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 was a perfectionist and an innovator’s dream: I WILL BE MISTAKE-FREE NO MATTER WHAT I DO! Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding? It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. So, it’s time to announce an innovation program, because that will undoubtedly fill the growth gap facing your brand. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! We didn’t think so.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Several people asked recently about questions to help identify innovative thinkers in sales. 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. Working from an Innovative Thinking Platform.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. Find New Resources to Innovate ! NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. You know it’s important for your organization to innovate.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization. The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

“Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper to boost creativity.”. Talking with a potential client about an already-planned innovation strategy workshop, the going-in innovation strategy called for giving participants “a clean sheet of paper.”. You’ve been thinking a clean sheet of paper innovation strategy maximizes creativity.

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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. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools.

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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? Branding and Marketing.

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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. finance, operations, market research), and innovators (people that look at business situations differently).

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When translated into a simplified creative strategy formula, you can consider ways your brand could use a comparable formula to develop a new creative strategy: Is there a creative idea out in a market comparable to yours that is gaining attention and buzz that you could copy ? Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business?

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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 started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Specific innovative ideas the organization wants to pursue. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Do you need to take better advantage of your brand’s customer inputs and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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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. We shot the video after I delivered our presentation on Taking the NO Out of Innovation at the 2015 SEMA Convention.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Using innovative techniques can help you develop better solutions to problems your organization faces. One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. Creative problem solving (CPS) is a method that encourages you to find new perspectives and come up with innovative solutions.

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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 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!!!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. FREE Download: “Results!!! The ground rule was, however, I couldn’t tell them WHAT to do.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

EAG: I think it’s the fact that when you saw that the market wasn’t doing what it had been doing, you took things into your own hands and found a way to do it anyway. 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

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”.

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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. Not sure what the right marketing language is? FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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! Abstract Advantage for Innovation. Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 12, 2018

You're trying to find out how you can get a free 15-day trial to my new, online creative thinking tool. You're downloading free iPhone apps you will never use. You're too busy complaining to anyone who will listen about Facebook's privacy policies or lack thereof. These two bloggers walk into a bar. Anyone here from Cleveland?

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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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Idea Champions

MAY 16, 2017

You're trying to find out how you can get a free 15-day trial to my new, online creative thinking tool. You're downloading free iPhone apps you will never use. You're too busy complaining to anyone who will listen about Facebook's privacy policies or lack thereof. These two bloggers walk into a bar. Anyone here from Cleveland?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What’s more, the trends shaping the corporate innovation landscape in 2020 are set to be just as earth-shaking. Last year, we wrote a blog exploring the corporate innovation trends that would shape 2019. Quantum Innovation. Quantum Innovation. I mean, we’ve got the U.S

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Values Centered Innovation

APRIL 6, 2017

IT-based platforms for enabling innovation have variously been called idea management, crowdsourcing, or innovation management systems. 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.

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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 29, 2016

To put it succinctly, Diane came in and kicked my creative and content marketing ass in the nicest possible way. She also kindly shared one of her Innovation Think Pad kits and issued a creative nudge to create a visual vocabulary for Brainzooming. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I see three take-aways from this story: The benefit of creative structure to generate LOTS of ideas, because the winner may be cool product name number eighty-three. The power of strategy-focused creative thinking questions to help generate a high proportion of on-target ideas. Download your copy today! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

He’s about to leave his job as a strategic planning and marketing VP at a Fortune 500 transportation company and he’s got this whole other direction mapped out for himself—he’s been blogging now for a couple of years in preparation for this move. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

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. Solar panels are almost black and in Africa, the market for the Desolenator, they get really hot in the sun. Yes, Please.

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Idea Champions

MAY 11, 2021

You're downloading free iPhone apps you will never use. You were thinking about the need your company has to establish a sustainable culture of innovation -- the kind that would make it much easier for everyone to bring the best of their innate creativity to the table on a daily basis. The moon is in Aquarius. I-Matey? ,

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 16, 2020

You're downloading free iPhone apps you will never use. You were thinking about the need your company has to establish a sustainable culture of innovation -- the kind that would make it much easier for everyone to bring the best of their innate creativity to the table on a daily basis. The moon is in Aquarius. I-Matey? ,

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