KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

We generally call that last kind an “innovation program.” Let’s talk about a fourth kind: programmatic innovation on the scale of a small team, such as a startup or a department within a large company. Desiree’s blog post last week about innovation tools throughout the 20th century was interesting in this regard.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Supporting an innovative culture and adopting an innovation management platform across your company assesses valuable KPIs of the current pipeline and promotes future opportunities through the transformative power of innovation. No idea is too wild or unconventional during this stage.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. 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.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” ” “We don’t do idea generation well.” But I digress.

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Brainstorming Innovation Programs Ideation Idea Generation 48

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

However, frameworks have built-in assumptions, such as, there’s motivation to innovate, and that the culture is aligned with an innovation effort. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. There is no innovation without creativity.

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