Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With AI’s predictive analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing, leaders and innovators are unlocking new potentials in understanding user needs and market trends. This leads to a more comprehensive understanding of the user experience.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Design Thinking Design Analysis 113

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 15, 2020

You have to work on future trends and identify emerging needs or opportunities and identify them before others do. The needs, wants, priorities, unmet gaps and emerging trends provide context to let good innovators know where the opportunities lie. Whole segments can emerge and disappear relatively quickly.

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Technical Review Trends Innovation Technology 227

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Failure in a funded project in a corporation is typically judged rather harshly, and over the last 3 to 4 decades with outsourcing, rightsizing, cost reductions, six sigma and more, we've trained a management cadre to dislike change, risk and uncertainty. In fact, many ideas hope to do just that.

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Innovation Project Tips Marketing 271

Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

AI offers capabilities that can dramatically improve various stages of design thinking by providing actionable insights, predicting trends, and automating repetitive tasks. By harnessing AI’s computational power, teams can: Identify user needs and market trends with greater accuracy.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Tools Design 100

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.

Innovation 157

Innovation Culture Training Project 157

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2023

New analytics approaches powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can identify real-time data patterns, helping anticipate trends and inform decision-making. For example, AI can analyze large datasets of user feedback to identify patterns and trends, guiding designers in making data-informed decisions.

Design Thinking 147

Design Thinking Technical Review Design Technology 147

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.

Technology 50

Technology Internet of things Ideation Artificial Inteligence 50

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

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. Empowerment also means providing the necessary resources and training to turn ideas into reality.

Innovation 113

Innovation Leadership Ideation Innovation Processes 113

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. Fractional Trend. It’s the 80/20 rule.

Innovation 59

Innovation Trends Roadmap Product Development 59

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Blowing my own horn here but you’ll be hard pressed to find a better preparation course to manage innovation projects and sessions.

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Training Idea Generation Ideation Innovation 40

Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovative companies use innovation to differentiate themselves by: Conducting regular idea generation workshops within business units. The most innovative companies flex between different styles of creating opportunity by: Sponsoring employees for taking risks and championing new ideas through to execution.

Culture of Innovation 99

Culture of Innovation Culture Innovation Leadership 99

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. There are many reasons why I like trend spotting and scenario planning, but it's the sense of understanding what might happen in the future that really resonates with me.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Development Team Review Innovation 100

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session. Seven Ways to Better Prepare for Idea Generation: Assign at least three hours of homework over a few weeks.

Brainstorming 42

Brainstorming Idea Generation Exercises Training 42

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Encourages leaders to seek out emerging trends and technologies that could influence future markets. These activities might include: Idea Generation Workshops : Leaders participate in brainstorming sessions where they are encouraged to propose unconventional solutions to business challenges.

Culture of Innovation 113

Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Trends – Fueling Your Future Innovations Trends are an extremely valuable innovation asset that should be part of any business innovation strategy. Trends indicate where you should focus your innovation efforts and can act as the fuel for your ideas. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Trends – Fueling Your Future Innovations Trends are an extremely valuable innovation asset that should be part of any business innovation strategy. Trends indicate where you should focus your innovation efforts and can act as the fuel for your ideas. Top 3 Alternative Innovation Assets 1.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Front End Discovery The standard innovation funnel is kicked off with an idea generation phase, yet this does not focus on the strategic inspiration for idea challenges – these being a specific topic or issue that you wish to ideate around. Innovate & Craft Once you have gathered insights and trends etc.

Ideation 98

Ideation Technical Review Innovation Trends 98

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

By fostering an environment where every voice could be heard, they saw a 25% increase in project delivery speed and a 30% improvement in employee satisfaction. This led to cross-departmental projects that leveraged these diverse experiences, resulting in a 15% growth in annual revenue and a significant rise in cross-functional innovation.

