IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. The more you know about industry trends, the better.

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

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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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Explore creative problem solving techniques, activities, and articles. If you find your organization or business stuck in a rut, unable to evolve or adapt to changes in your industry or customer expectations, it may be time to try a new approach. Be a Great Boss by Being a Creative Leader. Creativity starts from the top.

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Training Creativity Handbook Design Thinking 47

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” No, not everyone is creative.

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Creativity Tips Handbook Exercises 40

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. This strategic thinking exercise allows a large group (perhaps hundreds of online participants) to provide targeted input on an organization’s future direction. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The blog started on the Blogger platform in November 2007 after seeing Jessica Myers (who was at Garmin Industries at the time) speak at a conference about being able to start a blog for free in just ten minutes. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. MM, 2K, 2000.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook Guidelines 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, the programming industry has had to completely hustle like the rest of us. And because I’d been in the entertainment industry, as you know, since I was 18 or 19, on and off, I knew a lot of it. If I know you there’s a long, long, long-term strategy. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. The Death of Marketing Strategy – Killer Article! One topical example of ‘strategy’ without due diligence is the foray into social media. Eric has some of the best industry specific re-posts.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Best practices common in your industry. Best practices common in other industries that are relevant to your own. But for current and future clients, don’t be surprised if some form of it starts cropping up in your strategy planning workshops! – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Creativity Engagement 40

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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Trends Disruption Technical Review Innovation 60

Values Centered Innovation

APRIL 6, 2017

The average number of crowdsourced innovation projects per year, over 13 industries, ranged from 7 (retail firms) to 17 (financial services firms). Download the full white paper. Creativity is highly correlated with self-knowledge, specially about one’s own biases. Download the full white paper.

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