BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

“Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper to boost creativity.”. Talking with a potential client about an already-planned innovation strategy workshop, the going-in innovation strategy called for giving participants “a clean sheet of paper.”. You’ve been thinking a clean sheet of paper innovation strategy maximizes creativity.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Intelligent use of resources manifests in improved internal functions, delightful customer experiences, productive partnerships, winning competitive strategies, and other areas. Channel : This is the creative thinking part. Individuals can naturally excel at ideation, but facilitation also helps. Ideas – The “What Could We Do?”

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Suppose however, you are in a strategy session where things are dragging. Go outside.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The key question was, “Where’s the beef with this innovation strategy?”. They seemed ready to jump through hoops to justify the innovation strategy to the CEO. 3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss.

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IdeaScale

MAY 26, 2021

Online whiteboards provide the perfect alternative to an in-person collaboration experience and create a space where creativity and innovation are enabled to succeed. Online whiteboards are equally as able to create innovative branches of thought to stimulate free thinking and creativity as they are able to promote alignment and organization.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? My response is the more we share the Brainzooming methodology with you, the more you can improve your own strategy work on a daily basis in situations where it would NEVER be practical to engage us for help. 16 Articles on Defining Brand Strategy and Business Branding Topics.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

That would definitely take extreme creativity ! A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We haven’t talked about stealing (or copying) ideas as a creative strategy for some time. Translated into a creative strategy formula, it’s an example of “Lead, Copy (1 and 2), Swerve, Integrate, Go.” Here’s how this creative strategy formula plays out between two well-known consumer brands.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface. That is no surprise.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. I suggested looking at a version of one of our extreme creativity questions : How can we innovate our processes to test things faster than all our competitors? 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. The reason why?

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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.”. How do I realistically find time to think more creatively or innovatively about my business when I don’t have time; I just have to get things done?”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? Identify and develop innovation strategies with a customer perspective. 5 Innovation Strategy eBooks from Brainzooming. 5 Innovation Strategy eBooks from Brainzooming. Need More for Your Innovation Strategy?

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

Using even just a few smart tools and techniques, however, you can eliminate these NO’s to a successful innovation strategy and move yourself and your organization to innovative ideas setting you apart from the competition. We’re planning to cover innovation strategy for both individuals and organizations.,

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

His international team applied those methods to various NATO military, political, and social problems and in doing so it produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Chuck Frey.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Don’t automatically presume the sole enabler behind an innovation strategy is generating new thinking and innovative ideas. That’s a significant part of the innovation strategy process, but it’s just one part. Each situation came to us as an innovation strategy challenge. See what we mean?

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea. We’ve found a few methods to be consistently helpful with the teams we work with: Blue Sky – Creative ideas are encourage without constraints, don’t let beliefs or even current technology limit you. Practice Leader, Product Strategy & Commercialization. Let's work together.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2016

One of the questions related to how brands can set themselves apart through a customer experience strategy and outstanding customer engagement. This customer experience strategy framework is a variation on how we’ve been thinking for years about developing memorable event experiences. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

When it comes to bad decisions about branding strategies, this scary mistake is all tricks and no treats. Extending Branding Strategies Too Far. As we point out in workshops, when trying to extend branding strategies into new or unusual territory, you may have to vary the brand personality. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2016

Based on several stories last week extolling the benefits of being “lazy” when it comes to innovation strategy, you would think the LAZY days of summer are here a few weeks early (at least in the northern hemisphere). 4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be a Smarter Innovation Strategy. Yet, consider these stories.

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BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Whether your naming project is renaming or looking for descriptive names, business names as an entrepreneur, names for social media, or a brand identity that fits a brand strategy, we can help you brainstorm and converge on the best potential names. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. The design thinking process typically involves five steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. This can lead to more creative and innovative solutions.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2017

A supply of worksheets (or online sheets) that correspond to productive strategic thinking exercises. Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. The Armada article highlights six ways to formulate innovation strategy in a regulated environment, including the approach JetBlue is taking. A shadow innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2015

One type of innovation expert knows a great deal about innovation tools and techniques that propel ideation to new heights. Facilitating innovation ideation is an art and a science that isn’t easy to do. Yeah, I think if you are serious about becoming the best possible Ideation facilitator, you are one kind of Innovation expert.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 27, 2017

Learn the hands-on tools for conducting strategy, ideation, idea development, and implementation workshops. Tools ​and ​techniques ​for ​visioning, ​strategy, ​ideation, ​and ​concept ​refinement. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions. August 29, 30 & 31, 2017.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Nor is there enough attention paid to planning and facilitating the exercises and stimulus in the session itself. Plan visual elements, written and kinesthetic exercises. Have participants do research, and virtual ideation, alone. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session.

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

“Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management.”- Why should creativity and innovation be given such a high position in the hierarchy, to an extent that it should be reserved for a select few? Shouldn’t creativity and innovation be for all? Eric Ries, Lean Startup.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2016

Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? With the right combination of perspectives from outside your organization and productive strategic thinking exercises, you can ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 12, 2022

In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry. We’ve all been there.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 13, 2016

Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. Vague Descriptions Boost Creativity: By keeping associations vague, it allows people to bring their own perspective to the mind map and gets their creative juices flowing. What Is Mind Mapping?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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