Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . My new message about innovation is — get back to basics first — and that means the spark of it all, creativity. With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

You’ll want to choose a site that is conducive to creativity, focus, and privacy. Encourage participants to share their ideas freely and ensure that all voices are heard. Mastery in encouraging open communication and fostering collaboration and creativity can set your offsite apart.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Generative Design : AI can generate design ideas based on specified criteria or constraints.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. The Role of AI in Design Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various facets of business operations, including the creative and iterative processes within design thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The One Question Innovation Culture Assessment. A lot of fuss is made over innovation culture. And… I have a simple one question assessment leaders and managers can use to take the pulse of their innovation culture. ” If the immediate answer isn’t “yes” — you’ve got a culture problem.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how to successfully foster a culture of innovation within a company. Strategos offers clients a robust and creative approach to strategy and innovation that appealed to me. ” Individual ideas are rarely big enough on their own. Tell us a bit about your background.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

They outperform their peers in productivity, creativity, and overall results. This strategic approach enables teams to apply experiential learning towards creative problem-solving, thus driving the organization forward. But what distinguishes these teams from the rest?

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Betterific

AUGUST 8, 2016

In this installment of “Brainstorming with an [innovation] expert” we invite Matt Nelson from Hyundai. In Matt’s explanation of “how an idea becomes a product” you’ll notice that idea generation is the fourth stage of the process. company (size, culture, structure, etc.),

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is a methodology that combines creative and critical thinking to allow information and ideas to be organized, decisions to be made, situations to be improved, and knowledge to be gained. This shift allows design thinkers to focus on higher-level creative and strategic activities. What is Design Thinking?

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Most innovation teams have little experience in innovation work, and while they've sat through brainstorming sessions (most of which were poorly executed) and can recognize ideas, they don't have training in innovation tools and approaches, and lack experience running innovation projects and programs.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Any work team that has a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity and the commitment to explore it in creative ways. hours (two 90-minute FTG brainstorming sessions and 30 minutes of pre-work). Why only four? Let's talk.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its collaborative nature fosters creativity, leveraging diverse perspectives to uncover innovative solutions. The Convergence of AI and Design Thinking The union of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Design Thinking heralds a transformative era for creative problem-solving in business and innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI technologies are enabling a more data-driven approach to innovation management, enhancing the ability to predict trends, understand consumer behavior, and generate creative ideas at scale. With AI, we can generate a plethora of ideas, sift through them, and quickly identify those with the most potential.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation. Creativity and innovation training feeds innovation like wood wool feeds flame.

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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. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire. .

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A truly innovative culture? The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 10, 2017

Creative Training Would Have Helped. The incident, the background of the problem, and the half-baked apology signal a sick culture. United Airlines is a jaded, faded, uninspired, culture — that will die — unless they pull out of this lack-of-innovation, and lack-of-consumer-empathy death spiral.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Now, almost 20 years later, an increasing number of companies are beginning to appreciate the importance of fostering innovation so that their employees have the flexibility to exercise their creativity, which in turn would result in their products and services sitting at the forefront of their domain. What is an innovation lab?

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To make it even simpler, you could say that Design Thinking is an innovative approach based on the designer’s thoughts, combining creativity and empathy to create innovative solutions. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. What are some Design thinking tools ?

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. It’s about the cultural basics underlying them, and all innovation. There is no innovation without creativity. Culture is key.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Stimulus is the second of the four Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 elements we utilize in a creative session to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming – and a quality of ideas you will never get from brainstorming. Here is a brief recap of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sometimes the best ideas never see the light of day because the creator is too embarrassed to voice them for fear of ridicule or through lack of confidence. Even if the ideas generated aren’t suitable for the project you are focussing on doesn’t mean they won’t be the ideal solution for another project.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sometimes the best ideas never see the light of day because the creator is too embarrassed to voice them for fear of ridicule or through lack of confidence. Even if the ideas generated aren’t suitable for the project you are focussing on doesn’t mean they won’t be the ideal solution for another project.

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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

Social enterprise networks may engage large and diverse groups, but like email, online forms and brainstorming, they lack purpose and don’t offer any direction or workflow for evaluating and implementing shared ideas. Such innovation software can take a new idea to market within days, instead of the typical 6 months.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. Measuring your organizational culture is not innovation. There is only one thing that changes culture and leads to actual innovation.

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CREATORS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Business Units themselves are then responsible for the implementation and commercialization of those ideas generated by the cross-functional innovation team. Embedding innovation into the corporate culture and thereby fostering intrapreneurship (model 4) seems to be the ultimate goal (Read more about this here ).

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement. Founding a sustainable innovation culture – a space where new ideas could be proposed confidentially, employees would be accountable, and participation encouraged ?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Even though it is especially there that creativity is so crucial! This post explains why it’s so important to be open minded to new ideas, because they might end up being revolutionary. In fact many great ideas, which today are widely accepted, were violently opposed when first expressed. And changing perspective is hard.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. Spontaneous idea generation is great. Every corporate culture has its own unique ebb and flow.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Hands-on practice of advanced innovation tools and techniques.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. Spontaneous idea generation is great. Every corporate culture has its own unique ebb and flow.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you -- something to adapt to your particular company/team culture/ It's not like you have to implement all ten of them. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Less than two percent tell me they get their best ideas at work.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

We help people make meaningful adjustments of vision, insight, and perception so they can acknowledge, embrace, and apply their innate ability to be more creative on the job -- and, for those clients who want to reinvent their "innovation process", we help them figure it out. What follows is a brief summary of how we do this. In their place?

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