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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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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I was fortunate to get some thoughtful input from the leadership of DarwinApps , Casual Corp , Coventure , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , and World Accelerator. Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance?

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Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail.

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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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Closure

Steve Blank

As one could imagine this was the last thing the supercomputer center management wanted to hear. Any guerilla sales tactics somebody may know for situation like this? All their peers were buying Cray’s, and they wanted one as well. You just can’t change this mainstream customer with a direct approach.

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

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Why innovation?