BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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BrainZooming

JULY 23, 2018

Today, Monday, July 23, we’re launching the new Brainzooming book, Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders. My objective in writing this new book was to help individuals cultivate their personal strengths as Idea Magnets, attracting other Idea Magnets through their creative energy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Ask them to provide concrete examples of when they devised creative solutions.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. Far and away the finest conference I’ve ever attended, it was epic for several reasons. It all felt incredibly thoughtful, which is a surprising way to describe a conference.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. Creative Thinking Skills Are All Talk. Boosting Creative Thinking Skills with the Words You Use.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

I also created and delivered a 6-part webinar series addressing The New Important for businesses trying to innovate and restart during the pandemic; the webinar series involved a 2 ½ hour combination of existing and new frameworks plus creating six eBooks in five weeks. Redesigning your customer and employee experience strategies. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

Last fall, Emma and I saw Beth Comstock, the former vice chair of General Electric and head of its GE Business Innovations unit, keynote at the Inbound conference. While the conference featured stronger keynotes, these innovation strategy-focused quotes and action items from Beth Comstock resonated with me.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The blog started on the Blogger platform in November 2007 after seeing Jessica Myers (who was at Garmin Industries at the time) speak at a conference about being able to start a blog for free in just ten minutes. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. MM, 2K, 2000. Yes, you can do too much of a good thing.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Last Friday was my day for losses this Leap Year.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For as much as we share about the Brainzooming approach to strategy, creativity, and innovation, I still frequently get the question, “What is it The Brainzooming group does?”. My organization is making a push to embrace innovation; we need training, strategies, and a way to make sure innovation is creating the expected impact.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

Years ago, I attended a services marketing conference sponsored by a prominent university. Seek out any available information to understand top brands’ disruptive innovations, practices to set expectations, and performance levels. Looking to Boost Customer Experience Innovation? Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

In his final press conference as coach of the New York Giants, Tom Coughlin demonstrated what it looks like when someone is bigger than the job. I would encourage you, however, to watch the press conference video. Boost Your Career Strategy with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

The conference theme is building resilience and joy in uncertain times. That took me to the idea of abundance thinking, one of the fundamental strategies of idea magnets. These creative leaders recognize constraints but turn their attention to the available resources that are plentiful and can always be grown. Creativity.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 26, 2015

People paid money to see you lead a workshop at a conference. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! It might be a boss that recruited and hired you for a new job.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

With this information, you can better collaborate and innovate with others and build more effective team relationships by playing to everyone’s strengths. By reviewing the ways in which your employees process and handle information and tasks, you can design better workflow in your organization and design teams primed to innovate together.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 31, 2015

The whole week’s professional growth plan could be dedicated to: Participating in days full of multiple webinars as a way to create a personal virtual conference program. Get More Creative with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. How might I spend a dedicated week getting smarter?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision. Business leaders like you must balance the preservation of core values with the drive for innovation. Cultivating an innovation mindset is no longer a luxury but a critical imperative for survival and success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share. To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2015

You can tell how good a conference is by how many blog posts it inspires on the way home. Just as you accumulate stuff around the office you think you’ll use but never do, you also accumulate prospects that talk about wanting to work with you but never do. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

And then it’s back to the salt mines for me, but now the work I’m doing when I’m not at my day job includes several long-term projects, and we’re presenting workshops and keynotes at conferences in San Francisco and on an island off the coast of Georgia. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A Chicago Creative Nudge. To put it succinctly, Diane came in and kicked my creative and content marketing ass in the nicest possible way. She also kindly shared one of her Innovation Think Pad kits and issued a creative nudge to create a visual vocabulary for Brainzooming. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

Last Friday’s Gas Can Creative Conference sponsored by AAF-KC (American Advertising Federation – Kansas City) was a half-empty gas can, at best. While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. Push for Absurd Ideas. Icky Brand Pairings.

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