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. These Bullets Can Be Dodged.

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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. This is one reason why many companies turn to Spigit’s idea management software.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now. And if you’re not doing innovation, you are planning something else — your demise, your death, your toasting. .

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Qmarkets

JUNE 26, 2019

Exploring new territory can be both daunting and exhilarating – whether it’s oceanography or innovation management! As a leading supplier of idea management software, Qmarkets allows large organizations to gather, develop, evaluate, select, and implement ideas which can deliver bottom line value across the company.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Whether you optimize your business, strive to win new customers, invent the latest product, or simply try to innovate – ideas help. However, many companies are slow to recognise just how much of a valuable resource their employees or external stakeholders are when it comes to generating potentially ground-breaking innovative business ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential. Training Accelerates Innovation. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. That’s what McKinsey says in this article.

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Planview

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work. The skinny: Steve Blank outlines how lean innovation practices can drive 10 times the number of initiatives in a fifth of the time. Here are 10 new discoveries from this week. Who it’s from: Steve Blank. Read more >> 2. 10 Questions to Ask.

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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.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

. Whether you optimize your business, strive to win new customers, invent the latest product or simply try to innovate – ideas help. However few companies trust ideas of their crowd and the huge potential that they offer is wasted. Have you got symptoms of idea bla-bla? Analogies show us the way!

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

. Whether you optimize your business, strive to win new customers, invent the latest product or simply try to innovate – ideas help. However few companies trust ideas of their crowd and the huge potential that they offer is wasted. Have you got symptoms of idea bla-bla? Analogies show us the way!

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Maybe you’ve found that your idea management participants aren’t yielding as many good ideas as in the past.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Maybe you’ve found that your idea management participants aren’t yielding as many good ideas as in the past.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

This often manifests itself in the host of variations in what are claimed as their ‘unique’ versions of “common innovation” where they constantly reinvent the wheel in their own approaches to processes, definitions, tools, frameworks, systems of working and idea management etc.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

A recent article in HBR describes a study of 154 companies that use the Spigit idea management system to analyze data on new concepts as they move from initial idea to reality. It is also necessary to ensure that the company has the absorptive capacity to accelerate the opportunities that graduate.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors. —– What Have We Lost? Why is that?”. before you run out of money.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. We dive into getting the fundamentals right during this month’s Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management. Organizing Innovation Decentrally. Join this Learning Lab.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye.

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Wazoku

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

As a result, companies are delaying their investment plans and waiting for more concrete decisions before committing themselves to a future business strategy. The current trend is to focus on running a lean organisation and keep costs manageable, but this approach can also have a significant impact on progress.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Sadly, this was the case of The Eastman Kodak Company. In fact, there are companies that came later and captured a much bigger market share. Being wholly dependent on your product managers and vertical heads to come up with up innovative products is not a good approach. It is the failure to innovate that led to its “demise.”.

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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This insight-packed session told the story of Intel’s experience implementing a decentralized approach to innovation across various business units at the company. Furthermore, our product fully supports multiple stakeholders working on an idea. This can be done by idea categorization (i.e. per department) or manually per idea.

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