Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Very few organization’s are any good at all at Brainstorming/Idea Generation. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail. If you don’t take calculated risks, and continue to take them, you will fail.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. No compelling vision or reason to innovate If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. Innovation needs structure.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“The strength of the Executive Innovation Work Mat as a framing document to provide this leadership dialogue becomes essential for organizations wanting to gain complete organization engagement” Building a compelling business case for an integrated innovation framework.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. If the people in your organization don’t get why you’re innovating, you’re going to have a hard time harnessing their talent, support, energy, ideas, and expertise– and you’ll need all of these if you want to be successful. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Senior team not aligned or embracing.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed? Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not?

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Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

Classic Improv games are adaptable for visioning, exploration, problem framing, idea generation, solution development, and planning. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS.

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Team Building LEAN Design Thinking Agile 53

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result of this project, TSYS was able to address employee pain points and inefficiencies, enhance corporate leadership strategies, increase savings, and implement lucrative new ideas. Despite the considerable success achieved during this short period, there were some clear limitations to this ‘analogue’ idea-gathering approach.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business. Big Data is high on everybody’s radar and used as input to identify opportunities.

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Innovation Leadership Resources Exercises 40

Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

They observe that the transfer rate from the promising ideas generated in the vehicles mentioned above into substantial business is too low. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They are based on agile / lean start-up / test-and-learn principles.

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Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The emphasis on thinking through new business models, combining design thinking, lean management, customer development, prototyping, experimenting outside the lab, collaborating with clients, finding different partners, the different exploitation of research techniques are all breaking out in different forms and combinations.

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Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Lean is not innovation. Guided visualizations are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. Creative Problem Solving is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Prototyping is not innovation. Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation.

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Project Big Data Innovation Brainstorming 50

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Even though it took 7 months for the founders to persuade Bosch leadership that their vision is doable, the startup developed a software with machine learning and analytics integrated within the networks of the retailer and the IoT application. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Innovation requires a different mindset and approach than normal operations. Do your people know them? If they don’t it’s a way to significantly up your game.

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

." - Charlotte Oades, Director, Brand Marketing, The Coca Cola Company "Idea Champions' virtual Ideation Jump Start session has been a cost effective and efficient tool that gets our teams right into the thick of idea generation and collaboration." - Jon Bidwell, Director of Innovation, Chubb Insurance "Superb!

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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation. Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Contact GFi for pricing and registration information. . Why innovation?

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training?

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