Categories: Innovation, Change & Creativity
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Gregg Fraley is an ingenious author, speaker and thought leader in innovation who has worked with many Fortune 500 companies. He wrote “Jack’s Notebook”, a business fable about creative problem-solving.
Gregg Fraley is an author, speaker, trainer, and thought leader in innovation. He is not just a theorist — he is an entrepreneur who has created value his entire career, from start-ups to Fortune 100 organizations.
Gregg Fraley’s diverse business background includes everything from founding and managing software technology companies to working as an interactive television producer. He is the author of the first ever business fable about creative problem solving, “Jack’s Notebook,” which is used by many business schools.
Gregg Fraley is the creator of MoshPit, a new framework for finding and combining concepts for breakthrough innovation that assists organizations in the integration of technology to their entire value chain. Fraley was also a founder of KILN Ideas, Ltd, which created the innovative trend-box subscription service, IdeaKeg. He is a master trainer, and has worked with Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific, W.R. Grace, and Johnsonville Sausage, among others.
Gregg Fraley helped develop the first wireless prescription writing system for doctors (SmartScripts, a patented product), as well as numerous computer applications in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and field service. He is a founder of three software firms, and now an innovation services company (GFi). His management experience includes marketing, branding, sales, research, and technical development.
As a consultant, Gregg Fraley’s “whole-brained” approach focuses on bottom line results. He is an effective innovation process guide and a dynamic idea generation or strategy facilitator; his sessions often achieve those elusive breakthrough ideas and strategies. Fraley’s been involved with the development of several market-leading consumer products and patented process innovations.
A pioneer in the development of interactive television, Gregg Fraley worked with Warner Cable’s QUBE project in the early 80s, where he designed and produced entertainment programming. While there, he won an Emmy award and a cable ACE award for Innovation.
Gregg Fraley has been quoted as an expert in the following publications: Successful Meetings, Skyline News, Redbook, Crain’s Chicago Business, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago’s Daily Herald, Forbes, and US News and World Report. He is published in Quirk’s Marketing Research, Innovation Management, and Innovation Excellence. Fraley has spoken at conferences around the globe, including TEDxStormont, ESOMAR, and FUSE. His top 50 blog is widely read in the innovation world.