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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

IdeaScale

Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Brainwriting.

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The Shining Digital City On the Hill

Gregg Fraley

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. It involved a team of 12.

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Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Gregg Fraley

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 Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Skill of working together effectively – team building, encouraging diversity. Developing the agility to quickly react to changes, effective and decisive intent. Developing the agility to quickly react to changes, effective and decisive intent. . • The value of good leadership & distinct culture creating the linkages.

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Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples

InnovationTraining.org

Agile Stand-Up. Designed as a daily meeting involving the core team, stand-ups are an effective format for quickly and efficiently getting at the heart of the problem or topic at hand. Stand up meetings can work well as an entry point into an agile practice in your organization. Team Building. Problem Solving.

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Experimenting Your Way to Bolder Innovation

Qmarkets

Here are four steps to include experimentation in your front end of innovation process : 1. Use a rapid ‘sprint’ experiment process 4. The sprint team builds a disposable, very low cost prototype to test the specific unknowns and assumptions in the prototype storyboard. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.