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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Magazine by Jessica Stillman. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding. The reason? And there is a lot of sitting.

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Charities – the sleeping giants of innovation

Wazoku

I’ve recently been exploring the charity sector, to gauge interest in crowdsourcing ideas from their employees, partners or customers, as I was aware of several “innovation teams” being setup or already existing within many of the major charities. My first stage of research was Google (of course). A passionate purpose.

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How to Make Sure You’re Heard in a Difficult Conversation

Mills-Scofield

Say “I’m annoyed that this project is six months behind schedule,” rather than “You’ve missed every deadline we’ve set.” I’d like to clear the air so that we can continue to work together to make the project a success.” Of course you should avoid name-calling and finger-pointing. But that’s unlikely to go over well.

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

Soon he became fascinated by multimedia and began working in this field, first as programmer, then as a project manager. Audio doesn’t function the same way as written text, so its execution is often poor. Your approach to creating audio should be similar to developing a large website. Jens started as a technology writer.

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Fast Company’s Brainstorming Fail

Gregg Fraley

To be fair, Fast Company isn’t a scholarly magazine and the target is probably not seasoned innovation or problem solving professionals. It drives me a bit mad to see a headline that says “ It’s not that people working together are never good, it’s just that the technique that Osborn developed was lousy.”

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Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide

Gregg Fraley

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. However, if you know the principle you can facilitate yourself or a team using stimulus and scaffolding.

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How to Run Ideation Campaigns that Generate Real Value

Innovation 360 Group

You can accomplish this by posting ideas physically, or more appropriately with a geographically spread-out team, virtually. Of course you want to know what happens with it. By having people from different countries, teams, and backgrounds collaborate, we benefit from a greater diversity of ideas. Closed feedback loops.