BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I also push my creative thinking skills and look through newspaper or magazine articles to inspire ideas. 15 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Junk Ideas into Treasures. Within the story, there were fifteen creative thinking skills demonstrating how KI Nassauer turns “junk ideas” into treasures with potential.

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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. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Can You Change Your Look?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. God provides all the needed creative inspiration.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Sticky notes +. A few minutes =.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We haven’t tackled that topic previously, so the first creative thinking move was sketching out a matrix comparing the degree someone is able to express a personal creative version versus how much they are getting paid for it. 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion and Creativity. Mike Brown.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If you’ve been listening to this show for any length of time, you’ve more than likely come to realize that learning creativity takes time. Becoming more creative will change every aspect of your life for the better. I also explain how it’s used in our creative thinking and creative output.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. That’s my creative advice. Do with it what you will.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the core creative thinking question for our Shrimp exercise. This creative thinking question also helps them move beyond ideas they would typically self-censor in almost any situation. It does a great job of giving people permission to change everything, even if it’s only hypothetical at first.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Many executives visiting the Brainzooming website for the first time review dozens of pages of articles and downloads. This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I see three take-aways from this story: The benefit of creative structure to generate LOTS of ideas, because the winner may be cool product name number eighty-three. The power of strategy-focused creative thinking questions to help generate a high proportion of on-target ideas. Download your copy today! – Mike Brown.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. CEO-READ listed Thinkertoys as one of the 100 Best Business Books of all Time.

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IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2018

But with our educational institutions stumbling a bit in the face of new technology and change making, what is the state of innovation in education? If you think about it, universities and educational institutions are almost always breeding grounds for new ideas, prototypes, and creative thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Utilitarian in its principles, seeking real-world use and implementation through a more creative, collaborative environment, leading to more discoveries that distinctly ‘blend’ the lab application with the customer discovery of unmet need. need to change our mindsets. It is the power of combination. Does this make sense to you?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

Since neither CPR extreme is good, the right frequency for getting told to pull back creative ideas is somewhere between zero and 100%. Where the right place is depends on a couple of things: How is your CPR changing over time? If so, that could suggest an environmental problem that’s killing big creativity. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Over time and hundreds of strategy development workshops, we changed all that. And importantly, when we developed a new strategy development exercise , we actively used creative thinking techniques to help them very naturally think about typical strategy issues in very different ways. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Change Management Strategy – 35 Articles for Your Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2016

Do you suppose it is fear of change? We were leading a creative thinking workshop for a subsidiary of a German-owned, privately-held company. If your organization is routinely coming up against fears of change that slow (or undermine) innovation, the new Brainzooming eBook is for you. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. Last Minute Changes to Boost Collaboration. Related posts Change the Room Around!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

If you find yourself beset by creative boredom, what can you do? You can: Try a new creative perspective on the situation. Start changing the creative variables at your disposal. Invite a kid to come up with creative ideas. Pay attention to what people unfamiliar with the situation think is cool.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Someone downloading the new 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning eBook when we released it stated his biggest strategy challenge as coming up with fresh ways to do the same strategic planning exercises with the same executives every year. Change just one element of an exercise as an experiment in improving your process and adding variety.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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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.” No, not everyone is creative.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. They provided input on the biggest impact ideas and how to enrich other strategies through additional creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. The easy answer is to say you are looking for big ideas. Who doesn’t love big ideas? The problem: asking for big ideas rarely leads to big ideas.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Aspirations the organization has for changing its current path. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. 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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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

Prioritizing with Change and Implementation. These ideas don’t even begin to address the innovation value of strategic thinking exercises and creative structures to spur innovation. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Constraining the Possibility of Poor Results.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. And who knows. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Here’s the story of how a request from a big supporter, then and still, instigated a major change in the Brainzooming methodology. After that, whenever we designed a strategic planning workshop, we made deliberate design decisions on the right balance of creative thinking and focused plan building.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

FREE Download: “7 Strategies to Conquer Your Organization’s Innovation Fears” Whether spoken or unspoken, organizations can send strong messages saying, “If it isn’t broken, don’t screw around with it” in a variety of ways. We tackle: Whether facts or emotional appeals are ideal to challenge fear of innovation-driven change.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

The reason is while it is important for organizations, participants hardly ever see the connection between participation and positive changes for brands and customers. That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. I know I do.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That is a huge change, and opens the door to some radically different future workshops. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Explore creative problem solving techniques, activities, and articles. If you find your organization or business stuck in a rut, unable to evolve or adapt to changes in your industry or customer expectations, it may be time to try a new approach. Be a Great Boss by Being a Creative Leader. Creativity starts from the top.

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