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. Lean Coffee. As you discuss ideas and action items, document them as cards.

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Brainstorming LEAN Technical Review Analysis 98

Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Luckily, anyone can improve their creative output by leaning on a few tried and tested techniques.

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Idea Generation Creativity Idea Management Ideation 98

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we?

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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes. Remember, a strong innovation culture is not just about the ideas generated; it’s about the people, processes, and environment that make sustainable innovation possible.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. I’m always happy, for instance, to see Lean Canvas posters in conference rooms.

Underperforming Technical Team 49

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Product Development 49

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. Almost always.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

Idea Champions' ideation webinar has been invaluable in helping diverse and remote teams around the globe focus on the essentials of great idea generation." - Jon Bidwell, Director of Innovation, Chubb Insurance. Idea Champions brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. Idea Champions.

Brainstorming 52

Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Creativity 52

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.

Training 58

Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Luckily, anyone can improve their creative output by leaning on a few tried and tested techniques.

Idea Generation 52

Idea Generation Creativity Idea Management Ideation 52

Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas. I’m always happy, for instance, to see Lean Canvas posters in conference rooms.

Underperforming Technical Team 45

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Product Development 45

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. For organizations, MCPS is a foundational framework for building a culture of constant creative improvisation in order to innovate. Comedy improvisation games and story telling are already integrated with MCPS.

Creativity 98

Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

The secret sauce in the design of a MoshPit session is how fresh thinking is scaffolded through the discovery and idea generation process. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. MoshPit integrates well with other innovation frameworks and methods.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

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.

Course 53

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?

Ideation 52

Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

In recent years the focus has been on creating highly efficient organizations that apply lean principles to both management and operations. The sequential steps of insight development, idea generation, idea elaboration, and experiment design can be managed using a variety of tools.

Idea Generation 60

Idea Generation Innovation Programs Innovation Groups 60

Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring. Those who lean towards a Miles Davis mindset are more likely to adopt an open approach to innovation. Are You a Prince of Serendip?

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Groups 52

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Innovation is challenging and complex, moving from a very nebulous world of trends and needs and emerging capabilities to a very definitive set of features and requirements.

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

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.

Team Building 53

Team Building LEAN Design Thinking Agile 53

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Don’t get hung up on whether to use Lean, or Design Thinking, or CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail , or some arcane method history has hung around your neck. Look, there are a million methods to do innoation, including those methods I espouse. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“Crowdsourcing does have a sound potential to compliment or simply become your principal source of turning concepts and challenges into solid ideas that do have an impact” Tackling the Internal Jobs-to-be-done for Improving Innovation. Great views, opinions and contributions have been building in a very methodical way.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

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. It does not start and end with idea generation.

Roadmap 100

Roadmap Innovation Culture Engagement 100

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. Keep in mind these activities are not just “energizers” — they are critical learning steps. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. A framework is a scaffold.

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Learning Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation 45

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

Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

There is no reason why a MoshPit session can’t be done within any other innovation method, be it Design Thinking, Lean, or whatever your organization uses. My vision is this front-ends a yearly innovation cycle. In fact, the combination of this new tool with those older frameworks can make those methods more effective.

Innovation 70

Innovation Trends Design Thinking LEAN 70

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. Frameworks fail when leaders don’t have these cultural basics squared away.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

As a direct outcome of the Idea Champions' session, students and faculty are actively working on several new projects that will make our College even more entrepreneurial! The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. Thank you!" -- Candida G.

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Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Creativity LEAN 31

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

How To 98

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

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

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Globally, TSYS was able to engage more than 3,000 of their technology team members, train over 100 change agents and leaders to drive new innovation initiatives, launch more than 50 complex LEAN projects, and much more.

Software Review 40

Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation). Pitching ideas, prototyping, and resourcing innovation. The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation. Power tools and techniques for identifying new markets (Design Thinking).

Design Thinking 51

Design Thinking Innovation Project Idea Generation 51

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

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

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed. Innovation needs structure.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

He later evolved it into a broader model involving opportunity identification, opportunity analysis, idea generation, idea selection, and concept definition — much of what has today come to be known as Innovation Management. In both cases, the work being described was work that preceded the formal product development process.

Innovation 40

Innovation Product Development Ideation Marketing 40

Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

And besides, even a casual scan of the literature will reveal an extraordinary number of innovation-leaning people who joined forces with others to conceive something brilliant that none of them could have conjured on their own. How can brainstorm sessions build on the good ideas generated by participants before the session begins?

Brainstorming 20

Brainstorming Idea Generation Groups Creativity 20

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