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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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Innovation Facilitation — Death is Easy, Magic Takes Training

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It means you need to know some basic innovation processes like CPS and/or design thinking. Post-It Note brainstorming can work, but it can’t be the only thing you do in a workshop. Planning an innovation workshop or ideation session is an art form in and of itself. This means you have to be a strategic thinker.

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Colorado Innovation Training

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Here’s a page with details. It’s next week Starting Wednesday February 1, continuing on Feb 2, finishing at noon on Feb.

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Innovation MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

With careful facilitation and rigorous planning , you then have a MoshPit intensive workshop session that scaffolds and explores the concept “dots” inside each of the elements above. Set B — Domains of Concepts Inside Your Organization. Organizational IP. Unique Org Capabilities. Existing Products and Services.

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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. You could use quick-and-dirty guerilla research methods (e.g., Implement a process to continuously optimize your experience at scale.

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The Billion Dollar Breakthrough You Missed

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Why not do a workshop dedicated to new combinations on a yearly or bi-yearly basis? 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. Are you an Innovation Director?

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Innovation Strategy Power Tools

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Stay Tuned: I’m putting together plans for a September public workshop where I’ll be teaching facilitators how to up their game. FuseTrail is KILN’s Front-End-Of-Innovation design that starts with exploring challenges and ends with story-based management pitches.