Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

New analytics approaches powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can identify real-time data patterns, helping anticipate trends and inform decision-making. Moving to the edge : Organizations are becoming more agile by adopting an “edge” approach. It involves imagination, intuition, and the ability to challenge assumptions.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

AI offers capabilities that can dramatically improve various stages of design thinking by providing actionable insights, predicting trends, and automating repetitive tasks. By harnessing AI’s computational power, teams can: Identify user needs and market trends with greater accuracy.

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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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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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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Fresh combinations of technologies, processes, materials, people, trends, concepts, and other factors are what creates innovation. I can almost guarantee you’ll have ideas. Local economic development leaders could do this same exercise, listing local assets on one side, and new technology (or trends) on the other.

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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. Fractional Trend. Don’t be put off by the new jargon, a strategic part timer isn’t a new concept, but it is an emerging trend. Here’s why.

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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. Develop a process or at least define a consistent set of tools.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. GFi is now offering a new version of MoshPit to discover ideas that exploit new digital technologies. A smattering of related consumer trends (like sustainability).

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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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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Trends – Fueling Your Future Innovations Trends are an extremely valuable innovation asset that should be part of any business innovation strategy. Trends indicate where you should focus your innovation efforts and can act as the fuel for your ideas. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Trends – Fueling Your Future Innovations Trends are an extremely valuable innovation asset that should be part of any business innovation strategy. Trends indicate where you should focus your innovation efforts and can act as the fuel for your ideas. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

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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. .” Improv is that vehicle. Games Get You To Insights.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 15, 2016

The big change in my mind is that organizations need to shift from idea generation being simply generated from inside the organization as the starting point. Yet we remain stubbornly blind to them while we conduct internal idea generation as our starting point and then go outside. Yeah right!

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Another question to ask – is that insights team looking at trends outside your industry? Stealing ideas from other industries is a fast path to innovation. This has to do with the “how.”

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. Adapt or die. As the famous Darwin saying goes: “ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, but the most adaptable”.

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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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Use of stimulus tools and global trends. Why innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

I think if this trend continues it will be a mistaken course. There also seems this perpetual dilemma of clients’ wishes that are hard to reconcile with operational realities to turn their organizations from being focused on effective and efficient into agile and adaptive ,required for innovation.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Kodak had almost 10 years to respond to the trend of cameras becoming digital and eventually merging with phones. The top management should have a methodology to discover an insight or major trend that could shape the industry in the next decade. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted.

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