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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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Analysis Technical Review 100

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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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility. The integration of AI amplifies these capabilities by improving design thinking with AI , thus accelerating the innovation process.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

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. The real challenge in what I've written is in culture.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Almost always. People really want to do good work.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

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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Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We can no longer be satisfied with lazy, ponderous, low priority, low risk innovation. The time to invest in innovation agility is now. I just completed a rigorous, month-long, front-end of innovation process with a client — and I’ve never met them face to face. Two Real World Examples.

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Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

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. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. REGISTER NOW.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

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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Innovation Trends Roadmap Product Development 59

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I get the distinct impression the focus of most innovation consultants is still locked into product innovation or improving the process of the pipeline / portfolio, the idea generation and project execution model. Can innovation consulting firms step up to the plate and deliver differently?

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Processes 100

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

H1 initiatives tend to be larger in scale, and can be pushed through a rigid stage-gate process. 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. Refining and reframing the ideas will make them sharper.

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Product Development How To Ideation Project 52

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. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

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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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 5, 2017

With innovation comes disruptive change and innovators will inevitably face a myriad of dismissals in pursuit of an ideation strategy. 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.

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Innovation Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Strategy 59

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy. Test AI systems simulate user interactions for immediate feedback.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

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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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

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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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Improvements – Quick Innovation Wins One of the most common ways for companies to gather improvements is through the concept of ‘ continuous improvement ’ – a systematic process of optimizing business processes and activities. Ultimately, the best way to do this is by digitalizing your innovation process.

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Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Improvements – Quick Innovation Wins One of the most common ways for companies to gather improvements is through the concept of ‘ continuous improvement ’ – a systematic process of optimizing business processes and activities. Ultimately, the best way to do this is by digitalizing your innovation process.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. It is no less than a challenge to combine several elements within a value chain and innovation process. Even today innovation is not a significant part of the curriculum of many MBA programs.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 42

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. It is no less than a challenge to combine several elements within a value chain and innovation process. Even today innovation is not a significant part of the curriculum of many MBA programs.

Course 40

Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation. Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation. Making innovation a continuous effort.

Design Thinking 51

Design Thinking Innovation Project Idea Generation 51

Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

I want to dive into incremental innovation with you to unpack how and why it should be front of mind for your innovation program. We’ll explore examples, discover the key benefits of this type of innovation, and identify the best way of developing your own incremental innovation process. Let’s get started.

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Examples Innovation Disruption Innovation Programs 98

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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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In other words we have found that breakthrough innovations should be identified and implemented in iterative processes. Ideation : When a firm has a strong innovation culture and a sufficiently open innovation mindset there is usually no shortage in innovation ideas.

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Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Leaving innovation to chance is more often a gamble where odds are not always in your favor. Studies show firms that treat innovation as a science and manage and measure it like any other business function are more successful. Takeaway: Choose an innovation process and continuously measure and manage it. Guest innovator.

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Innovation Programs Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation 40