Leadership 100

Leadership Meeting Culture Collaboration 100

Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples. Invision Craft Sketch Photoshop Let's talk Intermediary platforms.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Resources Software 52

Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples. Invision Craft Sketch Photoshop Let's talk Intermediary platforms.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Resources Software 52

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Front End Discovery The standard innovation funnel is kicked off with an idea generation phase, yet this does not focus on the strategic inspiration for idea challenges – these being a specific topic or issue that you wish to ideate around. Innovate & Craft Once you have gathered insights and trends etc.

Ideation 98

Ideation Technical Review Innovation Trends 98

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A promising idea did not foresee a roadblock that cannot be resolved. Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. Technology trends lay in the seventh position in this “biggest strategic challenges.” Now that is shocking!

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

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.

Training 48

Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

Additionally, using your audience for idea generation can lead to direct investment on the part of the customers, and they will be more interested in seeing the process unfold from idea to product, which can inherently make your digital marketing more successful. The trend of crowdsourcing has taken our modern culture by storm.

Crowdsourcing 127

Crowdsourcing Marketing Strategy Strategy 127

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

Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

” “We don’t do idea generation well.” You need to embrace Different, and also it’s cousins, Risk and New to enliven innovation projects. MoshPit is a new way to combine existing trends and technologies to get to new and different. ” “Lackluster.

Brainstorming 48

Brainstorming Innovation Programs Ideation Idea Generation 48

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The days of proprietary software or hardware are going by the wayside, and Cisco is part of that trend that sees the value in opening up your software to third-party companies because that's what going to keep your product line innovative to others. Check out how the idea generation and project roadmaps here.).

Open Innovation 91

Open Innovation Company Crowdsourcing Innovation 91

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2015

How then can we imagine that we can layer on another "important" task - an innovation project or activity - when these folks can barely keep their heads above water on the tasks they are reasonably good at? Time to consider emerging trends and technologies. Time to do an effective job generating ideas and solutions.

Roadmap 100

Roadmap Innovation Culture Engagement 100

ITONICS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Together with the customer, we develop a framework for future innovation, technology, startup or trend management. Experiences and best practices from other projects in the same industry or similar problems are incorporated. Which trends can I currently observe and how do they influence my corporate environment?

Innovation Management 44

Innovation Management Management Roadmap Trends 44

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

One of these well-trodden and expected pathways is to "train" people on new tools and methods when introducing a new project or capability. You can teach them tools and techniques like TRIZ or trend spotting. You can teach them process methodologies that lead them from customer needs to ideas to prototypes to customer validation tests.

Training 113

Training Innovation Exercises Tools 113

Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The team cranked out 320 ideas, wrote up 20 as elaborated concepts with mini-plans, and we roadmapped innovation projects for the next three years. The other project did my heart some good, helping small business people recover from Covid19. This is not rocket science, but it’s work that needs done. It’s brilliant.

Roadmap 98

Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

The BMI Lab Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

These restrictions are suited to run established companies, but they are not helpful to explore new possibilities during an innovation workshop or project. To get started it may be useful to separate them into two groups: Divergence tools, focused on the generation of as many ideas as possible.

Innovation Processes 53

Innovation Processes Tools Creativity Ideation 53

Gregg Fraley

JULY 29, 2016

What projects might we get started before the end of the year? What trends and ideas outside our industry might we adapt to innovate? The process* is kinesthetic and uses carefully curated trend-objects — you “think-with-your-hands.” Are you asking questions like these (you should be!):

Tools 40

Tools Strategy Strategy Ideation 40

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. “The value is that Baldrige is intentionally non-prescriptive. .

Crowdsourcing 199

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Planview

JUNE 29, 2018

As we analyze this data year over year, we can see trends emerge and see how what’s important to them changes over time. What ideas do we have that align with our strategy? What ideas do we have in our innovation pipeline? What ideas have become successful projects? What is the value?

Innovation Programs 45

Innovation Programs Crowdsourcing Ideation Data 45

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? 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.

How To 98

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

The Methods Lab: Research Toolkit (not online anymore, former EU-project). In order to categorise the different research methods, I combined a few sources to create a general ‘research process’ On average we could state that each R&D-trajectory consists of the following steps: Explore. Universal Methods of Design.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analysis Handbook 75