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

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

As you learn more MCPS thinking tools, creative power grows. It’s easy-to-learn, immediately useful, and only gets more powerful as thinking shifts towards more focused, improvisational, and creative, problem solving. Big improvements and more effective solutions are available to anyone willing to learn and use MCPS.”

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). 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.

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Training Innovation Programs LEAN Innovation 58

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.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Join us at Catalyst Ranch, a truly fun place to learn! 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. Experienced innovation professionals will learn new methods, tools, and concepts.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance and Portfolio Management, Christian Stadler (Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School and bestselling author) presented a revolutionary approach to strategy. This principle can be applied to the corporate world as well.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Groups 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

. “ We need to map the jobs and generate desired outcome statements that are specific and of real interest to the customer, not our list of multiple ideas generated based on where we are or what we think we know” The need for a modern engagement platform.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. I am a firm believer in defining a fungible innovation process - a set of steps to help ensure that innovators complete a set of activities and learnings before they recommend an idea. Develop a process or at least define a consistent set of tools.

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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. It’s deep idea exploration. It’s fun.

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Ideation Innovation Processes Trends Exercises 52

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. Participants learn classic pitfalls and how to avoid them using best practices and emerging advanced practices.

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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! 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.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. More and more companies are finding approaches worth repeating, getting promising new ideas into their customers’ hands, delivering value, and making revenue. Also look to tools like the business model canvas, and learning trackers.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. More and more companies are finding approaches worth repeating, getting promising new ideas into their customers’ hands, delivering value, and making revenue. Also look to tools like the business model canvas, and learning trackers.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. More and more companies are finding approaches worth repeating, getting promising new ideas into their customers’ hands, delivering value, and making revenue. Also look to tools like the business model canvas, and learning trackers.

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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.

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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

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

AUGUST 30, 2016

Lean is not innovation. Learn as you go and use the lovely techniques and concepts that best fit your organization. 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.

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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. Want to learn even more about this unique finance process improvement project?

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Are ideas for new things encouraged and worked or are they barely tolerated? Is it a “pitch” culture where ideas for projects get a chance to be put into play? Is a failure truly viewed as a learning experience or as a career killer? Are you taking enough risk? Does everyone have to agree? Do your people know them?

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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 the facilitators of brainstorm sessions learn how to dependably spark creativity in others?

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Groups Creativity 20

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Today I think part of the clients experimenting and learning internally is due to this disappointment with the consultant. I get the distinct impression the focus of most innovation consultants is still locked into product innovation or improving the process of the pipeline / portfolio, the idea generation and project execution model.

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Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

But we have good news for all those who have not yet taken the step into the right direction: Although every innovation has something new and unique, we can learn significantly from the companies that get it right and create a first how-to-plan based on their workflows, structures, and practices.

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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

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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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. Idea Evaluation and Prioritisation: Figuring out which ideas have more potential than others, and which fit the strategic goals.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 276

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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