Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. Most managers will ask: why take the risk? Managers can squeeze out a few more percentage points of profit on existing products without significant risk.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. And, if a good idea doesn’t become a project, some actual real world action, what’s the point? Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. .

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Guidelines Study 111

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. It grows your capacity to run effective projects.

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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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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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every organization needs to find methods innovate ideas and solutions based on the nature of their jobs and the types of challenges that need to be solved. Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. Innovation Management. Course duration : 9 weeks.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every organization needs to find methods innovate ideas and solutions based on the nature of their jobs and the types of challenges that need to be solved. Appropriate innovation-management processes and the tools will help generate a culture of innovation and new profits. Innovation Management. Course duration : 9 weeks.

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ITONICS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Based on our long-standing cooperation with international innovation leaders, we have developed a consulting approach consisting of four components using frameworks, methods, and training to establish and encourage successful and holistic innovation management. Do you know how your company performs in the field of innovation management?

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Mandate it (ask for it), Innovation Training, Focused Projects, and Ad-Hoc Temporary Teams. As part of an organizational innovation project, ask for ideas using virtual systems. Projects alone can change cultures. Check out BrightIdea (a leading Idea Management System).

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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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. Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Almost always.

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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.

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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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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. The project leader of an innovation effort might be the worst person to have leading a session.

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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.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now. Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

It is an arduous journey, inherently risky.But innovation partners, consultants, and innovation management software offer much promise in this space. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. Innovation can be incremental (e.g. The Innovation Process.

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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.

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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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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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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

.” “We don’t do idea generation well.” The quotes above are all from larger company high level managers who already have highly defined innovation processes in place. The managers above have read a lot of that literature, taken it to heart, gotten training, and put processes in place.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Yet the company has managed to generate hundreds of new ideas each year since 2014, resulting in millions in cost-saving and improved employee safety. Read on to learn more about this fascinating initiative and understand how you might be able to utilize an idea management platform to deliver similar results for your company.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 23, 2018

The strategy and the direction of innovation are set by a company’s top management. Today’s top management needs a completely different set of skills and expertise than in previous generations. R&D body that is centrally managed and financed by the company. Centralized R&D Unit.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

This article examines the critical role innovation management software plays in enabling enterprises to not only champion innovation but also to expand these efforts comprehensively across the entire business. To cultivate such a culture, leadership must actively encourage and reward risk-taking and idea generation.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

In this article, we explore the concept of Total Innovation Management (TIM) and how you can leverage it at your enterprise. 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.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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. . Companies are well-coordinated environments geared towards amassing and managing highly specialized knowledge in order to address issues and create opportunities. DEDICATED METRICS.

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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.

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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. If you’re a leader, create the mandate , and get a diverse team organized to carry it out, in Projects. Projects change culture.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

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. . Companies are well-coordinated environments geared towards amassing and managing highly specialized knowledge in order to address issues and create opportunities. DEDICATED METRICS.

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Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

ITONICS

AUGUST 23, 2018

The strategy and the direction of innovation are set by a company’s top management. Today’s top management needs a completely different set of skills and expertise than in previous generations. R&D body that is centrally managed and financed by the company. Centralized R&D Unit.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Leadership 28

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.

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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.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost saving since 2014. So Enexis is made up of three distinct divisions, there’s Infrastructure, Asset Management and HR/IT. How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Michiel : Sure!

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost-saving since 2014. So Enexis is made up of three distinct divisions, there’s Infrastructure, Asset Management and HR/IT. How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Michiel : Sure!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

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. GFi is a consultancy that focuses on innovation training, project facilitation, and innovation culture building. Innovation doesn’t just happen.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

And in truth, it’s the innovations to organizations and management that precede product or technology innovation anyway. Instead, let’s open up a dialogue with everyone in the organization about how we can get better at finding, testing, and implementing the great ideas that people are already having. Twitter: @davidburkus.

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