BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. How, if you are facing this situation, can you initiate a conversation with strategic thinking questions safe enough to raise the issue? 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization. Mike Brown.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A more integrated solution that takes our understanding of innovation and how to manage it, into the realms of ecosystems and platforms in its design and thinking. 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.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Many executives visiting the Brainzooming website for the first time review dozens of pages of articles and downloads. This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change. Creative Thinking Exercises – Would you like S, M, L, or XL Creative Ideas?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. We sped up the process by assembling a multi-functional team that together had many more great ideas than a single marketing manager. 11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun!

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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. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Identifying Left Field Competitors.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2015

And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Change Management Strategy – 35 Articles for Your Change Agent Role. What to Blog About?

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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. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! . On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts. While creative thinking exercises help generate new ideas, it became clear that creativity couldn’t help a salesperson without key facts (e.g.,

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. The easy answer is to say you are looking for big ideas. Who doesn’t love big ideas? The problem: asking for big ideas rarely leads to big ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas. People can love their own thinking too much. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. We hope you love it! Give it some time to grow into it.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Dr. Ray Guarendi on Following a Conversation 1 Simple Strategy for Improving Time Management. Mike Brown.

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!! Many consultants focus only on the first type of structure.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

If we split into smaller groups, what structure can I put around each small group to help them perform successfully even though I have no time to manage the group composition to maximize their input on innovation strategy? FREE Download: “Results!!! Are we on schedule, and if not, what do I need to do to adjust?

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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. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. After that, whenever we designed a strategic planning workshop, we made deliberate design decisions on the right balance of creative thinking and focused plan building. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2015

The collection of 50 motivational quotes on what good leadership truly means will not only help you be a better leader, but a better coworker, mentor, manager, employee, and even a better person.”. Managing the Noise of Social Media: Infographic. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Etcetera, Etcetera.

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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. A review of websites from innovation management system providers reveals 5 typical goals: Driving results – solving business challenges. Download the full white paper.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Beyond making investments and process changes to increase agility, are there other opportunities to cost-effectively manage demand? Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO! How can you develop a super-agile process that disrupts other industry players’ competitive advantages? Identifying Process Changes for Agile Strategy.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If you’re keen to get an edge on some of the major innovation management challenges and opportunities the next decade will present, you’ve come to the right place! Although gamification is hardly a new phenomenon, its prominence as a central facet of innovation management is growing rapidly. Quantum Innovation. 5G Innovation.

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