BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 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

That story got me thinking: beyond an outside facilitator, who else is witnessing your innovation strategy development over time and can point to what those closest to it will never see, or at least never mention? If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

You probably can’t stop, research different strategic thinking exercises, and incorporate them into your strategy session. What can you do right away to turn deadly strategic thinking exercises into fun strategic planning exercises? Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Change your meeting place.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

Right before we left, we suddenly changed plans. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 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

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

So the next time somebody says, “We need more innovation,” ask, “What EXACTLY do you think that means?” If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2016

For whatever reason, I’ve found myself explaining several times in the last few days how we use a wide variety of strategic planning techniques to gather participant input into strategies. Sometimes the strategic thinking best approach involves a large, in-person group. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2016

How about a video blog for a change? While this format (an informal video while driving) may not be the one we continue using, it made sense for this video on strategic relationships and taking your hands off the wheel. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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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. Let me share ideas for how we might be able to accomplish the changes we need to make. That’s no surprise. Listen to my ideas.

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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). If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. That was definitely true.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

In an article from The Wall Street Journal , subtitled, “Uber Users Flub Cab Rides,” writer Katherine Bindley highlights how individuals accustomed to app-based rideshare services don’t know how to behave in cabs (or even their own cars). And how do you REALLY know what factors are driving changes in expectations?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2015

An article called ”20 Cognitive Biases that Screw up your Decisions,” by Samantha Lee and Shana Lebawitz, gives us a framework to identify orthodoxies in an objective fashion that will keep you from being crushed. Delivered via an infographic, the article describes many ways we let our cognitive biases keep us from making better decisions.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

Here are six ways to strategically and productively fill up a LITTLE bit of that clean sheet of paper to maximize creativity: Letting People Know What’s Important. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. A Strategic Creative Brief – 4 Benefits for Your Communications Efforts.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2016

Here’s the big strategic thinking question: Who can best shed light on when your brand is defaulting to “never and always” in your competitive strategy? Your marketing and brand managers MAY be able to point out places where THEY have gone to the same old, same old in their strategic planning and implementation.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 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

JANUARY 18, 2016

The Little Caesars TV ad shows one employee questioning another about making pizza dough from scratch every day for fifty years without ever changing. Ideas someone has struggled to sell-in so no one wants to change anything and re-sell them. A lot of them, however, are probably ripe for change. – Mike Brown. Known entities.

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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. Glad to see the matrix working!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Every experience of the brand personality should feel as if it originates from one brand, even if the situation necessitates strategic changes to achieve that consistency. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The answer to the question is to change the nature of the conversations you are having when you are working on the business. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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