Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

From its inception to the current state, the processes governing the development of new products and services have continuously evolved to incorporate new methodologies and technologies. Traditional Phases and Gates Processes Traditionally, the phases and gates model has been a cornerstone in structuring innovation management.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Product Development 113

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2023

The potential returns, including increased agility, improved innovation outcomes, enhanced collaboration, and long-term competitiveness, make this radical change worthwhile for organizations aspiring to thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. Recognizing different system theories.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What most companies get wrong about innovation processes.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

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. He’s not just a theorist, he’s an inventor and innovator in his own right, having built companies from start-up to IPO. Gregg is an entertaining teller of real-world innovation stories.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There are also ways to find people who are good and passionate about innovation, and many times the Venn Diagram of these two segments leaves little in the middle. Put the right people in the right jobs, and give them the training and development they need to do good innovation work. Develop real training to build skills.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It is where we need to question workflows and processes, as openness has become increasingly central to our thinking and development-building process. 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.

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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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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Analysis Technical Review 100

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How many people are full-time employed in the innovation team, and how many in driving strategic growth? How many of these “dedicated” people are consistently trained, assessed and verified that they are equipped to do the job they are asked to do? Ten, twenty, perhaps fifty out of thousands in medium to large companies.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

When restaurants have several years of data in the system, the next several weeks of reservations lined up in it, a staff that’s been trained on how to use it, and a large percentage of their reservations coming through it, they’re essentially locked into the model. They didn’t realize how “sticky” their business model would get.

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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

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Being an economist by training, I initially followed that path into financial and data analytics management roles within a major global energy company. I returned to school, got interior design training, and led my firm for over a decade, often working with fast-growing tech startups and their office requirements.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 105

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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Being an economist by training, I initially followed that path into financial and data analytics management roles within a major global energy company. I returned to school, got interior design training, and led my firm for over a decade, often working with fast-growing tech startups and their office requirements.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 94

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. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. The reason? Get in touch!

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

However, with the advent of artificial intelligence in innovation management , these stages and gates are being reimagined. AI technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling, which can significantly enhance the efficacy of the Stages and Gates process.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Management Management Generative AI 100

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. This capability allows teams to anticipate and address potential issues early in the design process.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities.

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Leadership Training Resources Design 94

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? Are your people trained to do innovation?

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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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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The real innovators know that the ‘dots’ and insights that underpin innovation are driven by the questions we ask, the unique observations we make and the people we involve and inspire. A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

From that information, we were able to plan out what a couple of sprints might look like in order to help employees and leadership understand the Lean Innovation process and increase the frequency of making decisions based on evidence. “ ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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Groups Case Study Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 45

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Next up on our list of top innovation books is Darin Eich’s, creator of Innovation Training, book Innovation Step-by-Step. This simple how-to book will help you develop your innovative, strategic, and creative leadership skills. Innovation Books Conclusion. Find it here.

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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. 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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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Review what you need to know from the 2019 Innovation Report released by Stanford Professor Bret Waters. Image taken from the 2019 Innovation Trends Report. Creating true innovation within larger, established organizations is notoriously difficult. Design Thinking Still the Most Popular Framework.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Classic innovation frameworks and IT-centric team composition are not going to get it done. Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Technical Review Ideation Big Data Innovation 55

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

When you are asked to be flexible, agile, willing to experiment and often fail, sometimes publicly, this can take you into some very uncomfortable territory. Design Thinking should be seen as a specific creative, human-centered process all our thinking should pass through. You might like the idea but will the boss?

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Values Centered Innovation

JULY 24, 2018

After relating many stories about his training, his launch, and some “creative moments” of last-minute software fixes on the moon landing module, he spoke about how his experience in space led to his returning to Earth as a different person. An enriched innovation process that is emotionally satisfying as well as mentally rigorous.

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Design Thinking Agile Innovation Design 40

Values Centered Innovation

JULY 24, 2018

After relating many stories about his training, his launch, and some “creative moments” of last-minute software fixes on the moon landing module, he spoke about how his experience in space led to his returning to Earth as a different person. An enriched innovation process that is emotionally satisfying as well as mentally rigorous.

Design Thinking 40

Design Thinking Agile Innovation Design 40

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Depending on the day, the machine may break and need maintenance or an adjustment, the line settings may need to be modified for a specific product or run, or the operator may need to step away to resupply the line or be trained on a new procedure. In 4IR transformed manufacturing sites this is no longer the case. The internal change is slow.

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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

We know that the tantalizing effects of artificial intelligence, data analytics and these algorithms need to be built into internal systems to make it a systematic digitization process of innovation discovery to realization built on data science and innovation understanding. It has to be a step-by-step process.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Industry 138

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

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. Top executives have acquired this knowledge with experience without any specific training. Innovation adoption.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 42

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

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. Top executives have acquired this knowledge with experience without any specific training. Innovation adoption.

Course 40

Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Wazoku

MAY 9, 2019

The innovation and business improvement teams need to be aligned and sync daily or introducing change will not be successful. You need these teams to be enabled to make the business agile, adaptable and – change-able. For this reason, we recommend a tool or system to offer a more structured approach to your innovation process.

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Innovation Change Resources Culture 49

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

They can then decide whether to train, hire, automate, partner or acquire whole companies to obtain the competencies they need. The most important qualities will become the most human, like the ability to innovate and relearn, a quality that is a bit antithetical to a more traditional skills outlook.

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