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Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Marketing Creativity emotional engagement employee recognition employee rewards employees entrepreneurship Gregg Fraley innovation culture innovation initiatives innovation leadership innovation programs innovation training leadership management trust Leadership is Uninvolved with Innovation. Yes, I just said that. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Facilitation Guerilla Innovation Humor Idea Management Innovation Intrapreneurship Leadership MoshPit Innovation Teams Training 20 things re: innovation Agile conflict Creativity design thinking digital capacity building Digital technology GFi Gregg Fraley innovation teams innovation training Lean Qualitative research risk talentWhat You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. But you probably are not! MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Open Innovation Agile CPS Creativity design thinking innovation frameworks innovation process innovation projects Lean why innovationThe Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. If you want an organization to survive, you must innovate. But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. MORE
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Nine. This Guerilla Innovation post is about the amping up part. This post is the 10th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. You have to amp those ideas before you start marketing and selling. If you are in before-start-up mode, even more reason to AMP like mad. The refined or amped up idea might just get you to that elusive Point of Difference we talked about. MORE
Guerilla Innovation. I’ve called it Guerilla Innovation (the starting post is here ) and I’ve targeted those who want to create a start-up, or, are internal innovators at companies who have little experience with innovation (and innovation-speak). This is part of what Guerilla Innovators do. Are you going to don a black beret and dive into the jungle and become a Guerilla Innovator? Wally Amos started with a simple idea, great cookies. Chapter Fourteen. MORE
Otherwise, here are instructions for all you Guerilla Innovators out there. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Idea Generation Innovation Start-ups conceptual blending Creativity Gregg Fraley Guerilla Innovation invention Jack's Notebook mash-ups Mind-Maps patents Philo Farnsworth scaffolding start-ups The Mash TVThis was the drawing done by the 14 year old Philo Farnsworth, depicting the concept that created the first all electronic TV. When In Doubt, Do The Mash. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) DIY Guerilla Innovation Humor Innovation Inspirational Story Training craftspeople Creativity Do It Yourself GFi Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFI) guitar guitars innovation mentors innovation parable innovation projects innovation story innovation training Killians mentors Moby Dick plumbers YouTubeInnovation Learning Points From the Great Faucet DIY Fiasco. DIY is a Form of Innovation. I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects. MORE
This story is part of Bplans’ “How I Did It” series—true stories of real businesses getting started, solving problems and finding success. Greg at Berry Sleepy : . “We We started selling our product online this January, and in the first week, we were just trying to get the word out with social media and guerrilla marketing. It was a humbling start. However, in week two, a local TV reporter needed a story to do and caught wind of our product. MORE
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Five. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation Jack's Notebook Start-ups blogged book COQ Creativity Gregg Fraley Guerilla Innovation Idea Management Systems Idea Notebooks IMS notebooking online book small business innovation start-ups Tony BuzanNotebooking is Innovation Viagra. What do Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Edison, Jack Kerouac, Beatrix Potter, Madame Curie, and Twyla Tharp all have in common? MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation ask for ideas CEO Creativity Freddy Prinz ideas innovation culture innovation cycles on-going operations operations Osborn-Parnes Osborn-Parnes-Basadur structured creative problem solving suggestion box Not everything about innovation is complicated. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Leadership 4 P''s of organizational creativity Creativity Martin Guitar Mel Rhodes moisturize for innovation Guitars require moisturizing, as does your innovation environment! I have a beautiful Martin guitar. It has a wonderful tone and it’s easy to play, it’s a love relationship. It’s a well engineered, and under some conditions, a quite delicate instrument. MORE
Consider this the introduction to Guerilla Strategies for Innovation. I participate when I can in a Twitter based chat session, called Innochat. It happens every Thursday around noon USA eastern time. Most of the participants are innovation geeks like myself, consultants, writers, company innovation directors, professors, etc. — tune in, it’s interesting. Last Thursday we were chatting about books. MORE
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Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Inspirational Pop Culture Reshoring Amy Kaherl collaboration community redevelopment Creativity crowdfunding crowdsourcing Detroit Detroit Soup hope Michigan Motown NBC NBC Nightly NewsAmy Kaherl is the Director/Facilitator of Detroit Soup. As a Michigander I’m always looking for some good vibes on the economy. MORE
