Greg Ames
Retired sawmill owner/operator Glass/metal/gourd artist
- Role
- Adjunct Professor at Institute Of Design Id
- Location
- Columbus, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Greg Ames
Greg advises clients on innovation strategy, consumer insights, new product development and human-centered innovation. 30 year P&G alum. Areas of expertise:• Front End Innovation strategy (FEI)• Idea generation, co-creation and fast-cycle learning• Consumer insights and translating insights into winning products• Innovation capability development and training integrated best practices• Transformational Design Thinking capability development/deploymentGreg is currently leading transformational design thinking capability development programs for some of the world’s largest and most successful CPG companies. He is an expert on fast-cycle learning and “fuzzy” front end innovation (FEI) best practices that increase the size and success potential of white space and discovery-phase initiatives.Greg has held various innovation leadership and practitioner roles at Procter & Gamble, Koch Industries and Worthington Industries, and now independently serves clients on innovation strategy, consumer insight and design thinking capability development (FedEx, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Fifth Third Bank, Emerson, DowDupont, IGS Energy, and Miller Welding). Greg is a Visiting Innovator at The Ohio State University and Adjunct Professor of Design at The Illinois Design Institute.
Experience
Adjunct Professor
Jan 2011 — Present
Education
University of Cincinnati
MS Candidate, Industrial Design
2001 — 2008
Purdue University
BS, ChE, Art
1980 — 1984
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
CE
1993 — 1996
Illinois Institute of Technology
Industrial and Product Design
2010 — 2017
Skills
- Product Development
- R
- Strategic Technology Planning
- Experience Design
- Strategic Design
- Design Management
- Ethnography
- Innovation Management
- Sketching
- Rapid Prototyping
- Industrial Design
- Product Innovation
- Narrative
- Concept Development
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Design Strategy
- Brand Development
- Engineering
- Consumer Products
- Narrative Design
- Innovation Consulting
- Packaging
- Customer Insight
- Innovation Strategy
- User Experience
- R&D
- Research & Development
- Strategy
- Innovation
- Brand Architecture
- Open Innovation
- User-Centered Design
- Design Thinking
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