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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. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. Frameworks fail when leaders don’t have these cultural basics squared away.

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Tune-In To Taster Tools On Thursday

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. As a successful technology entrepreneur he has a broad perspective on business and always has ideas about how to solve thorny problems.

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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

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor. There is also a lot of yakking about culture.

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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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How to Nail Your First 90 Days as a CX Director

ConversionXL

waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? You could use quick-and-dirty guerilla research methods (e.g., agile vs. waterfall) you plan to implement, alongside how you’ll educate and increase the focus on CX throughout the business. How are new ideas and features decided upon, prioritized, tested, and measured?

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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.