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
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. Doing Design Thinking With Remote Teams (Well) Isn’t Easy. Design Thinking
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Idea to Value
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. How do you prioritise the potential innovation projects? This is called their project portfolio.
mjvinnovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
It is the union between doing and thinking. Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Project. Project UMA.
mjvinnovation
DECEMBER 28, 2020
That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation. Keep reading to understand how you can implement an innovation culture into your company with Design Thinking! That’s because only the visible artifacts of organizational culture can be designed. ” In this way, the company that wants to introduce Design Thinking to support transformation will work with artifacts to form a culture of innovation. What do you think?
Innovation Architecture
MARCH 21, 2018
Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. The lean practitioner innovates their way to True North. This camp includes a growing cadre of design thinkers: people who apply the enquiry-driven rigor of the design practice to gestating new business opportunities.
Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 19, 2021
Steve Blank
JULY 30, 2014
I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. 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. . Canceling a project may frustrate the team members working on it but unlike in a startup, they still have their jobs, offices and houses and the company won’t close.
Idea to Value
JULY 21, 2017
The important aspect of the theory which most discussions ignore though is that while it is happening, management at the established companies think they’re making the right decision to let the new companies take over the low-end of the market. When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it.
Rapid Innovation in digital time
JANUARY 12, 2021
She brilliantly shares key success factors to lead an innovation project. Execution Innovation Corporate Innovation Design Thinking Digital Innovation Lean startup Michelle Gomes TransformationMichelle Gomes is a strategic thinker and experienced agile product manager.
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.
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!
etventure
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The transformation to a Lean Production system has been a big success for the company. Your organization managed to implement the Lean Production paradigm.
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). Audiences of this talk walk away with highly strategic approaches to innovation, as well as practical, tactical tools for implementing innovation projects.
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 22, 2019
Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. That’s old school thinking. Idea campaigns can work, but only if it’s done with a focused question, and, that focus is connected to a mandated project. On her way home from work, she was thinking about it while waiting for her train to arrive. The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees.
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.
mjvinnovation
MARCH 13, 2019
She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! In this article, in besides knowing better the Japanese sensation of the present, you will see what lessons she can bring us about agile project management. What is the KONMARI method and what is its relationship to agile project management methods?
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. What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. But you probably are not! Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.
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. Streamlined management of innovation projects. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.
Leanstack
JUNE 7, 2018
Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.” And decides to focus first on the customer segment he thinks he knows the most about: startup founders. Steve thinks to himself.
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. Blank admits that Lean Startup and Design Thinking share similar characteristics in exploring customer needs, but their origins, differences and speed in practice are very different in his opinion.
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. A couple of days after having had published my post, Paolo Lorenzoni from IDEO confirmed the complementary nature of Lean Startup and Design Thinking. This can be dangerous because it turns lean startup into a mechanistic trial and error exercise. Think beyond the product to the full offering and business model.
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. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn.
Gregg Fraley
DECEMBER 11, 2017
How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Because it requires unique thinking skills to understand what’s possible technically, and , think up meaningful-to-consumers inventions and applications. Thinking about 2018, here are… Four Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018: Get internal alignment. If you focus on the project, you’ll get through conflict by keeping the end in mind.
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.
Leanstack
JUNE 7, 2018
I’m working on my most ambitious project yet. Over the last nine years, I’ve published two best-selling books: Running Lean and Scaling Lean. Place yourself somewhere in this timeline and think back to what caused you to switch from that solution to the next one. This is the essence of Continuous Innovation …And yes, there is a step-by-step framework for doing this…And exactly what this new project is all about codifying as a framework.
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
AUGUST 22, 2018
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. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.
The BMI Lab Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2019
This thinking in “markets” and “technologies” changed with the rise of customer centricity, human centered design, and design thinking in the mid-2000s.
mjvinnovation
JANUARY 8, 2021
In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. Scrum is a framework used to manage projects or teams.
Tim Kastelle
MARCH 13, 2016
In light of rising connectedness, thinking in complementarities and co-creating in ecosystems with small and large partners (as discussed above) will increasingly take hold. 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. Well-suited approaches, such a experience design or jobs-to-be-done help innovation initiatives putting the customer in the center.
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. While stage-gate processes have traditionally been favored in predictable environments, a new generation of product innovation process is taking hold due to increased pressure: lean innovation.
InnovationTraining.org
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. There are many design thinking exercises and activities.
Inceodia
MARCH 26, 2020
In this project we partnered with a non-profit medical research organization that addresses the cost of healthcare and improving healthcare delivery in homes, hospitals, and community-based organizations, primarily through developing high-quality, lower-cost models of care for seniors.
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. Innovation Intensive . Thursday, September 13, 2018, The Keith House, Chicago.
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. This doesn’t mean that the innovation methods you learned don’t apply; it means you need to be intentional as you apply them, thinking about how they will work in your organization and iterating on the design of your organization’s unique innovation blueprint.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 22, 2019
4 Tips for Intrapreneurs Who Want to Scale-Up While there are many supporting methodologies to start an innovation project (design thinking, lean start-up, business model canvas, blue ocean,…), Lean scale-up by Ash Maurya provides precious guidelines, and metrics, but was not conceived with the case of a corporate start-up / intrapreneur project in mind.
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 20, 2021
Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. As you learn more MCPS thinking tools, creative power grows. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma.
Idea to Value
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like. Therefore, it does not make sense to have the success criteria be a specific design, budget, business case or set of KPIs at the beginning.
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. For the specific case of business model innovation, our improved and advanced version of the Lean Canvas has proven its value since it allows an easy entry into more general business model canvas frameworks.
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).
Moves the Needle
DECEMBER 17, 2015
His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The Toyota Production System largely grew out of this dilemma, attempting to leverage the “leanness” of Ford’s production system is a world of increasing complexity and market differentiation. Projections are based on past experience. Employees once again act merely as cogs in carrying out the plan, and their performance is measured based on adherence to the projections. This is Lean Startup.
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