Economic Development Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Leadership Politics & Government Pop Culture Start-ups American Dream business school rankings capitalism creating entrepreneurs Creativity entrepreneurs growing entrepreneurs KEEN Network Kern Foundation lack of start-ups. There is a very frightening trend happening in the USA. We are not growing entrepreneurs. What is it we believe in our capitalist country? MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Intrapreneurship Leadership Open Innovation Agile CEO combinations combinations for innovation combine for innovation concept blends concepts CPS Creativity deliberate combinations design thinking Digital technology Economic Development facilitation Gregg Fraley's MoshPit ideation ideational tools innovation leadership innovation process iPod Lean MoshPit Innovation Reese's Peanut Butter Cup scaffolding SCAMPER trends MORE
Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. First of Seven Blogs. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. Leaders — How Are You Doing With These Basics? Success is built on doing the basics well. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. MORE
Three Essentials for Magical Innovation Facilitation. An essential ingredient to successful innovation projects is good facilitation. Who could argue with that? Innovation combines individual and group activities. Good group collaboration is not a given. Even individual activities need coordination with the group effort. You really need an inspiring, confident, well-trained facilitator to enable innovation. MORE
In the past, guerilla marketing – the unconventional and creative use of traditional marketing tools like stickers, print ads and billboards – has been an effective means of jolting public awareness. Today, however, innovation in guerilla techniques is essential. Professionalisms AirSign guerilla marketing marketing Patrick Walsh by Patrick Walsh, CEO of AirSign Inc. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Open Innovation American Express Buckminster Fuller Bucky Fuller comprehensivist connecting dots corporate culture Creativity cross domain knowledge garden wall IBM Louis Gerstner outsider research RJR Nabisco Who Says Elephant''s Can''t Dance I’ve been researching an industry (coin operated vending) in preparation for a speech I’m giving. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Leadership Training brand purpose Creativity Gregg Fraley Innovation Speaker innovation frameworks innovation projects Innovation Road-map Innovation Roadmap Kathleen Curtis Wolfe brand purpose expert organizational purpose problem framing project scheduling projects Purpose strategyDo Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. MORE
Off-Site Innovation can indeed spur creativity. I like what Cardinal Health and Crimson Cup are doing in Columbus, OH with offsite innovation spaces. I like the attention they’ve paid to team diversity and on a customer-centered process. MORE
Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training! When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. What I also often find is inexperience. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. MORE
Sometimes Cinderella Boys Hit Innovation Holes-in-One. Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue. Let’s look at it from a pragmatic perspective if possible. Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. MORE
Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Politics & Government Reshoring Start-ups Trends, Futurism, and Research aging AIAA CEI Cincinnati competitiveness Creativity diversity engineering gender gap in engineering IEEE IEEE Spectrum manufacturing National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Obama Pam Menges Pamela A. Pamela Menges, Phd CEO of Aerospace Research Systems, Inc. MORE
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Eight. Now, the point of this chapter of Guerilla Innovation is to form a new daily practice, a behavior. This post is the 9th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. Everything is Stimuli for Scaffolding to Better Ideas. MORE
What’s Really Needed is an Innovation MoshPit. Reinventing Combinations, Concept Blends, and Mash-Ups. I’ve been touting concept blends in innovation for some time. My reason is simple, it’s a fast path to new and different ideas. From the Printing Press to the iPhone, big new market-creating innovation happens when concepts from two different domains are combined. These Mash-Ups are not intuitive for most people to do and maybe that’s why some people try it and fail. MORE
Guerilla Innovation — Chapter Thirteen. This post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation is about money and the concept of survival. The working title is Guerilla Innovation. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Start-ups bartering cash management Creativity fund raising Gregg Fraley Innovation Jack's Notebook Kickstarter Lawrence of Arabia pivot small business innovation MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Intrapreneurship assessments business growth Creativity culture Gibson Insurance Gregg Fraley innovation process innovation projects insurance riskI recently was a guest blogger for Gibson Insurance and I wrote this piece about the risk of Not Innovating. I’ll make the point again here — with fewer words. For more detail, read my post over at Gibson. Risk Aversion is a Risk Itself. MORE
Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation Intrapreneurship Open Innovation Teams Challenge questions Creativity Gregg Fraley How Might We Idea Campaigns innovation teams problem framing team tracking ideas virtual ideationSix Considerations for Inclusive Innovation. MORE
