Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. As a result of Idea Champions'efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." - Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful. ZoomStorming.

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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. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Leaders can’t manage both certainty and uncertainty and point to Clayton Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma” as the inexorable truth. They are eager to build, ignoring the lean innovation lessons of human-centered design, solution assumption busting, and market-based evidence that cuts through biases. Brainstorm all your assumptions.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ideate and Prototype: Advocate for a culture of brainstorming, experimentation, and iteration. And they can ideate by encouraging brainstorming sessions where all team members feel heard. .” – by Brené Brown : Brown discusses leading with courage, emphasizing that genuine leadership requires heart and strategic thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

And the Design Management Institute found that design-driven organisations outperform the S&P 500 by a whopping 219%. There’s no question that teams are capable of great things when working remotely, and there is no shortage of project management tools, virtual whiteboards and prototyping software out there to help.

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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. If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. How do you get there?

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Partha Mallikarjun has more than 25 years of experience in leading, managing and delivering technology and process improvement projects in the Information Technolofy space. Some of the certifications he holds are Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner, PMP, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Startup. Based in Dayton, NJ, USA.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This data can serve as a helpful brainstorming tool to develop new department goal ideas. Agree on a Goal Based on the SMART Framework Once you’ve brainstormed possible goals, collaborate with your team to choose a few critical goals that everyone wants to strive to achieve. Specific How clear and well-defined is your goal?

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In May of this year, we had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Jill Waters, Lean Six Sigma Coordinator at Adventist Health, which is a not-for-profit healthcare organization comprised of over 20 hospitals and over 30 clinics in the U.S. Empower the directors and managers of departments.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

The common way of thinking about managing people is assigning them tasks. A more effective way to manage people is to make them responsible for outcomes. Principle 1: Manage Outcomes, Not Work Delegation should focus on outcomes rather than divvying up tasks. The problem is that it also makes the leader a project manager.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Scrum is highly applicable to define priorities in processes and optimize management development in different segments – Consulting, Technology, HR, Telecommunications, Marketing, Engineering, Insurance, Health, among others. Engineering companies with HR and PD management process XP well on their payroll, for example.

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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

New studies appear almost daily that aim to demonstrate the importance CEOs and managers from all sectors attach to digital transformation. At initial discussions with high-level managers, I am repeatedly asked whether I could provide specific digitization ideas for their company. So far, so good.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Conflict Management: Conflict, or the avoidance of it, is the biggest barrier to team productivity. Teams are made aware of the relationship between diversity and conflict, and given tools on how to manage that polarity. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Management teams. Sales Management teams.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 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.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Oftentimes a brainstorming session is held, resulting in many innovative business ideas being scribbled onto a poster and contributors being happy with the result. If not done, our mind is busy with keeping the idea we like – which means that potentially better ideas are blocked, like in brainstorming sessions. A Lack of Discussion.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Solution: Focus on the Facilitator Mindset Leadership consultant Dr. Flo Falayi encourages leaders to lean on what they call “The Facilitator Mindset.” You manage the behind-the-scenes work, like overseeing chats during the virtual facilitation and monitoring the discussions to ensure participants receive the proper support.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The important aspect of the theory which most discussions ignore though is that while it is happening, management at the established companies think they’re making the right decision to let the new companies take over the low-end of the market. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 6, 2015

If Drucker was right, what does that say about most executives, who are busy managing costs? Over the last 30 years modern management thinking has been influenced by outsourcing and rightsizing, on lean and Six Sigma thinking and on the GE way (1st, 2nd or out of the market). Everything else, he said, are costs.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Flexible Development and Management Strategies: Intimately Knowing Your Team and Your Product Portfolio, we shared strategies for getting to know an organization from the perspective of those closest to the work. In larger-scale organizations, proactively managing and communicating about workloads across teams can be a challenge.

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Brunner

MARCH 6, 2020

In 2019, we kicked off the program and hosted an inclusive ADVOCATE brainstorm. Take a look at Lean In statistics and you’ll see some startling numbers on mentorship of women in the workplace – particularly formal sponsorship by male leaders. It created an inclusive framework for what would come next. Won’t You Be My Mentor?

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Fabi is a Cisco engineer and an avid supporter of “Running Lean,” which is how we first met over a Skype call. Even if he managed to buy one, these things were massive, required disassembly (voiding their warranty), and 400V of power. As this was my first visit to Switzerland, I jumped on the offer. Roger, Carmen N.,

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In fact, in a study Spigit conducted in partnership with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, we found that idea diversity was one of four levers that plays a critical role in building innovation cultures. Idea diversity is a topic that isn’t talked about enough when it comes to what contributes to building a culture of innovation.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

He later evolved it into a broader model involving opportunity identification, opportunity analysis, idea generation, idea selection, and concept definition — much of what has today come to be known as Innovation Management. Consequently, this two–bucket model no longer accurately reflects how to best manage an innovation pipeline.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Working with lean teams focused on solving a challenge brings several benefits to your project. Team self-management. Scrum is a framework used to manage projects or teams.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Oftentimes a brainstorming session is held, many ideas are scribbled onto a poster and contributors are happy with the great result. If not done, our mind is busy with keeping the idea we like – which means that potentially better ideas are blocked, like in brainstormings. Running a brainstorming session to collect ideas is a mistake.

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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.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Oftentimes a brainstorming session is held, many ideas are scribbled onto a poster and contributors are happy with the great result. If not done, our mind is busy with keeping the idea we like – which means that potentially better ideas are blocked, like in brainstormings. Running a brainstorming session to collect ideas is a mistake.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. We appreciate the analog nature of these tools, because teams gather around the boards and discuss, brainstorm and share.

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