BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? If growth is an important component of what you are trying to accomplish, innovation is likely getting a hard look as an important part of realizing that objective. Conquer change fears and resource limitations. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. The engineers are so accustomed to testing EVERYTHING, they routinely shoot down any innovative ideas. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? The reason why?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The client we’re onsite with today working on an innovation strategy comes with an intriguing history. He changed jobs early in 2017 and re-subscribed to the blog with his new company’s email address. By mid-year, he completed a Contact Us form on the website, wanting to discuss his brand’s innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

This Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 1 pm CDT (US) I’ll be appearing on Social Jack TV™ with host Dean DeLisle talking about Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Whether personally or organizationally, the desire to be more innovative can run straight into all kinds of barriers, brick walls, and booby traps.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

To become really innovative, your company needs a special culture, a new mindset across all levels, disciplines, and functions. As a leader, you need to introduce and promote a solid innovation framework, which will gradually become part of the normal, day-to-day business. Provide the innovation framework. Team Responsibilities.

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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. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Don’t automatically presume the sole enabler behind an innovation strategy is generating new thinking and innovative ideas. That’s a significant part of the innovation strategy process, but it’s just one part. As an example, we’ve been scoping a number of innovation initiatives for a client.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

Talking with a potential client about an already-planned innovation strategy workshop, the going-in innovation strategy called for giving participants “a clean sheet of paper.”. We listened to the rationale for adopting an innovation strategy based on broad creative freedom. Sharing Your Innovation Strategy Decision Making.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? Understanding your external context and the global key drivers impacting your organization prepare you for change. Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments. The PESTLED Framework.

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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

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. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business?

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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). 4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be a Smarter Innovation Strategy. Yet, consider these stories.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2016

Perhaps the TV ad is a delayed reaction to a Domino’s TV ad several years earlier about innovating because it finally listened to customers saying how bad Domino’s was. The Little Caesars TV ad shows one employee questioning another about making pizza dough from scratch every day for fifty years without ever changing. 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. A shadow innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

Right before we left, we suddenly changed plans. Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2018

And how do you REALLY know what factors are driving changes in expectations? Seek out any available information to understand top brands’ disruptive innovations, practices to set expectations, and performance levels. Looking to Boost Customer Experience Innovation? Understanding What Drives Customer Expectations.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

What types of information should you listen for amid strategic conversations? Aspirations the organization has for changing its current path. Expectations for what a strategic initiative will include or deliver. Specific innovative ideas the organization wants to pursue. Factors influencing the initiative’s success.

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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. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This is the second post that I am sharing on both my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through my paul4innovating posting site , which has different audiences to discuss this with.

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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.”. The answer to the question is to change the nature of the conversations you are having when you are working on the business.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. 84% of manufacturing executives say they plan to add technology roles in the next 5 years to keep pace with the demands of a rapidly changing industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. I hope this post series helps in your thinking about these cross-sector collaborations Firstly the range of partnerships and collaborators from different sectors becomes fairly complex.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 7, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This is the second post that I am sharing here on my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through my paul4innovating posting site , which has different audiences to discuss this with.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Problems such as climate change, health care, and social inequality that not only transcend sectoral barriers but leverage the unique strengths of those involved in resources can create more innovative and effective solutions.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Lens smashing is a common innovation strategy technique to get to the next level of thinking. Think about that one. Here’s a new innovation strategy tool: Take the 20 biases in the article and write as many orthodoxies as you can envision for each one. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Marianne Carr.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

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. Now, our thinking is more innovative, more strategic and reached more efficiently." - Andrew Rossi, Creative Director, MBooth & Associates. "In

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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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. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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