Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Anonymous Feedback Mechanisms : Establish anonymous channels for team members to share their concerns and suggestions, which can later be discussed openly in team meetings. To instill this learning culture, I have instituted regular training sessions, knowledge-sharing meetings, and opportunities for professional development.

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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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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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They will showcase large initiatives for gaining ideas and suggestions from across the organisation. They will point to their last brainstorming session and say how successful it was, how it produced hundreds of ideas (or at least post it notes). This builds frustration among all of the people who submitted ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Additionally, ensure that the venue has the necessary facilities and technology to support your sessions—such as reliable Wi-Fi, projection equipment, and breakout rooms. Idea Generation Sessions: Encourage blue-sky thinking with sessions dedicated to generating new ideas without constraints.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings take up precious time, and, are dead essential to moving the ball downfield. How that is handled will determine the outcome of your meeting.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Follow up includes: -- Review two Insight & Ideation Reports -- Two Reality Check Debrief calls (for the Team Leader) -- Coaching and consultation with your team's Point Person -- Project champions do their due diligence 18. hours (two 90-minute FTG brainstorming sessions and 30 minutes of pre-work). What kinds of "How can we?"

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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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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. This way, the most strategic ideas are prioritized for prototyping.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Success is Determined Before a Meeting. 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. Facilitation skills make a big difference in innovation projects.

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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. GFi guarantees its work.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Stimulus is the second of the four Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 elements we utilize in a creative session to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming – and a quality of ideas you will never get from brainstorming. Here is a brief recap of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0

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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. Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute.

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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. Even at serious meetings? If you listen, without judgment, you’ll learn. They apply it to a job to be done, or a challenge. Do people laugh?

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

If you take this course you’ll know why and how to move forward with results oriented innovation projects. Good facilitation is an essential key to innovation success ; this includes planning and executing innovation projects. Clear ​steps ​on ​how ​to ​move ​forward ​with ​innovation ​projects. The second course is a 2.5

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. The Define stage, a critical phase where problems are articulated and the scope of projects are framed, greatly benefits from AI’s data processing capabilities.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden.

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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. Do you have an upcoming meeting that really needs an engaging workshop where people learn something useful?

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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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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Equally important, we need to clarify which crowdsourcing platforms and applications are available in the marketplace and how to apply them to specific crowdsourcing projects. However, it’s the responsibility of the project sponsor to provide the crowd with clear directions on how each part of the job should be completed.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. Your team doesn't actually know what your customers want, no one is responsible for writing new project briefs, or no one is actually reading/understanding the briefs. Unfortunately, this is all too common. The reasons?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

After having a successfull career at Holst Centre, Valer decided to start his business with just a small idea: solving unwanted urine loss. The Methods Lab: Research Toolkit (not online anymore, former EU-project). Focus groups: invite diverse groups of people to discuss the product idea with you. Universal Methods of Design.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2017

Make a list.Partially done projects, that is, things you haven’t put fully into play, but there is active development, a plan and a commitment to launch the project, do count. Generalize based on your feeling. Were there any ideas or projects that seemed interesting but weren’t done due to perceived risk?

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

You will get an overview of how you can consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming for any need, at any time, in any kind of business. Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 Here is what is in this blog: You will confidently know that there is a powerful alternative to traditional brainstorming.

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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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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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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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The BMI Lab Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

While many workers are happy to do without long commutes and fixed working hours, there is one thing many of them miss: stimulating exchanges with colleagues, jointly identifying problems and spinning wild ideas. The next steps Steve Jobs once said: “To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. This step is called integration.

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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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