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. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

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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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. This series of posts on innovation fundamentals is not about frameworks.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Delivery via drones, real-time data insight into your operations, transformation of your business models— what will 2016 bring for your innovation practice? For innovators working within the confines of large enterprises, the possibilities for transformation, especially with mobile and digital products, are endless.

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Data Innovation Processes Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 40

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 and the real innovators know that. Disruptive innovation initiatives are best to be evaluated on the potential impact they would create: How it fits into your innovation strategy and long-term goals?

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Video Disruption How To Agile 40

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership 1. Innovation needs structure.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

Design Thinking 40

Design Thinking Innovation Training Design 40

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Our take from working with some of the best and brightest in corporate innovation: Start with the why and do everything you can to avoid some of the most common pitfalls as you navigate the how/who/what of your innovation program. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

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. Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Technical Review Ideation Big Data Innovation 55

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. Nothing wrong with desiring an innovation friendly culture, although talking about it isn’t going to make it happen. Which is best?

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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving 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.

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

We love human centered design, the only problem, it’s a very long process. That’s where lean methodology comes up. If we want innovative teaching that enables educators to adapt and evolve to the needs of their students and an ever changing world, they must be encouraged to try out new ideas – for better or for worse.

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Learning Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 81

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your organization doing continuous projects?

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

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. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. Thursday, November 1 at CRC.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Meeting Disruption Underperforming Technical Team How To 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I’ve spent the last six years teaching our country’s scientists how to rapidly turn scientific breakthroughs into deliverable products by creating the curriculum for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – now taught in 53 universities. An innovation process embraces and understands the different types of failure and risk.

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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Disruption 42

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). When to be creative, when to be managerial. 2016 figure 2, p.

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Entrepreneurship Study Creativity Learning 62

Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

in terms of underlying products, technologies or processes), companies become more innovation- and creativity-adverse with higher maturity. Breakthrough innovators differentiate clearly among projects with low and high degrees of innovativeness and use different processes for radical and incremental R&D projects.

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Culture Radical Innovation Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 100

Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

in terms of underlying products, technologies or processes), companies become more innovation- and creativity-adverse with higher maturity. Breakthrough innovators differentiate clearly among projects with low and high degrees of innovativeness and use different processes for radical and incremental R&D projects.

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