BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. The initial exercise explored three phases of an audience member’s journey.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Flipping Minimal and Abundant.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As a result of increased focus on innovation, innovation training programs are springing up – both inside companies and as entities that are marketed to businesses. Since innovation is becoming a business discipline, training must encompass much more than just the brainstorming phase of innovation. Key Elements of Innovation Training.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Innovation Process Insights The journey to innovation is a critical path many businesses pursue to stay ahead in today’s fast-paced market.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s a vibrant journey, bursting with collaboration, strokes of genius and a collage of viewpoints. Strengthening Bonds Across Business Units Avatars can ease departmental tensions, paving the way for new relationships and interdepartmental collaboration. This article originally appeared on Forbes.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. When I tell people this story, they chuckle.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Exercise during your lunch break. Invite your customers and vendors to brainstorming sessions. Take more breaks.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

By leveraging experiential insights, executive teams are better positioned to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and potential disruptions. This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. So we pushed back.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. In my experience working with dozens of organizations and executive teams around the world, here are the success factors.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

As businesses adapt to the ever-changing market demands, the integration of AI into the design thinking process has become essential. By harnessing AI’s computational power, teams can: Identify user needs and market trends with greater accuracy. Generate a vast array of ideas and conceptual designs quickly.

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Innovation Architecture

MARCH 21, 2018

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. The sages of design thinking and collaborative innovation nod in accord. Introduction.

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100%Open

JULY 7, 2020

Since 2011 we have hosted a grand total of 36 Union events, but Summer Union 2020 was the first of its kind as it was entirely virtual from farm to fork – from our first brainstorm to the execution of the event itself. We brainstormed the three crucial stages of innovation: Explore – how to have ideas and extend networks.

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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. Brainstorming Ideas – How Many Ideas Per Television Series?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Pursue an Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. #5 Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Defining Your Idea Generation Process The key steps in a traditional idea generation process follow a set path; submission, collaboration, evaluation, and implementation. Collaboration Once an idea is submitted there is still a long way to go before it is implemented.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

If you have strategic planning process participants who are knowledgeable about your competitors, you may want to collaboratively tap their insights. How about framing the exercise as Goldilocks and the Three Competitors? Growing faster, making aggressive product or pricing moves, expanding operations or markets).

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Without beating yourself up, simply note the ones that are your Achilles heel, then try the simple "go beyond excuses" exercise at the end of the list. I don't have the right collaborator. Market conditions aren't right. I don't have a marketing plan. Brainstorm each question -- alone and with a friend. No problem.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. You can probably accomplish the task with people from the department with primary responsibility, like marketing, with additional diversity from related departments, like sales and possibly supply chain. Here is a brief review of quantum idea generation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The brands want to capitalize on market growth stemming from toys tied to popular social media themes. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways. From just the few toy industry innovation stories reported in the WSJ , you see multiples ways of incorporating broad and early market perceptions to shape innovation: Social Media Listening.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 6, 2018

Brainstorm with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Exercise during your lunch break. Exercise during your lunch break. Invite your customers to brainstorming sessions. Initiate cross-functional brainstorming sessions.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can pick up the phone and speak to experts on production, technology, operations, markets, and industries for example. Let’s simplify things and say that an idea is a combination of a problem and a solution (one potential “product-market fit,” if you will). Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Without beating yourself up, simply note the ones that are your Achilles heel, then try the simple "go beyond excuses" exercise at the end of the list. I don't have the right collaborator. Market conditions aren't right. I don't have a marketing plan. Brainstorm each question -- alone and with a friend. No problem.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can pick up the phone and speak to experts on production, technology, operations, markets, and industries for example. Let’s simplify things and say that an idea is a combination of a problem and a solution (one potential “product-market fit,” if you will). Then you start brainstorming lots of ideas for each problem.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Extending Brainstorming Ground Rules to Everyday Business Life. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Stealth Innovation Strategy – Hiding Innovative Business Ideas.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This is one of the most difficult exercises, but it’s also one of the most powerful. 4) Plan & Organize a Real-Time Collaboration Session. There are many free online tools for real-time collaboration. Depending on the nature of their jobs, this could be as simple as a brainstorming task.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Individually, we might accomplish the task, but by working collaboratively under a single purpose, the team can reach new heights and success. When executed well, teamwork unites people and purpose, enhances trust and collaboration, and ultimately boosts productivity and elevates workforce engagement.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

They have found that in brainstorming sessions, focussing on quantity of ideas led to more quality ideas as well. So what are some of the reasons there might be a link between quantity and quality of ideas: An effective exercise in many ideation workshops is to start by suggesting or writing out the very worst ideas possible.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 2, 2013

Finally, the door bursts open and Don, the marketing manager, enters the room. You smile and say, “Don, you know how your job as the marketing manager involves creating these great strategy plans for the year and outlining each campaign to make sure it aligns with a goal? Option 3: Turn the critic into the collaborator.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. Michalko tell you how to amp up creativity intuitively and indulge in some practical brainstorming through interesting exercises, analogies, and stories. Conclusion.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It also doesn’t mean that all businesses are founded on a patentable invention; often they are applying an existing invention to a new market or new customer. Finally, they need to be great collaborators, because above all else, innovation is a team sport. Innovation (def): looking for better ways to operate and serve customers.

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