Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. I’m sure you are quite aware that there are some pretty large software projects out there, though.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer.

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Board of Innovation

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

At Board of Innovation we love to share our learnings as soon as we finish an innovation project. Not so long ago we shared the tools we used during a 3-day ideation brainstorm and a checklist to organize your own corporate innovation accelerator. The post Hire a lean entrepreneur for one year.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is the story of how SAY San Diego is using Lean Innovation to create real, powerful change in their community. Project Goals, Proposed Solutions, and Key Results When we first met SAY San Diego, they had already identified their challenges. This staff increase has reduced their staffing cost of $32.50

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation. Steven lives in Colorado and loves hiking, river rafting, and playing with his dogs.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. ." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. CPS first started being used in the early 1950’s, created by the founder of brainstorming, Alex Osborn.

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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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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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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. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Some examples of goals that align with the vision and mission of the organization include: Improving project completion by X% by the end of October. This PM goal could focus on better streamlining projects and boosting efficiency by X%. This data can serve as a helpful brainstorming tool to develop new department goal ideas.

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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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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

There are many possibilities for accomplishing the goal within the leader’s purview, so with the team, they brainstormed ideas and settled on increasing user engagement as a path to increasing customer spend. The problem is that it also makes the leader a project manager. Delegation is not about becoming a project manager.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

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. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. project meeting. Brainstorming templates. With a step-by-step modular structure, you can browse through existing design thinking exercises and move them around to structure your meeting and fit your unique goals or needs. daily standup meeting. board meeting. quarterly planning meeting.

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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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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Scrum Master (SM) – the person who monitors the processes or activities of the team, controlling deadlines and verifying if there is any holdback to the accomplishment; Product Owner (PO) – the team person responsible for the project and who represents the clients/stakeholders. Lean Startup. Extreme Programming (XP).

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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. That’s when he told me that he also had a flight simulator in his living room — one he had built himself as a fun side project. version.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Phase 1: Prepare You’ll begin by identifying resources, objectives and risks around your project and aligning your team. Phase 2: Design You’ll use Strategyzer tools including the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas to prepare a design brief, identify opportunities, brainstorm new ideas and create early prototypes.

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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. In spite of many success stories it’s not done nearly enough. The reason? A framework is a scaffold.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Just tossing money at it. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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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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etventure

JANUARY 5, 2017

You just set up a working group, launch some digital projects under the auspices of the IT department and off you go. Of course, we could do that – hold a brainstorming session and off we go. Lean startup is a suitable approach to begin the practical implementation in a streamlined way after the brainstorming.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. Projects change culture.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Just tossing money at it. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Companies which want a structured system to manage a funnel of ideas and projects (e.g. But I would also recommend the following books: 8 – Effective Brainstorming. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming. This should always be done instead of traditional brainstorming.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. It’s the creative thinking that builds on that research, analysis, and insight that gets you workable innovation concepts, that turn into innovation projects, and ultimately market results.

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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. A Squad is nothing more than a team formed by people with different technical and academic skills to solve a problem or perform a project. What are the benefits of Squads?

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

In today’s flat, lean organizations, many individual contributors assume that they don’t need to be led or managed. Search for multiple resolutions: Rather than just trying to change the person, brainstorm alternative solutions. So why is management still relevant? How are their relationships with other members of the team?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Creative Problem Solving Model: Most teams lack a common approach, or language, to resolve challenges and manage projects. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM. Master Trainer Gregg Fraley of GFi.

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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

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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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Be certain that there is alignment from the top down around the desire to integrate digital tech and get projects underway. If you focus on the project, you’ll get through conflict by keeping the end in mind.

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