Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2018

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”. Third, remember you’re designing for agility which means you’re only making a commitment to explore and evaluate.

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Innovation Agile Design Thinking Guidelines 124

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems. Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS).

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. Brainstorming done effectively, more ideas, better ideas, and powerful tools for amping and refining ideas. Click on the course title to register.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

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

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Don’t get hung up on whether to use Lean, or Design Thinking, or CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail , or some arcane method history has hung around your neck. Look, there are a million methods to do innoation, including those methods I espouse. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

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. Design Thinking puts an emphasis on this exploration, it’s a fundamental built into their framework, excellent!

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