Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Most corporate innovators have no training in using experiential tools.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We live in a system where ‘innovation’ is usually only permitted from the top.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

“We need to seek the opportunity to learn and grow, the possibilities of things to be discovered, not the certainties to be recovered.” Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 14, 2024

By mapping out each component, companies can identify areas for innovation and explore how changes in one area may impact others. Lean Startup Methodology The Lean Startup methodology , created by Eric Ries, emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping, validated learning, and other iterative product and service development techniques.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We’ve all been “talked at,” and it can stall good ideas and innovative processes before they even start. Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. Really hearing what somebody says is always a bonus for innovation.

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 3, 2014

The resonance to my recent post on integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking features to a combined process has been stunning. Interestingly, it looks like others support the idea of balancing and combining elements of both innovation approaches, too. It really seems to have hit a nerve!

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 24, 2019

In my continuing series of posts about lessons learned from corporate innovation, today I'd like to expand on the idea of innovation language, and go even further. I'd like to riff on the idea of innovation as central, organizing idea in a business rather than an occasional distraction.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! NCARB teams learned how to proactively reach out to customers to deeply understand them and to design quick experiments for testing potential solutions before building them.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the design thinking process? What are the key steps of the design thinking process? How can I learn design thinking? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can I learn design thinking? These can be a good starting point to learn more about design thinking and its applications.

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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 real training to build skills.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

In the first place, experimentation is about testing assumptions and hypotheses by means of a scientific learning approach. Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intensified use of (rapid) prototyping. Culture of experimentation (and speed).

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide. Both paradigms transformed innovation approaches worldwide.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. This is the best place to start your discovery process.

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Strategyzer Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

Most teams start out with a failed idea, but this high failure rate is not a bug, it’s a feature of the innovation process. Teams learn early on to not fall in love with their ideas and rigorously weed out bad ideas through evidence-based experimentation. Spark is tools and knowledge applied in practice. So, How Does Spark Work?

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How much innovation is being left on the table by ignoring cross-domain concept blends? Innovation leaders and CEO’s leave breakthrough on the table because their innovation processes leave out deliberate combinations. Innovation Directors and CEO’s — why not? It’s deep idea exploration.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. It is important to focus on learning in this stage. Prototype?—?Test

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Ask, “What can we learn?” Approve experiments and encourage Lean prototyping. Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions. Assign some of your best people to innovation projects. Be inquisitive.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Join us at Catalyst Ranch, a truly fun place to learn! Innovation Intensive will help you improve the effectiveness of innovation projects. Participants learn how to avoid classic pitfalls and adopt emerging advanced practices. Experienced innovation professionals will learn new methods, tools, and concepts.

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hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

However, having leaders who drive and foster innovation accelerates a company’s growth. Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. It also shows the company’s interest in investing in innovation.

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket? Figure 1: Innovation process map (Courtesy: IDEO).

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should!

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Employing user-centric design and iterative development processes, businesses can ensure their product innovations resonate with their target audience and stand out in the marketplace. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

These structures, while effective for the incremental growth of billion-dollar core businesses, often kill potentially disruptive innovations at their inception, as Pilot 44’s Andrew Backs suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Labs session. In most companies there’s a lot of opportunities just collecting dust.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. This is not merely about testing ideas but also about fostering learning.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But I still find it a helpful visualization tool for outlining a high-level innovation process in search of good ideas. It’s also equally applicable to bootstrapping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators alike. Innovation for innovation’s sake usually leads to interesting solutions, but disappointing business models.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. I liked the suggested digital design principles that BCG outlined in their report.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound. You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. In fact, the real power lies in combining different innovation approaches to fit a unique context. No one size fits all.

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CREATORS

APRIL 27, 2020

Some focus on impact, others on the process, financial output of innovation, etc. These KPIs measure the “inputs” into the innovation process, demonstrate what level of innovation activity is going on in the company and display how wide the range of innovation activities is.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

But these short-lived programs aren’t all there is to innovation, and they shouldn’t scare you off as a corporate innovator. In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Also look to tools like the business model canvas, and learning trackers.

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