One had to do with small business innovation — Guerilla Innovation , and another had to do with a Gonzeaux Innovation Roadtrip — with views of innovation through middle America. Guerilla Innovation is essentially a free online blogged book. MORE
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Six. I’ll touch on them later in Guerilla Innovation (this online book) but, this book is primarily about innovation — that component of a business where value is created. Books & Reviews Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Innovation Start-ups brainstorming COQ CPS Gregg Fraley Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation ideas ideation Jack's Notebook Jonah Lehrer scaffolding small business start-ups MORE
Guerilla Innovation. In the previous post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation we talked about “amping ideas.” This post is the 11th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. Chapter 10. ” I reviewed two tools for doing so. They’re good tools. And…there’s more to it than those techniques. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Humor Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation Pop Culture brainstorming Creativity education film Gregg Fraley ideation Innovation Excellence innovation film clips Jack Black movies teams using innovation film clips Jack Black in Envy, touting a dog poop vaporizer. I’ve written an article on Innovation in movies – Inspiring Innovation Films: a Top Ten List. . MORE
Guerilla Innovation – Chapter 11. Until now the focus of this online-blogged-book on small business innovation has been a guerilla innovation mindset. This post is the 12th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. Hollywood Innovator, Lucille Ball. Birthing the Baby. This includes thinking, idea generation, creating, amping, and planning for getting a new business going. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Innovation Creativity Emergent See Emergent See Innovation Service facilitation GFi Gregg Fraley Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFI) innovation consulting innovation facilitation project management trainingInnovation Emergencies Happen. Emergent See Innovation from GFi Available February, 2019. I advise pro-active, and continuous, innovation. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Innovation Leadership Open Innovation Teams consultants CPS Creativity innovation consultants innovation cycles innovation director innovation manager Kiln Min Basadur P&G temporary management help using outside consultantsThe case for bringing in a temporary Innovation Veep. “On Call Innovation Director/Mentor/Trainer”? What really changes innovation culture? MORE
Four Criteria for Hiring an Innovation Keynoter. Let this post work as a guide for meeting planners. You don’t have to hire me as your innovation speaker, but if you hire one, you’ll be well served if you pay attention to these four criteria and my comments in bold. Innovation is a complex, wonky topic and it has some special requirements that go beyond the classic things meeting planners look for in a speaker. MORE
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Marketing Open Innovation Trends, Futurism, and Research analytics bananas Big Data Big Imagination big questions Creativity design thinking Front End of Innovation IBM Kiln Levi-Strauss Min Basadur mobile music Simplexity Sony stage-gate trend spotting trends weak signals MORE
Tennessee Ernie Ford, sang about the lack of money in his hit “Sixteen Tons” Guerilla Innovation- Chapter 12. Before I get into ways in which entrepreneurs (aka ‘guerilla innovators’) can get funds, a blurb on the whole money mindset is in order. Here’s the Guerilla Innovators Guide to a Healthy Money Mindset: Money is not evil. The working title is Guerilla Innovation. MORE
Business model Business Model Canvas Growing Pains Guerilla MarketingThe Christian Science Monitor recently asked me what five books I would recommend every entrepreneur own. Here are my essential titles: The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber, in which he gives a realistic job preview that all first time entrepreneurs should read before they jump in the water. Speaking of myths, one that needs to be permanently eradicated is the notion that a business plan is the ticket to a successful venture. MORE
Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. That’s what McKinsey says in this article. MORE
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Professionalisms guerilla marketing marketing Nate Vickeryby Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. New businesses are usually strapped for cash, which means that they don’t have enough money for costly marketing strategies. Left to their own devices, they have to be as creative as possible and come up with some fresh, non-traditional approaches to promote themselves. This doesn’t have to be bad at all. MORE
Guerilla Related Topics YoungUpstarts
APRIL 24, 2014
In the past, guerilla marketing – the unconventional and creative use of traditional marketing tools like stickers, print ads and billboards – has been an effective means of jolting public awareness. Today, however, innovation in guerilla techniques is essential. Professionalisms AirSign guerilla marketing marketing Patrick Walsh by Patrick Walsh, CEO of AirSign Inc.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 14, 2012
Consider this the introduction to Guerilla Strategies for Innovation. I participate when I can in a Twitter based chat session, called Innochat. It happens every Thursday around noon USA eastern time. Most of the participants are innovation geeks like myself, consultants, writers, company innovation directors, professors, etc. — tune in, it’s interesting. Last Thursday we were chatting about books.
