BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Not sure what the right marketing language is? Building the Team.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. Are you making the best use of customer input and market insights to deliver innovation and growth? This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Today’s Blogapalooza article is from Lindsay Santee , a marketing manager and student in Max Utsler’s Innovation in Management of Communications class at The University of Kansas. Library Innovation Strategy – Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover by Lindsay Santee. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And if you want to get your team members going within days on enhancing their creative success, get them copies of our book: Idea Magnets – 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders. Branding and Marketing. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

They counter suggesting strategic thinking questions as a starting point over-promises and ignores all the other dynamics involved. See Kodak, Border’s Books, unionized trucking companies, and every department store you ever visited, among others. 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, if your team is heavy on big-picture thinkers, include activities that focus on detailed action planning to complement their strategic visions. Conversely, if your team excels in operational details, encourage activities that stretch their strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This quote made me think of how we have created the Brainzooming methodology over the years: through pure inspiration and artful adaptation from far-flung sources. The inspirations include reality TV , improv comedy, business consulting, Dennis the Menace cartoon books, magazine ads, and obscure behavioral laws , just to name a few!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Looking back ten years, suffice it to say that starting to write and publish about the work I was first doing in the Fortune 500 world as a VP of Strategic Marketing and then in launching Brainzooming was one of the most important career decisions I ever made. I’ve told the story of its inception previously.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2016

On the 5th Monday of the Lenten season every year, the first Bible reading at mass is from the book of the prophet Daniel. 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.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them. We will introduce a new Brainzooming Fake Book soon that includes the exercises we will cover in the branding strategy workshop.

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CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2019

Similarly, before a company is started, founders carefully assess the current business environment (the markets, customers, competition, and so on) and try to forecast the future. Marketing campaigns. See if one of these approaches seems to describe your company and think about how you might apply the concepts to your own role.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog. Yes, you can do too much of a good thing.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople. Thinking about innovative sales people I have known, how we teach strategic and creative thinking skills to sales teams, and strategic thinking questions we use to spur new thinking, here are ten questions to identify innovative thinking in salespeople.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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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.”. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We created a fast-paced half-day in-person workshop for a small group of sales and marketing leaders at an animal pharma company. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 12, 2016

Tina booked me in first class for both legs and checked me in for the flight. Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on social media and content marketing can boost your success! I said I thought it was worth the risk to be able to get home at the exact same time I was expected. Tina replied so charmingly, “I’m with you!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 31, 2018

Muller’s new book, The Tyranny of Metrics (affiliate link) , he explores the rush in today’s business environment to measure everything. From experience in marketing plan development and implementation, we are struck by how many times the outstanding outcomes a plan promises have no practical tracking approach.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. His presentation was based on his book, “To Sell Is Human.” In the book, Daniel Pink suggests a different version of the traditional ABC sales mantra.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 8, 2017

Then I went on to listen to his book – Originals on Audible. Loved the book. Then I went ahead and bought his other book – G ive and Take and loved that as well. I have been highly influenced by both his books and hope I am able to put some of the learnings from the books into practise.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

Leading up to the Dallas trip, we were discussing her new role as a Communications Animator at The Grove , a social impact-focused co-working space located across the street from what was the Texas School Book Depository. To put it succinctly, Diane came in and kicked my creative and content marketing ass in the nicest possible way.

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