Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Time to consider a Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) to load up that innovation punch. Speed and momentum matter in innovation, even more so to smaller firms. Leverage the innate agility.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As a methodology, it is open to adopting new tools and technologies that enhance the process, including the integration of artificial intelligence in design thinking. The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. I am a firm believer in defining a fungible innovation process - a set of steps to help ensure that innovators complete a set of activities and learnings before they recommend an idea. Develop real training to build skills.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Outlining the benefits of adopting a business eco-system accelerates the innovation process, reduces the risks inherent in innovation, and engages the entire organization as “co-ideators” and broader ecosystem in the innovation effort. Continue reading →

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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. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Think of it as a set of practices ingraining innovation deep within the fabric of the organization. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. Conversely, the leadership for ISO 56001 isn’t as clear-cut. The best part?

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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 and the real innovators know that. Disruptive innovation initiatives are best to be evaluated on the potential impact they would create: How it fits into your innovation strategy and long-term goals?

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The discussion then delves into different types of innovation, including incremental, sustaining, and disruptive, with real-world examples illustrating their significance. Measuring innovation becomes a key focus, with an emphasis on balancing leadership’s need for certainty with employees’ concerns about potential consequences.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative. 3 rd sign: The emergence of emotional intelligence and good character values to balance the historical bias towards the mental side of innovation. That was Frank’s formula for a true “Return on Innovation Investment (ROII).”.

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Also, I have a huge amount of respect for leading people strategist Josh Bersin who I know is also a strong proponent of human-centred leadership. So, when it comes to building a culture of innovation, how can contemporary HR teams lead organisations on the transformation journey from innovation theatre to innovation powerhouse?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This growing complexity to manage is increasingly moving organizations towards the very traits innovation also requires. Those of dealing with greater ambiguity, of building in the needs of agility, higher levels of flexibility, curiosity and the willingness to explore and experiment and take increasing risk.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

nd There are multiple “stretching and straining points” that make the life of the innovator increasingly uncomfortable. These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. The innovation process becomes core to delivering on these needs.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Image taken from the 2019 Innovation Trends Report. Creating true innovation within larger, established organizations is notoriously difficult. One top insight from the report is the importance of building innovation-friendly structure directly into the organization. Tell Customer-Centric Stories.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2023

. #8 – Innovation as a Response to Market Changes The ability to innovate in response to market changes is a critical competitive advantage. 7 – Continuous Learning and Adaptation Innovation is not a static process; it requires continuous learning and adaptation.

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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. Operating in unpredictable environments relies on an agile organization , following an adaptive, evolutionary and more bottom-up approach, resembling complex adaptive systems, e.g. in biology.

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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. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

Shown below are a list of the factors I feel can be major contributors (far from exhaustive), firstly into the soft side of our balance sheet that is made up of culture, climate and environment as our creative and engagement capacity. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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Idea Drop

JULY 6, 2017

In this post we discuss the current state of innovation in the legal sector and how law firms can benefit from an innovation strategy supported by idea management software. Currently there is a wide disparity in legal innovators. The client must be kept in mind at all times throughout an innovation process.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. I call it Creative Tension ! Thus, you stress that ‘ forward-looking organizations are adopting a new, more agile organizing principle. They turn innovation into value.’

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Unfortunately, too many corporation’s investment practices measure the return on individual innovations rather the return on the portfolio of innovations. I call it Creative Tension ! Thus, you stress that ‘ forward-looking organizations are adopting a new, more agile organizing principle. They turn innovation into value.’

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire. Agile Stand-Up. marathon” = 24-48 hour event.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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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. Operating in unpredictable environments relies on an agile organization , following an adaptive, evolutionary and more bottom-up approach, resembling complex adaptive systems, e.g. in biology.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

As an enterprise scales and its culture solidifies, it becomes increasingly challenging for innovation and creativity to flourish. Speed and agility have never been more critical in today’s digital world, where globalization and technology have increased competition tenfold. People constantly want to develop new skills.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

These ideas need to be bigger ideas, perhaps radically different, not the everyday stuff where the organisation should have already set up an innovation process to ‘grind’ these through to successful outcomes. For the organisation, it is recognising that it has the chance to unleash the talent that lies within.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 18, 2016

These ideas need to be bigger ideas, perhaps radically different, not the everyday stuff where the organisation should have already set up an innovation process to ‘grind’ these through to successful outcomes. For the organisation, it is recognising that it has the chance to unleash the talent that lies within.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. An innovation process embraces and understands the different types of failure and risk.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

We will outline which structures which will be required by your unique innovation footprint. That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

We will outline which structures which will be required by your unique innovation footprint. That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities.

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IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

19:22] How do you think innovation should be measured? The questions are divided into measuring innovation outcome vs process. The challenges of measuring progress in the innovation process are discussed. Fear and Psychological Safety: Fear is another significant blocker to innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leadership is how this is overcome, another missing bubble. Nothing wrong with careful innovation, but at some point, risks are what bring rewards. Process can either be a big help, or a big hindrance. Used improperly, a structured process will cramp your style. Still, without it, you’re hosed.

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