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Up and Running
JULY 10, 2013
This story is part of Bplans’ “How I Did It” series—true stories of real businesses getting started, solving problems and finding success. Greg at Berry Sleepy : . “We We started selling our product online this January, and in the first week, we were just trying to get the word out with social media and guerrilla marketing. It was a humbling start. However, in week two, a local TV reporter needed a story to do and caught wind of our product.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Professionalisms guerilla marketing marketing Nate Vickeryby Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. New businesses are usually strapped for cash, which means that they don’t have enough money for costly marketing strategies. Left to their own devices, they have to be as creative as possible and come up with some fresh, non-traditional approaches to promote themselves. This doesn’t have to be bad at all.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 24, 2019
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Leadership Training brand purpose Creativity Gregg Fraley Innovation Speaker innovation frameworks innovation projects Innovation Road-map Innovation Roadmap Kathleen Curtis Wolfe brand purpose expert organizational purpose problem framing project scheduling projects Purpose strategyDo Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 10, 2018
Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation Intrapreneurship Open Innovation Teams Challenge questions Creativity Gregg Fraley How Might We Idea Campaigns innovation teams problem framing team tracking ideas virtual ideationSix Considerations for Inclusive Innovation.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Off-Site Innovation can indeed spur creativity. I like what Cardinal Health and Crimson Cup are doing in Columbus, OH with offsite innovation spaces. I like the attention they’ve paid to team diversity and on a customer-centered process.
Gregg Fraley
APRIL 22, 2019
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Facilitation Guerilla Innovation Humor Idea Management Innovation Intrapreneurship Leadership MoshPit Innovation Teams Training 20 things re: innovation Agile conflict Creativity design thinking digital capacity building Digital technology GFi Gregg Fraley innovation teams innovation training Lean Qualitative research risk talentWhat You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. But you probably are not!
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 22, 2018
Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. That’s what McKinsey says in this article.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
OCTOBER 12, 2012
Guerilla Innovation – Chapter 11. Until now the focus of this online-blogged-book on small business innovation has been a guerilla innovation mindset. This post is the 12th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. Hollywood Innovator, Lucille Ball. Birthing the Baby. This includes thinking, idea generation, creating, amping, and planning for getting a new business going.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Open Innovation Agile CPS Creativity design thinking innovation frameworks innovation process innovation projects Lean why innovationThe Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. If you want an organization to survive, you must innovate. But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation ask for ideas CEO Creativity Freddy Prinz ideas innovation culture innovation cycles on-going operations operations Osborn-Parnes Osborn-Parnes-Basadur structured creative problem solving suggestion box Not everything about innovation is complicated.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
DECEMBER 14, 2012
One had to do with small business innovation — Guerilla Innovation , and another had to do with a Gonzeaux Innovation Roadtrip — with views of innovation through middle America. Guerilla Innovation is essentially a free online blogged book.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 1, 2018
Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. First of Seven Blogs. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. Leaders — How Are You Doing With These Basics? Success is built on doing the basics well. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Nine. This Guerilla Innovation post is about the amping up part. This post is the 10th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. You have to amp those ideas before you start marketing and selling. If you are in before-start-up mode, even more reason to AMP like mad. The refined or amped up idea might just get you to that elusive Point of Difference we talked about.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
AUGUST 24, 2014
Three Essentials for Magical Innovation Facilitation. An essential ingredient to successful innovation projects is good facilitation. Who could argue with that? Innovation combines individual and group activities. Good group collaboration is not a given. Even individual activities need coordination with the group effort. You really need an inspiring, confident, well-trained facilitator to enable innovation.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Guerilla Innovation. In the previous post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation we talked about “amping ideas.” This post is the 11th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. Chapter 10. ” I reviewed two tools for doing so. They’re good tools. And…there’s more to it than those techniques.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
OCTOBER 15, 2012
Tennessee Ernie Ford, sang about the lack of money in his hit “Sixteen Tons” Guerilla Innovation- Chapter 12. Before I get into ways in which entrepreneurs (aka ‘guerilla innovators’) can get funds, a blurb on the whole money mindset is in order. Here’s the Guerilla Innovators Guide to a Healthy Money Mindset: Money is not evil. The working title is Guerilla Innovation.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 31, 2012
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Eight. Now, the point of this chapter of Guerilla Innovation is to form a new daily practice, a behavior. This post is the 9th chapter in an online innovation book tailored for small business with the working title of Guerilla Innovation. Everything is Stimuli for Scaffolding to Better Ideas.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 4, 2019
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) DIY Guerilla Innovation Humor Innovation Inspirational Story Training craftspeople Creativity Do It Yourself GFi Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFI) guitar guitars innovation mentors innovation parable innovation projects innovation story innovation training Killians mentors Moby Dick plumbers YouTubeInnovation Learning Points From the Great Faucet DIY Fiasco. DIY is a Form of Innovation. I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Four Criteria for Hiring an Innovation Keynoter. Let this post work as a guide for meeting planners. You don’t have to hire me as your innovation speaker, but if you hire one, you’ll be well served if you pay attention to these four criteria and my comments in bold. Innovation is a complex, wonky topic and it has some special requirements that go beyond the classic things meeting planners look for in a speaker.
