BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic.

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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

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. In planning how we would help these companies, we realized there were three possibilities whenever we asked people to answer a question inside our strategic thinking exercises: The answer could show their strategic thinking was in the right direction.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” The ultimate brainstorming guide. multiple times.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Innovation : Encourages innovative thinking by offering a change of scenery and a break from routine.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 10, 2022

You would like to generate some creative solutions to that problem. What might you do BEFORE you gather the team together as a mechanism for stimulating more innovative thinking? Brainstorm questions, not answers: Ask the team to come up with different questions that they would like to answer regarding this problem.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Best-selling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every field of endeavor, from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising. That's why British author G.K. They can't see the problem." In the shower.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also help them reflect on issues like innovation, strategy, vision, etc. Simply put, an executive retreat can help the leadership team at your organization or company tackle your own unique challenges, brainstorm future goals, and build a global vision moving forward. Innovation Teams within Organizations.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. Enables Tiered Thinking. What Is Mind Mapping?

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

This simple innovation dramatically increased idea production and accelerated the work on the bomb. In traditional brainstorming groups, people suggest ideas one at a time. If a brainwriting group has 10 members, up to 10 ideas will be generated for every one generated in a typical brainstorming session of 10 members.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Best-selling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every field of endeavor, from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising. That's why British author G.K. They can't see the problem." In the shower.

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Michael Michalko

JUNE 1, 2017

THOUGHT EXERCISE. Or, in other words, you had to break normal thinking patterns, something that the new Esquire said it could help modern men do. Over time the puzzle became synonymous with creative thinking and the phrase “thinking outside the box” has now become a cliché for creativity.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

That is IF you want to increase the odds of you and your team increasing the odds of innovation actually happening on-the-job. the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week? Exercising. That's why British author G.K.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. That's the good news. What ARE the holes?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? Exercising. That's why British author G.K. They can't see the problem." In the shower.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. That's the good news. What ARE the holes?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. That's the good news. What ARE the holes?

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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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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. Drucker “presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a practice and a discipline.”

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

How much time should you spend improving your existing processes as opposed to innovating new ones? There are two types of companies: those who innovate and those who improve. Regardless of size or scale though, many businesses struggle to decide whether they should invest their resources in innovation or improvement.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

Thumbing a group’s collective nose (or perhaps raising a prominent finger) toward someone or something standing in the way of pursuing new, innovative strategies always adds fun to a strategy workshop. Here are three opportunities to challenge typical roadblocks to innovation and new strategic ideas: 1. Stick It To Authority Figures.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. That’s because humans are natural innovators. If you want to speed up your rate of productivity, you can use an idea management tool to collate these kernels of innovation from your entire team, but what should you do with them next?

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 27, 2017

And the more creative we are, the better the solution could be. We gather our team around in a room and want to do engage in a brainstorming session. The facilitator sets up the context and wants us to come up with creative ideas that could potentially solve the issue at hand. Stanford’s Emma Seppälä writes : .

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Like the majority of the world’s population in April 2020, I find myself unable to implement my preferred method of innovation discovery. In the meantime, however, I would like to make use of an innovation technique I have mentioned in previous articles. Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway House, Key West, Florida.

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