BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Having TOO MANY strong creative perspectives can tank the actionable results coming from a strategic thinking workshop more than having too few creative individuals.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. However, you’re creative, whether it’s picking up a Fender Strat, or a paintbrush, or knitting needles, that is how you channel your creativity.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

I used to think creative inspiration came from inside. 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. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. We can suggest more ways to dial in these strategic thinking questions for your organization’s specific opportunities and challenges. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. What’s the life cycle of creative ideas?

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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. Creating new rules.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. Are you on-time or behind to update your strategy? Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Following up the initial email exchange, I shared the following: “If you are looking to accelerate branding development, we use a streamlined process that is highly collaborative. Our approach isn’t tailored for every company. “ For organizations that valuable broad collaboration, we deliver fantastic results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

On November 2, 2009, we launched Brainzooming as a new company helping organizations across industries imagine and implement strategy, branding, and innovation initiatives. They want to collaborate now and in the future. They now include: A variety of free eBooks. The Idea Magnets book on creative leadership.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Strategic Thinking Lessons – Keeping Your Company Fresh. and lots of articles, too!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

That this is taking place during a period when many companies are IMPLEMENTING strategies suggests you understand the importance of strategy even beyond initial planning. As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. Extreme Creativity.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. If you’re in charge of a company or a significant business unit or department, are you actively managing gender diversity ?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We target the greatest relevance for strategists and innovators inside organizations that are excited about the opportunities that collaborative strategy offers in the way of culture transformation and results. Fun Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Last-Minute Creative Ideas. 5 Fun Strategic Planning Activities.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

First, let’s briefly go over Collective Creativity. We talked a lot about the Collective Creativity principle and its importance in not only our business world, but society. In a nutshell, she studied the world’s most innovative and creative companies and came to a particular discovery.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

I was talking with an engineer at a company that primarily employs engineers. The company focuses on materials testing. I suggested looking at a version of one of our extreme creativity questions : How can we innovate our processes to test things faster than all our competitors? The reason why?

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To make it even simpler, you could say that Design Thinking is an innovative approach based on the designer’s thoughts, combining creativity and empathy to create innovative solutions. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. What are some Design thinking tools ?

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Prefer a culture of open collaboration. Most of the millennials prefer organizations with flexible, innovative workplace environments where they can be productive and creative to make an impact on business growth. Implement ongoing collaborative training. More technology focused. Modernize your intranet.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The multinational telecommunication company had novel thoughts for revamping the marketing plans for its youth-focused package, Vodafone You. They set out to seek engagement with thousands of students through a collaborative digital platform. Read more success stories like this in our free ebook. very fitting.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears. Start down a path while working on redefining it.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth 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

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. In May 2006, Dave Kramer, a Senior Sales and Marketing VP at one of our transportation subsidiaries asked us to help one of their company president’s come up with a strategic plan – quickly. I met Chuck Dymer, the Brilliance Activator , in the mid-1990s.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Before we got them in our new company store, I found them at the Gap and started accumulating them. Fast forward to last summer 2001: Chuck Salter of Fast Company was preparing an article on the turnaround at Yellow. When the Fast Company article appeared in January 2002, someone came to my office to ask if I’d seen it.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand. Short story, on the client side, I found that getting the right strategy consistently led to getting the creative right.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 13, 2017

” That’s what the CEO of a nearly-$1 billion, employee-owned company said to us at our first meeting. Following that, we’ll work with each business unit on its own collaborative strategic plan. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.”

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

For many business people, it’s intimidating to walk into an unfamiliar situation (whether that’s a new company, client, team, initiative, or project) knowing you are expected to contribute new business ideas right away. In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve lost count of how many times I have heard business people say and then try to explain why their particular companies are unique. By this, they typically mean there is no possibility any other company faces the same types of challenges and operational issues they deal with daily. What other companies serve the same customers we do?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

The collaborative approach created more thorough and vetted plans. Involving more people turned weeks of solo work into a one-day collaboration to prepare a strategy plan. We instead developed a process built around facilitating conversations among people with a big stake in company performance.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 15 Articles on Strategic Planning for a Troubled Company. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 15 Articles on Strategic Planning for a Troubled Company. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Too often, group activities intended to build team affiliation and collaboration are disconnected from meaningful objectives, resulting in no lasting business impact. A New York-based company, Wekudo, has popped up to handle strategizing and planning team building activities. “We Currently, the company serves only New York City.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Our industrial sales force needs training to be stronger at strategic thinking and developing creative solutions. We are a CPG company and need to move around big box retailers and online behemoths in disruptive ways. Our product team is creative, but they are tapped out right now. It sounds like a focus group, but it’s bigger.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While we have done a bunch of strategic and creative thinking skills workshops for sales teams in the past several years , we have never put together a specific diagnostic on this topic. For more on this innovation strategy, download our Outside-In Innovation eBook! ). 10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

It was simply what you did when you gathered together a bunch of creative professionals (like engineers and industrial designers) who were experts at making things, and had them collaborate with another bunch of creative professionals (like psychologists and human factors experts) who focused on understanding human experience.

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Planview

AUGUST 2, 2023

Amidst an ever-changing and unpredictable market landscape, Fortune 500 companies are increasingly turning to the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to enhance their value streams and meet customer demands. Organizations confront a harrowing truth in the quest for business agility: they still struggle to measure flow within their value streams.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

What will be commonplace first – Amazon uses drones for delivery on a widespread basis or a private company puts a person on the Moon or Mars? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy Strategic Thinking Exercises – 6 Characteristics the Best Ones Have.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The inspiration for the original post was losing someone in our department, Lori Schade, to another company. That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It means leadership has not made a credible case for WHY employees will benefit from going beyond the bare minimum to justify going all in to make company initiatives successful. If you want to go deeper on a viable strategy to improve employee engagement, download our Results eBook. – Mike Brown.

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