BrainZooming

JUNE 19, 2017

3 Conditions for Explosive Creative Thinking Skills. Reflecting on grain elevators led me to consider explosive creative thinking skills , and the parallels between the two. The characteristics that create a potentially dangerous explosive situation at a grain elevator can be turned to a positive when applied to creative thinking skills: #1. Finally, by having creative thinking exercises in place, you provide the right structure for group collaboration.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. How, if you are facing this situation, can you initiate a conversation with strategic thinking questions safe enough to raise the issue? 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization. Using today as a starting point, reimagine specific strategic aspects, one at a time, to initiate the conversation. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines. Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. There are many possible definitions for these two modes of thought, but practically you can think of them in terms of the following principles… The key principles of creative thinking Take your time: a creative thought can strike any time, day or night.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! 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. Creative Thinking Skills and Breakthrough Ideas.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

We turn to extreme creativity questions to help clients imagine big ideas. It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Plan the series of extreme creativity questions you are going to use.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2017

How are you boosting your creative thinking skills in dramatic ways for 2017 and beyond? If you haven’t thought about it, fortunately for you, there is an opportunity coming up April 2 through April 9, 2017! It features forty-five creativity and innovation experts! The Innovation and Creativity Summit 2017 is a virtual event running from this coming Sunday through the following Sunday. Paul Sloane – Author of Think like an Innovator.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action. Here are five strategic thinking skills you can employ in comparable group situations: Listen for verbs. If you can find agreement there, it’s a powerful combination: the leader picking up on a more marginal player’s strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? You don’t need all nine strategic thinking questions in very situation where you are expected to quickly develop new business ideas. Extreme Creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. This transition forces me to formally communicate aspects of the Brainzooming brand, including strategic assumptions and brand personality, vocabulary, design standards, and other elements that have only been in my head until now.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. In case you missed any Brainzooming strategy planning eBooks, here are seven to jump start your strategic planning exercises and better engage your team in shaping your organization’s direction. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download). 11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning (Download).

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization. The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

Emma Gibson forwarded an article from Harvard Business Review addressing four factors that distinguish top chief executive performers in creating strategic impact. 4 Critical Factors for Successful Executives in Creating Strategic Impact. For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While we have done a bunch of strategic and creative thinking skills workshops for sales teams in the past several years , we have never put together a specific diagnostic on this topic. 10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople. Working from an Innovative Thinking Platform. If a salesperson employs a comparable approach to think about value, it is a great sign he or she is creating innovative solutions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 17, 2017

I was talking with a friend about how we approach developing a strategic planning process for a client. I told her I don’t tend to think about moments of pride, since I try to avoid the seven deadly sins as best I can! The statement does a great job of describing the brand impact we strive to create with a strategic planning process: Getting smart work done while expanding creative thinking more quickly than anyone imagined possible.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. Gain a sense of what people already think. Better strategize how to introduce challenging points of view. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Performance Strategic Planning Strategic Thinking Strategy Tools

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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. We have tons of strategic planning questions, including a few we have singled out as more fun than others. 3 Short, Funny Strategic Planning Questions.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. The consultants we worked with to help us develop our first big strategic marketing plan back in 1997, didn’t provide productive structure to help us. It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Strong project management technique requires both thinking and starting. NASCAR teams are used to stretching one of their main resources (fuel) with creative, winning strategies. Convergent Thinking Week – A BDTP Perspective. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We just created twenty-five year roadmaps for a client’s strategic planning process in two hours and forty-five minutes. How do we eliminate so much time from typical strategic planning process approaches? 11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process. Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around.

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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. “I I don’t think I had any clue, at the start, about the impact the blog would have on my life.”. Back in LA I keep thinking about how naturally we worked together and how our skills and expertise complemented one another.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

“What I do in these situations is step back and think about what the information means for daily and longer-term business. Provide context to others so they think about their activities in a bigger or slightly different way that better fits a future outcome. Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Communication Guest author Implementation Performance Strategic Thinking Strategy Tools Armada Corporate Intelligence business strategy

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. “The matrixed nature of our vast organization” Creating Strategic Impact – 3 Strategic Planning Ideas in a Matrix Organization. Strategic Planning Process. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas. People can love their own thinking too much. Strategic Relationships – 9 Principles for Being a Great Client. I unabashedly love underdogs, even if some people think I don’t understand what a true underdog is! Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. It’s Valentine’s Day.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

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. Brainzooming - All Posts Career Collaboration Creativity Implementation Innovation Performance Strategic Thinking Tools idea magnets

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Every executive dreads strategic planning. While a strategic planning process may promise to deliver real objectives and tactics, it often never happens as promised. That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years. 5 Fun Strategic Planning Activities.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

What do you think will be commonplace first – a car with NO ONE behind the wheel on the highway or no more cell phone calls where you must tell someone to repeat something because they dropped out? Do you get to spend more or less time thinking about the future of your business than you think you need to spend? What disruptive brand do you think will be the next one to completely implode and disappear without hardly a trace?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Other times it means giving old ideas a new day and putting solid tactics and strategic project management planning behind them to move them from ideas to implementation. This lets them get the ideas out there for others to consider so they can focus on other creative thinking. Brainzooming - All Posts Creative Quickies Creativity Innovation innovative ideas“Not all ideas are new.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

Short Story: You can take serious questions and wrap them in child-like situations to add fun and new thinking to a strategic planning process. One way to create greater engagement during a strategic planning process is through framing important questions in new ways. Then there are times in a strategic planning process when the questions are mainly serious, but the premise is mostly silly. Except now, I can’t remember WHY I was thinking about using nursery rhymes.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In the typical case, companies need a driving force from within – a solid team to naturally diffuse the innovation thinking, to introduce the right technologies and the best practices regarding innovation and creative thinking; to make sure the overall innovation program is also in alignment with the on-going business; to manage the noise and the risk of (internal) disruption from the ‘innovation machine’. This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

At the time, there were no widely recognized market research reports, customer insights, or technology roadmaps (except perhaps inside Apple) that projected what the world might conceivably look like in 2017. Think about your company’s collective focus of attention. What companies need is a corresponding set of future-state methods and tools to create the AD futures that define the realm of strategic innovations.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

As of December 2017, The Knit Show has had over a quarter of a million views in at least 19 countries. Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. 5 Strategic Warning Signs.

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BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

Michael won the creative kit door prize I gave away. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills! For organizational innovation success, contact The Brainzooming Group to help your team be more successful by rapidly expanding strategic options and creating innovative growth strategies.

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