Gregg Fraley
JANUARY 18, 2019
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Innovation Creativity Emergent See Emergent See Innovation Service facilitation GFi Gregg Fraley Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFI) innovation consulting innovation facilitation project management trainingInnovation Emergencies Happen. Emergent See Innovation from GFi Available February, 2019. I advise pro-active, and continuous, innovation.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 5, 2017
What’s Really Needed is an Innovation MoshPit. Reinventing Combinations, Concept Blends, and Mash-Ups. I’ve been touting concept blends in innovation for some time. My reason is simple, it’s a fast path to new and different ideas. From the Printing Press to the iPhone, big new market-creating innovation happens when concepts from two different domains are combined. These Mash-Ups are not intuitive for most people to do and maybe that’s why some people try it and fail.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Open Innovation American Express Buckminster Fuller Bucky Fuller comprehensivist connecting dots corporate culture Creativity cross domain knowledge garden wall IBM Louis Gerstner outsider research RJR Nabisco Who Says Elephant''s Can''t Dance I’ve been researching an industry (coin operated vending) in preparation for a speech I’m giving.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 15, 2014
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Marketing Open Innovation Trends, Futurism, and Research analytics bananas Big Data Big Imagination big questions Creativity design thinking Front End of Innovation IBM Kiln Levi-Strauss Min Basadur mobile music Simplexity Sony stage-gate trend spotting trends weak signals
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MARCH 4, 2014
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Marketing Creativity emotional engagement employee recognition employee rewards employees entrepreneurship Gregg Fraley innovation culture innovation initiatives innovation leadership innovation programs innovation training leadership management trust Leadership is Uninvolved with Innovation. Yes, I just said that.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
AUGUST 8, 2012
Otherwise, here are instructions for all you Guerilla Innovators out there. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Idea Generation Innovation Start-ups conceptual blending Creativity Gregg Fraley Guerilla Innovation invention Jack's Notebook mash-ups Mind-Maps patents Philo Farnsworth scaffolding start-ups The Mash TVThis was the drawing done by the 14 year old Philo Farnsworth, depicting the concept that created the first all electronic TV. When In Doubt, Do The Mash.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 24, 2012
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Five. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation Jack's Notebook Start-ups blogged book COQ Creativity Gregg Fraley Guerilla Innovation Idea Management Systems Idea Notebooks IMS notebooking online book small business innovation start-ups Tony BuzanNotebooking is Innovation Viagra. What do Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Edison, Jack Kerouac, Beatrix Potter, Madame Curie, and Twyla Tharp all have in common?
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
Guerilla Innovation — Chapter Thirteen. This post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation is about money and the concept of survival. The working title is Guerilla Innovation. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Start-ups bartering cash management Creativity fund raising Gregg Fraley Innovation Jack's Notebook Kickstarter Lawrence of Arabia pivot small business innovation
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JANUARY 3, 2013
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Inspirational Pop Culture Reshoring Amy Kaherl collaboration community redevelopment Creativity crowdfunding crowdsourcing Detroit Detroit Soup hope Michigan Motown NBC NBC Nightly NewsAmy Kaherl is the Director/Facilitator of Detroit Soup. As a Michigander I’m always looking for some good vibes on the economy.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Leadership 4 P''s of organizational creativity Creativity Martin Guitar Mel Rhodes moisturize for innovation Guitars require moisturizing, as does your innovation environment! I have a beautiful Martin guitar. It has a wonderful tone and it’s easy to play, it’s a love relationship. It’s a well engineered, and under some conditions, a quite delicate instrument.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MARCH 18, 2013
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Inspirational challenges creative effectiveness Creativity Dreamers focus Gregg Fraley imagination imaginative effectiveness imaginative thought Jack's Notebook Johari window Leaders leadership Managers TEDx TEDxStormont ZombiesImagination Segmentation (Gregg Fraley, 2013).
