Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

Course Description: Innovation Intensive is a one day, deep dive, into fundamental and advanced concepts in innovation. It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 24, 2017

You'll forgive me if I lapse into a bit of consultant speak - can't help but do so since I've been in consulting for many years. One of the factors that dictates what people do as consultants (and in other jobs or industries where time is tracked to projects or other expense categories) is the availability of charge codes.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2019

I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects. As an innovation consultant who is a facilitator, team builder, idea person, and strategist, my need for hands-on engineering skills are minimal. Best to get projects started before a crisis. Point Two : Making a challenge a project is always a good move.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. 52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 2, 2018

This ambitious development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 million Swedish crowns funded by the European Social Fund , and ended on May of 2018, with a media conference to announce and celebrate the projects results, including: Average growth of orderbook by 25%. Average Growth 12%, higher than the national GDP of 5%.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

From new medical devices to new banking products, to new consumer appliances and more, I've worked on a number of innovation projects in a wide range of industries. Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 20, 2018

My response was: “The first thing we need to do is give them projects to do where we can’t know what the right answer is in advance.” ” Of course, we often avoid doing this in universities, mainly because…… we’re uncomfortable with ambiguity ourselves. These projects were great.

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whataventure

JULY 21, 2020

For sure, you need to enjoy the fast pace and diversity – you don´t have just one project, you have a lot of different projects at the same time. This is why you need to ace your project management skills and have a structured mindset. So, innovation and inspiration are key skills, besides a good sense of humor, of course!

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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. This practice, of course, has led to its own moniker - innovation theater - and to rising cynicism on the part of people who want to get more innovation done.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. Too many projects lack concrete outcomes and stubbornly refuse to discuss ROI. This goes hand-in-hand with resources of course.

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 27, 2018

This year’s Project Management Conference in Dallas focused on all things innovation. Given my long-standing background with both project management and innovation, I was delighted to be on a panel that explored how project managers, their teams, and their company cultures could be more innovative.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

AccelIQ Digital is a global consultancy based in Houston, Texas, with a mission to help enterprise businesses unlock the benefits of this outward-looking, collaborative approach to innovation. Consulting with legal experts is often a smart move. How does AccelIQ work with its clients?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Managers, executives, and consultants who embrace these AI advancements position themselves at the forefront of innovation, ready to leverage the full potential of improving design thinking with ai.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

In the intervening time, I have gotten to know dozens of smart, strong female leaders and innovation experts, as part of my consulting and speaking work, as well as by interviewing them for the Idea to Value Podcast. That could be a new product, of course, which is what people usually think of. Let’s get started. Rita McGrath.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. We might begin with a requirements gathering process in order to understand resources and parameters, and stay within the scope of the Project Charter that emerges from that process. Step 4 – System Testing : TEST! Core Elements of Agile.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A given internship experience could, of course, accomplish multiple outcomes or perform particularly well on one. Others, like Parker Dewey, don’t validate students’ skills or learning and instead act as a marketplace where students and employers can find one another for short, gig projects across a wide array of industries.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

AccelIQ Digital is a global consultancy based in Houston, Texas, with a mission to help enterprise businesses unlock the benefits of this outward-looking, collaborative approach to innovation. Consulting with legal experts is often a smart move. How does AccelIQ work with its clients?

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

Denver, Colorado — Innovation & Facilitation Training — Two Public Courses. In late August I’m co-hosting and delivering two public courses on Innovation in Denver. Working with Kim Smoyer of Smoyer & Associates , a Colorado based consultancy that focuses on non-profits. The second course is a 2.5

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

I started to work with Rinat and Johan on co-design projects back during pre-iPhone days. We led co-design projects in which students collaborated with designers to bring products to market. Of course, it takes practice to become a good chef, but following a recipe doesn’t necessarily make you one.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ibbaka is a consulting and technology development company focused on helping companies bring innovations to market and to help them to scale. Steven Forth: Ibbaka was founded by a group of six people who have worked together in different configurations over several decades at different companies on different open source projects.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

