Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ll say it directly: Economic Development teams need innovation training. Have you got the training in structured creative problem solving? Do you have a team member trained in innovation facilitation? Innovation “how to” should be a key skill for any economic development team.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Here is a brief review of quantum idea generation. Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. To generate these powerful results you need to use four elements – diversity, stimulus, brain type, and eliminate fear and have fun. Let’s start with a big picture view.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovation theater happens when companies and executive talk up innovation but fail to do anything. No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability.

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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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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

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. My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. He’s not just a theorist, he’s an inventor and innovator in his own right, having built companies from start-up to IPO.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 12, 2020

This article presents the two key steps of successful knowledge management that can be implemented by company executives. Knowledge management improves organizational processes through a variety of different practices, and enhances learning, which can increase both follower engagement and personal development.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the ideas generated all-too-often underwhelm? If so, Idea Champions can help. Our Conducting Genius training is a highly engaging, customizable learning experience that can be adapted to fit the needs, social styles, and experience of just about any participant. The difference between our shorter and longer trainings?

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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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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

For a deeper dive into how AI is revolutionizing the stages and gates processes of innovation, explore next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes. By integrating AI into the innovation process, companies can uncover valuable insights, streamline workflows, and make more informed decisions.

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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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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Companies of all sizes are organizing their innovation programs around their crowds these days. The reason for this is because a great deal of research has emerged that proves the power not just of valuable ideas, but connections between valuable ideas. New ideas need runway for testing and that runway requires money and people.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Since innovation is a difficult and often misunderstood word, or perhaps just because it is used to mean different things in different contexts, it can be difficult to understand why innovation at an entrepreneurial company or a startup is different from innovation in a corporation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 27, 2022

I'd like to borrow this idea from the entrepreneurial community and turn our gaze to mid-sized and larger firms, and think about how much time, if any, companies spend on two critical aspects of their business: strategy and innovation. To leave working "in the business" for any period of time risks the very existence of the company.

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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. This reduces the risk of innovation and increases visibility Introduce the idea of innovation portfolios and the need to innovate across the three horizons. If it is important, it will be expected, measured and rewarded.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 27, 2017

Training and New Experiences. Company-wide Idea Generation. Leadership & Sponsorship. Developing a culture of innovation: Reward vs Risk aversion. Measuring and Rewarding Performance. Bureaucracy. Open Innovation. Innovation as a value. Trends & Industry.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how your company’s employees interact and handle business transactions. High Employee Turnover : An increasing rate of staff leaving the company, especially high-performers.

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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. Idea Champions.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You can also see the transcript of our AI ideation session below to see the ideas that were created when our question meets artificial intelligence. AI Ideation Demo (Generate Ideas with Artificial Intelligence on OpenAI). Here’s the play-by-play of our AI idea generation experience. The Design Lab 3.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Without it, our companies would fail to grow and evolve with the ever-changing markets that we are serving. While innovation is pertinent, it is often misunderstood and as a result, many companies fail to reap the benefits of it at its best. This, in return, removes any hesitancy or fear around idea generation amongst the employees.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Without it, our companies would fail to grow and evolve with the ever-changing markets that we are serving. While innovation is pertinent, it is often misunderstood and as a result, many companies fail to reap the benefits of it at its best. This, in return, removes any hesitancy or fear around idea generation amongst the employees.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 31, 2018

Not only must you re-energize the innovation culture at your company, but you also have to create the support systems to make it stick. Here are some ideas. Develop a way to track and manage ideas generated from innovation workshops. It doesn’t have to be an expensive system; just something to document ideas.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I am often asked to give corporate innovation training workshops. They readily absorb the ideas and the methods. In the interactive modules they generate and select great ideas for the company. In the interactive modules they generate and select great ideas for the company.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

By incorporating AI, companies can achieve a higher level of product development efficiency, with reduced time-to-market and increased throughput of successful innovations. To delve deeper into how AI can modernize the innovation pipeline, refer to next generation ai-powered innovation phases and gates processes.

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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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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.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

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. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas. Get the Training in MCPS.

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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. A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk. Much innovation training avoids talking about the pitfalls that will absolutely kill your program.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming. Also check out the brainstorming training online course we developed from more than 10 years of experience professionally running brainstorming sessions.

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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. Idea Champions.

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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. Developing an idea management and tracking capability.

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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. For an innovative training format. To optimise creative sessions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By tapping into the power of AI for identifying patterns and leveraging data analytics, companies can ensure that their design thinking efforts are both user-centered and data-informed. This collaboration can significantly widen the scope of ideas generated, leading to more innovative and user-centric solutions.

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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?

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