BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Looking back ten years, suffice it to say that starting to write and publish about the work I was first doing in the Fortune 500 world as a VP of Strategic Marketing and then in launching Brainzooming was one of the most important career decisions I ever made. Being a leader–even if you are not personally heading a group or project.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking. They also wanted a sense of when and why you should think creatively. Turning Creative Thinking into Action.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Yeah, I think if you are serious about becoming the best possible Ideation facilitator, you are one kind of Innovation expert. Your innovation expertise could also be in training, executing of innovation Strategy and Models, project management, and leadership. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Addressing Project Planning with a Zoomference. After documenting the tactics, we used a Zoomference so the primary project team could efficiently and collaboratively identify timing for the six-hundred tactics in less than four hours – all online. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. EAG: I think it’s the fact that when you saw that the market wasn’t doing what it had been doing, you took things into your own hands and found a way to do it anyway. I’m like, WHAT?!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Today’s Blogapalooza article is from Lindsay Santee , a marketing manager and student in Max Utsler’s Innovation in Management of Communications class at The University of Kansas. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

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. It takes the creative joy out of side projects she does. An Objective Creativity Metric. Or does it just seem silly?

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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic being part of our lives for a much longer time than expected, this worldwide crisis has shown strategists the limits of traditional strategic thinking. This is what we call strategic agility. For more information about the approach, download our brochure. Download brochure. Join webinar.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The power of strategy-focused creative thinking questions to help generate a high proportion of on-target ideas. This mini-cool product names project was a welcome distraction during the BWI-MDW flight. Download your copy today! – Mike Brown. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

He’s about to leave his job as a strategic planning and marketing VP at a Fortune 500 transportation company and he’s got this whole other direction mapped out for himself—he’s been blogging now for a couple of years in preparation for this move. Now it’s the fall of 2017.

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