BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In business, you’re usually equal parts discovering problems AND using creative problem solving to address the issues. They wanted to leave the creative problem solving for later. Trying Painstorming Before Creative Problem Solving. Go Deeper and Document. The innovation opportunity in this example? Identifying Pains.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). What you see as strategic may not be what others think is strategic.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

I used to think creative inspiration came from inside. As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. Gain a sense of what people already think. Learn what insights the participants already have and don’t have.

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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. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Keep in mind that a strategic plan can no longer be a static document subject only to one- or five-year evaluations. Ask business units to think of themselves as a “business within the business” and focus on how their part of the business can thrive, rather than how it can merely survive, based on what they learned during the crisis.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 7, 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.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog. Yes, you can do too much of a good thing.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Knowing where to place your innovation thinking becomes critical; it is knowing where the leadership places its importance, its ‘bets to win’. This might be in having the need for a richer user engagement experience, a more robust futurist product portfolio to test, learn and explore potential options.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. The good news is that the rewards that come from the effort are plentiful–and documented. That’s “a stunning $54,000 a year above their pre-law counterparts.” 5 WAYS TO SHARPEN YOUR SOFT SKILLS .

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. The good news is that the rewards that come from the effort are plentiful–and documented. That’s “a stunning $54,000 a year above their pre-law counterparts.” 5 WAYS TO SHARPEN YOUR SOFT SKILLS .

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

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

JUNE 28, 2016

Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The challenge with using the big list of ideas they had created was they simply documented the list in the order in which each idea was identified. The thing is, they had done the hard strategic thinking and already had all the raw material they needed. Their list just wasn’t put in order and organized.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

While we undoubtedly covered it in class, I learned the ins and outs of confidential information on the job. In these cases, you sign legal documents with specific parameters. However, waiting to tell employees until after the market has learned the information leaves employees ill-equipped to support the change.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Effectively Monitor Strategic Metrics. Beyond simply listing tactics within a plan format (which she did for a previous quarterly meeting), she’ll next document progress and returns associated with the activities. The challenge is that the metrics are not aligned and reported in light of the strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

Here’s an overview of each of the strategic thinking exercises : 5 Content Marketing Strategy Exercises to Generate Audience-Oriented Topics. The next step is documenting all the topics on a content calendar. If you want to learn more about specific details of this approach, contact us. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

She saw documenting as many vision statement examples as possible as a huge help to getting it right this next time. Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creating strategic impact can boost your organization’s success! – Mike Brown.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

Part two will address whether a person has the right ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ qualities like communication style, creativity and leadership ability to fit your particular organizational context. A creative person doesn’t see a glass half empty or half full, but instead asks why it should be a glass at all.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Such big-picture visions of the future can provide insights that expand and influence current strategic thinking, but they often lack the specifics to effectively inform current actions. Develop Backstory: Forces and Trends are the Creative Drivers of Futures. Forces and trends describe change. Many so-called trends (e.g.

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