ACA 2007 International Conference

Conference Presentations and Presenters
2007 ACA International Conference
March 21 - 23, 2007 with pre-Conference Institutes - March 20, 2007
in Austin, Texas

Gregg Fraley
Partner
The Innovise Guys
1408 West Rosemont #1
Chicago, IL, USA, 60660
773-764-6499
773-764-5289 Fax
Gregg@greggfraley.com
www.greggfraley.com

Gregg Fraley is a writer and speaker. His new business fable “Jack’s Notebook” puts the CPS process into an easy-to-read novel. It’s the first business fable related to deliberate creative process. Gregg is a partner of The Innovise Guys – a leading creativity podcast that features a blend of innovation and improvisational comedy content (http://dainnoviseguys.libsyn.com/http://dainnoviseguys.libsyn.com/). Gregg is a top corporate ideation facilitator and an in-demand trained brain.

Gregg’s background is primarily in technology and entertainment. At Warner Cable he won an Emmy for writing and a cable ACE award for Innovation. His technology career includes senior management and/or ownership positions in several software companies. He was a founder of Med-E-Systems, a software firm that developed the first wireless prescription system for physicians, “Smart Scripts.”

Gregg is a board member of the Creative Education Foundation (CEF) and is a professional member of the National Speakers Association (USA).

Doug Stevenson
Partner
The Innovise Guys
516 North Ogden Avenue, Suite 136
Chicago, IL, USA, 60622
312-388-1035 Mobile
allcreation1@aol.com
www.allcreation.net

Doug began his career at the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency. He trained at the Players Workshop of Second City, where he won the lead in Second City Children’s Theater production of The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. He could thereafter occasionally be seen in the improvised end-of-show sets on the main stage.

He was a founding member of Improv Olympic champion team Headcheese. His work as part of the Group “The Company We Keep” won recognition from critics and they were named Comedy Group of the Year by WXRT Radio. He also performed standup comedy and has done project work with Disney Imagineering.

He earned a BA cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, MM (MBA) the J.L. Kellogg School at Northwestern and a MSc from the International Center for Studies in Creativity/BSC.

Structured models for problem solving may actually discourage spontaneous thinking, and that’s no way to get more innovation! What’s needed are tools to inject more spontaneous thinking into structured methods. The games of improvisational theatre are specifically designed to develop spontaneous thinking capacity. Improv actors at Second City and Improv Olympics learn to solve problems real time with these games. These games have been adapted by The Innovise Guys (Gregg Fraley and Doug Stevenson) into a set of “Innovisation” tools to complement structured methods like CPS or Synectics. Learn how to apply these new tools to different stages of problem solving and achieve breakthrough thinking.

Think on their feet more quickly and be more spontaneously divergent or convergent as the context demands
Establish a mindset for themselves personally and as a group that enables more spontaneous thinking within structured processes
See the parallels and differences between structured creativity/problem solving methods and improvisation
Use the primary cooperation rule of "Yes+And" to begin establishing an Innovisation Culture in their organizations
Use Innovisation tools on their own problems and challenges
All levels will find of interest and useful