Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Does your culture support innovation? Are you doing continuous projects?

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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. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Almost always.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. The content is about how the best organizations do it; mindset, frameworks, project selections, and how to create the elusive culture of innovation. Gregg talks specifics about: How to quickly assess your current innovation culture and process.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects. It’s the Only Kryptonite.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. It does not start and end with idea generation.

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Roadmap Innovation Culture Engagement 100

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement. 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.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. If you are seeking to enhance innovation culture and jump-start or improve innovation efforts, this is the course to attend. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Why innovation?

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

For the specific case of business model innovation, our improved and advanced version of the Lean Canvas has proven its value since it allows an easy entry into more general business model canvas frameworks. Evonik uses this integration mechanism frequently by setting up “Project Houses” with external partners.

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Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

In startups, where experimentation is rooted in work culture, failing is often called “pivoting”. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Interestingly, Gmail , Google News , and AdSense evolved out of 20% projects. Top Model Principle.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. Definitely solid ROI!"

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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

It’s an opportunity to improve innovation culture that few are taking up. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking.

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