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. Speakers may discuss project management tools and techniques that can help streamline the implementation process and ensure that the innovative solutions achieve their intended impact.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Next, find the best people to do innovation work and give them the skills necessary to lead and conduct innovation projects.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

"Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing. "As Idea Champions brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. Idea Champions.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Creativity 52

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. This is a one day deep-dive, hands-on workshop in facilitation of innovation projects.

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Course Training Brainstorming Design Thinking 53

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. Nor has the focusing power of projects, or “concept blending” ideation tools designed to achieve breakthrough ideas.

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Creativity Training Tools Culture 98

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 1, 2018

Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). Ideas for innovation projects emerge from the intensive sessions. GFi guarantees its work.

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Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

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 your innovation program doesn’t have a Project orientation there will be no culture change, or innovation.

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Training Innovation Programs Innovation Design Thinking 58

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

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer. Is your organization doing continuous projects? ” “What!

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Project Training Design Thinking Innovation 74

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. Develop a plan and schedule for your innovation project – and manage it as a project. Develop a plan and schedule for your innovation project – and manage it as a project.

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Idea Generation Innovation Programs Innovation Groups 60

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects. It’s the Only Kryptonite.

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LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

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. Creativity, and creative ideas, are essential ingredients, and, without other fundamentals , like projects and implementation — great ideas are a waste of time.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

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 Engagement Culture 100

Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The content is about how the best organizations do it; mindset, frameworks, project selections, and how to create the elusive culture of innovation. Getting innovation teams and projects started and accelerated. Developing ideas for products, services, and improvements (idea generation).

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Innovation Design Thinking Project Idea Generation 51

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at how TSYS launched their revolutionary Project WOW (War on Waste) – a ground-breaking process improvement methodology developed by management consulting firm Above + Beyond and powered by Qmarkets software. This left employees sceptical of the idea that future programs would be any different.

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Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. Out of the gate, most organizations put too few resources on too few ideas and expect too much out of them. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Just tossing money at it.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“TRIZ is a problem solving method based on logic and data, not intuition, which accelerates the project team’s ability to solve these problems creatively” Using the FORTH Method to Navigate Your Innovation Journey. Great views, opinions and contributions have been building in a very methodical way.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

"As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire. 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

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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Innovation Product Development Ideation Innovation Management 40

Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. What’s new is the hard proof, and, using tools more deliberately. The reason?

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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. Project development and construction.

Ideation 61

Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Why innovation?

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

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?

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Groups Creativity 20

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Often the two are caught in the classic “who does what”, “how much each can and should manage” and the ability to handover or what happens when the consultant finishes the project and leaves, taking a level of knowledge with them that was never given time to reside inside the clients. Consultants are far too cautious for their own good.

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Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

For the specific case of business model innovation, our improved and advanced version of the Lean Canvas has proven its value since it allows an easy entry into more general business model canvas frameworks. Evonik uses this integration mechanism frequently by setting up “Project Houses” with external partners.

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Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67

ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Innovative companies usually adopt the “20 percent rule” , which allows employees to dedicate 20% of their work time to projects that have nothing to do with their job description. Top Model Principle.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Innovation 57

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For example, a project team with strong capabilities to deliver innovation can be prevented from succeeding by a management team with inappropriate governance processes. Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises.

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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. Then there is usually not enough communication about what is done with the few ideas that do have merit. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture.

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Training Innovation Technical Review Culture 45