Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. It’s the creative thinking that builds on that research, analysis, and insight that gets you workable innovation concepts, that turn into innovation projects, and ultimately market results.

Training 48

Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Values Centered Innovation

MAY 7, 2020

He wanted his executive team to experience what it means to “manage” the risks it took to maintain industry leadership. So he had them join in a set of team building exercises – one of which involved climbing a 30’ pole with a safety harness on, and then standing on a 12” disk at the very top (with nothing to hold on to!). .

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Culture Innovation Agile Culture of Innovation 52

Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

Improv schools like Second City and IO Theater in Chicago lead executive or team workshops, and their focus is on team building. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. It’s worth noting that Improv is “framework neutral.”

Team Building 53

Team Building LEAN Design Thinking Agile 53

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The time to invest in innovation agility is now. As a start, consider these offerings: Training in innovation concepts and methods Training in facilitation of innovation skills Focused innovation process initiatives (projects) Innovation Roadmapping /Planning Inovation Speaking, Workshops, Presentations Innovation Team Building.

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Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). 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

The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. Yet again, you can use features or functions to cluster your teams. For instance, a sales team to manage sales only. Analytics team to manage every facet of analytics. Author bio.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Brainstorming Team Building 36

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Embracing Flexibility and Agility In a rapidly changing business environment, staying nimble is more than a virtue—it’s a necessity.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 100

Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Be constructive In an innovative team you need a safe and supportive space for creativity to flow. if you treat these creative ideas with respect and without judgement at first sight. And making small experimentation steps in an agile process is the key to validate your solution. Go all the way for the wow-effect!

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Culture of Innovation Culture Video Innovation 40

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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Innovation Engagement Technical Review Radical Innovation 100

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. How will you hold your team accountable after the meeting is complete?

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Meeting Examples Design Brainstorming 106

CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? When a team makes effective decisions quickly, members can spend more time taking action on those decisions and exercising their creativity and expertise. A decisive team understands how to: Make quick and effective decisions. What Does Decisiveness Look Like?

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Underperforming Technical Team Course Collaboration Project 72

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Psychology means decision makers do not like innovative ideas: Unfortunately, decades of research into psychology show us just how biased our brains are against creative & innovative ideas, and how they prefer safer ideas. I hardly ever see projects either deliver below their original budget, or voluntarily give up their budget.

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Project LEAN Management Innovation 241

etventure

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Explain how today’s unpredictable marketplace drives the need for a much more agile and entrepreneurial mindset – based on an openness towards technological change, the use of methodologies such as design thinking, scrum for agile project management, a willingness to take risks, and a change in the company structure to a network organization.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Agile Culture 56

Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 29, 2009

Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile. Agile refers to a group of software development methodologies that promote the project development lifecycle through iterations, open collaboration, and process adaptability.

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Software Review Technical Review Agile Software 76