Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. Innovation Leaders sometimes get it backwards. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 22, 2019

I've been around the block for a while, and every once in a while I'll tell the folks on my team who are younger than me what's likely to happen with a specific strategy or project. These capabilities are not, however, what you want to bring to bear when you innovate. Are you willing to go beyond your experience?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. There are so many obstacles and uncertainties as you take an idea or concept through to eventual release. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. We are pressured for results.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

There have been times I sat down with a client and I told them, “your organization is very innovative”, but they don’t believe me. I tell them, if you don’t perceive yourself as innovative, then you’re not. Leaders must help employees see innovation in practice as a regular part of how the company does business.

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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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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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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. My experience is mostly with corporate innovation, so, we’ve got perspectives and insights for both contexts. Benefits :

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. 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.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 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. Conclusion.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. Of course all of these are important.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. “Six Sigma aims to take any uncertainties (variability) out of a process while innovation by definition induces uncertainties.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. They act as a compass, directing your company’s course and setting expectations for what is considered important.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Businesses have recognized its potential for fostering innovation and tackling complex challenges.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. Businesses that adopt this usually start off by narrowing down their challenges, gathering ideas around them, reviewing said ideas, and then implementing them.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. Businesses that adopt this usually start off by narrowing down their challenges, gathering ideas around them, reviewing said ideas, and then implementing them.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

One of my recent pet peeves is the proliferation of education options for innovation. One of my alma maters offers a "certificate" for innovation management. While I cannot comment on the course, it is taught by two professors with little private sector experience who haven't created a product.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Idea Champions tone, demeanor, and presentation style allowed us to maximize our brainstorming efforts." - Rich Battista.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

With Mother’s day around the corner and a lot of us moms in lockdown (some wondering if we will even get our annual token lunch) we could all use some innovation hacks to cope with boredom, homeschooling and the compulsions of career transitions. Now, I am classically six sigma certified and innovation trained. 3) Too many choices.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Three Oaks, Michigan, Wednesday April 21st, an announcement on International Creativity and Innovation Day. For organizations, MCPS is a foundational framework for building a culture of constant creative improvisation in order to innovate.

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Innovation in Practice

JULY 18, 2016

Want innovation at your fingertips? Consider the Innovate! With a few clicks of the mouse, you can generate thoughtful, fresh ideas to solve a problem or improve a product. SIT refutes the traditional view of creativity, which is typically considered as thinking “outside the box” to find big ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Shifting Radically the Innovation Business Model. 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. For me, the process and management of innovation really does need to be definitely questioned.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. These are the backbone of innovation and can deliver amazing value, however they are ultimately only one aspect of innovation. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. These are the backbone of innovation and can deliver amazing value, however they are ultimately only one aspect of innovation. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. The reason?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

I spoke to 15 of the world’s leading innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. The ultimate definition of innovation. Innovation is truly a confusing buzzword which many people love to hate. Introduction. Nick Skillicorn. David Burkus.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2017

Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes. Ten questions for you to focus on assessing the state of your organization’s innovation program. Yes, there are other ways to assess innovation culture that are more thorough (such as Teresa Amabile Ph.D. What did your organization innovate last year?

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Innovation. Nevertheless, many market participants still face the enormous challenge of figuring out the blend of all necessary elements and the right mix for a successful innovation process. Even fewer have persistently developed and implemented habits and processes that foster sustainable innovation. Adapt or die.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. 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. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. The reasons?

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 19, 2016

Here’s my answer — the Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit list. 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.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Where Creative Workers Locate is Where Innovation and New Businesses Happen, Site Locations Follow. His recent article, The Innovations of the Creative Class Affect a Rural Area’s Fortunes , is another wise Florida perspective, based on the data, about the unique challenges faced by rural areas. As always the devil is in the details.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. I think if this trend continues it will be a mistaken course. Innovation solutions simply need to be crafted in my opinion.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Facilitation skills make a big difference in innovation projects. Facilitation skills are great for innovation sessions, but also aid process improvement, or strategy sessions. Of course this assumes that grey haired person has kept learning. In a session I did a few years ago we generated four patents in one day.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Often times, the most successful and innovative companies stem from the humblest of origins. The project with Qmarkets was designed to retain the people-centric elements that made Colruyt’s previous employee innovation efforts so effective, while scaling them up to spread this ethos throughout the whole group. Qmarkets: Great.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

That is IF you want to increase the odds of you and your team increasing the odds of innovation actually happening on-the-job. the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. That's why British author G.K.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. 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. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. The reasons?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Yes, it's always possible that a sudden rainstorm will save your ass, but praying for rain is not exactly a dependable way to ensure a pipeline of powerful, business growth ideas -- the proverbial "front-end of innovation". And here, oh aspiring innovator, is where the plot thickens. This, of course, is perfectly understandable.

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