Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. Redefine Brainstorming If You Want Results. .

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Guidelines Study 111

Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Thousands of grassroots innovators are continuously developing ideas in line with those goals, confident in their next steps. And at the organizational level, leadership has a clear roadmap for achieving ideal outcomes even faster. How do you move from idea generation to rigorous idea development the right way?

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Software Review Innovation Programs Project Innovation 105

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the coming days I will review two books, one by an old friend (Roger Von Oech) and one by a professor at INSEAD who I have not had the pleasure of meeting. Finally, in Chapter 8, Bensauo has a chapter on the role of senior leadership, but it feels somewhat too little, too late. The book was published in September 2021.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 27, 2022

The distinction is that working in the business defines the work that drives the business day to day - going to meetings, answering email, providing products and services for customers. Executives need to delegate day to day operations to their leadership and managers, and spend far more time thinking and acting on strategy and on innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. On-site gatherings: Invite customers and prospects to your site to test new products, provide feedback on existing products, and for idea generation. User groups : Hold user group meetings where ideas are shared and feedback is welcomed.

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

Idea Champions

JUNE 9, 2020

. -- Notice "room for improvement" moments, then give feedback. -- Facilitate more productive and enjoyable meetings. -- Have more frequent team meetings. -- Help team members frame compelling "How can I?" what your team learned from an experience, mistake, or "failure"). Go beyond the team leader overload syndrome.

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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. Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Almost always.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

As we get increasingly involved in innovation activity, we meet more of the unforeseen uncertainties of working on something new where there is a need to decide, often on a limited set of factors than the ideal. We need to deploy the cascading effect on innovation to support this supporting “effect.” It is complex.

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Innovation Engagement Resources Strategy 246

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Meeting the Challenge. Skill One: Risk Management. Innovation carries inherent risk.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

You can find different sets of idea generation cards, like IDEO Method Cards, or a game like Binnakle The Expedition, covering all phases of the creative process. People let themselves go and show you their real profile, which may be hidden in a formal meeting. To optimise creative sessions. To optimise co-creation.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. Meeting the Challenge. Skill One: Risk Management. Innovation carries inherent risk.

Leadership 49

Leadership Innovation Engagement Examples 49

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

As we get increasingly involved in innovation activity, we meet more of the unforeseen uncertainties of working on something new where there is a need to decide, often on a limited set of factors than the ideal. We need to deploy the cascading effect on innovation to support this supporting “effect.” It is complex.

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Innovation Engagement Resources Strategy 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

Idea Generation: AI algorithms can suggest a wide array of possibilities based on existing designs, market trends, and user preferences. Pattern Recognition: AI can recognize complex patterns in user behavior and suggest design modifications to better meet their needs. This helps to spark creativity and inspire new concepts.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

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. The weekly sessions are FREE. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings take up precious time, and, are dead essential to moving the ball downfield. How that is handled will determine the outcome of your meeting.

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Meeting Project Training Brainstorming 67

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Their supervisors tell them to focus on their objectives and meet this quarter’s numbers. There is no point in committing resources to idea generation – whether in suggestions schemes, brainstorms or innovation training – unless you are prepared to commit significantly more resources for the implementation of the best ideas.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 9, 2021

This could be a good design thinking challenge to work on if you’ve got a general audience addressing how people can digitally transform work as a leader or the projects that they work on. . Using guided idea generation. Using whiteboard virtual tools. For a workshop you may not have that much time. Using “How might we?”

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Design Thinking Design Tips Idea Generation 52

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. This includes the various meetings, steps, and processes that make innovation happen. More effective innovation cycles, more effective brainstorming.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

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. If you’re mid-sized, paying attention to growing these skills helps you grow.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. Collaboration wasn’t just forced, it was part of the spirit within the company walls, across all meetings and in written communications of the organisation.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

The idea generation phase involves various possible solutions, then the designers start prototyping, gaining feedback, and ongoing iterations. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design. Even during a recession, you can meet the needs of your customers and grow your business.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 23, 2018

We took a closer look at the most important sources of innovation in large companies: The Leadership. Yet, companies around the world are in digital transition and face even larger leadership gaps. Today’s top management needs a completely different set of skills and expertise than in previous generations. Intrapreneurs.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Leadership 44

Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Meeting 24

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 16, 2017

I continue to read and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. As GE claim in their case “ the edge is the place where the cloud meets the customer environment ”. Something has to change, we need to jettison old ways.

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Innovation Disruption Design Analysis 100

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.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Destination Innovation

MARCH 29, 2016

They encourage ideas from within and without Shell. The criteria they use in evaluating ideas are as follows. Novelty – is the idea fundamentally different? Value – could the idea generate substantial new value? If the external idea appears to meet the criteria then Shell offers three routes forward.

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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

Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Micro-Learning for Innovators , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job. And it only takes 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Perhaps there is a real mismatch between clients’ needs in aspirations and budgets and the available innovation consultants’ ability to match and relate to specific industry practice and scale to meet client needs. The one real change that is occurring is in thought leadership from consultants.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 16, 2017

They are also often overlooked for leadership positions. In practice, extroverts are likely to use idea-generation sessions like brainstorming as a sort of “thinking out loud exercise”, saying whatever idea comes into their minds. Inspiration. Verification.

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Creativity Brainstorming Groups Exercises 143

Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Examples: Fraction of the workforce trained in innovation, amount of leadership time spent on innovation vs day to day operations, the fraction of the capital budget that the company invests in innovation projects, number of ideas coming from customers or partners, number of innovation tools and methodologies available to employees.

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ITONICS

AUGUST 23, 2018

We took a closer look at the most important sources of innovation in large companies: The Leadership. Yet, companies around the world are in digital transition and face even larger leadership gaps. Today’s top management needs a completely different set of skills and expertise than in previous generations. Intrapreneurs.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Leadership 28

Values Centered Innovation

MAY 6, 2017

Intangible assets have a direct impact on meeting the top strategic challenges that CEOs face globally. Commit to a comprehensive focus on Leadership for Innovation. Read Part 1: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. Attract and develop human capital. Start with the top HR priority: Develop Leaders.

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Video Innovation Engagement Innovation Processes 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2019

The speakers provide three different perspectives on innovation: theory of the “how to” from Gregg Fraley, real world case studies by local manufacturer Earl Miller, and the role of innovative leadership from Sheila Matias. This is an intensive short training program for those seeking to innovate and grow. Innovation doesn’t just happen.

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Training Innovation Case Study Creative Process 45

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even at serious meetings? But that kind of mental work might be the most satisfying thing a human can do. I’d call that fun. If you want to learn more about your innovation culture, look for evidence of a culture of humor. Do people laugh? Do people make good natured jokes?

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Culture Training Creative Thinking Innovation 52

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. There is exclusively a communication gap between leadership and non-management employees.

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