Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Next, find the best people to do innovation work and give them the skills necessary to lead and conduct innovation projects.

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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. They also emphasize the need for continuous education on innovation leadership skills to stay ahead in a rapidly changing business landscape.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The good news is, the idea is very often the starting point. The bad news is that an idea is the starting point. It is a simple equation: the more resources you invest in idea generation, the fewer resources you have for turning them into value-generating products and services. Educate your executives.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

One of my recent pet peeves is the proliferation of education options for innovation. You'll forgive me for a startling lack of enthusiasm about many of these "educational" offerings. One of these well-trodden and expected pathways is to "train" people on new tools and methods when introducing a new project or capability.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

— The Society of Innovators at Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is hosting a public innovation educational seminar from 8:30 a.m. It will focus on how to get initiatives started and how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes that impede project success. You have to create projects and execute to see results. PORTAGE, Ind.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. GenAI’s most prominent contribution is in idea generation and validation—innovation’s divergence and convergence phases.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I discovered that the concept is actually a well-defined educational term. Facilitators who scaffold well are master innovation facilitators and their projects achieve better results. The key is to get creative with how your organize your innovation projects. To some extent, many teachers provide scaffolding.

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Ideation Learning Innovation Exercises 85

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas. A highly creative new method for solving difficult problems. Improvisation works for problem solving AND comedy.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Some companies offer their employees a portion of their workday to work on projects they come up with. Google gives its employees 20% of their time to work on projects that they think will most benefit the company. Benefits of an Innovation Lab. Encourage a feeling of community.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation. For an idea to be successful, it needs to constantly balance three types of risks: customer risk, market risk, and technical risk and I described the sweet spot of an idea being at the intersection of desirability, viability, and feasibility.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Scaffolding is a well researched educational psychology concept. Insights gained inspire ideas to create something new. The difference between education and innovation is the added step of creation.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Local universities and other interesting educational opportunities can also be considered local culture. Does this stimulate any ideas for projects? Small Culture Building Projects are Baby Steps. Doesn’t that suggest a certain kind of project? What’s your first project and the next set of projects?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

I was educated as an engineer and have always believed that finding new ways to solve problems required creativity as well as systemic thinking and collaborating with people that have diverse backgrounds. Often you are the initiator and the evangelist as well as the project manager and team leader.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation. For an idea to be successful, it needs to constantly balance three types of risks: customer risk, market risk, and technical risk and I described the sweet spot of an idea being at the intersection of desirability, viability, and feasibility.

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LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 40

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The project with Qmarkets was designed to retain the people-centric elements that made Colruyt’s previous employee innovation efforts so effective, while scaling them up to spread this ethos throughout the whole group. Eef: We track idea activity, the amount of ideas received, and how many are implemented. Eef: Sure, no problem!

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 8, 2020

Consumers take advantage of connectivity for purposes such as entertainment, education, knowledge, social sharing and shopping. Unlike social analysis, which is based on engagement analysis, decision science focuses on hypothesis testing and the idea generation process. Discuss and prioritize data sources.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

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. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

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. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2020

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Edutainment: Idea Champions sessions are a hybrid of two elements: education and entertainment. That's why we make all of our sessions a hybrid of education and entertainment.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Offered by: AP education Online. Novel methods learnt in this course of open innovation enables your company to benefit from external knowledge and ideas. Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms. Idea generation. At the end of this course you will: Understand and be able to manage innovation strategically.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Offered by: AP education Online. Novel methods learnt in this course of open innovation enables your company to benefit from external knowledge and ideas. Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms. Idea generation. At the end of this course you will: Understand and be able to manage innovation strategically.

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Course Innovation Management Management Technical Review 40

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Edutainment: Idea Champions sessions are a hybrid of two elements: education and entertainment. That's why we make all of our sessions a hybrid of education and entertainment.

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Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ideation : When a firm has a strong innovation culture and a sufficiently open innovation mindset there is usually no shortage in innovation ideas. However, many firms find that the ideas generated are usually within the exploitation context and the number of radical / breakthrough ideas is rather small.

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Idea Champions

JULY 13, 2017

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Edutainment: Idea Champions sessions are a hybrid of two elements: education and entertainment. That's why we make all of our sessions a hybrid of education and entertainment.

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Idea Champions

MAY 17, 2017

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Edutainment: Idea Champions sessions are a hybrid of two elements: education and entertainment. That's why we make all of our sessions a hybrid of education and entertainment.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 23, 2018

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Edutainment: Idea Champions sessions are a hybrid of two elements: education and entertainment. That's why we make all of our sessions a hybrid of education and entertainment.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2016

Open-mindedness, listening, idea generation, original thinking, full engagement, and the kind of commitment that drives meaningful change. Edutainment: Idea Champions sessions are a hybrid of two elements: education and entertainment. That's why we make all of our sessions a hybrid of education and entertainment.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Cycle metrics.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

But in the spirit of an Economic Development “What If…” What If all those other Amazon bidders had put that same energy, and money, into doing innovation projects that are smaller in scale, but, new, different, and clever in their regions? What kind of innovation projects might they have done instead?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

Scaffolding is a term borrowed from the field of education and psychology and generally refers to an expert teacher helping students learn by providing graduated steps. Ideas pop up when you keep after yourself to think of something. If this is a team project, have the team meet again later to reconsider and add on more ideas.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Collaborative Innovation is a branche within Open Innovation that studies the effect of temporary Open Innovation-projects with a single goal in mind, such as the creation of a new product or the development of a new service. Examples of Open Source projects are Wikipedia and WordPress. Route 4: Collaborative Innovation.

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