Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

You’ll want to choose a site that is conducive to creativity, focus, and privacy. Additionally, ensure that the venue has the necessary facilities and technology to support your sessions—such as reliable Wi-Fi, projection equipment, and breakout rooms. The logistics of the offsite also require careful planning.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

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

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. But, we got started, getting some initial training from Tim Hurson , who wrote Think Better, a great book on innovation thinking, creativity and facilitation.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Innovation Generative AI 157

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rural Development Hinges On The Creative Class. Attracting the Creative Class is About Culture, Tolerance, and Quality of Life. Where Creative Workers Locate is Where Innovation and New Businesses Happen, Site Locations Follow. The skinny on Florida’s theories is pretty simple: creative workers drive regional economies.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. Qmarkets was the best match for the idea flow process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. The Role of AI in Design Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various facets of business operations, including the creative and iterative processes within design thinking.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. It happens through projects. The best innovators organize their efforts around projects. Innovation Leaders sometimes get it backwards.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been helping a wide variety of forward thinking organizations tap into their innate creativity and originate breakthrough ideas. Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality. Your High Velocity Brainstorming sessions were wonderful.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Creativity 52

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In fact, innovation and creativity are cited as being some of the most important skills and differentiators listed by CEOs which will determine their future success. In order for innovation to be possible, a company needs to have the following foundational elements: Enablement: The creativity and culture to develop new and different ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. Conclusion.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Conducting regular training courses in creativity methods and innovation management. Innovative companies use innovation to differentiate themselves by: Conducting regular idea generation workshops within business units. Being open to ideas from outside sources to make non-obvious connections to internal projects.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Innovation Leadership 99

IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving. Most of us didn’t major in “innovation” in college or even have a course or a single 2 hour-long workshop on the topic. Learn through doing.

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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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Innovation in Practice

JULY 18, 2016

This web app (available for an annual subscription of $12) takes you inside the box and into the world of creativity. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can generate thoughtful, fresh ideas to solve a problem or improve a product. The app harnesses this method to help you generate ideas digitally.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2015

"So my definition would be, in order for a certain idea to be creative, it must possess two major components. So, if it is just something new, but doesn't offer any benefit, it is not necessarily a creative idea.". So, if it is just something new, but doesn't offer any benefit, it is not necessarily a creative idea.".

Creativity 40

Creativity Learning Exercises Idea Generation 40

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. We’re holding the courses at the Community Resource Center (CRC) in downtown Denver. The second course is a 2.5 August 28, 2017.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

They act as a compass, directing your company’s course and setting expectations for what is considered important. They are the day-to-day manifestations of your company’s culture, seen in everything from how meetings are run to the way projects are managed. Innovation Index Quantifies the number of new ideas or projects.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Your creative team will get a much-needed reality check.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

While I cannot comment on the course, it is taught by two professors with little private sector experience who haven't created a product. Perhaps the closest anyone has come is in Creative Problem Solving, which I would think is probably the best answer to innovation training. Some people are more creative than others.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

Let’s start with my experience: We decided to follow agile principles in our quest to implement an autonomous ‘idea generation’ process to fight boredom and channelize extraneous energy. Perhaps, I forgot to mention that the project was about managing bored kids tired of quarantine tedium!

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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. Frameworks become a competitive advantage when you use them in more creative ways. His Innovation Facilitation training courses provide cutting edge tools and techniques, including his proprietary tools.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There is some imaginative thinking inside idea development, but if this session had been organized as a classic “brainstorm” or purely divergent idea session it would have been a waste of time. ” We designed a creative session plan to achieve our better understood goals. Experience matters.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“TRIZ is a problem solving method based on logic and data, not intuition, which accelerates the project team’s ability to solve these problems creatively” Using the FORTH Method to Navigate Your Innovation Journey.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Your creative team will get a much-needed reality check.

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Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 41

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. By establishing a clear process that allows people to share their ideas, it creates an opportunity for creativity. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

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Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. By establishing a clear process that allows people to share their ideas, it creates an opportunity for creativity. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

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Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity. What is your definition of “innovation”: The application of ideas that are novel and useful. Innovation is not just Idea generation. Creativity is thinking of something new.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

the natural evolution of the course should be smart, or digital, government that not only enables more efficient engagement between its personnel but also upgraded contact with the people, including value-generating services. Discover Why an Innovation Management Strategy is Critical for Smart City Infrastructural Projects.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. Your team doesn't actually know what your customers want, no one is responsible for writing new project briefs, or no one is actually reading/understanding the briefs. Your creative team will get a much-needed reality check.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2017

Make a list.Partially done projects, that is, things you haven’t put fully into play, but there is active development, a plan and a commitment to launch the project, do count. Generalize based on your feeling. Were there any ideas or projects that seemed interesting but weren’t done due to perceived risk?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". This, of course, is perfectly understandable. Spontaneous idea generation is great. What ARE the holes? But it is also extremely short-sighted.

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 30

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Additionally, a certain energy is generated within the group dynamics, giving employees’ creative juices a turbo-charge. Of course, it’s not just about saying “Okay, here’s the problem. Target your audience : Who you invite to your hack day will generally be determined by the theme or purpose of your hackathon.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". This, of course, is perfectly understandable. Spontaneous idea generation is great. What ARE the holes? But it is also extremely short-sighted.

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Ideation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Creativity 22

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Additionally, a certain energy is generated within the group dynamics, giving employees’ creative juices a turbo-charge. Of course, it’s not just about saying “Okay, here’s the problem. Target your audience : Who you invite to your hack day will generally be determined by the theme or purpose of your hackathon.

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Software Review How To Technical Review Software 40

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 19, 2016

I’m assuming the facilitator is a hands-on project leader who facilitates meetings, such as idea generation or strategy sessions. Of course, you might need more than one flip chart depending on the size of the group and what you have planned. Of course you need a laptop, don’t forget your power cord.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Examples of Open Source projects are Wikipedia and WordPress.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". This, of course, is perfectly understandable. Spontaneous idea generation is great. What ARE the holes? But it is also extremely short-sighted.

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