MF: Currently I spend a lot of time developing my new business, delivering consulting, advisory, thought leadership content development and research to my clients, and generally managing the day-to-day activities of the business. Work-wise, I do a lot of advisory and consulting so many video meetings.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2020

Yet bringing your team out of their box of day-to-day tasks and larger projects to focus on innovation can feel daunting. Innovation can happen spontaneously, of course, but toolkits will help to encourage creativity and channel it effectively. Drawing together everyone should be the goal of any innovative organization.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 11, 2021

My clients were no longer bringing in outside consultants or facilitators, as everything quickly went virtual. And so I created The Year of Living Creatively -- a two-month online course -- a kind of greenhouse for grand possibilities. What follows are testimonials from recent graduates of the course. Corporations were out.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 31, 2023

She is also an author, speaker, consultant, and advocate for business results in supply chain and supplier diversity. While I have done all types of procurement over the course of my career, my specialty is indirect procurement. Contact us to discuss any of your project needs at info@thinkers360.com

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2016

Not long ago our innovation team was asked by a client to lead an innovation project to create a new product. In this case we were told that Yes, the client had adopted another consulting firm's innovation methodology. As I noted, the client team pulled a binder out and showed us another consulting firm's methodology.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I have been spending some significant time on questioning the current innovation business model, from both the customers (clients) perspective and the innovation consultants’ one. In my research I certainly felt also the innovation consultant is struggling. The innovation consultants’ dilemma. It simply pisses the employee off.

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IM Insights

MAY 25, 2022

42:00) Should we test purely data-based investment decisions for innovation projects? (47:40) Tendayi Viki is an author and innovation consultant. Tendayi has written three books based on his research and consulting experience, Pirates In The Navy , The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. Show Transcript.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Zappos has been so celebrated for its corporate values that the company has a consulting team that helps other businesses improve their cultures. It offers leadership training courses including the “School of Wow.”. He organized a major re-development and revitalization project for the dilapidated downtown area of Las Vegas.

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Planview

MAY 31, 2023

This month, we’re highlighting Chriztine Kirk, our energetic and team-focused Director of Solution Consulting APAC, based in Singapore. What is Solutions Consulting? Solutions Consulting is a pre-sales role. The APAC Solution Consulting team has three members – Mohamed Zahran based in Sydney and Mansi Pare based in Bengaluru.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Business schools are teaching courses on CSR, top-notch organizations are too. Mutual cooperation, collaboration, and consultation are the essence of a co-creation model. Governments, like in Germany, have decided to fund research projects that develop socially innovative ideas. Previously, NGOs and companies “co-existed.”

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 7, 2022

I’m privileged to lead the Labs Product Team—we offer other schools and programs everything from strategic learning consulting to program design, development, and implementation. With CBE, students understand how the competencies they master are preparing them for their next course and ultimately their next job.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. The M entor Role in I nnovation .

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of my career, I have amassed an impressive track record of growing revenues, delivering next-generation digital solutions and optimizing operations. WG: I am a CIO Advisory Partner with Kyndryl in their Kyndryl Consult (formerly Advisory and Implementation Services Practice area).

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

As someone who styles themselves as an innovation consultant, I'm constantly asked about the difference we've made in the corporations where OVO has worked. Of course, as a good consultant I took credit for the first two and divorced myself from any involvement in the third! Will you have a legacy to point to?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

A brief post to make sure you know about the upcoming Denver, CO public course in Advanced Innovation Facilitation. Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. This is a high value training.

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Tim Kastelle

MAY 5, 2016

“In the end, these projects are all business model problems.” ” That’s what I said to my friend Steve Adelman about the projects we collaborate on as part of the Wharton-UQ Global Consulting Practicum program. We’ve run into this on some of our GCP projects. ” he replied.

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