BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

Facing a complete business shutdown, our team used a combination of strategic thinking and real-time course correction to stay engaged with and attempt to re-win the customers we couldn’t currently serve. Prioritize Strategic Issues. We’ve always preached that the definition of strategic doesn’t include a time component.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. If this guy could do it in two days, we DEFINITELY could! Find New Resources to Innovate !

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last week, The Brainzooming Group was in San Francisco for the Social Media Strategies Summit , where Mike presented a content marketing strategy workshop and a talk on collaborative engagement. Start by making sure your definition is up to date. There’s even, dare I say, a sense of fun and creativity about it. Define Cool.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A big part of making strategic planning fun, however, involves focusing on boring details that create a fun* experience. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*. Letting everyone know upfront that WE will handle turning the input into a strategic plan (so they don’t have to).

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is.

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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. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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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. 10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople. This list is definitely from the Brainzooming R&D lab.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Because of this, the list was worthless for doing what I suspect everyone hoped it would do: provide a starting point for the strategic thinking needed to back into a definition of and explanation for what the new initiative would turn out to be. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

You may have to do homework on yourself and your own background to flesh out the definition and range of your expertise. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

NASCAR teams are used to stretching one of their main resources (fuel) with creative, winning strategies. Getting done can definitely be more important than being perfect. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done. A creative project could be done before all the steps are completed or the deadline is reached.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If you really doubt a supporter’s intentions toward you, try operating as if the person that selected you wants to be fantastic and is definitely going to be your biggest fan! Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. No one wants to be the person having to self-admit such things.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You will get a sense of someone who, while obviously devoting himself to his job, his organization, and his players, definitely realizes his job is not bigger than he is. I would encourage you, however, to watch the press conference video. – Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. First though, a little background.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The Brainzooming eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning,” has generated lots of downloads since we published it during the early days of strategy season. The eBook shares ideas we developed in the past ten-plus years to create fun strategic planning exercises. – Mike Brown. Need Ideas to Make Strategy Planning Fun?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. I think Mess reached out online after reading some Brainzooming articles. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about collaborating with Mess! A Chicago Creative Nudge.

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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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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Crowdsource Your Crowdsourcing Goals. Optimize for Serendipity.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

"Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. Idea Champions came to consult with MBooth just weeks after we were named 'Creative Agency of the Year' and helped us unlock an even greater level of thinking for our clients across the board.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 8, 2017

Adam Grant – Super Power – Being Prolific at Original Thinking. I was introduced to Adam through a podcast episode that Srinivas Rao put out on his show – Unmistakable Creative (BTW, it was also one of the best episodes of the show). Then I went on to listen to his book – Originals on Audible. Loved the book.

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