Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. It’s not enough to come up with an idea. But what happens next?

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Software Review Innovation Programs Project Innovation 105

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Additionally, ensure that the venue has the necessary facilities and technology to support your sessions—such as reliable Wi-Fi, projection equipment, and breakout rooms. It’s beneficial to create a checklist to manage these details effectively. The logistics of the offsite also require careful planning.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” I have been looking specifically at the way the (traditional) innovation management process will change. The deployment of AI-driven thinking utterly alters my perspective of “delivering” innovation. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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Generative AI Design Innovation Data 162

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. REGISTER NOW. How do you get there?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Thinking about things is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Innovation is about Projects.

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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. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. And, if a good idea doesn’t become a project, some actual real world action, what’s the point? Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. .

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Implementing these strategies into leadership development programs can ensure that high potential leaders are not only capable managers but also champions of innovation who can contribute to the organization’s growth and adaptability in the ever-evolving business landscape.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every organization needs to find methods innovate ideas and solutions based on the nature of their jobs and the types of challenges that need to be solved. Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. Innovation Management. Course duration : 9 weeks.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every organization needs to find methods innovate ideas and solutions based on the nature of their jobs and the types of challenges that need to be solved. Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. Innovation Management. Course duration : 9 weeks.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Doing the hard and detailed preparation work ahead of time can save the entire meeting — or project, from failure. Seven Facilitation Fails.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Almost always.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. 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.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled. The principles of creativity.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled. The principles of creativity.

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Creative Process Idea Management Creativity Management 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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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. It’s all useful, but you can drown trying to make it useful in projects. Deliberate, realized, built-into-projects, creativity. Creativity IS Innovation.

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Creativity Training Creative Thinking Innovation 71

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now. What’s your Kryptonite to protect you against all those who are out there, right now, thinking up ways to beat you?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session. Use Diverse Springboards to Scaffold Thinking. Expand the thinking team.

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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. Innovation needs structure.

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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

hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively. Like any business function, innovation can be managed. Innovation management programs for different companies will vary significantly.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively. Like any business function, innovation can be managed. Innovation management programs for different companies will vary significantly.

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Innovation Management Technical Review Management Software Review 40

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

Wazoku

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Coming backdown to earth this thought piece builds on Fostering Innovation with technological solutions – Part 1 and takes a much more tactical drill down into the growing market of innovation management solutions and who to watch out for, as well as the wider innovation ecosystem and harnessing the crowd to best effect.

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Technology Software Artificial Inteligence Idea Management 40

Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I recently sat down with our customer success team, who help our customers excel in their idea management and innovation programmes, establish and share innovation best practice and work with our customers to truly embed innovation as a core, strategic, every day capability, within their organisations.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

In this article, we explore the concept of Total Innovation Management (TIM) and how you can leverage it at your enterprise. Too often, companies think of innovation in terms of disparate temporal projects, rather than as a holistic practice that should be permanently embedded within the organization’s DNA.

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Idea Generation Innovation Management Management Culture 52

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In this final part, we illustrate that successful ambidexterity requires a well-managed hand-over from the explorative to the exploitative set-up. A key concept in innovation management is – as we all know- the innovation funnel. However, from the practitioner’s perspective implementing ambidexterity requires some more thinking.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

They observe that the transfer rate from the promising ideas generated in the vehicles mentioned above into substantial business is too low. The tension comes from the largely incompatible designs and operating models of these two organizations, which are based on two completely different rationales.

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Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Often the two are caught in the classic “who does what”, “how much each can and should manage” and the ability to handover or what happens when the consultant finishes the project and leaves, taking a level of knowledge with them that was never given time to reside inside the clients.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Most companies don’t understand that innovation isn’t just a single process that can be improved, but the result of capabilities existing within the company which enables ideas to be developed and scaled into solutions. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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