Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. Innovation is undergoing a radical change, in opening up to technology, collaborative thinking and the value of generative AI thinking. Innovation needs reinventing.

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Generative AI Design Innovation Data 162

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 20, 2024

Adopting ecosystem thinking and design , combined with Generative AI, has the impact of augmenting, automating, and rapidly scaling innovation in significantly different ways than ever before. This step may involve iterative processes of idea generation, refinement, evaluation, and real-life testing and prototyping.

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Engagement Generative AI Innovation Data 162

Innovating4Energy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Gaining momentum and idea generation. I have been asking myself how a combined effect of innovation and ecosystem design thinking will support the energy transition we are undertaking to give it additional traction and generation. It can offer a different multiplier effect to idea generation and momentum building.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work. Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs.

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ChatGPT Course Generative AI Brainstorming 75

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions.

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Artificial Inteligence Ideation Brainstorming ChatGPT 83

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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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. And, if a good idea doesn’t become a project, some actual real world action, what’s the point? Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. .

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Guidelines Study 111

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.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These activities might include: Idea Generation Workshops : Leaders participate in brainstorming sessions where they are encouraged to propose unconventional solutions to business challenges. For more information on developing these skills, explore our leadership development workshops designed to enhance innovative thinking.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Projects, Projects, Projects. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. 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. Innovation is about Projects.

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. It’s not enough to come up with an idea. But what happens next?

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Software Review Innovation Programs Project Innovation 105

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Design Thinking for Naming. With our company, we’ve committed to using an innovative framework of design thinking to go step-by-step through a naming process.

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Design Thinking Brainstorming Training Design 64

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. They may share insights on techniques for effective ideation such as design thinking, mind mapping, and leveraging technology for collaborative brainstorming sessions.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

What the authors have defined is a useful framework for digging into opportunities and needs and creating new ideas. Why I struggle to review this book While this book presents a useful framework for idea generation and innovation, it's not clear "who" this book is for, or if the insights are really all that new.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Design Thinking Tools Design 111

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. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Streamlined management of innovation projects.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As such, it's not just choosing a subject, but also having a senior sponsor who cares about the success of the project. I think Bensauo does a good job considering the customer experience and emphasizing customer needs. What is interesting in his process is that there is no specific idea generation "step".

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Idea Generation Innovation Leadership Engagement 144

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). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. GFi guarantees its work.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

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).

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Design Thinking Innovation Project Idea Generation 51

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 15, 2020

It will require deeper observation, using ethnographic and design thinking skills to uncover unmet needs. Without a bias for innovation, teams and executives will skip past the context setting to get more rapidly to what they consider the main event - the idea generation and validation.

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Technical Review Trends Innovation Technology 227

InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. Conclusion.

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Exercises Brainstorming Ideation Software 84

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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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations.

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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. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking and Part 2: Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them. .

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Design Thinking Design Software Review Brainstorming 90

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

you do need a balance of problem finding, idea generation, evaluation and. are tackling – then teach them how to use it (Design Thinking is a great start. macro (project milestones). anyone with ideas to contribute. Expecting teams to accommodate new projects in. implementation. to advance.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Tips Leadership 84

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas.

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Doing the hard and detailed preparation work ahead of time can save the entire meeting — or project, from failure. Seven Facilitation Fails.

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Meeting Project Training Brainstorming 67

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

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. If your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

By fostering an environment where every voice could be heard, they saw a 25% increase in project delivery speed and a 30% improvement in employee satisfaction. This led to cross-departmental projects that leveraged these diverse experiences, resulting in a 15% growth in annual revenue and a significant rise in cross-functional innovation.

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Leadership Meeting Culture Collaboration 100

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. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

If you, and/or your team, don’t have an organic, natural access to creative thinking, tools like Agile and Design Thinking are running on empty. It’s all useful, but you can drown trying to make it useful in projects. Deliberate, realized, built-into-projects, creativity. Creativity IS Innovation.

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Creativity Training Creative Thinking Innovation 71

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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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

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. It’s the Only Kryptonite.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

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. Sessions often fail to find breakthrough ideas. Facilitators need to adopt experiential learning tools in their sessions designs. The reason? Do Improv games.

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

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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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Facilitators who scaffold well are master innovation facilitators and their projects achieve better results. In general, the more “modalities” you touch, visual, auditory, textual, kinesthetic, and emotional experiences — the better your scaffolding. This might include brainstorming alone, prior to a group session.

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Ideation Learning Innovation Exercises 85