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. Digital technology innovation is an opportunity where most organization’s will be too late to the party.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Call your shot.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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Planview

JULY 3, 2019

Imagine if the Xerox team sat down to brainstorm the technology’s use cases and concluded that it would be foolish not to turn the technology into a consumer good. For innovation programs, a concept development workshop should take place after a crowdsourced innovation challenge has been completed. De-risk and validate.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, I’ll review 3 other signs that innovation is still being innovated: the transformation in how we treat innovative thinking, innovation ROI, and the innovation process itself. For me to be a successful leader in pushing the envelope of what’s possible, I need to have x% of failures.

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KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

In preparation for the first offsite meeting I would have with my senior leadership team, I asked them to read the first chapter of the book so we could discuss it as a group. Desire–Without a desire to change or improve, innovation falls on deaf ears. Our Idea-Driven Organization was finally ready to launch.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

However, frameworks have built-in assumptions, such as, there’s motivation to innovate, and that the culture is aligned with an innovation effort. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This public* course is at a significant discount to on-site courses delivered directly to organizations by Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi). The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs. Tools for problem framing.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete purpose or hurdle against which the innovation program is supposed to act.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

As they relate to lean innovation, the Lean Startup principles are applied to instill rigor around testing the riskiest assumptions of bringing a product to market. Marketing thinks of it differently than does R&D, who think differently that leadership.

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