InnovationTraining.org
DECEMBER 12, 2022
We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? What is design thinking?
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. This is based on the three basic thinking stages of the process. Design Thinking
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Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 4, 2017
Let me summarize where we are today in design thinking. In the past couple of weeks, I have been spending a fair amount of time on investigating design thinking. This is part one of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within two posts, I want to provide my outcomes, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, in my opinion urgently needed.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 17, 2023
You developed and are using a best-in-class Innovation Process. Once you find a problem and fall in love with it, you start dreaming and designing possible solutions. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Congratulations!
mjvinnovation
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. Some methods can help with this process, methods that are made just for this. That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.
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. Thinking about things is not innovation. Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation.
Steve Blank
JULY 30, 2014
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. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Corporate Innovation
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
The Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. If you want an organization to survive, you must innovate. But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. In this inspirational speech Gregg Fraley answers the Why Innovation question, and informs as to what innovation means to you and your group. It advocates that innovation is an exciting part of everyone’s job, not “extra work.”
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). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. Tell me what I should be thinking about.” He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. 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?”
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 4, 2018
If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. 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? The instructor is master innovation trainer, Gregg Fraley.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 22, 2018
Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy.
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. 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. It happens through projects.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip. You can’t innovate without an exploratory learning process. So, let me explain my thinking. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite.
Imaginatik
JANUARY 13, 2017
Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. But a time-consuming scenario planning process brought them no closer to salvation. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. Think about Elon Musk declaring war on fossil fuels, Robin Chase evangelizing the sharing economy, or Steve Jobs building computers for our pockets. Future Building – a Core Innovation Skill Set.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 1, 2018
Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. 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. There is no innovation without creativity.
Gregg Fraley
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. 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. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools. ” Accelerated Learning Leads to Accelerated Innovation.
Gregg Fraley
DECEMBER 11, 2017
Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? This is not innovation as we once knew it. This is not your Dad’s innovation. It’s not even Your Innovation of five years ago? 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?
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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.
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. But somehow the project doesn’t go as smoothly as the exercises and cases studies you read through. Innovation sounded fun but you are not in the right place to do it.
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. My conclusion: many of us are aware that innovation tools, even up-to-date ones, have a limited scope and that they can benefit from being complemented with other approaches. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 28, 2018
Innovation Intensive . Master Innovation Trainer: Gregg Fraley. Course Description: Innovation Intensive is a one day, deep dive, into fundamental and advanced concepts in innovation. 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. Thursday, September 13, 2018, The Keith House, Chicago.
Integrative Innovation
AUGUST 1, 2014
The first part highlighted that radical and incremental innovation build on two different innovation set-ups (exploration and exploitation, respect. New research: ambidexterity well done is a key driver for innovation performance. One of the key findings of this paper is that “in uncertain [business] environments, organizational ambidexterity appears to be positively correlated with increased innovation, better financial performance and higher survival rates.”.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
The Classic Pitfalls of Innovation. Mandates, Training, Process, Talent, Conflict, Risk. Innovation programs are like a labyrinth designed to have you lose your way — and die! I was thinking about an upcoming talk I’m giving on innovation pitfalls — and got bored looking for graphics. Innovation Pitfalls, a diagram by Gregg Fraley. Projects are what drive innovation and change cultures.
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 29, 2023
We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work. We’ve created a number of demonstration videos and even a short online ChatGPT AI innovation course. Innovation AI artificial intelligence ChatGPT OpenAI
Integrative Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2016
Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. From my point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. Innovation can’t be tackled through broad-brush recipes or tools.
Idea to Value
MARCH 26, 2020
A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. Innovation emotions
Idea to Value
JANUARY 7, 2022
Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department?
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. This one day course consistently receives high marks from innovation executives and training professionals. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members.
IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Innovation is a process that relies heavily on creativity and individual thinking, and these are things that don’t come easily. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises.
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.
InnovationTraining.org
JUNE 30, 2022
For those of you looking for new and better ways of assessing and developing the innovative potential in your team, this blog post offers you my first-hand view of Innovation Mindsets TM – the new diagnostic instrument from Prof. Jeanne Liedtka and Treehouse Innovation.
InnovationTraining.org
AUGUST 30, 2021
Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Check out our list of design thinking books to read.
Qmarkets
JANUARY 13, 2022
As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. Innovation Exploration vs Exploitation. 7 Success Factors for Innovation Exploration.
Jeffrey Phillips
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. This process is interesting and helpful.
Innovation 360 Group
MAY 17, 2018
Background: Dr. George Fankhauser is an innovation consultant and R&D leader with more than 20 years of industry experience managing global, inter-disciplinary teams. He successfully managed change projects in software development, automation, agile innovation processes and platform management. Furthermore, as a facilitator and inventor he actively participates in the creative process. Innovation processes, hybrid agile/stage-gate implementations.
InnovationTraining.org
MAY 26, 2020
In recent weeks, we’ve shared information about different remote working software tools for innovation as well as design thinking software such as Miro. We also covered popular online templates you can use for empathy mapping and design sprints. Innovation Software
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 5, 2020
On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating. A lot of innovators that I have met are impatient people. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. Innovation Readiness. Innovation
Qmarkets
JANUARY 13, 2022
As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities. Not only is continuous innovation necessary for survival, but also constant refinement and recalibration of existing business models.
Innovation 360
MAY 30, 2017
Sabina is a passionate innovation expert who thrives from connecting the dots between people, business and creativity. From various experiences over the years – in management consulting, branding & communications, product development, strategy and creative process – Sabina has developed a never-ending hunger for turning needs and opportunities into creative ideas and products. Innovation Assessment. Innovation Management & Systems. Design thinking.
Values Centered Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2020
The art and discipline of Innovation is still being innovated. 2 nd sign: The rise of inclusive engagement: that every person can be innovative. He has since moved away from the personality labels, and denoted simply 2 cognitive styles: Modification and Innovation.
mjvinnovation
MARCH 29, 2021
“Innovation” used to mean the difference between dictating trends in your sector or following the trail of your competition’s success, but today the term refers to a fundamental condition of existence for businesses in the volatile and demanding Digital Age. Is process consulting for me?
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