Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community.

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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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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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’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Use these templates to design and plan better meetings, events, and agendas. In our previous innovative meeting guide, we discussed how to design and build innovative innovation meetings that both inspire and accomplish your organizational goals. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. Design thinking software tools.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. REGISTER NOW.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It’s been so successful that it has inspired the Lean Manufacturing movement worldwide. Let’s consider a few and how to solve them: Resistance to Change One of the most significant challenges is resistance to change, especially from management and leadership teams accustomed to top-down approaches.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

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

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities. Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” This mindset encompasses five parts.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. In that post I was recommending Deloitte and their thought leadership as a good place to visit.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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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. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. That’s where lean methodology comes up. Tools such as this would ensure we went beyond talking to doing and would provide a simple way to design new projects so we could test out ideas to see if they worked. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result of this project, TSYS was able to address employee pain points and inefficiencies, enhance corporate leadership strategies, increase savings, and implement lucrative new ideas. Despite the considerable success achieved during this short period, there were some clear limitations to this ‘analogue’ idea-gathering approach.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities. Then Mash-Up these items with your challenges and opportunities.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. And that’s a good thing. END OF BLOG POST.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

We launched each of the Prepare, Explore and Converge phases with an applied learning workshop that introduced new approaches in design thinking, strategic market fit and business commercialization. Then we worked as members of the team through the phase to do the homework required for successful exit.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

We launched each of the Prepare, Explore and Converge phases with an applied learning workshop that introduced new approaches in design thinking, strategic market fit and business commercialization. Then we worked as members of the team through the phase to do the homework required for successful exit.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Innovation Training. Why innovation? Brain Writing.

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