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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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

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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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I am often asked to give corporate innovation training workshops. They readily absorb the ideas and the methods. In the interactive modules they generate and select great ideas for the company. They want more innovation so they spend money on training their younger staff in how to do it.

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Training Innovation Brainstorming Idea Generation 100

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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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk. Much innovation training avoids talking about the pitfalls that will absolutely kill your program.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2016

Apparently 89% of the Fortune 100 companies conduct it, and often use the results to determine not only training requirements but sometimes even job placements for the individuals. In reality, you’re not likely to get any more or better ideas by having these people in the room at the expense of more quiet colleagues.

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Video Brainstorming Innovation Training 100

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Organizations spend a great deal of time and energy investing in training, speakers, communications, systems, frameworks, and assessments. Believe it or not, you can train people to have more fun. You can train people to do a better job of, literally, playing around with concepts for innovation. All this is fine.

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Culture Training Creative Thinking Innovation 52

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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Meeting Project Training Brainstorming 67

Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” The managers above have read a lot of that literature, taken it to heart, gotten training, and put processes in place. For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit. ” “Lackluster. Are you lost?

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Brainstorming Innovation Programs Ideation Idea Generation 48

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. TSYS deployed A+B’s methodology in three stages.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. This takes an understanding of why you innovate , and, it takes leadership to communicate and focus the desire. Frameworks fail when leaders don’t have these cultural basics squared away.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. OPTION #3: At TBD intervals, throughout the year, you invite me to facilitate one of your online meetings/trainings. Our workshops and trainings. At the same time, many organizations are budget-constrained. This I understand.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Meeting 24

Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. This I understand.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Innovation 22

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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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Training is not innovation. The following concepts, frameworks, approaches, etc. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Prototyping is not innovation.

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

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. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some ways to build innovation skills in yourself and your team: The next time you brainstorm, focus on problem discovery rather than idea generation. A good collaborative exercise is to create a gallery of empathy interviews to bring your team and leadership through to immerse them in your customer’s world.

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eBook Innovation Culture of Innovation Culture 40

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. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Consider a Brown Bag Innovation Training or Immersion in Innovation Concepts. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Don’t this large group of employees deserve a Brown Bag Innovation Training?

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45