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. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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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.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Projects change culture. Projects are essential.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. 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.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. But somehow the project doesn’t go as smoothly as the exercises and cases studies you read through. Tell me about your project,” I said, “What does success look like in 3 months when the program ends?”

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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. Streamlined management of innovation projects. REGISTER NOW.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

With a step-by-step modular structure, you can browse through existing design thinking exercises and move them around to structure your meeting and fit your unique goals or needs. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. project meeting. Contact us if you are interested in our design thinking meeting challenge workshops.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. What is Management 3.0?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I say ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ instead of the usual narrative of ‘Innovation Leadership’ because it’s not about making the leaders themselves ‘innovative’ but about leaders being able to build and lead an organisation where genuine innovation (not innovation theatre!)

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. ” — Thais Cunha, Project Coordinator, Bomnegocio.com. Participants work in teams of 3-5 and actively applying design thinking, lean startup, and agile development to new and existing product or market endeavors.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2023

Lean forward, eyes glittering, eager to hear more Stare blankly and nod slowly Roll their eyes and sigh Wave their hands dismissively and tell you to focus on other, more urgent priorities. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton How do people react when you say “innovation?” If you answered C, you’re in good company. Innovation is […]

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. It’s the creative thinking that builds on that research, analysis, and insight that gets you workable innovation concepts, that turn into innovation projects, and ultimately market results.

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Innovation 360

APRIL 30, 2017

She has demonstrated great leadership and collaboration by creating a vision to start up an innovation company and build capabilities to incubate and commercialize innovation portfolio for the day after tomorrow in the FMCG industry. Design Thinking. Operational Excellence/Lean. Innovation Governance and Processes.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Be certain that there is alignment from the top down around the desire to integrate digital tech and get projects underway. If you focus on the project, you’ll get through conflict by keeping the end in mind.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. Killing failed projects is a success. We need to move faster. We need to be agile.” So that's a success.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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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. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive. .

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

They followed best practices of design thinking, lean startup, and rapid prototyping to turn early-stage ideas into high-potential opportunities. Yet with each project moving through the pipeline, executives in Franchise Operations found reasons for delay. The market timing was off.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2021

Guest Post from Nicolas Bry Innovation organization doesn’t thrive without innovation culture: organization and process without culture are like a factory without raw materials; culture without organization and process is appropriate to initiate a handful of innovation projects, but doesn’t … Continue reading →

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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. If you’re going to fail, fail fast.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

They might take a design thinking initiative, or a lean innovation initiative with growth as the objective, or just improving their data development process. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in. What I’ve noticed is that they often see some initial improvement.

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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. Consultants are far too cautious for their own good.

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Inceodia

MARCH 26, 2020

Our client is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. Most organizations run pretty lean operations and utilize mostly manual processes to deliver their services. About this Client.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

They are designed to exploit the opportunities in defined markets, technologies and business models. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. By definition, they’re designed to look further ahead and explore terrain that is not yet on the corporate map. Project development and construction.

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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. Innovation Training.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

In addition to the revenue goal for the project, the team also had a loftier goal – to change the culture of the university to be more nimble, quicker to innovate and more attuned to the needs of all potential learners not just the 18-year-old bound for an on-campus experience.

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Inceodia

JULY 18, 2018

In addition to the revenue goal for the project, the team also had a loftier goal – to change the culture of the university to be more nimble, quicker to innovate and more attuned to the needs of all potential learners not just the 18-year-old bound for an on-campus experience.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Tim’s Comment: There’s one other way that this idea plays out too – figuring out how to use lean startup techniques inside of established organisations. That’s been the core issue in the work that I’ve been doing with the CSIRO. Even fewer are actually investing in them. (…).

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. 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.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Consequently, the solution to the above-mentioned challenge requires more thinking than just separating (A) and (B). Step-by-step, with every client project and every Peer Group (see e.g. here ) we sharpened our thinking. Design Thinking, Lean Start-up or Sprints). Senior leadership alignment and engagement.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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