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Gregg Fraley Creativity and Innovation Expert, Author, Speaker, and Ideation Facilitator blogs about many topics through the lens of creativity. He's a bit of a humorist, a bit of a futurist, and a thoughtful social observer.

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 "Jack's Notebook"

Gregg's business parable

is a fast-paced and inspirational book about creative thinking. 

Reviewers like the way it makes learning CPS -- Creative Problem Solving -- easy even for beginners.  Business managers like it because it gives their teams a common problem solving method.

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Several universities have adopted Jack's Notebook for their problem solving or innovation courses, including St. John's University, NY.

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Innovation Process Coach

Author, Speaker, Ideation Facilitator

Growing your organization in today's marketplace requires the ability -- and the discipline -- to create offerings quickly. The pace of innovation has never been faster. What's required is a continuous innovation culture with frequent and focused idea generation, active idea management, and customer research that uncovers insights. Gregg advocates a holistic approach to innovation. He believes  holistic management integrates people, products, culture, and process. This enables an organization to consistently innovate.

Gregg Fraley helps organizations achieve a holistic approach through active process coaching, helping unblock the bottlenecks. This keeps innovation on track.  Beginning with assessing innovation needs and researching markets, he then facilitates dynamic ideation sessions that result in on-target product and service concepts, that do well in market tests -- and in the market.  Gregg's innovation training helps create corporate cultures that foster, nurture, and sustain the innovative output of their people over time. Finally he recommends instituting Idea Management to preserve the most valuable of all corporate assets -- the ideas that are the future innovations.
 

Gregg blends his passion for creativity and problem solving with his love for fiction in his innovative business fable, Jack's Notebook.  In it he introduces the method of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) to innovation teams in big organizations, small business people, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and individuals looking to master complex challenges and take their careers -- their lives -- to the next level.

In speaking keynotes and workshops he balances quirky humor with cutting edge and content.  Audiences comment that he has a rare and unique insight into the way people think, communicate, and innovate in the workplace. Gregg fosters understanding of creative style in ways that build bridges. He creates respect for creative thinking diversity and helps executives, managers, and teams overcome the blocks that prevent innovation.  His core message of more effective creative thinking -- through authenticity, passion, and deliberate creative process -- brings out the innovator inside of all of us.

His ideation training leads to better, more productive ideation sessions -- and that means more effective new product development.  His background as an entrepreneur and as an improvisational actor give him insights, tools, and capabilities few facilitators can offer. His Innovisation™ tools are industry leading and set an environment for ideation that combines a flexible structure for problem solving with ideal conditions for spontaneous thought. 

Simply put, Gregg brings out the best ideas people have. Contact him when you are planning an innovation initiative, an ideation session, or require innovation training.

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