Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). 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.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we?

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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring. If we were to compare Miles Davis and Johann Sebastian Bach in a corporate context, we could say that the main difference between them lies in their approach to creativity and innovation.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Groups 52

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Innovation is challenging and complex, moving from a very nebulous world of trends and needs and emerging capabilities to a very definitive set of features and requirements.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Don’t get hung up on whether to use Lean, or Design Thinking, or CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail , or some arcane method history has hung around your neck. Look, there are a million methods to do innoation, including those methods I espouse. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. Frameworks become a competitive advantage when you use them in more creative ways. A framework is a scaffold. Learn How to Scaffold . Learn How to Scaffold . Would you like hands-on assistance? Get in touch!

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

I want to note how impressed we all were with Idea Champions' insight and understanding of our business and creative needs, as well as the varied and constructive techniques you used to take us through the creative process." - Gabrielle Del Sesto, VP, MTV Networks. ." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "I

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Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Creativity LEAN 31

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed? 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. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not?

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Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

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. Great views, opinions and contributions have been building in a very methodical way.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

Classic Improv games are adaptable for visioning, exploration, problem framing, idea generation, solution development, and planning. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS.

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Team Building LEAN Design Thinking Agile 53

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. The elusive low hanging fruit can be accessed through creative combinations. Big organizations in particular have valuable IP that can be combined in new and creative ways. Do your people know them?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

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

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Crowdsourcing waste reduction – discovering ways to pinpoint and rapidly correct inefficiencies and employee pain-points TSYS sought out a holistic solution that would empower employees and harness their creativity. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

And besides, even a casual scan of the literature will reveal an extraordinary number of innovation-leaning people who joined forces with others to conceive something brilliant that none of them could have conjured on their own. The anti-brainstorming forces are also fond of asserting that creativity is stifled in a brainstorming session.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Groups Creativity 20

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

There is no reason why a MoshPit session can’t be done within any other innovation method, be it Design Thinking, Lean, or whatever your organization uses. My vision is this front-ends a yearly innovation cycle. In fact, the combination of this new tool with those older frameworks can make those methods more effective.

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Innovation Trends Design Thinking LEAN 70

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

He later evolved it into a broader model involving opportunity identification, opportunity analysis, idea generation, idea selection, and concept definition — much of what has today come to be known as Innovation Management. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process.

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Innovation Product Development Ideation Marketing 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation. The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation. Power tools and techniques for identifying new markets (Design Thinking).

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Design Thinking Innovation Project Idea Generation 51

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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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Measuring creative thinking preferences. Why innovation? Cycle metrics.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

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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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Imagine the impact that basic training in Creative Problem Solving* and innovation concepts would have — more innovation across the entire value chain of the business. Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. And that’s a good thing. END OF BLOG POST.

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. Setting up a lean but motivated central team that drives various innovation programs across the organization is critical for success. The importance of creating a culture that promotes creativity and innovation cannot be overstated.

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Innovation Programs Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation 40