Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 24, 2015

It's interesting to me how little we appreciate the depth of knowledge and discipline that has been developed over the years where innovation is concerned. A lot of innovation and creativity is based on Osborn's work, supplemented by Parnes and others. This is why expertise can be dangerous when generating ideas.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

User adoption is not something that evolves at a particular point of a product development life cycle. Instead, user adoption requires proper planning and implementation strategy when the product is just an idea. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 1, 2017

It recognizes that some of the best people and best ideas reside outside the company, which often times lead to faster, more creative and valuable solutions to difficult problems. It is through this diverse source of participation that ideas take shape in creative ways.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Strategos offers clients a robust and creative approach to strategy and innovation that appealed to me. ” Individual ideas are rarely big enough on their own.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

While producing new ideas might not be difficult considering how frequently ideas come and go, producing great ideas often requires some inspiration and implementing some scientifically proven techniques of ideation. It’s time to let go of conventional, boring idea generation tactics. Brainstorming. Gamestorming.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

It recognizes that some of the best people and best ideas reside outside the company, which often times lead to faster, more creative and valuable solutions to difficult problems. It is through this diverse source of participation that ideas take shape in creative ways.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. Ideas are only part of a bigger process.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Just pick a method, book a conference room, invite some team members, and dive head first into your brainstorm, right?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Economic Development and the “Home Run” Complex. But in the spirit of an Economic Development “What If…” What If all those other Amazon bidders had put that same energy, and money, into doing innovation projects that are smaller in scale, but, new, different, and clever in their regions?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Spontaneous idea generation is great.

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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. And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

For results in idea generation you need a system, a framework, and a wide, deep chest of tools. How can you generate great ideas with a more systemic approach to “brainstorming”? Professional innovators already use brainwriting — and a vast array of other tools — to brainstorm/generate ideas.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. Mash-Ups, in its various permutations, is a power tool and a fast path for combining disparate elements to creatively problem solve. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is definitely not a failure of a single product, acquisition, or bad campaign. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. Absence of an exclusive team. And innovation partners such as education institutions, incubators, and developer communities are just as important.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Gregg is a Visiting Innovation Scholar at Notre Dame, and is the author of Jack’s Notebook , a business novel about structured creative process. Gregg has a secret ingredient to his training programs: Fun, he has a well developed sense of humor, and that helps when communicating complex material. Fun, then Serious Results.

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