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Michael Brunner is Named Honoree in Pittsburgh’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards

Brunner

It was over thirty years ago, when Michael got into the advertising business , but his foresight and progressive thinking didn’t stop there. . 1991: Michael saw the value in big data before it was big and made Brunner’s first acquisition, a database marketing firm .

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3 Innovation Specialists Busting the Myth About Brainstorming

Innovation in Practice

But what the critics are really complaining about are formal brainstorming sessions, governed by a set of rules that originated with advertising manager Alex Faickney Osborn, in his 1963 book Applied Imagination. Omnichannel : Are you living in 2005? Big Data : Oh god. In all seriousness: focus!