Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip. Domain Knowledge is an Innovation Pre-requisite.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 8, 2017

So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. Share : The post Get Better Ideas with this Starter Exercise appeared first on Destination Innovation. Then everyone took a creativity test. The people in the first group with the fluid movements scored 24% higher in their creativity scores.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Our immediate need was to identify potential innovation case studies to discover how other companies and industries are innovating in relevant ways. Who are our strategic partners?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming on a whiteboard. Brainstorming Prompts. Design Thinking.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 14, 2016

One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is hold a session where a team role-plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 27, 2018

One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is to hold a session where a team role plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand. As far as the ground rules for this ideation session, any ideas should be welcomed—and the cultural antibodies of HOW WE HAVE.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This can include meditation and yoga but also short exercises you can incorporate into your daily life. So, what does mindfulness have to do with ideation and innovation? I would like to share three short exercises that can help you in a pinch. Do you see the relationship between mindfulness and innovation? .

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, innovation cannot be ignored. However, when working in a digital workspace, creating lasting innovative solutions is much more difficult than usual.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve created a number of demonstration videos and even a short online ChatGPT AI innovation course. We will guide them through the learning and doing of innovating with ChaptGPT as a professional. We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it. No it doesn't.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. In this article, we’ll explore this technique and provide a resource that can help you conduct your own brainwriting exercise, whether it’s virtually or in the same room online. Brainwriting Exercise Template.

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Destination Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Please try these little thinking exercises: a) Recite a line from a poem – any line, any poem. If you completed the exercise then you used your brain in four different ways. The post Boost Creativity by Thinking in Pictures appeared first on Destination Innovation. Image by Levelord on Pixabay. b) Music and rhythym.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 20, 2018

As your innovation efforts begin to move from the ideation to the testing phase, or the co-creation with consumers or customers, outlandish and disruptive concepts present themselves. As messy as children arriving, they show up, saying “feed me, let me scream at the top of my lungs, I’m uncivilized” all without speaking.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface. That is no surprise.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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helloFUTURE

AUGUST 19, 2019

In many of our ideation sessions, we hold specific exercises to trigger new thinking. We almost always keep the attendees to a schedule and have a rigorous set of exercises that we put them through. In many of our ideation sessions, we try to… The post Ways We Innovate: Take the Hour Off appeared first on hellofuture.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Crowdsourcing can take place at all points of the innovation cycle. Individuals can naturally excel at ideation, but facilitation also helps. Ideas – The “What Could We Do?”

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups. Plan If You Can.

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helloFUTURE

JUNE 24, 2019

In many of the exercises we run, try to alter the typical mindset of the attendees as soon as they arrive at the session. The sooner we can alter the mindset of the attendee, the sooner we can get to the significant ideation. Altered States Lead to New Creates.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. While I would guarantee that beginning with prayer is the BEST place to start, a new extreme creativity question is finding its way into future strategic thinking exercises: “Where would you start if you had to do the impossible with nothing?”

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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Planview

JANUARY 15, 2018

Defining goals is critical to running successful ideation challenges. I’ve been working with several ideation program managers recently to launch their first crowdsourcing challenge and noticed that many try to bypass the step of defining goals. Others have a hard time articulating a quantifiable success measure and want to give up.

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Innovation Architecture

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Organizations mint Chief Customer Officers (CXO) as readily as they mint Chief Innovation Officers. One answer might be that the leadership of the organizations want to signal to their employees and shareholders that they are serious about the subject at hand, whether it be fomenting cultures of innovation, quality, sustainability, or safety.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking has become a cornerstone methodology in the worlds of innovation, business strategy, and product development. Ideate : Generating a range of possible solutions. Businesses have recognized its potential for fostering innovation and tackling complex challenges.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Innovation Sprints are a really hot topic right now and for good reason. If you don’t know what an Innovation Sprint is, it’s essentially a framework that allows you to decide on a problem, generate solutions and prototype and then test ideas with real consumers, in between 3 and 5 days. They give you answers!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2018

Is your business-to-business brand looking for new product ideas, stronger innovation strategy opportunities, and a bigger impact ? We took that approach when developing an innovation strategy workshop for a B2B manufacturer. How can you orient your innovation strategy to the experiences THEY have? – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The team was wrestling with a concern voiced by the organization’s senior leader that its complete innovation portfolio wasn’t capable of yielding the financial impact he is seeking. via Shutterstock. Enjoy this article?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. The following ten "ideation process best practices" are clues for you. You're busy. You know it. No it doesn't.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Exercises in Innovation #2: Call a meeting to spotlight the outliers. This exercise awakens their innate curiosity and encourages the entire organization to start thinking like anthropologists. Here are some suggestions to get the ideation process started. Look out for exercise #3. What did they see, in detail?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. You're busy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea. In the broadest sense, we’re talking about open innovation. The exercises above do provide better understanding of what the idea is and often proves helpful to scoring, but some companies simply kick out unclear ideas for further refinement. Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

Denver, Colorado — Innovation & Facilitation Training — Two Public Courses. In late August I’m co-hosting and delivering two public courses on Innovation in Denver. My experience is mostly with corporate innovation, so, we’ve got perspectives and insights for both contexts. The second course is a 2.5

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Innovation, as practiced today in most corporations, is far too "easy" and commercialization is far too difficult. What if innovation was challenging and difficult, and commercialization were easy? Innovation is easy, commercialization is difficult Now, let's get our language straight. What if that statement were reversed?

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Innovation Sprints are a really hot topic right now and for good reason. If you don’t know what an Innovation Sprint is, it’s essentially a framework that allows you to decide on a problem, generate solutions and prototype and then test ideas with real consumers, in between 3 and 5 days. They give you answers!

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