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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Does one need to take a Stanford course or read 35 books about innovation to get started? That provides context for the 35 books or course in advanced practice you’ll do later. For more detail on the course content, review the Eventbrite page and Register! No, but, you do need good training in the fundamentals.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

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. Idea Generation Sessions: Encourage blue-sky thinking with sessions dedicated to generating new ideas without constraints.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 23, 2015

Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year. It’s not a new idea but it’s one more companies should consider. What I hear from top management: “we don’t have the time or resources for innovation projects, we’ll start later this year.”

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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

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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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

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. Less than a half-day of effective training can make a big difference in helping people to generate more and better ideas for a crowdsourcing project. Most have never learned the basics of ideation.

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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 brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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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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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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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. Good innovation work should take us outside our comfort zone, beyond the course of our knowledge and by all means into uncertain waters.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences. With the right AI tools for design thinking, teams can unlock new opportunities and drive success in their projects. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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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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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas. The session is from 1 to 4:30 EST. GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) plans to offer this course on a monthly basis going forward.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A promising idea did not foresee a roadblock that cannot be resolved. Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. Am I happy with this, no of course not but in my view “nothing can change until something does change” What do I mean by that? Now that is shocking!

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Innovation in Practice

JULY 18, 2016

View the sample project, Refrigerator, under My Projects. Review the Ideas List for examples of ideas generated with each technique. Create your own new project and follow the instructions on how to apply the SIT method techniques. After applying the method(s), see the idea(s) you’ve generated.

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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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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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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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. Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring idea generation phenomenon.

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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. One of these well-trodden and expected pathways is to "train" people on new tools and methods when introducing a new project or capability.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Each phase is designed so that you can tap into many potential sources of inspiration and insight, using varied systems and processes to develop ideas, and eventually manage the delivery of bottom-line outcomes and deliverables. Of course, we see this as only one part of the puzzle, but it is no less important.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Each phase is designed so that you can tap into many potential sources of inspiration and insight, using varied systems and processes to develop ideas, and eventually manage the delivery of bottom-line outcomes and deliverables. Of course, we see this as only one part of the puzzle, but it is no less important.

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Ideation Technical Review Innovation Trends 98

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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

I would say a depressing picture but in many ways ‘par for the course’ in what I feel also. I get the distinct impression the focus of most innovation consultants is still locked into product innovation or improving the process of the pipeline / portfolio, the idea generation and project execution model.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Sounds simple, but of course, it’s not. Does this stimulate any ideas for projects? Small Culture Building Projects are Baby Steps. Doesn’t that suggest a certain kind of project? What’s your first project and the next set of projects? As always the devil is in the details.

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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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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Facilitation skills make a big difference in innovation projects. 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. .” At the end we had several, very detailed, viable solutions to solve the problem. Experience matters.

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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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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This differs to the normal parameters of idea generation, as it is entirely focused on improving something that already exists rather than creating something new. Resulting in an increase in productivity and efficiency, reduced project costs and higher customer service standards.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This differs to the normal parameters of idea generation, as it is entirely focused on improving something that already exists rather than creating something new. Resulting in an increase in productivity and efficiency, reduced project costs and higher customer service standards. These factors are entirely customizable.

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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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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. His Innovation Facilitation training courses provide cutting edge tools and techniques, including his proprietary tools. What’s new is the hard proof, and, using tools more deliberately. The reason?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring idea generation phenomenon.

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Ideation Company Brainstorming Creativity 41

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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