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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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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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Being Small May Well Be Your Biggest Asset

Small Business Force

History is littered with stories of how small, yet nimble bands of guerilla fighters with a deep belief in their mission, have often, out-maneuvered, out-thought and defeated larger, better equipped armies. Agility This is simply being able to react quickly to either market opportunities or changing market conditions.

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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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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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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?

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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.