BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. How do you move an organization and its strategy from reactive to proactive?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions. Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do. Quick Decision Making.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

With nearly 2,400 articles (at time of publication) on strategy , branding , and innovation , it’s safe to say there’s a ton of content on the Brainzooming website. This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. By identifying these traits, organizations can pinpoint the individuals most likely to succeed in roles that require innovative thinking and leadership.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

What’s Your Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times? Are you ready to pursue an implementation strategy that works in uncharted waters? 4 Strategies for Implementing in Uncertain Times is a FREE, quick read that will pay dividends for you today and in the uncertain times ahead. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Identifying innovation across industries.

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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? Extreme Creativity.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Successfully going from strategy to implementation, however, is critical to business success. Creating a strong, innovative plan is only part of the strategy equation. Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly. Change Management.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 23, 2015

We will also collaborate with you to turn them into reality with smart strategies and solid implementation plans. Along the way, your team will learn actionable creative thinking skills and dynamic strategy exercises that will serve them and your organization for years to come.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas.

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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. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support. On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

In an edited excerpt, here is what they shared in their Inside the Executive Suite column about streamlining strategic planning. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning. Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Over time, however, they discovered that while they wanted participants with creative diversity, it was important to include individuals from groups that would actually return to the business and work together to solve problems.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Occasionally, someone participating in a strategy workshop filled with innovative ideas will complain that a lot, or maybe all (REALLY? Over time, I realized that we were really working with a client to develop winning business strategies. the ideas already existed in the organization. Mike Brown. Facing Innovation Barriers?

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Idea Champions

MAY 15, 2019

Here's what three savvy PR professionals at Purple Strategies had to say about Idea Champions' highly engaging brainstorm facilitation training: Conducting Genius. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. Mirrorball. Bonus Links. Interested?

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? It’s easy to see in retrospect, but managers in the food delivery industry were taken by surprise because they weren’t paying enough attention to what was happening in the passenger transport industry.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week. That took me to the idea of abundance thinking, one of the fundamental strategies of idea magnets. These creative leaders recognize constraints but turn their attention to the available resources that are plentiful and can always be grown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Do you dread strategy meetings ? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? Every executive dreads strategic planning. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered. For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. Depending on companies’ innovation readiness, the responsibility areas of the ‘innovation team’ may include the following: Set the strategy, define success. Programme Managers. Strategists.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Randall, who leads the Global Brand Management function within Dow Corning Corporation, serves as the company’s key strategist on brand creation, internal branding, and strategy alignment. With visible support from management, we now begin to create awareness of what our brand means, what it stands for. Put your head in/out.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently. Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Looking for Ideas to Make Strategy Planning More Fun?

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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. What better time for a retrospective on love in, if not all, at least a few of its varied forms. We hope you love it!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Ask most business executives about strategy, and they don’t spit out well-articulated strategy statements. That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. The Brainzooming strategic planning process was the result.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts. RIM’s strategy depended on corporate IT adoption with centralized management, control and security of the devices.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Thanks to Val and Mitch, we're challenging our assumptions, asking the right questions, and using creative thinking techniques to bring our best ideas forward." - Natalie Giordano, Director, Purple Strategies "Idea Champions' three-day Conducting Genius training was engaging, fun and informative. And we had fun while doing it!

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