Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg Fraley is a highly experienced facilitator who’s been learning, developing, and inventing group facilitation tools for many years. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. Time for Q&A and a discussion on how to adapt the tool to your needs.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile while executing a strategy at a high level. To thrive in this new age of hyper-technological disruption and change, it is imperative to learn a new competency: Becoming Anticipatory. That may sound impossible, but it’s not.

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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.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even with the proliferation of lean startup, design thinking, innovation labs, accelerator programs, hackathons and innovation marathons, crowdsourcing and a host of designer canvases that keeps pushing our advancement along, success is still piecemeal and random. Our world is shifting from scalable efficiency to scalable learning.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). What makes this approach different from other vehicles? Here’s a summary of the conversation we had.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. It is important to focus on learning in this stage.

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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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

One supporter collaboration that has come out of our community is the Agile Uprising which looks to build a community around the agile mindset and includes four Happy Melly members as founders. brand, Jason’s Lean Change Management book and workshops, and Learning 3.0’s

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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. Brant calls this the Rosetta Stone for Corporate Innovators.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting “ good enough decision making ” and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Concepts are taught using interactive exercises and challenges, which make for rich debrief discussions, learning, and integration into real world team habits. Listening skills are built and teams learn to collaborate. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Momentum is highly experiential and hands-on.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. This approach should set the scene for employee training on mindsets and methods such as human-centered design, lean startup, and agile. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. What we’re looking to obtain at this point is validated learnings.

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

The 3-day event featured numerous keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and exhibitors from leading tech companies in the professional services space — including Planview PSA! The days of “big bang” implementations are over — or at least, they are fading — and they are being replaced by Agile delivery methods. The Final Word.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

We need to be agile.” It's not even that failure leads to learning. The type of experiment and the degree of fidelity of the experiment really depends on what your learning objective is. If you're trying to learn if somebody likes your messaging, you can do split testing or a landing page design. We need to move faster.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

GE managed to cut cost of market validation by 80% using the lean startup methodology. This approach should set the scene for employee training on mindsets and methods such as human-centered design, lean startup, and agile. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. What we’re looking to obtain at this point is validated learnings.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Workshops Customized EAD courses Organization of events Hackathons. Fly or Die: Lean validation cycle for a new product in the telecom area. MJV Workflow: Build: building the tools for testing Testing: testing cycles and adjustments Learning: analysis of results Finalize: consolidation of results and strategic direction.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Nothing gets overlooked, and if there is anything they do not understand, they are open to learning. Encourage your team to lean into, rather than stray away from, change.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

We were at a social event. Is a failure truly viewed as a learning experience or as a career killer? There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. Tell me what I should be thinking about.”

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

One that is characterized by sudden, even violent success or an event, some moments of brilliant dominance, followed by a dramatic change in conditions as others have spotted the same opportunity and you hit a rapid decline, the race to the bottom of competition constantly negating one another.

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Planview

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile? Challenges to Efficient PI Planning in Agile.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

An added upside — when sold internally as a pilot or experiment, you are setting up the possibility of failure/learning in advance, so there is no surprise when things don’t go to plan….because Celebrate what they learned and identify ways to leverage those learnings for future attempts at innovation. Avoid the hoopla.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Then a business downturn comes, or a new CEO with a different strategy and mindset, or a corporate re-org, or the leader of the corporate innovation group gets frustrated and quits, or any one of a myriad of other events happens. But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth. Future-Focused CEOs Bring Innovation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s becoming clear that extracting intelligence from that big data requires machine learning architectures which are better implemented with non x86 chips from companies like NVidia. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). Lessons Learned.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2018

In this article, you are going to learn exactly what Loss Aversion is, why is creates crippling fear in middle managers and decision-makers, and a simple model for how you can reframe your company’s thinking which encourages more innovation projects to thrive. Figure 3: why managers often stop innovation projects after initial failures.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Global Impact of Digital Transformation In recent years, we’ve witnessed a series of transformative events — a global pandemic, remote work becoming the norm, cyberattacks on an unprecedented scale, supply chain problems, and war. At some level, events like these have always occurred, but were often localized disruptions.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In years of presentations working at an agency, I learned to sense the tension building before a design was revealed. The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers. Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints. Does a designer just make pictures?

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the first place, experimentation is about testing assumptions and hypotheses by means of a scientific learning approach. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. serve customer needs in the context of life events, rather than selling products.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

It started with Agile software development where it is used as an equivalent of the word Story, but meanwhile the term developed into a label for many different things. Note that this is the definition I learned: it is a long poem, it is long narrative, it describes heroes and their passions. Then Agile appeared on the scene.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

It started with Agile software development where it is used as an equivalent of the word Story, but meanwhile the term developed into a label for many different things. Note that this is the definition I learned: it is a long poem, it is long narrative, it describes heroes and their passions. Then Agile appeared on the scene.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

It started with Agile software development where it is used as an equivalent of the word Story, but meanwhile the term developed into a label for many different things. Note that this is the definition I learned: it is a long poem, it is long narrative, it describes heroes and their passions. Then Agile appeared on the scene.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Watch the entire on-demand webinar with Forrester today to learn more about product portfolio management and see real-world examples of how Planview has helped organizations adopt a similar framework to discover more business success.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There is a time where each business has to become highly adaptive, agile, open and mutually dependent on others to deliver in this ‘connected’ world to exploit these conditions and explore the opportunities that will emerge. No one party has a complete map, they must learn to reply and collaborative with others.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Designing and delivering the most appropriate change and learning interventions.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Can be a single event or a connected series. 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.

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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. Stepping up and into new spaces of possibility and learning.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It is, therefore, a revolution, as simplicity and agility in development are the hardcore of this approach. By combining agile methodologies with No and Low Code platforms, you can accelerate the creation of applications and test new technological ideas. More agile digital transformation. Ease to innovate.

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