Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. Register on EventBrite.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. But, we got started, getting some initial training from Tim Hurson , who wrote Think Better, a great book on innovation thinking, creativity and facilitation.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Streamlined management of innovation projects. More effective innovation cycles, more effective brainstorming.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Creativity is for morons. But this view of creativity is outdated – our mind is not always rational. Ideas are a powerful tool. Six comments on ideas – which is the most crucial for your company? When accepting that ideas are a powerful instrument for day-to-day business people face a problem: how does creativity work?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Open up lines of communication between employees and top management by optimizing corporate communication channels, holding company wide events/brainstorming sessions, or by allowing employees to submit ideas digitally through an employee submission box. Create a Climate of Ideas. Project Promotion.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The client started by saying he wanted to do a brainstorming session. It wasn’t brainstorming that was needed. As it turns out the session was really more about idea development and elaboration. ” We designed a creative session plan to achieve our better understood goals. Getting to Clarity.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Open up lines of communication between employees and top management by optimizing corporate communication channels, holding company wide events/brainstorming sessions, or by allowing employees to submit ideas digitally through an employee submission box. Create a Climate of Ideas. Project Promotion.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems. There is no innovation without creativity. Individuals and teams need to be creative in order to solve focused innovation challenges.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Creativity is for morons. But this view of creativity is outdated – our mind is not always rational. Ideas are a powerful tool. When accepting that ideas are a powerful instrument for day-to-day business people face a problem: how does creativity work? Running a brainstorming session to collect ideas is a mistake.

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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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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Creativity is for morons. But this view of creativity is outdated – our mind is not always rational. Ideas are a powerful tool. When accepting that ideas are a powerful instrument for day-to-day business people face a problem: how does creativity work? Running a brainstorming session to collect ideas is a mistake.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

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. You’ll see immediate results with creativity, innovation, and facilitation training.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. What is innovation management? Organizations are often driven by committee-vet ideas developed from a holistic perspective.

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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. This is a compelling and informative training course.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Certainly the potential for an idea to slip through the cracks and become a missed opportunity is much greater at a large company, but idea management isn’t just about preserving vital ideas. Or check out more examples and benefits of idea management on our tour.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

You need to embrace Different, and also it’s cousins, Risk and New to enliven innovation projects. For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit. Instead of doing Brainstorming, do Brainwriting , or better yet, a BrainWalk. MoshPit has not been widely adopted, yet. Are you lost?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 6, 2020

LEAD Proactive makes use of Qmarkets’ extensive idea collaboration and co-creation features. Once a company submits a challenge, it is open for other users from relevant companies to brainstorm around it and contribute potential solutions – adding comments and attachments (documents, videos, images, etc.) where required.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

If you want to speed up your rate of productivity, you can use an idea management tool to collate these kernels of innovation from your entire team, but what should you do with them next? Dare to dream : scrap any used, boring or obvious ideas and move on to the next round. What is the next step after this?

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Many companies fall victim to the myth that innovation is all about large-scale projects – requiring a substantial amount of time, resources, and risk taking. When the ideas start coming through, you can then place them in a spreadsheet and categorize them by whatever criteria you see fit.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Many companies fall victim to the myth that innovation is all about large-scale projects – requiring a substantial amount of time, resources, and risk taking. Streamlined Brainstorming: Enterprise social platforms make it easy to create dedicated groups where authorized users can take part in brainstorming sessions.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. Additionally, a certain energy is generated within the group dynamics, giving employees’ creative juices a turbo-charge.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. Additionally, a certain energy is generated within the group dynamics, giving employees’ creative juices a turbo-charge.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software and hardware development, intensively collaborate on joint projects. This is because they provide a venue for self-expression and creativity through technology. Likewise the software company Nitobi began as a project at the iPhoneDevCamp in 2008.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software and hardware development, intensively collaborate on joint projects. This is because they provide a venue for self-expression and creativity through technology. Likewise the software company Nitobi began as a project at the iPhoneDevCamp in 2008.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It YWE: 2016 was defined by us as the “Year of Creativity and Innovation” at the ISA, and administrators and senior staff were introduced to tools and brainstormed with on how to implement these tools into our ongoing work.

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