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Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Design Thinking puts an emphasis on this exploration, it’s a fundamental built into their framework, excellent! However, customers often don’t know what they need or want.

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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.). Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail.

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Purpose Driven Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks?

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How to Nail Your First 90 Days as a CX Director

ConversionXL

Access to a team with skills that include scientific experimentation, UX, copywriting , consumer psychology , statistics , data analysis, coding, research methodologies, change management, and design. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? You could use quick-and-dirty guerilla research methods (e.g.,

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential. Teams achieve breakthrough results when properly facilitated through through a rapid, flexible, but structured process at the front end of innovation. Knowing how to adapt and blend frameworks to your needs is no longer advanced practice in innovation.

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The Billion Dollar Breakthrough You Missed

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

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. The dots most people leave out are from domains outside your industry and expertise. There is a great deal of focus today on the process of innovation.