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Quantum Idea Generation 2.0
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 2, 2017
In this piece, I share with you a summary of the key components of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0. This is the most powerful proven idea generating process.
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Building an online Idea Generator
Board of Innovation
DECEMBER 26, 2017
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10 Steps from idea generation to implementation
Wazoku
JUNE 22, 2017
Every successfully implemented idea/product is a result of a long and painstakingly supervised innovation process. While principles and methods of idea development are universal for all industries, there is no strict rule regarding the steps from idea generation to implementation.
Systematic Idea Generation and Organizational Capabilities for Front-End Innovation Performance in SMEs
InnovationManagement
MARCH 15, 2017
This study seeks to answer two key questions about front-end innovation: when do idea generation activities involving internal and external partner’s payoff, and which organizational capabilities support idea generation activities for achieving high front-end performance?
Quantifying a Culture of Innovation
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used Spigit’s idea management software. to generate and evaluate business ideas. to idea selection – is measurable, we were. next level: people can post ideas, vote, deliver. ideas into innovations that make a difference. more successful it was at generating.
Sterilite is back for another Idea Generation Campaign!
Betterific
AUGUST 10, 2016
Sterilite ran their first idea generation campaign around storage bins. They generated a whopping 146 unique ideas, and 18% of those ideas were considered “actionable and innovative” by the Sterilite team.
How can Idea Management Tool Help You get Through Idea Generation Phase
Ideanote
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The post How can Idea Management Tool Help You get Through Idea Generation Phase appeared first on Ideanote. Idea Management idea management idea management platform Ideas
Idea Generation Process - How to Come Up with 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes | Collective Campus
Collective Campus
JANUARY 24, 2018
Everyone wants to come up with the next Uber or AirBnB but not everyone knows the best way to get there
To Innovate: Learn, Scaffold, Ideate
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Deliberately embracing learning — as part of the innovation process — can lead to better ideas and improved innovation results. Inventions and ideas are, essentially, new combinations of existing concepts. Eventually that egg hatches into an innovative idea.
The Case of the Stolen Idea
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 7, 2018
What happens when your idea is stolen? You have an idea. Your great, wonderful idea which is the best thing anyone has heard in years or centuries… As many other innovators, you explain your idea to your friends, colleagues or superiors trying to get funding or valuable feedback.
Unleash Wild and Wacky to Get Bigger Ideas
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 1, 2016
This is another in a series of articles about how you can consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming. At Innovate2Grow Experts we call this process Quantum Idea Generation.
GFi Innovation — Fall Training Course Schedule
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 4, 2018
The course covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation tools, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. All participants walk away with a shell framework and ideas they can put to immediate use.
Seven Ways to Prepare for Effective Brainstorming
Gregg Fraley
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Ideas are still needed to fill pipelines! 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.
Innovate Where You Are — and With Who You Have
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
As part of an organizational innovation project, ask for ideas using virtual systems. Make sure you have a focused challenge, and make sure you’ve got resources (people in an ad hoc team) to take the best ideas forward — in a project.
Better Inventions – Leveraging Powerful Stimulus
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 12, 2017
At my inventing company, we always use Quantum Idea Generation to generate the ideas that help companies double their innovation success rate.
Know Your Brain Type and Get More Ideas
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 19, 2016
This is another article about Quantum Idea Generation a process proven to generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming. In previous articles, I've addressed the first two of four Quantum Idea Generation elements – diversity and stimulus.
Innovation Training Under Utilized
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.
How You Ask for Innovation Matters
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 10, 2018
If you ask for innovation ideas in an idea campaign, make it clear to all that the effort has top level support. Be prepared to process a lot of ideas. Ask for more ideas of certain kinds, less of others, etc. “We received 630 ideas from 87 people.”
Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders
Gregg Fraley
MAY 1, 2018
Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time. Someone needs a spark of superior inventive talent, or you won’t have the quality ideas you need to succeed.
Digital Technology MoshPit
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 1, 2018
Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. GFi is now offering a new version of MoshPit to discover ideas that exploit new digital technologies. Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions.
Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Small “i” innovation can be generated at any level, so communicate to all that you seek ideas to improve. If a good idea pops up, by all means resource it and get it into action. Are ideas for new things encouraged and worked or are they barely tolerated?
Innovation Strategy – 4 Ways to Celebrate Risk Taking
BrainZooming
MARCH 10, 2017
While an innovation strategy that suggests throwing a party to celebrate a failed idea seems outrageous, the message from the pharma companies is that it’s smart business. The company introduced the idea of a drug wake to allay researchers’ fears related to its first failed drug.
