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Practical Innovation throughout the business

Jeffrey Phillips

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. I happen to be a fan of the big, platform basis innovation programs, where an organization sets out to build innovation capacity as a core competency.

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Creative Thinking – We All Have Our “Pizza Meeting” Weak Spots

BrainZooming

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders

Gregg Fraley

Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems. There is no innovation without creativity. Individuals and teams need to be creative in order to solve focused innovation challenges. Still, curiosity, freedom of expression, and creative thinking are essential to success.

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Emergent See Innovation

Gregg Fraley

And Innovation Emergencies Happen. Unfortunately, many organizations don’t have a formal innovation program, and so, they wait until the proverbial poop hits the fan. A quick turn-around Emergent See project plan. Research and Homework thinking assignments for team. Challenge Focusing facilitation workshop.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. What’s needed is energy AND knowledge about How To Do Innovation. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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How to setup an ‘innovation team’

hackerearth

Innovation can generate noise and become disruptive (not only to the market but also to the company). The ‘innovation team’ must prevent the situation where the standard KPIs of the company are exposed to risk due to aggressive, over-ambitious innovation programs or, for example, due to unexpected response to a ‘call to innovate’.

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Gregg Fraley

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.