Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. Innovation is complex and difficult — but one thing about it is not. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Some will fail.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. One of the conundrums is why does innovation take so long to happen in corporations? Previously Hank Chesbrough and I have written about some of the strategic issues that impede innovation inside large corporations here and here.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. The emergence of Creative AI now marks a new,historic development in innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. Innovation Leaders sometimes get it backwards. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Which is best?

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This deep-dive immersive course in innovation could change the direction of your organization – or career. A truly innovative culture? This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. REGISTER NOW.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Lean Startup.

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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.” Not Design Thinking?” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. ” “What!

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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. Projects change culture.

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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.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. “Either-or” was yesterday, today we need more integrative, “both-and” thinking. No one size fits all.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. When you are trying to create a repeatable innovation process, you can’t just start anywhere by doing random activities.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. 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). GFi guarantees its work.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

From that information, we were able to plan out what a couple of sprints might look like in order to help employees and leadership understand the Lean Innovation process and increase the frequency of making decisions based on evidence. “ ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. The reason?

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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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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you innovate across your entire value chain? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? Don’t be held back by a restrictive innovation process model; be flexible on new ways to innovate.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. Encouraging a culture of experimentation Executive suites of companies perceived as ‘innovative’ are often filled with the spirit of the scientist.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. 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. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Just tossing money at it. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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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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mjvinnovation

APRIL 11, 2019

By applying the open innovation system, the company can use external resources such as technology and partnerships with startups and universities and, at the same time, make their own creations available to other organizations. Open innovation benefits. There are many advantages of opening up the innovation process.

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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. Gregg talks specifics about: How to quickly assess your current innovation culture and process. How to get, or provide, a specific mandate for innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. 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. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Just tossing money at it. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 29, 2021

Process review and redesign. Design Thinking, the core business service of MJV, is at the heart of innovation processes. And, as you saw here, we strongly believe in innovation through processes. Robotic process automation. Now that you understand the criteria, check out our services!

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s where lean methodology comes up. You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Innovation Training. “Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Approaches to the new challenges of Digital Technology Innovation are discussed.

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IM Insights

JANUARY 11, 2022

And if you want to reach out to Tristan, just check out the show notes and the links below and you’ll be able to get in touch today, we want to talk about what we call meted funding, we want to talk about how we fund innovation projects. And not just one single project. But what does the funnel look like? Interesting!

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In working with this extended innovation funnel model we have made one more interesting observation: The chances for identifying and implementing successful breakthrough innovations are greatly increased if the individual stages are orchestrated by Design Thinking (see e.g. here).

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. Even fewer are actually investing in them. (…).

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Critical elements for an entrepreneurial climate are both causational (goals, rewards) and effectuation-based (feedback, reinforcement, trust) and are built upon stimulating entrepreneurial thinking in the organization (Kuratko, Hornsby, Naffziger, & Montagno, 1993). Bacigalupo, M.,

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