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 8, 2017
Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training! When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. What I also often find is inexperience. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
APRIL 22, 2011
Business model Business Model Canvas Growing Pains Guerilla MarketingThe Christian Science Monitor recently asked me what five books I would recommend every entrepreneur own. Here are my essential titles: The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber, in which he gives a realistic job preview that all first time entrepreneurs should read before they jump in the water. Speaking of myths, one that needs to be permanently eradicated is the notion that a business plan is the ticket to a successful venture.
Gregg Fraley
JUNE 21, 2016
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Intrapreneurship assessments business growth Creativity culture Gibson Insurance Gregg Fraley innovation process innovation projects insurance riskI recently was a guest blogger for Gibson Insurance and I wrote this piece about the risk of Not Innovating. I’ll make the point again here — with fewer words. For more detail, read my post over at Gibson. Risk Aversion is a Risk Itself.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Humor Idea Generation Idea Management Innovation Pop Culture brainstorming Creativity education film Gregg Fraley ideation Innovation Excellence innovation film clips Jack Black movies teams using innovation film clips Jack Black in Envy, touting a dog poop vaporizer. I’ve written an article on Innovation in movies – Inspiring Innovation Films: a Top Ten List. .
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 26, 2012
Guerilla Innovation Chapter Six. I’ll touch on them later in Guerilla Innovation (this online book) but, this book is primarily about innovation — that component of a business where value is created. Books & Reviews Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Entrepreneurial Innovation Start-ups brainstorming COQ CPS Gregg Fraley Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation ideas ideation Jack's Notebook Jonah Lehrer scaffolding small business start-ups
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MARCH 18, 2014
Sometimes Cinderella Boys Hit Innovation Holes-in-One. Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue. Let’s look at it from a pragmatic perspective if possible. Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole.
Gregg Fraley
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Intrapreneurship Leadership Open Innovation Agile CEO combinations combinations for innovation combine for innovation concept blends concepts CPS Creativity deliberate combinations design thinking Digital technology Economic Development facilitation Gregg Fraley's MoshPit ideation ideational tools innovation leadership innovation process iPod Lean MoshPit Innovation Reese's Peanut Butter Cup scaffolding SCAMPER trends
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Idea Generation Innovation Politics & Government Reshoring Start-ups Trends, Futurism, and Research aging AIAA CEI Cincinnati competitiveness Creativity diversity engineering gender gap in engineering IEEE IEEE Spectrum manufacturing National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Obama Pam Menges Pamela A. Pamela Menges, Phd CEO of Aerospace Research Systems, Inc.
Gregg Fraley
MARCH 18, 2016
Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Creativity and Self-Expression Guerilla Innovation Innovation Leadership Open Innovation Teams consultants CPS Creativity innovation consultants innovation cycles innovation director innovation manager Kiln Min Basadur P&G temporary management help using outside consultantsThe case for bringing in a temporary Innovation Veep. “On Call Innovation Director/Mentor/Trainer”? What really changes innovation culture?
Gregg Fraley
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Economic Development Entrepreneurial Guerilla Innovation Innovation Leadership Politics & Government Pop Culture Start-ups American Dream business school rankings capitalism creating entrepreneurs Creativity entrepreneurs growing entrepreneurs KEEN Network Kern Foundation lack of start-ups. There is a very frightening trend happening in the USA. We are not growing entrepreneurs. What is it we believe in our capitalist country?
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 12, 2016
Marketing and branding augmented reality event marketing graphic design guerilla marketing marketing mobile apps mobile marketing pokemon go Social mediaEveryone and their fifth grade cousin are playing Pokémon Go right now. Maybe it’s because it’s trendy. Maybe it’s because it’s a stupid amount of silly fun. Maybe it’s because it keeps them active.
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