Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Design Thinking: Sculpting Business Personality A business’s personality is like an iceberg. By integrating Design Thinking, businesses can ensure that their personality isn’t just authentic but also resonates powerfully with their audience. Are you clear about the personality you’re projecting?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Thinking about things is not innovation. Thinking about things is not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Although careful and precise data-gathering has been a major trend, so have bold steps in the technological and environmental fronts. To this end, we’ve provided a rundown of five major trends that continue to dominate the innovation scene in 2018. This trend is particularly evident in the financial sector. Let’s dive in!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and perform other usability assessments you think are appropriate.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The table below outlines several competencies that can be adapted to include an innovation focus: Competency Description Innovative Aspect Strategic Thinking The ability to analyze and conceptualize long-term business strategies. Encourages leaders to seek out emerging trends and technologies that could influence future markets.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 2, 2023

Design thinking can be a useful approach to conduct market research and understand the target market’s needs, competitors, and market trends. Here are some key steps to use design thinking when conducting market research: Empathize: Understand the target market’s needs, pain points, and challenges.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Key Pillars of Innovation Management: Ideation: This is the brainstorming phase where teams generate and capture a wide range of ideas. Tools and Techniques: Innovation management is not wishful, futuristic thinking; it requires a dedicated structure and thoughtful process control. The third product is Pipeline Management Software.

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In a project with Merz , the global pharmaceutical company, 100%Open was asked to find technical partners to improve ultrasound skin treatment devices. Experiences such as this led us to ask “If problem definition is a key component of design thinking, why don’t we prototype problems as well as solutions?”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

By fostering an environment where every voice could be heard, they saw a 25% increase in project delivery speed and a 30% improvement in employee satisfaction. This led to cross-departmental projects that leveraged these diverse experiences, resulting in a 15% growth in annual revenue and a significant rise in cross-functional innovation.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project. What is Scrum?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations.

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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. You need focused imaginative, divergent, visioning, strategic, and conceptual thinking, and training can get you there. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Be certain that there is alignment from the top down around the desire to integrate digital tech and get projects underway. If you focus on the project, you’ll get through conflict by keeping the end in mind.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. In spite of many success stories it’s not done nearly enough. The reason? A framework is a scaffold.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“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. Innovation Training.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The team must be capable of capturing and interpreting market and competition insights, trends and predictions. For instance, the team needs to select, adapt and provide ideation and brainstorming tools, platforms to set up programming and ideation challenges like hackathons , ideas processing pipelines, information sharing applications etc.

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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 to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises.

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