Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. This can include cross-functional projects, mentorship programs, and opportunities for team members to step into new roles temporarily.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

For many business people, it’s intimidating to walk into an unfamiliar situation (whether that’s a new company, client, team, initiative, or project) knowing you are expected to contribute new business ideas right away. In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The table below outlines several competencies that can be adapted to include an innovation focus: Competency Description Innovative Aspect Strategic Thinking The ability to analyze and conceptualize long-term business strategies. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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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

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. That’s my creative advice. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

Actionable Learning: A comparable business situation involves regularly employing moonshot projects to boost innovation. A moonshot project is one with a large, far-reaching, and overarching objective that may never be fully realized or expected to directly contribute near-term revenue and profit impact. The past few years?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Here’s a sneak preview: Deep knowledge of the values of a project, plus trust and freedom, are the “measure twice, cut once” of creativity. Common language is crucial — clear and accurate communication is so much more difficult than we think it is. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

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. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

Her learned reluctance to push bold creative ideas now creeps into other situations where she does have tremendous latitude to introduce bold ideas. It takes the creative joy out of side projects she does. An Objective Creativity Metric. She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Other times it means giving old ideas a new day and putting solid tactics and strategic project management planning behind them to move them from ideas to implementation. This lets them get the ideas out there for others to consider so they can focus on other creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 17, 2018

Even with video conferencing, you lose many of the verbal and physical cues available when you are sitting across a table planning who is going to do what and when on a project. Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach Creative Thinking – Who are the best collaborators?

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking 76

Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered. You’re in uncharted territory, and it should feel exciting.

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Strategic Thinking Creativity Creative Thinking Resources 74

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? With all of this said, sometimes you can kick-start innovation and growth projects with the key drivers and other times you might start a renewal journey with just an ideation session.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week. The topic was how to handle uncertain times successfully. The conference theme is building resilience and joy in uncertain times.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. They place lights in front of the areas where they set up screens to project images.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. People were getting their projects everywhere, all over the interwebs, and then they were getting the education on how to make their projects through sites like Craftsy and CreativeLive, and now Brit + Co.,

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

You need strategic thinking to plan the innovation transformation journey. Senior management members capable to drive programmes, lead multiple initiatives and manage projects to enable the innovation transformation. In the typical case, the team will have some of the following profiles. Strategists. Programme Managers.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Before this point, projecting forward from the present works well; what has happened in the immediate past is a pretty good indicator of what will happen next.

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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. More about that customer experience fail.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

And then it’s back to the salt mines for me, but now the work I’m doing when I’m not at my day job includes several long-term projects, and we’re presenting workshops and keynotes at conferences in San Francisco and on an island off the coast of Georgia. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Crowdsource Your Crowdsourcing Goals. Optimize for Serendipity.

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Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing Creativity 40

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. "In And we had fun while doing it!

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