Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

INSEAD Business School, along with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have just released their analysis of the world’s most innovative countries for 2016. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016. The problem with extrapolating data.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking Skills for Sales.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Innovation leaders must master a wide range of skills in order to enhance the innovation potential of their teams. Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. The organization lacks proper incentives for innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. These three functions, as well as many other ancillary activities, collectively comprise an enterprise’s creative energy and drive its growth transformation efforts.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

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. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). Let’s transfer these findings into the business world, what are our takeaways?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

Last fall, Emma and I saw Beth Comstock, the former vice chair of General Electric and head of its GE Business Innovations unit, keynote at the Inbound conference. While the conference featured stronger keynotes, these innovation strategy-focused quotes and action items from Beth Comstock resonated with me.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Speculation about strengths and weaknesses the organization faces. Specific innovative ideas the organization wants to pursue. They discussed a large process graphic we were about to address.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. What this suggests for you is that when working with a team, you don’t necessarily have to be ready to respond by saying ideas and concepts are good or bad. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Is There Ever a Good Time to start strategic innovation initiatives from the CEO’s Perspective? When times are good, people underinvest in strategic innovation initiatives because there is no sense of urgency. When times are bad, they underinvest because of a lack of resources and more pressing priorities.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. That is the case of Design Thinking , a structured approach to innovation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

These (para)quotes on innovation , digital marketing, and life were the most memorable ones I took away from Inbound15. Innovation. If you innovate, you WILL fall down.” “Can we start by acknowledging that golf is a really bad spectator sport. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 10 Barriers to Organizational Innovation – Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. 9 Ways to Address Innovation Fears. 7 Keys to Creating an Innovative Workplace .

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. What are Wild and creative ideas our competitors or other relevant companies are doing that we need to consider? 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

There are a number of team development and leadership skills mentioned that fit themes we talk about here. We added supporting links on many of the points and wanted to share the ideas with you: Leadership Skills – 15 Ideas for Innovative Leadership in 2017. A leader should create strategy with a team. The reason?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Is it a good or bad career strategy if you do not have a job description ? Short of starting by developing a personal core purpose or branding statement, we suggested these three career straegy questions to balance aspirational activities and the “what has to get done” stuff that will not be as exciting.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. Here are six creative ideas for last minute changes to turn around a boring strategy meeting by fashioning quick, fun strategic planning exercises and activities: Create a competition.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 16 Creative Ways to Supercharge Presentations. New, Innovative Ideas – Strategy Planning with What’s It Like. 9 Extreme Creativity Questions from Peter’s Laws. 5 Dangers of Cheaping out on Hiring a Facilitator.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For as much as we share about the Brainzooming approach to strategy, creativity, and innovation, I still frequently get the question, “What is it The Brainzooming group does?”. My organization is making a push to embrace innovation; we need training, strategies, and a way to make sure innovation is creating the expected impact.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. We’ll see if they take the advice. Mike Brown.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

After a while, I started building two archetypical personas of an entrepreneur: the artist and the innovator. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. Let’s call them Steve and Larry.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if every employee believed to be creative? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? Intrapreneurship is responsible for a great deal of product and service innovation around the world today. More ambitious?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

To add to their cup of woes, they have “mundane” tasks—finding top quality hires, retaining them, ensuring there are no pains areas in employee engagement, staving off all kinds of legal hassles—which require them to be the go-to person while being innovative, proactive, and brimming with energy. Apparently, this is possible. Let’s see how.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

We raised the question yesterday of how brands rekindle, dust off, improve, innovate upon, and reintroduce themselves to the market. As you develop a point of view on where your brand is ripe for change, review the brand update strategy options list. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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