BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2016

9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Innovative Ideas from Experts. Many of the strategic thinking questions we share help people imagine things that have never happened. Ready to boost your innovation strategy? ” This free Brainzooming eBook highlights ten common organizational innovation barriers.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. We are further along and can even more easily customize these strategic thinking exercises to your needs if you face comparable situations. The result?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

22 Ice Breaker Questions on Disruptive Innovation and Uncertainty. We helped plan a full day event focused on disruptive innovation. That triggered creating an entirely new set of ice breaker questions linked to disruption or uncertainty in some way. Speaking of disruptive brands, what is your best Uber experience?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Don’t settle for boring strategic planning.

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BrainZooming

MAY 25, 2017

If your creativity ideas have dried up, today is the day to download our FREE ebook, The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. There are links in this eBook for 600 of the most powerful brainstorming and extreme creativity questions we use , including ones specifically tailored for innovation and creative boldness!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? We were working with an organization on its future vision while facilitating its strategic planning process. Despite the static language, strategic conversations with the team suggested they possessed a legitimate interest in pursuing innovative strategies.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Reviewing the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies issue suggested fourteen potential innovation themes based on the strategies the magazine reported. Based on this list, think ahead: What you would do NOW to prepare if 2020 were going to be the year of. Selecting Your Organization’s Innovation Theme.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. Less than five minutes.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The NEW sign to point out the new stop sign is a wonderful reminder of something that is easy to overlook in a change management strategy. 6 Questions to Highlight the New from Change Management Strategy. How do you identify opportunities to ensure your change management strategy and support for high performance align ?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. They could also take the outside-in innovation strategy approach we wrote about recently: look at other testing situations ripe for speeding up and solve those. The reason why?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 23, 2018

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for nearly two hundred members of a prominent, long-established brand’s marketing organization. The innovation strategy workshop covered a variety of topics related to disruptive innovation. The brand has tech-centric, disruptive competitors surfacing.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

These new disruptive options have caused frequent rideshare customers to forget how cabs operate. Yet, these examples reinforce an important point about strong brands with positive, radically different customer experiences: they can reshape expectations and behaviors even when a customer isn’t using the disruptive brand.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. .

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. One challenge, however, is finding and dedicating the resources necessary to develop an innovation strategy and begin innovating. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

Short Story: Strategic planning questions that allow people to challenge conventional norms are fun and lead to disruptive thinking, so employ questions to harvest ideas from the wild possibilities. The other day, someone reached out looking for short, funny, strategic planning questions. Stick It To Authority Figures.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That sentiment all revolves around our content marketing strategy. The client we’re onsite with today working on an innovation strategy comes with an intriguing history. By mid-year, he completed a Contact Us form on the website, wanting to discuss his brand’s innovation strategy.

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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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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

My natural inclination when it comes to business strategy is to identify what is MOST IMPORTANT and build everything around that. Tie the objectives, priorities, and strategies to a very tight focus for an organization. Granted, it is SO MUCH EASIER to talk about a single-focused business strategy say than it is to actually create one.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. More Posts - Website Follow Me: The post Andy Reid Borrows Innovative Ideas. appeared first on The Brainzooming Group.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

While the conference featured stronger keynotes, these innovation strategy-focused quotes and action items from Beth Comstock resonated with me. “Strategy is a story, well-told.” ” One Thought: Strategy shouldn’t be complex, jargon-filled, and nonsensical to anyone beyond the top executives.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Lens smashing is a common innovation strategy technique to get to the next level of thinking. Think about that one. Here’s a new innovation strategy tool: Take the 20 biases in the article and write as many orthodoxies as you can envision for each one. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Marianne Carr.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The most disruptive innovation we ever tried was like a whack to the BLANK.”. I’m thinking we’d print the questions on sheets of orange paper, allowing people to answer them in writing and then hold them up as they introduce themselves. – Mike Brown. Branding and Marketing. Innovation. Innovation. Extreme Creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Our objective was to provide the innovation strategy workshop participants a chance to vary their activities, work with new people, self-manage their performance on a creative thinking exercise, and have a chance to win a prize (the orange socks). Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation?

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

A bold competitor, however, will heavy up with tremendous intensity and deliver the incredible, elusive brand promise in a truly disruptive fashion. Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. One that drags its feet?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Employ extreme creativity and disruptive innovation-oriented questions to push your strategic planning vision exercise in bold, future directions. Ensure you have all the strategic thinking perspective and voices we always recommend. Big strategy statements shaping your organization needn’t be complicated.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Idea Magnets easily generate tons of creative ideas, embrace strategically-driven innovation, and naturally turn ideas into results. And the best strategy to boost their creative leadership talents is to get copies of Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Attracting and Cultivating Creative Business Leaders for all your team members.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Inspired by an article in The Wall Street Journal by professor Scott Galloway, they lay out five strategic imperatives Amazon uses to disrupt markets and grow. The Amazon Strategy DNA. How are they strongly shaping and prioritizing your business strategy decisions? ” Via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More. Disruption. Aspirations.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

We group innovation barriers based on their ties to strategy, process, and people issues. Strategy Barriers. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.”

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