Planview

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

One employee whose work is seen across the company is Barron Fujimoto, Planview’s graphic designer. In his nearly 20 years with the company, Barron has worked with numerous departments and seen Planview’s incredible growth firsthand. As a graphic designer, I get requests from the entire company. Then I returned to the U.S.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2018

Since my cousin’s husband has worked at the same company for forty-two years or something, I’m willing to believe his post: if you’ve worked in one place for four decades, you have to know a little about fun at work, even when the holiday falls on a Sunday this year. We released this eBook for the traditional strategic planning season.

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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Most companies would benefit from bigger and bolder ideas. It’s the same with inspiring creative ideas. a clean sheet of paper) provides little creative inspiration.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Reviewing the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies issue suggested fourteen potential innovation themes based on the strategies the magazine reported. Turning your company into the ultimate content creator in your market? Selecting Your Organization’s Innovation Theme. appeared first on The Brainzooming Group.

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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

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

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

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 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

MARCH 10, 2016

Here’s a brief video produced by SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, where I talk about four easy ways for companies to boost creativity in the workplace without taking a lot of time to do it. My favorite expression of creativity at SEMA! 4 Tips to Efficiently Boost Creativity in the Workplace. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We employ it to categorize what your company or department is currently offering based on: Things that add incredible value for your audience. Ask a client: If you were running our company / department, what would you be doing ? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We haven’t talked about stealing (or copying) ideas as a creative strategy for some time. Translated into a creative strategy formula, it’s an example of “Lead, Copy (1 and 2), Swerve, Integrate, Go.” Here’s how this creative strategy formula plays out between two well-known consumer brands. BTW, A Word about Personalization.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Conventional wisdom is especially prized by executives with tenure and experience in one industry, company, and/or discipline. One key to greater creativity and innovation is the ability to temporarily forget what you know. This is vital to move an organization in new, innovative, and disruptive directions.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2016

Have you ever taken a moment to consider what gets in the way of your company fully embracing business innovation ? We were leading a creative thinking workshop for a subsidiary of a German-owned, privately-held company. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears.

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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

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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

I had a Twitter question from Charles Westscott about creativity and how to make money from your passion. Brainzooming how to get paid as a creative is my struggle. From there, the creative thinking question involved the moves someone can make to move toward the upper right (using more of your creative passion for more pay).

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

I also created and delivered a 6-part webinar series addressing The New Important for businesses trying to innovate and restart during the pandemic; the webinar series involved a 2 ½ hour combination of existing and new frameworks plus creating six eBooks in five weeks. Send me an email or contact us , and let’s talk right away. Mike Brown.

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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

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

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. Iterating – Using specific creative and strategic thinking exercises in a sequence to help the group generate many possibilities and ideas. Extreme Creativity.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you’re developing an innovation strategy initiative inside your company, is your primary focus on bringing executives together in a creative way to imagine new ideas? Sure, the idea of getting everyone together for a creativity session is a sexy part of innovation. Aren’t as sexy as facilitating a creative workshop.

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Fun Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Last-Minute Creative Ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Strategic Planning for a Troubled Company. Creative Thinking Exercises – Would you like S, M, L, or XL Creative Ideas? We’re guessing there are more than a few articles of value to you, too!

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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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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

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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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Blog Topic Ideas – Social Media Content Strategy for a Large B2B Company . How to Brand a Company – 7 Types of Brand Language You Should Use . A Strategic Creative Brief – 4 Benefits for Your Communications Efforts . Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. Sharing Social-First Stories.

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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 now include: A variety of free eBooks. The Idea Magnets book on creative leadership. It is certainly obvious now.

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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. Brainstorming: It is a creative process to encourage those involved in the project to generate many ideas quickly. Ideation Tools.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Our approach isn’t tailored for every company. ” She emailed back within minutes, wanting to clarify if I REALLY meant to write that our approach ISN’T for every company. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.”

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A creative solution is subjective, there are at least a million possible great and terrible ways to solve a creative problem?—?and Read Fortune2000 innovation success stories in our free ebook. and the real innovators know that. that is full of new challenges, questions, discoveries and experimentation in small iterations.

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