Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Offer strategies for effective prototyping and testing. They inspire attendees by showcasing successful case studies and sharing strategies to foster an inventive mindset. Prototyping and Testing Once ideas are generated, they need to be brought to life. Provide guidance on successful implementation and execution.

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Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

Leanstack

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation. The idea sweet spot But tackling all three risks at once can be overwhelming. You can create a Lean(er) Canvas at LeanCanvas.com.

LEAN 40

LEAN Exercises Idea Generation Marketing 40

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

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Projects aligned with a vision for the future and a strategy to get there. Energized idea generation about potential projects (that is, what projects might we do?). Which is best? Can I blend frameworks?

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Project Idea Generation Innovation Design Thinking 70

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You need to demonstrate that innovation is not "a" strategy, but is a way to accomplish strategies - growth, differentiation, new line extensions and so on. In fact, every strategy, every business and every product should have an innovation component. How do you make innovation important to an executive team?

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Innovation Culture Training Project 157

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

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

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Tools Product Development 49

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

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

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. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions.

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Course Training Idea Generation Brainstorming 26

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Or a capable management team may waste time and effort building an inappropriate innovation portfolio of projects if the leadership team has not communicated a clear innovation strategy. 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

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

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

“Delivering an integrated framework would be for many, a strategy that is innovative in itself” Opening up our thinking towards ecosystems has a powerful effect. These cover Lean, Co-creation, Collaboration, Ecosystems, Open Innovation, Ten Types of Innovation, User-Led Innovation and others.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy Innovation for innovation’s sake is a recipe for disaster. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. Communicate the overlap visually and include this in your conversations with others. How can we do this?

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Innovation not linked to company’s existing vision or strategy. Figure out which parts of your company’s existing vision and strategy your innovation efforts can help out. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Failure to secure sustained funding.

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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

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

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.

Software Review 40

Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In other words, it is because sometimes innovation strategies fail to produce products/ services that the customers want. Number of ideas generated. Number of ideas shortlisted. Number of ideas funded. In fact, there are companies that came later and captured a much bigger market share. Number of products launched.

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Ideation 40

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

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. The post Navigating Innovation Options appeared first on Strategos – Strategy and Innovation Consulting Firm.

Innovation 40

Innovation Leadership Resources Exercises 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

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

The course explores longer term innovation road-mapping and links to organizational strategy and purpose. Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. Connection to strategy, purpose, mission. Why innovation? Innovation culture assessments.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

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. As stated above, more explorative budget allows for larger and far-reaching ambidextrous set-ups.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67