Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. . It’s okay to hate Brainstorming. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. There have been many studies of brainstorming and articles written.
IdeaScale
APRIL 23, 2019
Ideas are more than brainstorming. It’s easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. We’ve all learned this, whether it’s that new hobby or a newly launched business, and it also applies to ideas. In the beginning stages, collecting ideas is easy. But does your idea management software help your team when the hill begins to slope upward? The Idea Cycle.
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Gregg Fraley
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Seven Idea Generation Fails. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. As the drawing suggests, please, let’s redefine brainstorming. Brainstorming is all group work.
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. There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Fresh combinations of concepts are what creates breakthrough ideas.
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. It is also useful for everyone in a company who might generate ideas (which in my view should be everyone) to have a basic understanding of what the principles are. Suggested reading: 4 – Portfolio Management.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Albert Einstein once said “Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?” As we sometimes tell our clients at Qmarkets, the key to overcoming a challenge or formulating a new idea, is often simply finding a new way to look at the problem.
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. The big picture the article misses is that brainstorming is not a single tool, it’s a system. They mention Osborn in the article but don’t accept his definition of brainstorming.
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. The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Streamlined management of innovation projects.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 9, 2017
” “We don’t do idea generation well.” The quotes above are all from larger company high level managers who already have highly defined innovation processes in place. The managers above have read a lot of that literature, taken it to heart, gotten training, and put processes in place. If you are relying on best practices, and not making an effort to go beyond them, you aren’t going to arrive at different or breakthrough ideas.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 1, 2018
Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. If you’re a leader, create the mandate , and get a diverse team organized to carry it out, in Projects. Someone needs a spark of superior inventive talent, or you won’t have the quality ideas you need to succeed. Encourage pitches, ask for ideas, take action, provide resources.
Qmarkets
JULY 22, 2021
Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.
Acuvate
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. Forrester also claims that 53% of global services decision-makers are investing in emerging innovation and idea management technologies to drive innovation. What is innovation management? Importance of innovation management. Ideas for successful innovation management.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 28, 2018
It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year. More ideas, better ideas, and tools for amping and refining ideas.
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. Facilitation skills make a big difference in innovation projects.
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 22, 2019
Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. 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. What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. But you probably are not! Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order.
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The hard part is deciding what tools and tactics will help you manage innovation in a way that achieves disruptive results. Management Platform Level 4 : The DIY. Fortunately, you could simply send them an email asking for ideas or insights.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 22, 2018
94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Training Accelerates Innovation.
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2019
Furthermore, a defined innovation process helps ensure that the best ideas are pursued and not accidentally forgotten. If one or two people dominate every brainstorming session or innovation meeting, there’s no point in having a team. Allocating specific times for team members to work on ideas and projects promotes actual results. This may mean designating a specific project for team members to charge their time to while working with the team.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable. But what is innovation management , exactly? What is innovation management?
The BMI Lab Blog
JULY 1, 2020
To overcome the challenge of developing the necessary mindset to drive business model innovation projects, several European companies developed an approach consisting of building an internal team of coaches resp. Then, the program managers resp.
Qmarkets
MARCH 28, 2019
Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable. But what is innovation management, exactly? Who is it suitable for, how much does it cost, and how is it any different from simply collecting ideas from employees and customers? What is innovation management? What is innovation management software and how does it work?
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
Although (benefits include employee satisfaction, new business streams and digital transformation), how can managers organize their teams around innovation, without sacrificing important day to day company activity? Open up lines of communication between employees and top management by optimizing corporate communication channels, holding company wide events/brainstorming sessions, or by allowing employees to submit ideas digitally through an employee submission box.
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
Although (benefits include employee satisfaction, new business streams and digital transformation), how can managers organize their teams around innovation, without sacrificing important day to day company activity? Open up lines of communication between employees and top management by optimizing corporate communication channels, holding company wide events/brainstorming sessions, or by allowing employees to submit ideas digitally through an employee submission box.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Whether you optimize your business, strive to win new customers, invent the latest product, or simply try to innovate – ideas help. Have you got symptoms of idea bla-bla? Many people dream of the next big idea – but only of this big and winning one. Ideas are a powerful tool.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Set up idea criteria to help you separate the wheat from the chaff. What kind of idea criteria can help you stay on track with your company’s innovation strategy? Try not to immediately dismiss an idea you’ve considered before because you didn’t like it then. Idea Criteria.
Qmarkets
MARCH 28, 2019
Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable. But what is innovation management, exactly? What does it entail, how expensive is it, and how is it any different from simply collecting ideas from employees and customers? What is innovation management? What is innovation management software and how does it work?
Idea Drop
JULY 20, 2017
From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. If you want to speed up your rate of productivity, you can use an idea management tool to collate these kernels of innovation from your entire team, but what should you do with them next? Dare to dream : scrap any used, boring or obvious ideas and move on to the next round.
