Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming. Perhaps the most damning comment is simply “why did we bother?”

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

I do believe the principles of design thinking, agile development, ecosystem thinking and design coupled with AI integration offer a radically exciting innovation ecosystem approach. Contextual Innovation Concepts: Ensure generated innovation concepts are contextual and relevant to the current ecosystem and market conditions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility. Below are some examples that illustrate how AI is being incorporated: Idea Generation : AI-powered tools can suggest design options based on previous successful projects and current design trends.

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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. Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Enhancements with Artificial Intelligence Incorporating artificial intelligence into the stages and gates process can transform new product & service development, making it more agile and data-driven. It allows for a more agile response to market changes and unforeseen disruptions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Remember, a strong innovation culture is not just about the ideas generated; it’s about the people, processes, and environment that make sustainable innovation possible.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Crowdsourcing is a way for businesses to gather a lot of ideas generated, not only by their employees, but also by their customers and suppliers. If you are keen to explore agile approaches to innovation, we could be the right partner for you.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Crowdsourcing is a way for businesses to gather a lot of ideas generated, not only by their employees, but also by their customers and suppliers. If you are keen to explore agile approaches to innovation, we could be the right partner for you.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Almost always.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This approach emphasizes collaboration and iteration, and encourages designers to be agile and responsive to feedback. Affinity diagrams: Affinity diagrams are a tool used to organize and analyze data by grouping similar ideas together.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 23, 2024

It enables agile responses to internal and external changes, ensuring the organization can navigate uncertainties effectively. Innovation and Agility: Single Organization: Within an organization, the hierarchy fosters a culture of innovation. It builds those dynamic capabilities required in today’s uncertain environment.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Equally, many within organizations where innovation is left more ‘open’ do run the risk that there is an over-emphasis on idea generation; by placing the emphasis point further along the innovation value chain that we must remember that it is exploring the benefits that flow from ideas, not the ideas alone.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail. If you don’t take calculated risks, and continue to take them, you will fail.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

Incremental innovation has agility baked into it. Innovation at large companies is likely to involve various personnel and stakeholders and generate a lot of data. Plus, the process needs to incorporate the full lifecycle of an innovation from idea generation to implementation and performance tracking.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Here’s why: Human Creativity : Human creativity is characterized by generating novel ideas, thinking outside the box, and connecting seemingly unrelated concepts. AI can assist in idea generation and optimization, but it lacks the capacity for originality and the ability to envision entirely new possibilities.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

Let’s start with my experience: We decided to follow agile principles in our quest to implement an autonomous ‘idea generation’ process to fight boredom and channelize extraneous energy. We had communicated clearly to the team leader about the expectations. His associate seemed to nod and give us all the right assurances.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. For organizations, MCPS is a foundational framework for building a culture of constant creative improvisation in order to innovate. Comedy improvisation games and story telling are already integrated with MCPS.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach. Here’s why: Human Creativity : Human creativity is characterized by generating novel ideas, thinking outside the box, and connecting seemingly unrelated concepts.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

You are not necessarily looking for the best solution, but simply trying to generate as many ideas as possible. Frequently, ideas generated in this way lead to outside-of-the-box thinking that can yield innovative solutions. The next steps are to test out those ideas in practice through prototyping.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed? 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. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not?

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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. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Equally, many within organizations where innovation is left more ‘open’ do run the risk that there is an over-emphasis on idea generation; by placing the emphasis point further along the innovation value chain that we must remember that it is exploring the benefits that flow from ideas, not the ideas alone.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

Classic Improv games are adaptable for visioning, exploration, problem framing, idea generation, solution development, and planning. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Innovation is challenging and complex, moving from a very nebulous world of trends and needs and emerging capabilities to a very definitive set of features and requirements.

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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. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2015

Larger organizations lack the freedom and agility that smaller organizations have. Further, even if the organization gets better at generating ideas, they haven't resolved how to commercialize good ideas quickly, due to long decision making and product development processes. It's not an either/or proposition.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The time to invest in innovation agility is now. We can no longer be satisfied with lazy, ponderous, low priority, low risk innovation. If you’re not being more aggressive than that, the next Black Swan event will take you out, if this one didn’t. Two Real World Examples. Personally, I’m coming up for air.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. The best way to ramp up and grow quickly, beyond having a great initial business idea, is to continuously innovate. Time to consider a Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) to load up that innovation punch. Here’s why. Speed and momentum matter in innovation, even more so to smaller firms.

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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? Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. But without creative belief and culture, advanced tools are likely to fail. It’s not creativity AND innovation. Creativity IS Innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. Keep in mind these activities are not just “energizers” — they are critical learning steps. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Often caused by a disconnect between the idea generators and decision makers, innovation can never truly thrive unless every person within a law firm is onboarded. Throughout the implementation of a new idea, it is crucial to monitor, analyse and review the progress in a fluid and agile manner.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. There are many reasons why I like trend spotting and scenario planning, but it's the sense of understanding what might happen in the future that really resonates with me.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices. Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

H2 and H3 on the other hand, often require a more agile, explorative and iterative process with different returns, different capabilities and different people on the projects. Use a non-linear ideation process to form ideas generated into ‘big ideas’. Refining and reframing the ideas will make them sharper.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team.

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