Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

They outperform their peers in productivity, creativity, and overall results. This strategic approach enables teams to apply experiential learning towards creative problem-solving, thus driving the organization forward. But what distinguishes these teams from the rest?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. To facilitate this, you may want to explore workshops or training sessions focused on use change management to transform organizational culture.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Advanced Innovation Facilitation Training . Training is how you accelerate innovation. REGISTER NOW.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. .

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. The Role of AI in Design Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various facets of business operations, including the creative and iterative processes within design thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s why I’ve recently published, What Matters At Work , a learning Guide that helps all of us who are determined to provide outstanding leadership and service some important ways to do so. It helps us get out of the box that inhibits free-flowing idea-generation, prototyping, or other behaviors that we know benefit the creative process.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. He trains other facilitators on his methods. The weekly sessions are FREE.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. To optimise creative sessions. The benefits listed above are essential for boosting creativity. For an innovative training format. People are tired of classic training formats. To optimise co-creation.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovative companies treat it as just another core skill by: Creating a well-defined set of innovation competencies and embedding them into every employee’s competency model along with other required behaviors such as ethics and leadership. Conducting regular training courses in creativity methods and innovation management.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Put the right people in the right jobs, and give them the training and development they need to do good innovation work. Develop real training to build skills. This process requires skills that are not being developed in the educational system or in corporate training. How do we find people who are good at innovative work?

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively. A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. 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.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Doing even basic market research takes training and experience.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 9, 2021

Leaders, facilitators and design thinking project leaders also have to be creative about working virtually. This article is taken from a module of our design thinking facilitator train-the-trainer program which we run digitally. Using guided idea generation. The year 2020 forced most organizations to digitally transform.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Organizations spend a great deal of time and energy investing in training, speakers, communications, systems, frameworks, and assessments. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Believe it or not, you can train people to have more fun.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Are your people trained in innovation process? If projects are sporadic or based on reactions to emergencies, then you need to be start scheduling projects like a train. If there is not, now is the time to get that cranked up, and get that innovation train on a schedule. Are your people trained to do innovation?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result of this project, TSYS was able to address employee pain points and inefficiencies, enhance corporate leadership strategies, increase savings, and implement lucrative new ideas. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond. TSYS deployed A+B’s methodology in three stages.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2016

Apparently 89% of the Fortune 100 companies conduct it, and often use the results to determine not only training requirements but sometimes even job placements for the individuals. The test consists of 93 questions around four contrasting values (e.g. Which is terrible news, because the results have consistently been shown to be meaningless.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 15-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization. Our workshops and trainings. At the same time, many organizations are budget-constrained.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

I’m always surprised at the number of organizations I speak with that tell me they don’t have any training programs for their employees. After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

Even amongst the group of industry insiders here who teach and author books on innovation methodologies, case studies and thought leadership, there was a huge variety between the responses. He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. This I understand.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Have I considered the Innovation Styles of my organization and its leadership? This is an idea “Generator.” Maintaining creative energy and a forward-looking focus from year to year and project to project can be a challenge without a network of peers to share best practices and compare goals.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

It seems an oxymoron to some that, a process as spontaneous and creative as innovation can and should be measured. Process metrics – address those variables that affect the movement of ideas through the pipeline process. Getting started with Innovation Metrics. We measure these in terms of money, talent, and time devoted to innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. No compelling vision or reason to innovate If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice. Seven Facilitation Fails. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Projects aligned with a vision for the future and a strategy to get there. Finding and Framing organizational challenges and opportunities with more direction. Clear convergence and selection of the most promising, and purpose-aligned, projects.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” The managers above have read a lot of that literature, taken it to heart, gotten training, and put processes in place. .” “Mediocre results, we just can’t seem to get to anything really different.” ” “Lackluster.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. Training is not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Lean is not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. But for many, a practice as spontaneous and creative as innovation may seem something incapable of being measured. DEDICATED METRICS.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. But for many, a practice as spontaneous and creative as innovation may seem something incapable of being measured. DEDICATED METRICS.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice.

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