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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. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit.

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Closure

Steve Blank

Any guerilla sales tactics somebody may know for situation like this? You just can’t change this mainstream customer with a direct approach. I bet there are a lot more wasteful spending when the purse-holders are always on the risk-averse side.

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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.