Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2023

From universities to businesses and from research labs to government agencies, knowledge flowed like a river, nurturing the fertile soil of creativity and progress. Design thinkers rubbed shoulders with entrepreneurs, and user feedback was cherished like gold. But these ecosystems were not static; they were alive and ever-changing.

Innovation 235

Innovation Collaboration Strategic Thinking Competition 235

BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. ” Yes, the role is different.

Strategic Thinking 68

Strategic Thinking Exercises Strategy Strategy 68

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 100

Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

Vision and Strategic Thinking The Universal Need for Direction: Regardless of the industry, every organization seeks a brighter future. Their strategic thinking ensures that actions taken today align with a brighter tomorrow. Brown’s impact is a testament to the universality of Design Thinking principles.

Leadership 118

Leadership Industry Design Thinking Design 118

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. I disabused them of the idea, however, that their narrow job descriptions were synonymous with narrow strategic thinking roles.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Innovation Engagement Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Innovation.

Creativity 79

Creativity eBook Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking 79

BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. This design came about specifically for this client. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation? If you do, then contact us.

Creative Thinking 68

Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity eBook 68

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

To get to a consistent performance of innovation and creativity within organizations you do need to rely on a process, structure and the consistent ability to foster a culture of innovation. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

Innovation Programs 189

Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 189

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Identifying High Potential Leaders To cultivate a thriving atmosphere that embraces innovation, it’s crucial to identify and nurture high potential leaders who can drive change and inspire creativity within an organization. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

Culture of Innovation 113

Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 130

BrainZooming

JANUARY 13, 2016

Louis arch, however, it suggests multiple strategic thinking questions you can ask for your brand’s success. 7 Strategic Thinking Questions on the Way to Your Brand? These seven strategic thinking questions focus on what happens to your customers on the way to your brand. Using the St.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking eBook Exercises Marketing 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 9, 2023

The third post assessed the design and focused on the different understandings within partners that must be addressed to build a shared understanding and way to work. The third post in this series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations discusses the design of effective collaboration.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Innovation Engagement Tools 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

Creativity and innovation : Participants must be able to generate creative ideas and innovative solutions to complex problems. Strategic thinking : Participants should be able to think strategically and understand the broader context of the collaboration.

Collaboration 290

Collaboration Software Tools Culture 290

Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Four threads weave through innovation ecosystem designs. From universities to businesses and from research labs to government agencies, knowledge flowed like a river, nurturing the fertile soil of creativity and progress. The value of business ecosystems needs to be highly dynamic. The Integrated Framework aims to offer a guiding hand.

Collaboration 75

Collaboration Innovation Design Competition 75

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. Importance of Executive Team Offsites Executive team offsites offer a unique opportunity to disconnect from routine pressures and foster a creative environment for high-level strategic discussions.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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Groups Creativity Conference eBook 91

BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

Last Friday’s Gas Can Creative Conference sponsored by AAF-KC (American Advertising Federation – Kansas City) was a half-empty gas can, at best. While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. Push for Absurd Ideas. Icky Brand Pairings.

Creative Thinking 63

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Strategic Thinking 63

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In business, you’re usually equal parts discovering problems AND using creative problem solving to address the issues. Yet, a client approached us to design and conduct a cross-operation innovation strategy engagement focused solely on identifying problems. They wanted to leave the creative problem solving for later.

Creativity 52

Creativity Exercises Survey Groups 52

BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie Howell is a broadcast personality, producer, author, designer, and instructor in the DIY world. Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog.

Creativity 0

Creativity Video Project Marketing 0

BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

Creativity 83

Creativity Creative Thinking Exercises eBook 83

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. The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download). The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

Exercises 94

Exercises Tools eBook Strategic Thinking 94

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design. – Mike Brown.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Meeting Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Place with Chuck Dymer. That was definitely true. Mike Brown.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Video 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

About RevelX We are a strategic innovation professional services firm. We excel at disruptive creativity, rigorous analysis and disciplined execution. We add strategic thinking and execution power to your team. Discovering and maximizing opportunities for growth through innovation. That is our playing field.

Software 98

Software Innovation Management Management Crowdsourcing 98

BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

What options are there when assembling a leadership team or board of directors who want to do blue sky thinking for big ideas? Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. Framing the Thinking Perspectives.

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Exercises Groups Design Strategic Thinking 105

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s a systematic approach designed to minimize risk and allocate resources effectively. The typical stages might include concept development, design, testing, and launch. The need for manual data analysis is reduced, allowing managers to focus on strategy and creative aspects of product development.

Generative AI 113

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Product Development 113

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

Strategy 117

Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking eBook 117

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We provided strategic thinking questions of their own to use, including: “That’s great and how can we do that _?” ” We assigned four roles to shape the customer experience strategy thinking: The Minister of Scare the Crap Out of Us Possibilities (for bursts of extreme creativity ). Innovation.

Strategy 79

Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 79

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise.

Exercises 81

Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking eBook Exercises Strategy 40

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Yet how often do we fail to connect the innovation’s we design and execute specifically aligned to the strategic need? Taking action in designing your innovation alignment.

Strategy 203

Strategy Strategy Innovation Engagement 203

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’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

Exercises 67

Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

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. Workshop design capitalizes on findings.

Analysis 66

Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Strategy 66

Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Innovation Resources Industry 52

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

Generalized Impact: This play represents controlled failure: an experiment that is designed to yield positive results when it doesn’t work (e.g., You can use this idea and design an innovation pilot, experiment, or test whose primary objective, rather than a market success, is a learning success. How can you apply it more frequently?

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Topics ranged from entrepreneurship to leading creative teams, from being cognizant of one’s news sources and information suppliers to the factors that make up a creative mindset. 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.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74