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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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Ensure everyone in the organisation still feels creative. Everyone is born creative. Get alignment and clarity about your success criteria.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 15, 2024

This model is particularly beneficial for startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that require strategic leadership but may not have the resources to support a full-time executive position.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. Studies of wild and captive apes have shown they are only willing to be curious and creative when there are no external threats.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg Fraley, master creativity and innovation facilitator takes you through a creative thinking/facilitation tool, just one per session. Gregg is recognized as a Distinguished Leader at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) and is a Visiting Innovation Scholar at Notre Dame. Register on EventBrite.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

Being able to react quickly to changes in the market or customer needs ensures that opportunities are not lost to more agile competitors. Unconventional Strategies: Embracing Decisiveness One creative approach to instilling urgency is to challenge team members to embrace decisiveness in their personal lives.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To overcome it, we must be agile, collaborative, and remote. The key here is agility. According to the Agile Methodolog1y, you don’t practice Agile; you become Agile. 3 – Implementation and Operationalization of Agile Remote Practices. 5 – Digital Design Thinking.

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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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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”. Experiential learning a virtual and remote environment.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

With the innovation process comes a need for unpredictability, creativity, and rule-breaking, all of which is often difficult for established organizations to take on when instead they can make incremental changes to their existing products or services. Design Thinking Still the Most Popular Framework.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. Stimulates creativity and innovation.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?—?and Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that and the real innovators know that. This is how the original idea will evolve sprint by sprint.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach.

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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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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. Her questions were around: How to take initiative as a member of a self-organized group?

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

The 4th sign of the ever-evolving mindset and practice of Innovation is the expansion of innovative thinking from just “brainstorming” to eliciting the uniquely different ways that people prefer to think innovatively. For me to be a successful leader in pushing the envelope of what’s possible, I need to have x% of failures.

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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! The elusive low hanging fruit can be accessed through creative combinations. ” “What!

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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. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

It does seem “creative destruction” is a central force in many of our activities. Activities where innovation is continually replacing not just in products and new services but in designing radically different business models, searching to replace less adaptive competitors in the marketplace at faster rates.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities. You have to understand how this stuff works in order to think creatively about how to use it.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. We are headed towards a co-creative platform economy. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Interactions are complex and unpredictable.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They may know frameworks, like Design Thinking or Agile, and a few tools, but very few have the extensive training and experience at hands-on facilitation required to make a difference. Do any of the following Seven Fails ring true? Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. There is a great deal to say about the 10 Commandments listed above. I could write a book on problem framing, #2, alone.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Guidelines Study 111

Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. That’s great, but it’s a missed opportunity because the bigger pot of gold in problem solving applications. It’s worth noting that Improv is “framework neutral.”

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

Leveraging and accessing people, assets and platforms all over the globe in order to maximize flexibility, speed, agility and learning. Leisure is creative. High performance has a lot to do with creativity, and we know that it takes time to exercise it. And how did they do it? With decentralized management.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Culture Engagement 40

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation. The dots most people leave out are from domains outside your industry and expertise. There is a great deal of focus today on the process of innovation.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Coaching People through the discovery, design and delivery phases of innovation enabling them to learn by doing; inventing, iterating, getting user feedback (positive and negative) and pivoting creative ideas with a minimal viable product, process or service. cognition, emotion, body and will ). cognition, emotion, body and will ).

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Hack” = experimental, creative problem solving with a playful approach . +.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

This investment, including the attention of senior leadership, is needed, because it bucks the natural tendencies of employees. Conformity smothers creativity. Creating new insights, dreaming-up new approaches and challenging the status-quo are all necessary for innovation and creative problem-solving.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Importance of thinking diversity.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

To start, they need to be closer to their customers, be more agile, act bolder. Form a monthly meetup (like a happy hour) for all employees interested in design thinking and lean startup ideas. ” Giving employees time to break from their daily routine work and think creatively can lead to positive outcomes.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. We are headed towards a co-creative platform economy. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. We are moving towards a co-creative platform economy.

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