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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2019

Innovation Learning Points From the Great Faucet DIY Fiasco. DIY is a Form of Innovation. 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. Innovation is Projects.

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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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A repeatable innovation process is a key driver for its business. “I However, she explains, it’s all about the process. Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation. This, of course, is where the process starts.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 12, 2019

Sometimes "pet" ideas or concepts that aren't really interesting or innovative have sponsors. Projects or ideas that could not receive investment or funding under other mechanisms will be relabeled as "innovative" and pushed through an innovation process. What happens without sponsorship?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 12, 2021

First, remember that the foundation of innovation platforms and strategies remain. Rewarding people who submit ideas, a transparent innovation process, and reaching out to stakeholders consistently remain important no matter where your workforce winds up. Probably the most important part of the process will be the end.

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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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Values Centered Innovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In this mini-course, you'll learn an entirely new way to design and deliver powerful presentations for project reviews and innovative, new proposals. Sign up for FREE and jump right in to the mini-course! Or, have you ever felt frustrated while trying to pull your thoughts together for a new proposal?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

This is, of course, just a rule of thumb, and in reality a 20% resource investment in next and new products and services will seem rather large to most corporations. What skills are critical to next and new innovation First, we need to define our terms. Just focusing on product innovation is too limited.

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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. 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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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

Of course, boundaries should not be too narrow in scope, as this will only cater for small improvements. What kind of exploration projects are ongoing on at the moment, and what are they trying to achieve? What are the risks and opportunities of the project? This is the starting point for innovation portfolio management.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

It’s the execution and refinement of the initial idea that dooms the project. Many innovators take on a project without a plan to measure and revise the return on investment projection (and course-correct) as the product evolves. About 70 percent of software projects fail because of user adoption.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2020

Drawing together everyone should be the goal of any innovative organization. There’s nothing more important to innovation than an engaged, thoughtful workforce. Yet bringing your team out of their box of day-to-day tasks and larger projects to focus on innovation can feel daunting.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In contrast, a centralized innovation group focuses on making the overall innovation process more efficient and smoother across the company. In fact, a few years ago, the company created i2M, or “Innovation to Market”, an incubator for digital ventures. The innovation process can’t be the same in two different corporates.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. So where does innovation sit within your organization? Both are I feel “painting” a realistic picture of where innovation does sit within organizations. Customers and employees are driving innovation.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It almost sounds like an oxymoron, but with the help of generative AI systems like ChatGPT—OpenAI’s advanced AI language model that’s all the rage these days—you can take a lot of weight off your shoulders by streamlining your innovation processes, so you can have a bit more structure and creativity without the headaches.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

Without this information, which requires some iteration and a slow start, you will constantly iterate back to the beginning to refine your project, or will advance with a lack of data that will cause you to miss the mark in the end. Your team or project is exceptionally likely to fail.

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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. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation .

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

At the same time, new ideas are already being launched and following the new innovation process. At this time, everybody can see what status an idea or project has, who is working on the project and what the project team is doing, and even provide direct comments and feedback.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. With my curiosity and perpetual learner mindset, I reinvented and innovated my career once again.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

Of course, boundaries should not be too narrow in scope, as this will only cater for small improvements. What kind of exploration projects are ongoing on at the moment, and what are they trying to achieve? What are the risks and opportunities of the project? And this is the starting point for innovation portfolio management.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

“Huub, really, if I would be held accountable for the success of our innovation projects, I would kill 70%”. Dear Reader, in this Blog I want to share a story with you that changed my view on the pure rationalized approach of decision making in the innovation process. Adam: “Of course Huub. 70% is a lot!”.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

“Huub, really, if I would be held accountable for the success of our innovation projects, I would kill 70%”. Dear Reader, in this Blog I want to share a story with you that changed my view on the pure rationalized approach of decision making in the innovation process. Adam: “Of course Huub. 70% is a lot!”.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

“Huub, really, if I would be held accountable for the success of our innovation projects, I would kill 70%”. Dear Reader, in this Blog I want to share a story with you that changed my view on the pure rationalized approach of decision making in the innovation process. Adam: “Of course Huub. 70% is a lot!”.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

Without this clarity, or in absence of a defined scope, the teams adopt the business as usual thinking and infer a narrow, limited scope even if the executive team wanted more disruptive innovation. This is why so many "innovation projects" result in incremental or "me too" ideas. Want more innovation?

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 25, 2020

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). If the resources can be organized so all projects can be optimally executed without any interdependencies (i.e.,

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Peer Insight

MARCH 27, 2020

A successful corporate innovation lab, incubator, or accelerator depends upon three things: people, people, and people. That’s what I learned by speaking with the heads of innovation labs at 12 Fortune 500 corporations over the course of eight weeks. We had to go slow early on so we could go fast later.”.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

You can still use them for that, of course, but micro plane manufacturers quickly discovered home cooks were using their rasps as more effective, precise graters, so they began putting their products in kitchen stores. There needs to be room in your organization to experiment, to engage in small projects, and test out ideas.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. With my curiosity and perpetual learner mindset, I reinvented and innovated my career once again.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

Innovation management needs to become a professional discipline. Managing innovation is a relatively young discipline considering that many of our management practices have been developed almost a hundred years ago. Practices such as project management and total quality were introduced decades ago and have matured over time.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Adapting to the use of AI not only enhances creativity and productivity but also leads to more informed decision-making and ultimately, better outcomes in new product development, service innovation, and business strategy. With the right AI tools for design thinking, teams can unlock new opportunities and drive success in their projects.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Spark is an easy-to-use, self-guided innovation kit that is designed to help you explore entrepreneurial ideas, systematically take your idea to the next level and develop and practice start-up skills. Spark uses the iterative process of the Design-Test-Repeat cycle to adapt your course of action based on evidence.

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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. It's important to understand what the client knows about innovation, what they have learned or attempted previously. Do they have innovation processes or methodologies?

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 20, 2021

“Huub, you are right we digitize our products and processes since we use chips and sensors. And since the chips can connect to applications outside their devices, of course there are many more possibilities for modernization. We have Digital Twins of course. A few decades ago digitization started. Internet of Things. Disruptive?

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 20, 2021

“Huub, you are right we digitize our products and processes since we use chips and sensors. And since the chips can connect to applications outside their devices, of course there are many more possibilities for modernization. We have Digital Twins of course. A few decades ago digitization started. Internet of Things. Disruptive?

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 20, 2021

“Huub, you are right we digitize our products and processes since we use chips and sensors. And since the chips can connect to applications outside their devices, of course there are many more possibilities for modernization. We have Digital Twins of course. A few decades ago digitization started. Internet of Things. Disruptive?

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