Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. For me, a good idea management system needs to be set up for all known and unknown possibilities to capture their potential. Some links provided here take you to what one provider of idea management software can provide.

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Management Idea Management Software Innovation 133

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

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. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

Tools 52

Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

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

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. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Almost always.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session. Seven Ways to Better Prepare for Idea Generation: Assign at least three hours of homework over a few weeks.

Brainstorming 42

Brainstorming Idea Generation Exercises Training 42

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.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. 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.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

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 12, 2021

A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. GFi does fractional CINO work.

Innovation 59

Innovation Trends Roadmap Product Development 59

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This course will give you in-depth training in the following aspects of innovation management: Innovation-management terminology and concepts. Creativity and idea management. Be able to differentiate between types of idea management programs. Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 42

hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the discovery phase, innovation experts can help with web scouting, market research, ethnographic studies, technology or design research, workshops, boot camps, empathy maps, and journey mapping to generate ideas. Innovation management software. Why do companies need idea management software?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Ideation Software 40

Wazoku

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Coming backdown to earth this thought piece builds on Fostering Innovation with technological solutions – Part 1 and takes a much more tactical drill down into the growing market of innovation management solutions and who to watch out for, as well as the wider innovation ecosystem and harnessing the crowd to best effect.

Technology 40

Technology Software Artificial Inteligence Idea Management 40

hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This course will give you in-depth training in the following aspects of innovation management: Innovation-management terminology and concepts. Creativity and idea management. Be able to differentiate between types of idea management programs. Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I recently sat down with our customer success team, who help our customers excel in their idea management and innovation programmes, establish and share innovation best practice and work with our customers to truly embed innovation as a core, strategic, every day capability, within their organisations.

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Culture Technical Review Software Review Innovation 85

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There is some imaginative thinking inside idea development, but if this session had been organized as a classic “brainstorm” or purely divergent idea session it would have been a waste of time. ” We designed a creative session plan to achieve our better understood goals. He asked me “how do you do that?

Training 52

Training Brainstorming Meeting Tools 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level. In this process, when ideas are submitted, they often follow clear parameters set by the organization.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Ideas – The Most Essential Innovation Asset Idea management is the process of finding, developing, and implementing ideas on an enterprise level. In this process, when ideas are submitted, they often follow clear parameters set by the organization. These factors are entirely customizable.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. We form the ‘Centre of Excellence’ for idea management at the company.

Idea Generation 40

Idea Generation Groups Collaboration Innovation 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Companies are realizing that all their personnel can help contribute to the ideation process – not just a designated few. Other companies are going even further afield and turning to their customers or the general public to help them solve problems and create new products. . Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Companies are realizing that all their personnel can help contribute to the ideation process – not just a designated few. Other companies are going even further afield and turning to their customers or the general public to help them solve problems and create new products. . Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

Survey 40

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

Too often, companies think of innovation in terms of disparate temporal projects, rather than as a holistic practice that should be permanently embedded within the organization’s DNA. This, in turn, made the prospect of total innovation management a practical exercise for companies in all industries.

Idea Generation 52

Idea Generation Innovation Management Management Culture 52

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.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 23, 2015

Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year. It’s not a new idea but it’s one more companies should consider. What I hear from top management: “we don’t have the time or resources for innovation projects, we’ll start later this year.”

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Project Management Innovation Ideation 40

Wazoku

JUNE 26, 2019

At Wazoku, we work with many organisations that have benefited greatly from such an approach to continuous improvement and the ideas generated by their employees. But it’s also true that other idea crowds can play a significant role and extending continuous improvement to include these idea crowds can be a smart move for any business.

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Examples Engagement Technical Review Roadmap 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

For results in idea generation you need a system, a framework, and a wide, deep chest of tools. How can you generate great ideas with a more systemic approach to “brainstorming”? But wow, this is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to effective idea generation. Synectics also builds on CPS.

Brainstorming 40

Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team Idea Generation Study 40

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The same principle holds true when it comes to boosting user engagement on your idea generation platform. By leveraging profile pictures, idea images, gamification badges, and other visuals that align with your company’s branding and culture, you can effectively convey to users that the platform is set up for their benefit.

Idea Generation 40

Idea Generation Engagement Software System 40

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The same principle holds true when it comes to boosting user engagement on your idea generation platform. By leveraging profile pictures, idea images, gamification badges, and other visuals that align with your company’s branding and culture, you can effectively convey to users that the platform is set up for their benefit.

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Idea Generation Engagement Software System 40