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CHUCK FREY

Chuck Frey founded InnovationTools.com and served as its publisher from its launch in 2002 until the partnership with Innovation Management in 2012. He is the publisher of The Mind Mapping Software Blog, the definitive souce for news, trends, tips and best practices for visual mapping tools. A journalist by trade, Chuck has over 14 years of experience in online marketing, and over 10 years experience in business-to-business public relations. His interests include creative problem solving, visual thinking, photography, business strategy and technology. His unique combination of experience and influences enables him to envision new possibilities and opportunities.

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Why Marketing Doesn’t Want R+D’s Ideas – and what to do about it

One of the most common frustrations expressed by R+D professionals is that marketing lacks interest in their ideas. Why is this often the case, and what can be done about it?

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:27:32-08:00October 14th, 2012|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture|Tags: budget cycle, Collaboration, Communication, Competition, competitive advantage, consumer benefits, credibility, enterprise innovation, idea support, Ideation, marketing, opportunities, organization funnel, Product Development, R&D, research and development, target customer, target segment, technical features, trust|

Accurately Reading Open Innovation Tea Leaves

There are two basic types of open innovation missions sponsored by technology seekers: Nice to Find Soon (NFS) and Must Find Now (MFN). Given the vast difference in success probabilities between them, how can a would-be technology provider distinguish between them? After all, the technology seeker isn't going to label them as such.

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:27:06-08:00September 29th, 2012|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: innovation trends, rejection|

What is Best ‘Shape’ for Persuasive Ideas?

How can you 'shape' your idea so it stands out compared to everything else that's competing for people's attention, is persuasive and easy to support and share? The authors of a new book, The Impact Equation, share one effective approach.

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:21:48-08:00September 23rd, 2012|Categories: Book Review|

Keen Innovation Lessons from the Music and Video Game Industries

What practical innovation lessons can managers learn from the music and video game industries? Plenty, based on my read of Innovation Playlist: 11 Business Innovation Lessons from the Music and Video Game Industries by Elvin Turner, Chris Parles and Andy Billings.

Ideascale2020-07-07T20:04:45-07:00September 17th, 2012|Categories: Book Review, Interview|

A Lesson for Building your New Business Opportunity Case

Many would-be innovators share a common frustration: persistent difficulty in gaining traction for their new ideas with the people they need to cultivate in order to advance them. Why do they often struggle? There are numerous reasons, but a common one is that they all too often rely on opinions to make their case instead of applying facts and data.

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:18:13-08:00September 9th, 2012|Categories: Strategies|Tags: anecdotal evidence, Communication, consumer research, invention, presentation, quantitative research, R&D, research and development|

The Dawn of the Innovators

It's time for innovation leaders to get out of 'zombie mode' and claim a strategic position in their organizations.

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:18:03-08:00September 3rd, 2012|Categories: Strategies|Tags: cost reduction, disruptive innovation, Innovation Strategy, reinvention, strategic innovation, sustainability, uncertainty|

Get Innovative in Helping Employees to Accommodate Change

You can find in this article a grasp overview of reasons for change in our organization and how it could be boosted by applying innovative approaches.

Ideascale2021-12-03T14:44:17-08:00August 16th, 2012|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Change Management, effective thinking, employee management, employee motivation, enterprise gamification, gamification, HR, information processing strategy, leadership, mobile, mobile technology, motivation, Problem Solving, team management|

The Perils and Possibilities of of Crowdfunding

Just because you can create a crowdfunding campaign for your next Big Idea doesn't mean you should, as book author Glenn Fleishman recently discovered.

Ideascale2021-12-03T14:44:09-08:00August 14th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Interview, Strategies|Tags: budget, crowdfunding, fundraising, lessons learned, product ideation, strategy|

Open Innovation: Colgate’s Sensible External Partnership Approach

Ken Klimpel, Colgate Palmolive's Worldwide Director of External Innovation and Outreach shares his perspective on some aspects of the approach he and his company take to drive their open innovation successes.

Ideascale2021-12-03T11:27:40-08:00June 21st, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation|Tags: best practice, business grants, external innovation, influence, Open Innovation, partner, Product Development, strategic partnership, Technology, transparent|

How to Court Serendipitous Network Intelligence

Most innovators understand what serendipity is. Dictionary.com calls it "an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident." But have you ever heard of serendipitous network intelligence?

Ideascale2021-12-03T11:20:56-08:00June 7th, 2012|Categories: Book Review, News|Tags: back pocket questions, information curator, innovation, intelligence, network, newsfeed, Reid Hoffman, serendipity, value|

Generating Creative Ideas with Hieroglyphics

Using hieroglyphics for ideation is an unusual but potentially viable lateral thinking technique from Tom Wujec's excellent book, Five Star Mind.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:46:40-08:00May 23rd, 2012|Categories: Book Review, Idea Management|Tags: assets, brainstorming, hieroglyphics, Ideation, lateral thinking, liabilities, pictographs, puzzles, Tom Wujec|

Accurate Problem Definition is Critical to Effective Problem Solving

In business and in life, clear and accurate problem definition is an essential prerequisite for effective problem solving. This may sound obvious, or even trite, but this simple truth can be overlooked by those with pressing needs and a bias for action.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:35:03-08:00May 16th, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: communicate, decision making, define problem, Problem Solving, solve|

Demystifying the Path to Technology Partnerships

There is often a considerable amount of ambiguity at the outset of open innovation partnerships. Quite often, the technology customer is considerably larger than the provider and is being pursued versus being the pursuer. The technology provider almost never knows the full extent of what needs to be demonstrated in order to earn a customer's business commitment. They are also quite often reluctant to ask so as to avoid offending the other party or seeming ignorant or unsophisticated. How can this situation be improved?

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:25:12-08:00May 10th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: action standards, Business, communicate, invest, Open Innovation, partnerships, risk, risk-free, strategic partnership, success criteria, Technology, technology transfer, transparent|

A promising Approach to Finding Technology Solutions: Supplier Summits

Given the relatively small number of qualified solution providers for any given technical challenge, one fairly productive and successful problem solving approach undertaken by corporate technology seekers is to organize "supplier summits."

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:09:28-08:00May 3rd, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Support for SMEs|Tags: business development, collaborative, industrial paradigms, inner circle, networking, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, solutions, supplier summit, Technology, technology transfer, unconventional thinking, value|

Can Companies Sidestep Disruptive Innovation?

Can companies sidestep or blunt the effects of disruptive innovation? It's possible, but not likely, explains Steve Denning in a recent Forbes column.

Ideascale2020-07-07T20:41:16-07:00April 11th, 2012|Categories: Strategies|Tags: apple, bottom line, business model, Clayton Christen, clayton christensen, cost reduction scheme, destructive forces, disruptive, disruptive innovation, entrepreneurial businesses, experimentation, Harvard, innovation, Innovation Strategy, investment, mindset, separate business unit, shareholder value, Steven Denning, value, value adding|