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

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! If you want to collaboratively engage your team (or multiple teams) in a strategic and creative thinking process in which any of them can discover the secret to creative success, then it’s time to contact us. I like the concept, a lot.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There may be more, but thinking back on business collaborations from the past few years, those items characterize the decision making and expected impacts of our varied collaborations. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We can suggest more ways to dial in these strategic thinking questions for your organization’s specific opportunities and challenges. 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.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. As I skimmed the amazing ideation techniques, I found myself exclaiming, “Woah!!”

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers. Social media : Participate in social media by asking questions, commenting and engaging with your fans. If you’d like to skip ahead, you can download the entire chapter today.

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking Skills – Using Questions and Structure Successfully. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before?

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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. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

My response is the more we share the Brainzooming methodology with you, the more you can improve your own strategy work on a daily basis in situations where it would NEVER be practical to engage us for help. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! . One woman said, “I don’t believe I’ve ever used this word before, but I feel so…enriched!” Another attendee was heard saying, “My brain is full!”

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We need to consider how big data and analytics, technology and a far more creative thinking needs to be applied collectively but in greater constellations of partners. In my view I visualize a new integrated innovation engagement platform to be like this shown below. I think it is very feasible but it needs working upon.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. That’s why leaders should be looking for strategic thinking THROUGHOUT their organizations ! – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Allan Snyder director of Centre for the Mind, Australian National University, Canberra, and University of Sydney “Creativity demands that you leave your comfort zone, that you continually challenge yourself and be prepared to confront conventional wisdom. Especially, engage in that for which you have not been schooled.”

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. While we perform a tremendous amount of what we do online via our Zoomference online collaboration platform , engaging people directly always pushes what we do into new areas.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

But when we look back and see how we pushed the thinking on the initiative, it’s clear all the challenges were all worth it! – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. Across our client engagements, here are links to 80 activities and ideas for making strategy more fun! – Mike Brown. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I am taking over an organization and want to engage our employees more directly in culture change and moving forward. We can bring you a multi-dimensional approach to involve all of your employees in sharing their perspectives and aspirations in a way that you can do something with the ideas AND meaningfully engage your people.

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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. The mix varies from pure creativity to pure planning, with usually some mix in between. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Community to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and success for organizations.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we’re headed into a client session or a meeting and need a few creative thinking questions, I visit the blog and grab suitable questions from one of our compilation posts. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people. They billed high-dollar hours like crazy, turning a single strategic planning initiative into a seven-figure annual engagement. The Brainzooming strategic planning process was the result.

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Values Centered Innovation

APRIL 6, 2017

Forging wide-spread employee engagement – expanding available “brain power” to find the right solutions, even tapping into the voice of the customer. Download the full white paper. Creativity is highly correlated with self-knowledge, specially about one’s own biases. Watch the "Jump-shifting Innovation Campaigns" video.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Someone downloading the new 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning eBook when we released it stated his biggest strategy challenge as coming up with fresh ways to do the same strategic planning exercises with the same executives every year. I hear that challenge in a big way. 9 Ways to Keep Strategic Planning Process Exercises Fresh Every Year.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

A friend recently told me a story about her friend whose grandmother, after engaging with Facebook, said the most wonderful thing. I don’t think I need to say much about this Innovation! It made me LOL, which is a great way to inspire creative thinking. Creative Thinking Turns a Problem into a Solution.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Quantum innovation is the name given to the kind of innovation characterized by bold and creative thinking designed to take an enterprise into a lucrative new paradigm – even if that means going beyond the bounds of the existing business model. However, brands that leveraged quantum innovation (Amazon, Whole Foods, etc.) 5G Innovation.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2015

I become so engaged in reciting the poem, mindful of both the rhythm and meaning of the words, that I let go of all other thoughts. 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! Is God an Algorithm?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. 3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016. Today, here are three valuable creative thinking skills ideas no matter where your creative community is located.

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