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Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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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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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative.

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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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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.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook - Untitled Article

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking. The Innovation Intensive course outline: Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, CPS, and blended systems). Contact GFi for pricing and registration information. . Why innovation?