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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

Collaboration

Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement

Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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.

Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. There really are all kinds of possibilities.

Collaboration

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups

Webinars

Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. What to look for in a business collaboration?

Collaboration

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking

The Best Time to Engage Your Audience in Collaborative Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

I participated in the City Partnership Workshop yesterday at the 2018 Gigabit City Summit. Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. – Mike Brown.

Collaboration

Collaboration Engagement Strategic Thinking Leadership

41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

Collaboration

Collaboration Exercises Strategic Thinking Brainstorming

11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Getting as much homework and other stuff involving individual work done before the strategic planning workshop so everyone isn’t waiting around for one person to share information. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy

Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Innovation.

Strategy

Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking

5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. 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.

Exercises

Exercises Strategy Strategy Collaboration

Who Needs Vision Statement Examples? Try these 6 Steps

BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creating strategic impact can boost your organization’s success!

Examples

Examples Strategy Strategy Conference

Colorado Innovation Training

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Here’s a page with details. It’s next week Starting Wednesday February 1, continuing on Feb 2, finishing at noon on Feb.

Training

Training Idea Generation Ideation Innovation

Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. But for many, a practice as spontaneous and creative as innovation may seem something incapable of being measured. DEDICATED METRICS.

Survey

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management

Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. But for many, a practice as spontaneous and creative as innovation may seem something incapable of being measured. DEDICATED METRICS.

Survey

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management

Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups

Make the Commercial First

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself. Taking on the role of customer researcher also empowers a designer to shape the product strategy when it is the most undefined. Be creative and have fun! ” Slide.

Video

Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Design

UX Design Careers in 2018 and Beyond: The Future of the UX Designer

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

That is quite far away from the usual (and unfair) stereotype of the designer as the introverted creative type slaving away alone on a computer or in a studio. A graduate program is more about developing an understanding of critical issues and creating original work and less about doubling as a trade school workshop.

Design

Design Technical Review Software Review Course

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

But for current and future clients, don’t be surprised if some form of it starts cropping up in your strategy planning workshops! – Mike Brown. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Creativity Engagement

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

Webinars

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

The Best Time to Engage Your Audience in Collaborative Strategic Planning

41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

Who Needs Vision Statement Examples? Try these 6 Steps

Colorado Innovation Training

Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

Make the Commercial First

UX Design Careers in 2018 and Beyond: The Future of the UX Designer

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

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