Tullio Siragusa
APRIL 11, 2022
Design Thinking the People-centric Modern Organization. Designed thinking can be leveraged to create better and more empathy-based organizations. . Through empathy, we can design products, and services for people. Implementing Design Thinking in Organizations.
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 25, 2022
Let’s review the three stages of this design thinking framework. This article is part 3 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. We call this simple framework: Challenge, Ideas, and Action. ” Stage 2: Ideas.
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InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 9, 2021
How to facilitate a design thinking workshop for digital transformation. Digital transformation is a significant and common challenge for organizations and thus a great design thinking project. Using design thinking books as digital transformation tools.
mjvinnovation
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
This is because they break down the complexity of processes so that the designer has a full 360-degree view of the problem, anchoring them in their way of thinking. Continue reading to understand what Design Thinking is and how DT tools can be the turning point for your business! What is Design Thinking. When we talk about Design Thinking , we are referring primarily to the way designers think. Design Thinking
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. The original guidelines of brainstorming (defer judgment, quantity of ideas, build on ideas, combine, etc.) Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea.
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. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Projects.
Gregg Fraley
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings about getting a project mandate, visioning, what to innovate, how to innovate, challenges to take on, jobs to do, experiences to create, research exploration, insights development, problem framing and problem reframing, project road-mapping, concept development, prototyping, pitches, strategy, check-ins, and all the variations.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 19, 2019
Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. I think I need the mental equivalent of a shot of wheatgrass. 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. Beyond real world projects, I’ve studied the literature, theory, frameworks, strategy, thinking tools, facilitation, assessments, research, project management, team dynamics, and even improvisation.
InnovationTraining.org
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. AI Ideation Demo (Generate Ideas with Artificial Intelligence on OpenAI).
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Tell me what I should be thinking about.” 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.” Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic!
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 24, 2019
Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? 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. It happens through projects. The best innovators organize their efforts around projects.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Deliberately embracing learning — as part of the innovation process — can lead to better ideas and improved innovation results. It may seem like an obvious connection, but when I made the “innovation is learning” statement at a recent presentation — thinking everyone would agree — I got a room full of raised eyebrows. So, let me explain my thinking. Some would call this market research, and by all means do that, but I think it goes deeper.
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. Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. All participants walk away with a shell framework and ideas they can put to immediate use.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 1, 2018
Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions.
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. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. Think about the vibe or overall morale of your organization.
Qmarkets
JANUARY 7, 2020
Each is invited to feel a separate part of the creature to get an idea of its shape. 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.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 22, 2019
Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. That’s old school thinking. When asked to support innovation, or integrate new ideas from an innovation team, they resist — because they are being paid to execute, not experiment. The “ideas” become complaints. Then there is usually not enough communication about what is done with the few ideas that do have merit.
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Ideas are still needed to fill pipelines! 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. Fresh combinations of concepts are what creates breakthrough ideas. ” “Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 20, 2021
Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS is a three-phase structured process of exploration, ideas, and action. As you learn more MCPS thinking tools, creative power grows. A highly creative new method for solving difficult problems.
Gregg Fraley
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. All these modes of experiential learning scaffold thinking to high levels of understanding. That improved understanding, directly applied to an innovation challenge, is how you get to a breakthrough idea. Insights gained inspire ideas to create something new.
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. It’s a course for innovation project managers, consultants, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs who want to have more productive strategy, idea generation, and innovation action plans. A brief post to make sure you know about the upcoming Denver, CO public course in Advanced Innovation Facilitation.
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. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 18, 2015
What’s your Kryptonite to protect you against all those who are out there, right now, thinking up ways to beat you? 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. Death or Kryptonite? From Superman Wiki.
Gregg Fraley
JUNE 13, 2017
Things are moving too fast for 24-month stage-gate innovation project cycles. Even the magic of Design Thinking is not enough to inform you as to what projects to do and ensure success. Does Any CEO Have the Luxury to Ignore Digital Transformation and Innovation? Gregg Fraley and Karen Kirby, copyright 2017. Innovation + Business + Technology = Digital Leadership. Turnover of CEOs is already high, about 14.9 % a year as of 2016*.
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. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. More ideas, better ideas, and tools for amping and refining ideas.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
The content is about how the best organizations do it; mindset, frameworks, project selections, and how to create the elusive culture of innovation. Getting innovation teams and projects started and accelerated. Power tools and techniques for identifying new markets (Design Thinking). Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation.
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. What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. But you probably are not! Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order.
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. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Typical Innovation Project Cycle (materials include a shell process).
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”? If you don’t care about the wonky aspects where I write the article Fast Company should have published, skip directly to the headline below, A System to Get Great Ideas. . But wow, this is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to effective idea generation.
Integrative Innovation
AUGUST 1, 2014
In the next major step of our thinking process we want to work why a well-planned and actively managed hand-over from explorative work to the exploitative, formal organization at a pre-defined point within the innovation funnel is necessary. The funnel describes the main stages and gates every idea has to pass through on its way to a product, service or business model innovation. Ideation : Ideas for innovation in products, services and business models are generated.
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Design Thinking for Naming.
Jeffrey Phillips
OCTOBER 25, 2021
This is a useful framework for thinking about who does what in innovation, and the roles they play and the challenges they face. Bensaou does a good job relating the factors that make these companies successful, but I think he overlooks or ignores two critical points early in his book.
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
their ideas wherever they are (this could be as simple as a form or as fancy. test new ideas – make templates, resources and guidance easy to access. Help people make tiny bets on big ideas – think about how you could make. macro (project milestones).
Jeffrey Phillips
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
When I am approached about reading and reviewing a book, I always ask myself a couple of questions: Does the book seem to advance interesting ideas or methods to improve innovation Does it have anything new or novel to add to a plethora of books on innovation topics Will I learn something from the book - is it worth my time or my reader's time Based on this quick analysis, I turn down probably half of the books that are proposed to me. Thinking.
Jeffrey Phillips
JANUARY 15, 2020
It's a lot more challenging to create, define and validate an important and unmet need or opportunity than you might think. Do you really think most people understand how Google works, or how it makes money?
InnovationTraining.org
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Learn about this group problem-solving and solution generating approach. NGT is a group process that involves identifying problems, generating solutions, and decision making. During this period, the facilitator asks participants not to consult or discuss their ideas with others.
InnovationTraining.org
JULY 13, 2020
6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. During each round, participants are asked to write down three ideas on the topic you’re brainstorming.
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.
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. “Gijs van Wulfen has created a wonderful innovation method, the Forth Innovation Methodology , to provide a systematic way to take ideas into tested business case concepts” The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence.
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. Without accepting failure, you squash the generation of innovative ideas. Instead, leaders must cultivate the knowledge that every idea gets a chance.”.
hackerearth
OCTOBER 3, 2017
It is generally viewed as a process of creative ideation, which is a combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models. As described by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, “Innovation is more of an idea than location.”. 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. Creativity and idea management. Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms.
Econic
MAY 23, 2019
More and more companies are finding approaches worth repeating, getting promising new ideas into their customers’ hands, delivering value, and making revenue. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Ideas & Opportunities 1.
Econic
APRIL 10, 2018
More and more companies are finding approaches worth repeating, getting promising new ideas into their customers’ hands, delivering value, and making revenue. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. No process in place for funding new projects.
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