BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! .

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. FREE Download: “Results!!! The ground rule was, however, I couldn’t tell them WHAT to do.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

Here’s a brief video produced by SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, where I talk about four easy ways for companies to boost creativity in the workplace without taking a lot of time to do it. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Mike Brown.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. Learn more about this methodology and discover creative problem solving techniques, activities, and more articles to read below. . What is Creative Problem Solving? Creative Problem Solving Articles. Switch Roles.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. We created a fast-paced half-day in-person workshop for a small group of sales and marketing leaders at an animal pharma company.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Do you need to take better advantage of your brand’s customer inputs and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts.

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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. Put together the success recipe based on learning from failure and moving forward.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

EAG: I think it’s the fact that when you saw that the market wasn’t doing what it had been doing, you took things into your own hands and found a way to do it anyway. However, you’re creative, whether it’s picking up a Fender Strat, or a paintbrush, or knitting needles, that is how you channel your creativity.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we’re headed into a client session or a meeting and need a few creative thinking questions, I visit the blog and grab suitable questions from one of our compilation posts. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

To the far left, they would describe an attractive, market-viable position, albeit one simpler, more direct, more streamlined, or one easier for the organization to target. FREE Download: “Results!!! The fourth group at a poster would shift to a separate easel sheet featuring a line with an odd number of points on it.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. The Death of Marketing Strategy – Killer Article! Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Utilitarian in its principles, seeking real-world use and implementation through a more creative, collaborative environment, leading to more discoveries that distinctly ‘blend’ the lab application with the customer discovery of unmet need. These are encouraging us all to have more expeditions of discovery. Structuring for Asset Orchestration.

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Values Centered Innovation

APRIL 6, 2017

Increasing speed and agility – optimizing response to the market, including streamlining innovation across business units. Download the full white paper. Even employees who are experts in their field can be under-developed in their competencies for creativity and innovation. Focusing on meaningful and motivating goals.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

To put it succinctly, Diane came in and kicked my creative and content marketing ass in the nicest possible way. In late September 2016, I’ll be co-presenting and hanging out with Whip-Smart Wordsmith, Emma Alvarez Gibson , at the Social Media Strategies Summit and Marketing Conference in San Francisco.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

He’s about to leave his job as a strategic planning and marketing VP at a Fortune 500 transportation company and he’s got this whole other direction mapped out for himself—he’s been blogging now for a couple of years in preparation for this move. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I don’t think I need to say much about this Innovation! It made me LOL, which is a great way to inspire creative thinking. Creative Thinking Turns a Problem into a Solution. Solar panels are almost black and in Africa, the market for the Desolenator, they get really hot in the sun. Yes, Please.

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