Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Remember, half of any group is likely to be somewhat introverted. Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Most companies don’t understand that innovation isn’t just a single process that can be improved, but the result of capabilities existing within the company which enables ideas to be developed and scaled into solutions. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Failure in a funded project in a corporation is typically judged rather harshly, and over the last 3 to 4 decades with outsourcing, rightsizing, cost reductions, six sigma and more, we've trained a management cadre to dislike change, risk and uncertainty. So any new idea is often called into question, and closely examined for risk.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

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. Streamlined management of innovation projects. A truly innovative culture? How do you get there? REGISTER NOW.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Innovation 101, Kick-Start Ideas That Lead to Growth is a three hour virtual training that is perfect for “newbies” to innovation, but also provides fresh insights for experienced innovation managers (you will get ideas on how to improve). Visionize and roadmap your innovation future. Register Now.

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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.

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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. Neutrality allows a group to be fully expressed within a structure, a plan. What happens, for instance, when someone is dominating a group?

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Conducting regular training courses in creativity methods and innovation management. Innovative companies use innovation to differentiate themselves by: Conducting regular idea generation workshops within business units. Developing an idea management and tracking capability. See innovation as a competitive weapon.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Managers, executives, and consultants who embrace these AI advancements position themselves at the forefront of innovation, ready to leverage the full potential of improving design thinking with ai.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. This 12-month campaign incentivizes participants to contribute innovative ideas that have potential to impact the company’s key strategic priorities in positive ways.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Product ideas crowdsourcing BMW Customer Innovation Lab – in german InnovationJam* – IBM’s idea generation project Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of Starbucks Connect + Develop – Innovation platform by P&G 02.

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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

If you are just starting your innovation journey it requires a core group of dedicated people to make innovation happen. Isn’t putting some dedicated resources on developing ideas for the company’s future at least as important as battling the urgent issues of the present? Recruit a team with passion and drive.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Seven Idea Generation Fails. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. Brainstorming is all group work. 80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Training Accelerates Innovation. Almost always.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Collaborate across disciplines and product lines while supporting change management and the human factors which ultimately increase the probability of success of the project. Who will take action to prioritize the project which will best grow our innovation portfolio? This is an idea “Generator.”

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Does your team have regular standup meetings to discuss current and upcoming projects?

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I consulted with management to focus a rapid innovation process effort. The team cranked out 320 ideas, wrote up 20 as elaborated concepts with mini-plans, and we roadmapped innovation projects for the next three years. The other project did my heart some good, helping small business people recover from Covid19.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them. Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma).

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. 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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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 18, 2020

Applying the same process to tackle different projects regardless of their characteristics and which horizon they are in. Expecting the same type of return from projects in different horizons. The response is often to prioritize projects, but this can compound the problem and often worsens the delays. That isn’t the reality.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To list the Design Thinking tools, we need to remember that it is a process generally divided into four phases: Immersion: research to contextualize the problem. Analysis and Synthesis: grouping collected data and reframing the initial situation based on transforming data into insights. Analysis and Synthesis Tools.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. This 12-month campaign incentivizes participants to contribute innovative ideas that have potential to impact the company’s key strategic priorities in positive ways.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Beyond real world projects, I’ve studied the literature, theory, frameworks, strategy, thinking tools, facilitation, assessments, research, project management, team dynamics, and even improvisation. It’s all useful, but you can drown trying to make it useful in projects. So where do you start?

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

This is the second in a series of four blogs on Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. First, it is about innovation in its broadest meaning – whenever you need ideas to make something that exists better and/or to develop something entirely new. Here is a brief review of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. This is simply a management decision.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate. Census Bureau.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively. Function and Intention of Innovation Management.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. An innovation process “connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release to market.” Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively. Function and Intention of Innovation Management.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Below are some examples that illustrate how AI is being incorporated: Idea Generation : AI-powered tools can suggest design options based on previous successful projects and current design trends. Examples of AI in the Design Process AI’s application within the Design Thinking process is multifaceted.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

If you take this course you’ll know why and how to move forward with results oriented innovation projects. Good facilitation is an essential key to innovation success ; this includes planning and executing innovation projects. Clear ​steps ​on ​how ​to ​move ​forward ​with ​innovation ​projects. The second course is a 2.5

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion.

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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.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 18, 2016

In doing the autopsy of past innovation efforts it's often clear that while executives asked for ideas, they didn't really value them or consider them, didn't fund the work or implement ideas. So, when people refuse to play the same game again - even though the management has changed - people are perplexed.

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