Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity. What it is: For a long time, there was a lot of crap advice out there about improving creativity. But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Of the people I've talked to over the last six weeks, a blend of innovation consultants, analysts and corporate practitioners, most feel that innovation as a concept is reaching maturity. We need faster decisions, made closer to the customer, and far more agility, speed and innovation to compete. If so, how?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Important to innovate – three elements.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

There are 2 strong signs that it is here to stay: The speed at which the intellectual and creative industries have adapted to remote work The increase in productivity brought on by home offices and the savings generated from leaner operation. The definitive growth hack: Growth Hacking + Agile Marketing. Low-Touch Customers.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Creative Problem Solving Model: Most teams lack a common approach, or language, to resolve challenges and manage projects. The “CPS” model is a straightforward and creative framework (aka Osborn-Parnes) that gets teams on the same page and solving complex problems methodically. He knows the theory, and practice.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

I do an imaginative game where executives consult with, in their minds, the wisest mentor they’ve every known. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Making the key “ leadership challenge of our times ” as one which cultivates transformative eco-system-led learning and change, nurturing connections, exploration, discovery, creativity, collaboration, experimentation, and innovation at all levels of the system. Walking the path forward. Vulnerability. Find out mor e. pm Auckland, 3.30

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. The elusive low hanging fruit can be accessed through creative combinations.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. And that is the death of creativity and innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

However, this typically means adding new people, learning new processes and the uncomfortable reality of two teams aiming at the same markets, one incremental and sustaining in nature, another disruptive and creative in nature, almost always at conflict, with two different goals or purposes.

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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. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. Thursday, November 1 at CRC.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

There are 2 strong signs that it is here to stay: The speed at which the intellectual and creative industries have adapted to remote work The increase in productivity brought on by home offices and the savings generated from leaner operation. The definitive growth hack: Growth Hacking + Agile Marketing. The contactless 2.0

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that. About GFi: GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) is a long established boutique innovation consultancy, based in greater Chicago.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Between what we describe as a “true” fluid strategic, systemic and learning anchored approach, which truly enables and supports people to “fail fast to lean quickly” and a short term, episodic “methodical” training and functional based approaches to innovation where people don’t have permission and safety to “fail fast to learn quickly”.

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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. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Work Within Risk Boundaries.

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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. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process. It immerses participants in the relevant theory and systematic practices critical to organizational growth.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. Work Within Risk Boundaries.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. A terrible incentive for creative business plan writing.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Infront Consulting and business magazine Capital recently published their second joint annual study (in German) on the Digital Innovation Unit landscape in Germany. In order to keep up with the development, Company Builders need a lot of creative freedom. Order kills creativity, but may also direct it into the right channels.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It could be done through in-house market research or be outsourced to consulting firms. Setting up a lean but motivated central team that drives various innovation programs across the organization is critical for success. Agility is not an option. Programme manager. IP expert, Real innovator. Innovation advocate.

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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). Measuring creative thinking preferences. Why innovation?

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KindlingApp

APRIL 3, 2016

18F provides products and services that make access easier, and they also act as consultants to government agencies, helping them identify digital and/or agile solutions to challenges they are facing. Their partner agency, 18F, focuses on improving access to government data.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Conformity smothers creativity. Creating new insights, dreaming-up new approaches and challenging the status-quo are all necessary for innovation and creative problem-solving. This is why early-stage companies highly value curiosity and creativity, while more established organizations appear to prize conformity more highly.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

This is despite CEOs repeatedly state that creativity is one of the most important capabilities they want from their staff. A portfolio approach gives a dedicated team the authority to manage an overall budget for innovation and assign it as they best see fit, and manage smaller projects in a faster, more agile way.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

So, when I started out becoming interested in lean startup and the sort of things, you were one of the big names, right. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? . They forced me to actually name it Lean Ventures International. And then you can lean on that ISO standard, and yeah, makes it easy.

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