IdeaScale
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Innovation processes can be complex. Most companies today make innovation a priority — or at least they say they do. However, innovating is an inexact science. So how do you know if your innovation process is working? Be an Innovation Leader.
IdeaScale
APRIL 7, 2021
It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. The innovation process needs to be crafted to fit each group.
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Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 26, 2021
I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything.
InnovationTraining.org
MAY 26, 2020
These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room. Interested in templates for brainstorming that you can even use with a team online? In this guide we will share some of the most popular brainstorming frameworks.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 30, 2016
Projects, Projects, Projects. Innovation is complex and difficult — but one thing about it is not. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Thinking about things is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation.
Betterific
AUGUST 2, 2016
Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. From the winners, we learn brainstorming tips, how they arrived at their winning ideas, and the inspiration they use. You can check out our first Brainstorming with a winner edition, where we interviewed Dan Pick.
The BMI Lab Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2017
When we introduce somebody to innovation methodologies, especially those focused on business models, the role of creativity topic usually comes up. The most common question is whether we need to use creativity or not to innovate. There is a short answer for this: The majority of the most successful innovation methodologies give creativity a strong role. From this basic statement we can go further into the topic of creativity in innovation.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 1, 2018
New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. 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). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation.
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 4, 2018
If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. A truly innovative culture? Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects.
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. Submission Arguably the submission phase is the most important step of the process.
IdeaScale
MARCH 27, 2019
Process innovation is perhaps the “classic” form of innovation. Finding a better way of accomplishing necessary business tasks is low-risk, can lead to other types of innovations, and helps companies maintain and sharpen their competitive edge. Processes must evolve with changes in markets and technologies. Process innovation ensures that it does so effectively. Ideally, process innovation should be built into the company DNA.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 9, 2017
Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” ” These are the words I’ve heard innovation directors and c-suite executives use to describe their own innovation programs. This post is to make a simple point about innovation.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip. You can’t innovate without an exploratory learning process. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite. Knowledge Across Many Domains Is An Innovation Accelerator.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 1, 2018
Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks. There is no innovation without creativity.
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 29, 2023
We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work. We’ve created a number of demonstration videos and even a short online ChatGPT AI innovation course. This program showcases how to leverage AI to assist in generating or brainstorming ideas.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 22, 2018
Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy.
Gregg Fraley
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. ” Accelerated Learning Leads to Accelerated Innovation.
IdeaScale
MAY 26, 2021
Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. How online whiteboards create impactful innovation.
Gregg Fraley
DECEMBER 11, 2017
Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? This is not innovation as we once knew it. This is not your Dad’s innovation. It’s not even Your Innovation of five years ago? How do you innovate across your entire value chain? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects?
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2019
Nearly 80 percent of executives surveyed by The Boston Consulting Group’s tenth global survey on innovation considered innovation to be either the most important priority at their company or in the top three. They’re already overloaded and adding “innovate” to their task load may not get a good reaction. However, there are ways to cultivate innovation success, and creating an innovation department is one of them. Define Roles and Processes.
Leapfrogging
JULY 18, 2021
The innovation session had been going on for most of 2 days, yet the participants didn’t look tired. Enter the Innovation Funnel Management Process, one of my favorite tools to help manage business process innovation. The Innovation Funnel Management Process ?requires
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 28, 2018
Innovation Intensive . Master Innovation Trainer: Gregg Fraley. Course Description: Innovation Intensive is a one day, deep dive, into fundamental and advanced concepts in innovation. 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.
InnovationTraining.org
JUNE 10, 2021
Learn about this innovation framework and find training resources, articles, tips, and more. In the innovation process, this really comes down to trying to find better ways of accomplishing this JTBD, rather than focusing on the product itself. Innovation
IdeaScale
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Overview: While the fundamentals of creating an innovative culture at a company remain the same when remote, such as encouraging ideas and using small teams to build up, the remote workplace offers new challenges for innovators. Remote Work And Innovation Culture.
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 25, 2022
This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. In this blog post, we’ll look at a design thinking framework that can be used to help you design innovative solutions to your challenges. Either way, they are the spark of the innovation process.
IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. Creative thinking exercises help alleviate the difficulty of engagement and stagnation when innovating and allow people to think outside the box.
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. The beginning of any innovation process is freeform, creative, and even fun. It’s when the process advances that it becomes tougher. The second is transparent; everyone involved not only offers ideas but helps with the refinement and implementation process.
Values Centered Innovation
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Welcome to our Conscious Innovator ® process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something that challenges conventional thinking about the "right" mindset for being innovative? Being innovative is not always easy.
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 30, 2020
Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better. The back-end of innovation, executing, is the rugged part.
Stephen Shapiro
AUGUST 29, 2022
With an innovation strategy like this, finding a useful idea is like finding a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately, this innovation strategy is what many well-intentioned companies use in their quest to be more innovative. So is there a more efficient way for you to innovate?
Strategyzer Innovation
MAY 15, 2019
Spark is a simple, self-guided innovation kit built for business teams who want to collaborate to de-risk business ideas. Spark uses a proven methodology to deliver a structured process to help you determine the best ideas in which to invest. Maybe you think innovation is just too expensive or time consuming? Innovation sure can be challenging, but with the right tools and the right process, teams can have the confidence to successfully validate any business idea.
The BMI Lab Blog
MARCH 4, 2021
Our conclusion after almost twelve months of executing online workshops with hundreds of participants: it is possible to develop innovative business ideas remotely – if you consider certain points. In the process of business model innovation, ideation is the second step.
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? But while proven to provide trustworthy ratings, reviews, and vehicle data, consumer feedback showed that the #1 unmet Edmunds.com consumer need was to improve the car-buying process. This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. The Lean Innovation principles utilized by Edmunds were not theoretical training exercises.
Qmarkets
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
As an enterprise scales and its culture solidifies, it becomes increasingly challenging for innovation and creativity to flourish. At the heart of it all is innovation, a way of doing things differently to achieve a company’s vision while staying ahead of the competition. While it’s clear that innovation is the lifeblood of any business, what remains uncertain is how leaders are supposed to achieve it. We call it Project WOW. Project WOW.
IdeaScale
MARCH 13, 2018
When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise.
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 15, 2021
This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. The post Want Innovative Teaching?
Econic
MAY 23, 2019
The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts.
Values Centered Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2020
The art and discipline of Innovation is still being innovated. 2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative. He has since moved away from the personality labels, and denoted simply 2 cognitive styles: Modification and Innovation.
Econic
APRIL 10, 2018
The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.
Robert Brands
JULY 19, 2016
Fundamentals Of Sustaining Innovation In Your Business. One of the easiest ways to do this is to encourage a culture of sustain innovation amongst employees. Whether a business is big or small, everyone can innovate at some level as long as the staff is allowed time to do so. Take a look at some of these best practices to sustain innovation to determine which ones to put in place right away. Try to streamline the approval process to end any potential issues.
Econic
MAY 23, 2019
The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.
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