BrainZooming

MAY 25, 2017

If your creativity ideas have dried up, today is the day to download our FREE ebook, The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. There are links in this eBook for 600 of the most powerful brainstorming and extreme creativity questions we use , including ones specifically tailored for innovation and creative boldness!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world. The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics.

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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

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store. Disrupting Thinking. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. Disrupting Thinking.

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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. Or the competitor that drags all the other competitors kicking and screaming into a new market reality. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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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. By leveraging experiential insights, executive teams are better positioned to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and potential disruptions.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

Years ago, I attended a services marketing conference sponsored by a prominent university. These new disruptive options have caused frequent rideshare customers to forget how cabs operate. Explore their marketing materials, content marketing, and accessible customer communications. This is easier done in consumer markets.

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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 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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CMOE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The successes you have experienced and the obstacles you have avoided throughout the year equip you to reevaluate your strategic objectives and the resources at your disposal and ensure you win the year. With changing industries, politics, and labor markets, how has your strategic landscape changed? What progress have you made?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Based on this list, think ahead: What you would do NOW to prepare if 2020 were going to be the year of. Turning your company into the ultimate content creator in your market? Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Making all your technology elegant?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 18, 2018

If not, it is time right now to download your free copy of Disrupting Thinking – 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Brand Before Someone Else Disrupts You! These exercises will push a status quo-loving management team to zoom its markets, value delivery, and business model past obsolescence.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

His comment got me thinking: How much of what we do is based around right now, when it REALLY should be oriented toward getting ready for whatever is next ? Unexpected Market Development ? Disruptive Innovation ? Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation.

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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

JUNE 10, 2016

During that time when we were laying off people on a weekly basis as the strike drug on, it was clear to everyone that the single focus for us as a marketing organization was to win back customers for the day we started our operation back up – whenever that might be. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

In a recent post, I mentioned a labor strike as a productive analogy for developing strategies during this time of global disruption. That recommendation came from my own experience at a transportation company where I’d inherited the marketing department during a labor strike.

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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

APRIL 23, 2018

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for nearly two hundred members of a prominent, long-established brand’s marketing organization. The innovation strategy workshop covered a variety of topics related to disruptive innovation. The brand has tech-centric, disruptive competitors surfacing. EVERY night.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Then, at a board meeting yesterday, I happened to select this creativity card from a set of innovation prompts created by creativity expert, Roger Von Oech. Here are three strategic paths to pursue to account for both more of the same and disruptive change. #1. Formalize a list of predictable things in your market.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation. Strategic Thinking – What Kind of Perfection Are You Looking For? Strategic Thinking Lessons – Keeping Your Company Fresh. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Case Studies.

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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

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

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? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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IdeaSpies

JULY 12, 2018

It showed that the number of individual brands in the global market place was diluting the effectiveness of the collective promotion of Australia. I was blown away by the creativity, and the expression and the imagination of these incredible young people in our country.

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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. Branding and Marketing. Extreme Creativity. Innovation.

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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? Often it is misused as a framework for assessing a specific market or even an organization itself. In fact, thinking much more broadly produces the most value. PESTLED is the mortar in the world of data.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2017

As innovators we aren’t simply responding to external change, we are creating change, both for customers and for our companies and markets. We need to embed into our new innovation core new routines and thinking. Innovation requires increasing agility, flexibility and allowing creativity to flourish on a constant, evolving basis.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

If you have a clear strategic understanding of the needs of the business you are getting more of the understanding of where-to-play and how-to-win in your innovation activities and market investment. on’ effects and create a mismatch between solving an interim problem and causing disruption to the longer-term direction.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last week, The Brainzooming Group was in San Francisco for the Social Media Strategies Summit , where Mike presented a content marketing strategy workshop and a talk on collaborative engagement. There’s even, dare I say, a sense of fun and creativity about it. That’s important, because brand strategy has everything to do with cool.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? 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

MAY 31, 2016

Within the fast moving tech sector, these deals once looked critical for scale, but now are seen as inhibiting agility and the flexibility to move with the market. This extends to the classically-oriented pieces he finds more creatively intriguing. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2019

RocketSource will include Qmarkets software as a recommended resource within their LevelNext MasterClass – a premium innovation and transformation workshop for forward-thinking organizations. Marketing Manager, Qmarkets. About RocketSource. For press inquiries please contact: Mr. Elliott Wilkins. elliott.wilkins@Qmarkets.net.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. The team must be capable of capturing and interpreting market and competition insights, trends and predictions. Handle the noise, Avoid disruption. Innovation can generate noise and become disruptive (not only to the market but also to the company).

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

The Kansas City American Marketing Association monthly lunch addressed that question. On a market segmentation chart, Pat was making the point that there are multiple ways to grow from innovation. He is always on the lookout to disrupt Amazon before the next Amazon does it. What’s the story on the innovation strategy for beer?

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