Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. The two thought leadership pieces I have chosen. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. 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.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Design Thinking Analysis Design Learning 100

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. We are headed towards a co-creative platform economy. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Interactions are complex and unpredictable.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. Stimulates creativity and innovation.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?—?and Breakthrough ideas will continuously change as you go through the Design Thinking Process?—?that and the real innovators know that.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Limited engagement with leadership through the innovation process so leaders don’t follow the team’s pivot and the project is deemed a failure because it did not produce the expected solution.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks?

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! The elusive low hanging fruit can be accessed through creative combinations. ” “What!

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities. You have to understand how this stuff works in order to think creatively about how to use it.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. To get started: Run internal lean startup hackathons, where the process rewards iterative learning over solution building. “We need more big ideas!

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November.

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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. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive. .

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

At the food services company, the innovation team quickly began producing a steady stream of creative new product concepts. They followed best practices of design thinking, lean startup, and rapid prototyping to turn early-stage ideas into high-potential opportunities. The Best-Laid Plans.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Psychology means decision makers do not like innovative ideas: Unfortunately, decades of research into psychology show us just how biased our brains are against creative & innovative ideas, and how they prefer safer ideas. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution). Want to learn more? Let me show you exactly how L.I.V.E.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

It does seem “creative destruction” is a central force in many of our activities. Activities where innovation is continually replacing not just in products and new services but in designing radically different business models, searching to replace less adaptive competitors in the marketplace at faster rates.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s where lean methodology comes up. You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. That’s great, but it’s a missed opportunity because the bigger pot of gold in problem solving applications. It’s worth noting that Improv is “framework neutral.”

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

There is this increasing need to understand and incorporate ecosystems, platforms, and the greater use of analytics, big data and reliance on technology into our innovation thinking. To shift innovation we need to think this is our value creation point. Our leadership really does a poor job of providing a compelling innovation vision.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation. The dots most people leave out are from domains outside your industry and expertise. There is a great deal of focus today on the process of innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Importance of thinking diversity.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

This investment, including the attention of senior leadership, is needed, because it bucks the natural tendencies of employees. Conformity smothers creativity. Creating new insights, dreaming-up new approaches and challenging the status-quo are all necessary for innovation and creative problem-solving.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. We are headed towards a co-creative platform economy. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. We are moving towards a co-creative platform economy.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Between what we describe as a “true” fluid strategic, systemic and learning anchored approach, which truly enables and supports people to “fail fast to lean quickly” and a short term, episodic “methodical” training and functional based approaches to innovation where people don’t have permission and safety to “fail fast to learn quickly”.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Tim’s Comment: There’s one other way that this idea plays out too – figuring out how to use lean startup techniques inside of established organisations. We are moving towards a co-creative platform economy. That’s been the core issue in the work that I’ve been doing with the CSIRO.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership. Thus, this is where businesses must strive for mastery and leadership.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In fact, innovation and creativity are cited as being some of the most important skills and differentiators listed by CEOs which will determine their future success. In order for innovation to be possible, a company needs to have the following foundational elements: Enablement: The creativity and culture to develop new and different ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

AUGUST 16, 2021

Innovation organization doesn't thrive without innovation culture: organization without culture is like a factory without raw materials; culture without organization doesn’t scale.

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