BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2016

We were on a call with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was exhibiting. 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills. How are you doing on these 7 creative thinking skills?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. Nurturing this environment is essential for unlocking creativity and driving extraordinary results.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

They are an invaluable resource for meeting managers and meeting organizers who aim to foster an environment where collaboration is not just encouraged but ingrained in the company culture. Encouraging Innovation : They can encourage teams to innovate by collaborating on creative solutions to complex challenges.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. Another challenge is the potential for information overload due to the plethora of communication channels like emails, instant messaging, and virtual meetings.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. Another challenge is the potential for information overload due to the plethora of communication channels like emails, instant messaging, and virtual meetings.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Role of a Keynote Speaker in Corporate Innovation A keynote speaker can be a powerful catalyst in corporate settings, sparking innovation and inspiring change within an organization. The ideal speaker should be capable of not only imparting wisdom but also igniting a passion for innovation among the audience.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. Innovation needs organizing but it also needs a better understanding of its contributing parts. So what is your capacity for innovation really like within your organization?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2017

I met Adrian Martinez at an internal management meeting for our client, LeSaint Logistics. Adrian has incredible creative thinking skills. How was I so sure about his creative thinking skills ? He applied his creative thinking skills and came up with a solution that was pure extreme creativity.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. That’s why I find myself so frequently trying to manipulate hotel meeting rooms in ways that hotel proprietors never imagined. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

As a meeting manager or organizer, you can facilitate these qualities by: Promoting Diversity of Thought: Encourage your executives to consider multiple perspectives and to challenge their own assumptions. This will help in identifying areas ripe for innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

As a meeting manager or organizer, you can facilitate these qualities by: Promoting Diversity of Thought: Encourage your executives to consider multiple perspectives and to challenge their own assumptions. This will help in identifying areas ripe for innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

She also kindly shared one of her Innovation Think Pad kits and issued a creative nudge to create a visual vocabulary for Brainzooming. Being the dutiful student, I spent the flight home starting to craft a set of doodle icons for Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. It’s made me more open to meeting new people.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation is not just an endless succession of blue-sky concepts. Brainstorming and even daydreaming may play a role in innovation, but practicality is required to bring innovative ideas to life. ?. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. These presentations often offer fresh perspectives that inspire innovation and encourage teams to approach problems in new ways. Innovation, willingness to embrace change. Daily meetings, interdepartmental collaboration.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tips for building and sustaining innovation teams within your organizational culture. Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. This is an individual innovative mindset that also is alive in innovative teams. What is an innovative team?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. If you’re up for abruptly halting the cluster f%@k of the modern business meetings you attend, contact The Brainzooming Group ?

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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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Collectivecamp

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

How do you go about finding and hiring such applicants when your company insists on candidates meeting criteria such as being a certified accountant which tends not to lend itself to right-brained, creative thinking.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

In today’s business landscape, characterised by rapid technological change, evolving customer expectations, and non-traditional competitors, building the organisation-wide capability to innovate continuously is more vital than ever. At its core, Innovation is about identifying and creatively solving problems to deliver new value.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. One size does not fit all.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? You can follow their work over on innovation-3, where they help companies to set the Scaling-Up of a fully validated innovation concept up for success. I am thinking scale differently here, So let me explore this, it is only emerging for me.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Here are details regarding innovation courses you can attend in the near future, Denver, August 28 – 31. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. We have never ‘cracked’ the full innovation management system. A new cycle of innovation. Perhaps we can today.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As the customer advocate, you work closely with employees to keep customers at the forefront of innovation. You want your employees to innovate with the customer in mind. These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Innovation and Creativity : Virtual team building can stimulate creativity by encouraging members to think outside the box and bounce ideas off one another. You can kick off a meeting with a quick question round, such as “What’s your favorite book?”

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification? To optimise creative sessions.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Innov8rs | AI will not replace innovators. But innovators who use AI will replace those who don't. How Can AI Help Corporate Innovators? It follows that, to future-proof their businesses, corporates must adopt more proactive and forward-thinking approaches to innovation, going beyond “regular innovation strategies”.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Innovation Should Be Fun, Joyful, and About Playing With Concepts. The One Question Innovation Culture Assessment. A lot of fuss is made over innovation culture. I get it — it’s probably the most important fundamental to put in place if you actually want innovation to happen. Even at serious meetings?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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