Qmarkets
JULY 22, 2021
Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.
IdeaScale
MARCH 13, 2018
When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. However, maybe we don’t need completely new ideas; simply a reinvention of an old classic. Mark Twain famously said in his autobiography ‘Chapters From The North’ that; “There is no such thing as a new idea.
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
There’s certainly no shortage of tools and tactics that can be deployed to generate ideas for your enterprise and take it from strength to strength. Fortunately, you could simply send them an email asking for ideas or insights.
Wazoku
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Wazoku, a leading idea management platform, announced its Autumn 2019 product release with features designed to surface the right ideas, with the most relevant information, to the right people at the right time. Ideas have a rhythm and you need the right information and the right people to harmonise for the rhythm to flow and the ideas to flourish. Never again lose an idea or opportunity to help develop an idea because you are on the go or lost your connection.
KindlingApp
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
That made me wonder: where did we get this idea that innovation programs are just for large groups? I suspect that the answer is caught up in the difficulty of spreading ideas throughout those groups. Certainly the potential for an idea to slip through the cracks and become a missed opportunity is much greater at a large company, but idea management isn’t just about preserving vital ideas.
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
As one of Qmarkets’ strategic partners, Above + Beyond (A+B) provides specialized management consulting services to companies across North America, including the leading payment solutions provider TSYS. In this Expert Spotlight piece, Sebastian Apelt – Managing Partner at A+B – shares how this innovative project has led to some remarkable results for all parties. This is where Project WOW comes in. Project WOW is designed to bridge this disconnect.
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
. Whether you optimize your business, strive to win new customers, invent the latest product or simply try to innovate – ideas help. However few companies trust ideas of their crowd and the huge potential that they offer is wasted. Have you got symptoms of idea bla-bla? Many people dream of the next big idea – but only of this big and winning one. Ideas are a powerful tool. In reality mathematicians accept vague intuition and ideas as guidance.
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
. Whether you optimize your business, strive to win new customers, invent the latest product or simply try to innovate – ideas help. However few companies trust ideas of their crowd and the huge potential that they offer is wasted. Have you got symptoms of idea bla-bla? Many people dream of the next big idea – but only of this big and winning one. Ideas are a powerful tool. In reality mathematicians accept vague intuition and ideas as guidance.
Qmarkets
APRIL 6, 2020
Qmarkets’ software has been chosen by LEAD Innovation Management GmbH to support a groundbreaking initiative – designed to leverage the collective wisdom of global businesses against the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. LEAD Innovation Management – an acclaimed Austrian firm specializing in corporate innovation – has transformed their extensive LEAD user network into a digital crowdsourcing platform using Qmarkets’ software.
hackerearth
AUGUST 2, 2017
It is an arduous journey, inherently risky.But innovation partners, consultants, and innovation management software offer much promise in this space. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. In too many organizations, innovation occurs by serendipity rather than by deliberate management. This phase is all about turning ideas into reality. Innovation management software providers.
eZassi
MAY 11, 2018
The main goal of this software is to help enterprise level businesses generate and evaluate ideas so that innovation can be cultivated and implemented. The software serves as an important tool that facilitates collaboration while also providing an organized selection process that pushes the best ideas forward without getting bogged down by big data. Various functionalities are also meant to improve communication, collaboration and brainstorming. Idea Capture.
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
As part of the new corporate strategy, Leumi realized that it would need an innovation management software engine to support the initiative. Following a successful pilot that resulted in the implementation of several innovative ideas, the Bank chose Qmarkets’ enterprise-grade Q-max software as the tool which they would deploy to their entire workforce. QM: Is that where an innovation management software fits in? Ran: Our pilot generated some pretty great ideas.
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. Over the next ten years, corporations embraced the hackathon as a smart way to quickly develop new software, generate innovative ideas, and tap into unrealized resources within the firm. Think the idea is too abstract to garner concrete results?
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. Over the next ten years, corporations embraced the hackathon as a smart way to quickly develop new software, generate innovative ideas, and tap into unrealized resources within the firm. Think the idea is too abstract to garner concrete results?
Qmarkets
JULY 8, 2017
Albert Einstein once said “Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?” As we sometimes tell our clients at Qmarkets, the key to unlocking a solution or formulating a new idea, is often simply finding a new way to look at the problem. Ironically, it was this concept that also inspired me personally when I began working on Qmarkets’ idea and innovation management software almost 10 years ago.
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
Albert Einstein once said “Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?” As we sometimes tell our clients at Qmarkets, the key to unlocking a solution or formulating a new idea, is often simply finding a new way to look at the problem. Ironically, it was this concept that also inspired me personally when I began working on Qmarkets’ idea and innovation management software almost 10 years ago.
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