IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. An innovation consultant is someone brought in by a company, usually for a defined period of time. Innovation consultants provide innovation leadership primarily by helping client companies pursue innovation goals.

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Leadership Innovation Training Crowdsourcing 164

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Innovation Generative AI 157

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I've been asked a number of times, by companies large and small, how to create an innovation capacity that lasts. After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. These activities might include: Idea Generation Workshops : Leaders participate in brainstorming sessions where they are encouraged to propose unconventional solutions to business challenges.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

It acts as the lifeblood of a company, influencing every aspect of how you conduct business. It influences employee motivation, attracts top talent, fosters company-wide alignment, enhances customer satisfaction, and ultimately drives performance metrics upwards.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

L et our Intrapreneurship 101 give you a better idea of what it takes to set up a successful innovation process within your company. Stop generating ideas and start creating ROI instead. The good news is, the idea is very often the starting point. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation 75

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. This is a compelling and informative training course.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. That is IF you want to increase the odds of new ideas actually making it out the door. You're busy. The result?

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Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 89

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS Training Available on April 29th, 1 to 4:30 Eastern. Practitioners of CPS, like Gregg Fraley, facilitate solutions for big companies and start-ups. Get the Training in MCPS. A highly creative new method for solving difficult problems.

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose.

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Artificial Inteligence Ideation Brainstorming ChatGPT 83

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

The right keynote speaker can provide a fresh perspective, inspire new ideas, and refocus an organization’s vision. When you select a speaker whose expertise aligns with your company’s goals, you create a unique opportunity for growth and learning.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It consists of a series of phases (stages) where specific tasks are performed and milestones (gates) where decisions are made about whether to proceed to the next stage, halt, or redirect the project. Risk Assessment : By predicting potential hurdles, AI helps in identifying and mitigating risks early in the product development lifecycle.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Management Management Generative AI 100

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Companies are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of gamification. In countries where companies have already made gamification part of their day-to-day, they know that it can bring specific benefits beyond having a bit of fun and simple teambuilding. To start an innovation project. For an innovative training format.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 54

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. With our company, we’ve committed to using an innovative framework of design thinking to go step-by-step through a naming process. What’s in a name? It turns out, a lot! Design Thinking for Naming.

Design Thinking 64

Design Thinking Brainstorming Training Design 64

Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. us" vs. Idea Champions is committed to whole-brain thinking -- not just right brain or left brain thinking. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place?

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 29

Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here’s what they need to see and believe: An innovative corporate culture is one that supports the creation of new ideas and the implementation of those ideas. Leaders must help employees see innovation in practice as a regular part of how the company does business. See innovation as a competency. See innovation as a process.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Innovation Leadership 99

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. 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. A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Practical Solution for Medium Sized Companies to Grow. This mild paralysis is an opening for small and medium sized companies. A full time Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) is a large line item expense, and, most small and medium sized companies simply can’t afford one — or think they can’t. That lowers risk.

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Innovation Trends Roadmap Product Development 59

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Your future could be that company that thrives amidst chaos. There are solutions for how to revive your business, be it a Fortune 100 company, a non-profit, or, a one person consultancy. The team cranked out 320 ideas, wrote up 20 as elaborated concepts with mini-plans, and we roadmapped innovation projects for the next three years.

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Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere. I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer.

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. us" vs. Idea Champions is committed to whole-brain thinking -- not just right brain or left brain thinking. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place?

Training 29

Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 29

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. That is IF you want to increase the odds of new ideas actually making it out the door. You're busy. The result?

Ideation 41

Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 41

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

To instill this learning culture, I have instituted regular training sessions, knowledge-sharing meetings, and opportunities for professional development. By fostering an environment where every voice could be heard, they saw a 25% increase in project delivery speed and a 30% improvement in employee satisfaction.

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Leadership Meeting Culture Collaboration 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Define stage, a critical phase where problems are articulated and the scope of projects are framed, greatly benefits from AI’s data processing capabilities. This collaboration can significantly widen the scope of ideas generated, leading to more innovative and user-centric solutions.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Design Thinking Design Analysis 113

eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. Can Innovation secure a strategic seat in my company’s goal setting? Break down the silos that divide a company by department. This is an idea “Generator.”

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Culture Technical Review Software Review Software 40

Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. us" vs. Idea Champions is committed to whole-brain thinking -- not just right brain or left brain thinking. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place?

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 29

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

No matter how much you train people, they can only implement the tools and techniques if they are allowed to There is no commonly agreed innovation standard. Perhaps the closest anyone has come is in Creative Problem Solving, which I would think is probably the best answer to innovation training. Born, or Made?

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Training Innovation Exercises Tools 113

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. They typically have few tools to help re-prioritize projects and almost always have the wrong skills available for the next project in the hopper.

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Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Development Team Review Innovation 100

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement. As a result of this project, TSYS was able to address employee pain points and inefficiencies, enhance corporate leadership strategies, increase savings, and implement lucrative new ideas.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate.

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Survey Innovation Tips Idea Generation 102

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Embedding sustainability : Companies are increasingly integrating sustainability into their operations. Collaboration Platforms : Collaboration and project management platforms like Slack, Trello, and Miro provide digital spaces where cross-functional teams can collaborate in real time, regardless of geographical location.

Design Thinking 147

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation How To Meeting 40

Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. us" vs. Idea Champions is committed to whole-brain thinking -- not just right brain or left brain thinking. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place?

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 26

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. This company-wide desire must be sustained through hard work and intimidating obstacles. Encourage pitches, ask for ideas, take action, provide resources.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. us" vs. Idea Champions is committed to whole-brain thinking -- not just right brain or left brain thinking. And we can train your people to do the same thing we do. In their place?

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Training Creativity Culture of Innovation Engagement 22

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. GFi guarantees its work.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

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.

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Brainstorming Innovation Programs Ideation Idea Generation 48