BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. 4 Encourages Change.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

But all the while, competitors or market forces you may not even suspect are disrupting your place in the market. While success can breed success, it can also lead to blindness about the importance of trying to disrupt your brand strategy before something else comes along to topple your brand. 12 Permissions to Disrupt New Markets.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

We turn to extreme creativity questions to help clients imagine big ideas. 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. Here are five of them: 1.

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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. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation? Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. What a great (and challenging) question. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Stronger creative leadership to identify productive tactics, make better (and faster) decisions, and successfully implement with a major impact. The Answer to Boosting Creative Leadership within Your Team! This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity. Your Go-To Resource for High-Impact Creative Thinking!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Related posts Innovation Strategy – 5 eBooks to Boost Innovation this Year 10 Signs to Invest in Your Brand’s Innovation Strategy – Right Now! Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. Disruption. Creative Thinking Skills and Breakthrough Ideas.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

A bold competitor, however, will heavy up with tremendous intensity and deliver the incredible, elusive brand promise in a truly disruptive fashion. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

If there isn’t a standard methodology to project and quantify the innovation strategy impact, it would be a better use of their time to develop one, rather than launching a disruptive CYA effort. #3. Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book.

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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 +. This Brainzooming eBook will help identify additional possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jump start your innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While conventional wisdom can speed decision making and prevent you from repeatedly making the same mistakes, it also is a powerful weapon to stand in the way of new thinking, innovation, and applying creativity to business strategy. This is vital to move an organization in new, innovative, and disruptive directions.

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

Short Story: Strategic planning questions that allow people to challenge conventional norms are fun and lead to disruptive thinking, so employ questions to harvest ideas from the wild possibilities. The other day, someone reached out looking for short, funny, strategic planning questions. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

These new disruptive options have caused frequent rideshare customers to forget how cabs operate. Yet, these examples reinforce an important point about strong brands with positive, radically different customer experiences: they can reshape expectations and behaviors even when a customer isn’t using the disruptive brand.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

When we started developing our varied extreme creativity questions and exercises to drive bolder business strategy, however, one of the approaches was to actively consider that an organization isn’t going to make choices. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. More Posts - Website Follow Me: The post Andy Reid Borrows Innovative Ideas. appeared first on The Brainzooming Group.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

I suggested looking at a version of one of our extreme creativity questions : How can we innovate our processes to test things faster than all our competitors? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The Brainzooming eBook 4 Strategies for Implementing in Uncertain Times will help you examine your strategy foundation, insights, profitability drivers, and decision making processes when few things ahead are clear. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 23, 2018

The innovation strategy workshop covered a variety of topics related to disruptive innovation. Our client’s leaders, unconstrained by anything else, know the types of disruptive innovation moves they should make. The brand has tech-centric, disruptive competitors surfacing. EVERY night. The reason? See, what I mean?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The most disruptive innovation we ever tried was like a whack to the BLANK.”. I’m thinking we’d print the questions on sheets of orange paper, allowing people to answer them in writing and then hold them up as they introduce themselves. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Employ extreme creativity and disruptive innovation-oriented questions to push your strategic planning vision exercise in bold, future directions. Ensure you have all the strategic thinking perspective and voices we always recommend. Extend the trends 5x and 10x to create dramatically bold future visions.

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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 Planning Process. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

Some of the most common NO’s blocking creativity and innovation strategy. How to benefit from structures and exercises to spur creative ideas and innovation. New possibilities to improve innovation strategy successes amid challenges to new thinking and actions.

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have enough content to slow our new content creation, we are now developing longer-form eBooks at an unprecedented rate for us in the past twenty months. #3. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears. At one point, I felt compelled to finish most things I started.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2016

This extends to the classically-oriented pieces he finds more creatively intriguing. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

While a strategic planning process may promise to deliver real objectives and tactics, it often never happens as promised. Senior executives may say they want disruptive ideas, but they really want ideas that are easy to grasp and fit the current system. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! 4 Times to Avoid Toys.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

He is always on the lookout to disrupt Amazon before the next Amazon does it. One chart depicted (I think) growth factors in the beer market from 2012 to 2014. 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!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation strategy fears. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

Blythe Harris (Chief Creative Officer, Stella & Dot) challenges herself and other leaders to push beyond the everyday activities of normal life. She seeks out new ideas and experiences to “actively disrupt” her routines and sharpen her creativity. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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