshPit) of your challenges (and IP assets) with outside-your-garden-wall Domains of Knowledge (including digital tech, but also new materials, and current trends).

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Contact GFi for pricing and registration information. .

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Technology Created

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As a father, I can tell my daughter many facts about riding a bike: put your foot on the forward pedal to start, look straight ahead, lean into the turn, steer to keep your balance. Lean into the turn? But just knowing these facts does not a bike rider make! But knowing and doing are two different things. I’ll certainly crash!”

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

As the team leader, you may want to start by sharing something you’re grappling with at work and then lean on your team to help you tackle it. Because they are willing to take risks, team members are often more innovative and agile than others. Team members can adapt to change and brainstorm solutions amid those transitions.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

This process involves open dialogue, brainstorming, and ideation to identify innovative solutions that can be developed and implemented collaboratively. These tools and methodologies include design thinking, agile development, lean startup, and other approaches that promote a human-centred, iterative, and experimental approach to innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. And that’s a good thing. END OF BLOG POST.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

This process involves open dialogue, brainstorming, and ideation to identify innovative solutions that can be developed and implemented collaboratively. These tools and methodologies include design thinking, agile development, lean startup, and other approaches that promote a human-centred, iterative, and experimental approach to innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2014

The best known in start-up circles is the lean startup process. He brainstormed more elements that might play into the model. He’s currently writing a book on Agile, and it shows. Inventory the concepts: Brainstorm many parts of your concept. Which is most of us, these days. Next, he did what I’d call a idea inventory.

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