BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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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. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. But some things remain constant. I’m like, WHAT?! I was so impressed!

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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. It followed her as she pursued junk at a rural South Dakota hoarders house to look for ideas to fit into her twice-yearly magazine, “Flea Market Style,” and annual “Junk Bonanza flea market festival.”.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy. Keep reading for the code!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Nearly all of their brands were struggling with stagnant or declining market share. Both are integral components of the visionary innovator’s creative process. They thought they needed a new growth strategy.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

While social media and content marketing strategy ideas benefit from new thinking and approaches, you can also incorporate offline best practices that make sense, even if they may seem old. An Offline Way to Plan Online Content Marketing Strategy. to allow creative flexibility? Download it Today!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise. So back to what I have no idea about when it comes to Shrimp.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2017

Branding, naming, and marketing. Creativity. Stimulate creativity (even among people not seeing themselves as creative). Stimulate creativity (even among people not seeing themselves as creative). Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Branding and Marketing.

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Be-novative

MARCH 30, 2021

How to market a new product to the new generation of first time leaders? ?? Elvira Kalmar , our Partner Hub Program Facilitator in the Spark Creativity online sessions facilitated the session. Create marketing material on these channels or material that looks like it is made for these channels. Why do I need this product?’

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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. It is the power of combination. A suggested design for a new innovation approach.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

“Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper to boost creativity.”. We listened to the rationale for adopting an innovation strategy based on broad creative freedom. You’ve been thinking a clean sheet of paper innovation strategy maximizes creativity. A Strategic Creative Brief – 4 Benefits for Your Communications Efforts.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities. When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Packaging your offerings in creative ways. If you want to learn more about putting innovation and crowdsourcing to work in nonprofits, IdeaScale invites you to download our Crowdsourcing and Nonprofits white paper. Finding paying customers for your nonprofit. Exploring partnerships.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He has moved to a new role leading marketing for an organization shifting from the B2C to B2B market. 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.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Topics ranged from entrepreneurship to leading creative teams, from being cognizant of one’s news sources and information suppliers to the factors that make up a creative mindset. Here’s a sneak preview: Deep knowledge of the values of a project, plus trust and freedom, are the “measure twice, cut once” of creativity.

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

Fear that can halt our creativity and productivity in its tracks. Research from the 2008 Great Recession has been clear: companies that continued, even accelerated, their initiatives for innovation across multiple dimensions of business emerged with as much as 2x the stock market growth compared with average companies.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 13, 2016

One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. They work hard to create a compelling vision of the future.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”.

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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. “ For organizations that valuable broad collaboration, we deliver fantastic results. Our approach isn’t tailored for every company.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. That doesn’t mean, however, it works best for him or her to close the door and spend weeks trying to write a marketing plan individually. The collaborative approach created more thorough and vetted plans. knowing the decision maker) generate answers.

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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. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” Download our book to go even deeper into this topic. 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. Have collaborative conversations: working in cubicles is an easy trap to fall into.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. While we didn’t tackle the elephants in the online collaboration, at a subsequent in-person strategic planning meeting, one leader voiced a hope and expectation that we would tackle the elephants in the room.

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eZassi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

How to channel your internal and external crowd for innovation, ideation and collaboration. By harnessing the collective creativity of the crowd, you can exponentially increase the number of solutions that are submitted in response to a certain challenge. Download or print the guide. What is the Goal of Crowdsourcing Innovation?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult. Be a role model, and act in ways that promote a safe, trusting, and collaborative environment. It is often said, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff.” And the costs are real.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

They have the resources to invest in prioritizing innovation in the company, to hire smart, creative and innovative people, to explore innovative ideas , and to fail. There are new markets, and cultures to explore and a diverse set of perspectives to bring into the company.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead, executives talk about customers or growth or cost cutting or new markets or a whole variety of other areas that can contribute to business success. The consultants we worked with to help us develop our first big strategic marketing plan back in 1997, didn’t provide productive structure to help us. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Contact us, and let’s discuss a faster path to new thinking, development, and market success for your innovation strategy! – Mike Brown. and lots of articles, too!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2017

A few tablet computers to allow for online collaboration and document sharing. 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. A big format printer.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The conventional wisdom is you give away “what” you do as part of content marketing, but not “how” you do what you do. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

We haven’t wavered from the initial reason for starting The Brainzooming Group: to take our learnings on simplifying, collaboratively approaching, and speeding up strategic planning to smart organizations wanting to conduct business differently. Without content marketing, I would not have had the guts to become an entrepreneur.

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Values Centered Innovation

JULY 14, 2019

While there have been many methods for finding innovative yet practical solutions to business and social challenges – such as the “Creative Problem Solving” process of Osborn and Parnes – somehow “design thinking” has caught the world’s fancy like no other. Download a PDF of this blog and share with others! Innovative thinking skills.

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