How to Frame a Problem Using a Challenge Map
Innovation Excellence
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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 8, 2017
When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training!
Innovation MoshPit
Gregg Fraley
MAY 5, 2017
My reason is simple, it’s a fast path to new and different ideas. What’s Really Needed is an Innovation MoshPit. Reinventing Combinations, Concept Blends, and Mash-Ups. I’ve been touting concept blends in innovation for some time.
The Billion Dollar Breakthrough You Missed
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
I can almost guarantee you’ll have ideas. This simple combination experiment only scratches the surface, you usually need more scaffolding and structure to go beyond obvious ideas. Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed?
Ten Things United Airlines Might Have Done
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 10, 2017
They could have created a package that combines several of the above ideas. Bonus idea: How about asking customers what it would take? Improving Customer Service at United Airlines Requires a Paradigm Shift and Recognizing They Have a Problem. Creative Training Would Have Helped.
To Innovate, Invest (USA, UK, listening?)
Gregg Fraley
MAY 20, 2017
Ben Tarnoff’s recent article for the Guardian hits hard. America has become so anti-innovation – it’s economic suicide. This article is worth a careful reading.
Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 19, 2015
If your looking for a quick way to jostle up fresh ideas, go with the simpler ones. Mash-Ups are a bigger idea than musical creations. The idea of a scanned, or traced field on a cathode ray tube came to him when he was plowing a field. Breakthrough ideas are elusive.
GFi Innovation Public Training Course
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 28, 2018
In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. More ideas, better ideas, and tools for amping and refining ideas.
Five Magic Imagination Guidelines
Gregg Fraley
MARCH 26, 2016
It occurs to me that most people have the desire, deep down, to use their imagination more — but have no idea how. If you ask your imagination for ideas or visions once a year it’s a bit like that faucet in the back of the house you never use.
Seven Essentials of an Effective Innovation Project Manager
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 23, 2015
It’s not a new idea but it’s one more companies should consider. Or when you have an idea that would open a whole new market and set your companies future for years to come. Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year.
Different Ideas Emerge From Different Doing
Gregg Fraley
MAY 9, 2017
” “We don’t do idea generation well.” If you are relying on best practices, and not making an effort to go beyond them, you aren’t going to arrive at different or breakthrough ideas.
Nine Ways to Play at Work
Gregg Fraley
MAY 2, 2016
The idea that one should invoke a sense of play around challenges is not a new one. All that said, simple more straightforward ideas for play in day-to-day behavior are harder to come by. DO NOT do this to an idea that’s just come out of someone’s mouth.
Dance Your Challenge
Gregg Fraley
MAY 13, 2016
We stopped the music and jammed ideas for cleaning products, and wow, did the ideas fly. Shake Your Booty. The Creativity and Innovation point of this blog takes about three paragraphs to develop, so business readers, let me tell you a brief story to set it up.
The Risk of Not Innovating
Gregg Fraley
JUNE 21, 2016
You won’t have a pipeline of ideas and nascent products and services. I recently was a guest blogger for Gibson Insurance and I wrote this piece about the risk of Not Innovating. I’ll make the point again here — with fewer words. For more detail, read my post over at Gibson.
Interview with Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix [Book Review]
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MARCH 18, 2016
Manuel Kaiser interview Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph about his new book, and how innovative firms generate new ideas and develop successful business models.
Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 18, 2015
Death or Kryptonite? From Superman Wiki. I have a vinyl record with one of those strategic skips that has it repeating — it drives me nuts — but I still play the record because I love the song so much. The song is Jimmy Olsen’s Blues by the Spin Doctors.
Innovate Innovation Policy
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 30, 2017
Let me be clear, Gilder’s thinking is a mixed bag of ideas, some of which I enthusiastically endorse, others not at all. Why a Hostile Immigration Policy is Stupid. Who remembers George Gilder? He’s a relevant person to recall at this moment in time.
Projects Are How Innovation Happens
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 30, 2016
Having beers and kicking ideas around are not innovation. Idea Campaigns are not innovation. Monitor progress of the project cycles and expect to get pitched on various ideas. Projects, Projects, Projects. Innovation is complex and difficult — but one thing about it is not.
Got a Great Idea? Don't Take Credit For It
Innovation in Practice
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
We want to resist the temptation of judging ideas depending on where it came from. If we like the person, we tend to like their idea. And what this means for you in practice is that you have to find a way to strip ideas of their identity. That keeps the ideas anonymous.
Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 19, 2016
I’m assuming the facilitator is a hands-on project leader who facilitates meetings, such as idea generation or strategy sessions. I am sometimes asked what a Facilitator should have in their kit bag. Here’s my answer — the Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit list.
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