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. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th.

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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. This is a one day deep-dive, hands-on workshop in facilitation of innovation projects.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

By incorporating AI into the brainstorming process, teams can overcome cognitive biases and explore a broader design space. Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . Almost always.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Ideating: In this phase, we aim to generate several ideas to represent potential solutions. Ideation is done using tools like mind-mapping, sketching, and brainstorming to create possible concepts. ? Generally, the ideation phase is handled by project managers or engineers.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed. Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” 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.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at how TSYS launched their revolutionary Project WOW (War on Waste) – a ground-breaking process improvement methodology developed by management consulting firm Above + Beyond and powered by Qmarkets software. This left employees sceptical of the idea that future programs would be any different.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. No compelling vision or reason to innovate If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Solving an innovation culture problem isn’t easy, but your solution had better include interesting, compelling, and fun, Projects. Projects are how cultures actually change. If you listen, without judgment, you’ll learn. Innovation happens when people combine existing factors or concepts to create something new.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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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. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. Projects change culture.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Just tossing money at it.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Facilitators who scaffold well are master innovation facilitators and their projects achieve better results. In general, the more “modalities” you touch, visual, auditory, textual, kinesthetic, and emotional experiences — the better your scaffolding. This might include brainstorming alone, prior to a group session.

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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. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation. 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.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Cycle metrics.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Then there is usually not enough communication about what is done with the few ideas that do have merit. Idea campaigns can work, but only if it’s done with a focused question, and, that focus is connected to a mandated project. Osborn was the inventor of brainstorming. This creates cynicism. END OF BLOG POST.

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