Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. What is Design Thinking? Empathize : Understanding the needs of those you’re designing for.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s review the three stages of this design thinking framework. This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking and Part 2: Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them. . Stage 3: Action.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. REGISTER NOW.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An exploration of resources and advice for design thinking in education. Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. The five main stages of the design thinking process can create better experiences for our stakeholders.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. And yes, this can be trained. Almost always.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the people in your organization treat invitations to brainstorming sessions like jury duty summons? Do the ideas generated all-too-often underwhelm? Do people roll their eyes when the brainstorming is over, convinced that nothing new is going to materialize? If so, Idea Champions can help.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Get Training! When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

This is a high value training. Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. One very different aspect of this training is the time spent on exploring how to do Concept Blending. Here’s a page with details.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. Ideas are still needed to fill pipelines! I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. Give them time to read, absorb, and jot down ideas, alone.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Whether you are working together in person or remotely, design thinking software tools such as Miro can help make the innovation process easier than ever. Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Defer or suspend judgement – let the ideas flow . Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas. Develop: evaluate ideas and formulate solutions. Generate Many Ideas. Generate as many ideas or thoughts as you can related to the challenge. Focus on “yes, and” rather than “no, but” language.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

Streamline the development stage with AI-powered design tools that optimize product features and functionality. With AI, we can generate a plethora of ideas, sift through them, and quickly identify those with the most potential. Enhancing Design with AI Tools AI tools are transforming the way I approach design.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. Conclusion.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation as a project Of course, almost all innovation is a project - starting with a specific need or desire to create a new product or service, or to generate new revenues or gain new market share. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Design Thinking for Naming. With our company, we’ve committed to using an innovative framework of design thinking to go step-by-step through a naming process.

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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. He trains other facilitators on his methods.

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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. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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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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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS Training Available on April 29th, 1 to 4:30 Eastern. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. CPS first started being used in the early 1950’s, created by the founder of brainstorming, Alex Osborn. Get the Training in MCPS.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure these leaders are equipped to fulfill their role in shaping innovation, it’s essential to provide them with the right tools and training through leadership development programs and leadership development workshops. Provide training and resources to build confidence in new methods and technologies.

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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. Get the Training for Facilitation.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Their feedback stirs the creative soup and provides us with the input needed to transform a good session design into a great one. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place? What I see, I remember.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 27, 2016

Big thanks to Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, for this timely article on the importance of deferring evaluation during the ideation phase of a brainstorming session. This principle of "deferring evaluation" of ideas until later has been a bedrock principle of brainstorming ever since.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. Creativity can be trained , and in many different ways. Build Innovation From The Ground Up.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. Sessions often fail to find breakthrough ideas. Innovation Session Designs Need More Variety.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Their feedback stirs the creative soup and provides us with the input needed to transform a good session design into a great one. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place? What I see, I remember.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the activities and skills which are required for a team to ideate, design, test, iterate and pilot a new innovation. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. These 23 capabilities are as follows: 1.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. GFi is now offering a new version of MoshPit to discover ideas that exploit new digital technologies.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Their feedback stirs the creative soup and provides us with the input needed to transform a good session design into a great one. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place? What I see, I remember.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Their feedback stirs the creative soup and provides us with the input needed to transform a good session design into a great one. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place? What I see, I remember.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

Co-Creation: Early in the design process, we invite our clients to give us feedback about our approach. Their feedback stirs the creative soup and provides us with the input needed to transform a good session design into a great one. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place? What I see, I remember.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This blog addresses how you can get the best innovative ideas from both groups for any need, at any time, for any kind of business. Quantum idea generation – overview. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. I will now share an actual left and right brain idea generating exercise.

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