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Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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Purpose Driven Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Can I blend frameworks? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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Tune-In To Taster Tools On Thursday

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS). He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Framework training is useful, but you can get into the weeds and get killed if you don’t have other fundamentals sorted out. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

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The Billion Dollar Breakthrough You Missed

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Deliberate concept blends, combinations, are not a defined part of existing innovation frameworks. 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.

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The Innovation Imperative

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The content is about how the best organizations do it; mindset, frameworks, project selections, and how to create the elusive culture of innovation. The pro’s and con’s of deliberate processes and frameworks versus organic innovation. How to get, or provide, a specific mandate for innovation.