InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 14, 2022

Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. While the steps in the design thinking process have remained roughly the same, new activities and exercises are being created to help individuals apply this mindset and unlock the innovations they need to be successful.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 25, 2022

In today’s post, we will go beyond our previous brainstorming templates post to share additional templates you can use in regards to ideation activities and exercises. Ideation Exercise Method. The template will walk you through four simple exercises to get ideas flowing. Let’s get started! Ideation Space.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2023

New research shows daily physical activity can even impact your creativity the next day.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 8, 2017

So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. Share : The post Get Better Ideas with this Starter Exercise appeared first on Destination Innovation. Then everyone took a creativity test. The people in the first group with the fluid movements scored 24% higher in their creativity scores. “We want big ideas.”

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BrainZooming

JULY 9, 2019

She is seeking strategic thinking exercises to include in her organization’s executive committee senior retreat. 12 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Stretch Executive Perspectives. 12 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Stretch Executive Perspectives. Disrupting tired, old thinking: 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Brand.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

But now, evidence is emerging that the virus can cause heart damage even in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected. As many as one in three never feel sick. This is insane! This is exactly why I am strictly quarantining and taking this virus so seriously.

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Kainexus

APRIL 2, 2020

During this era of Covid-19, I've had to make some adjustments to my exercise habits. One improvement that comes from not being able to travel for work is that I really have no excuse for not exercising. I've made some improvements and some of these might still be "Opportunities for Improvements" (or what we call OIs at KaiNexus).

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

At an Idea Magnets workshop, we shared a strategic thinking exercise we call Rock-Paper-Scissors. In the post-workshop evaluation, one attendee asked about extending this strategic thinking exercise to identify things you aren’t currently doing that you should be doing. 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

We frequently facilitate a strategic thinking exercise that uses a character outside a situation as the perspective. There’s no guarantee this strategic thinking exercise works in every situation. After you identify the “characters” in a particular situation, completely shift their roles. This is different, however.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. One way we test that expectation is by working with the exercises ourselves to ensure their effectiveness and utility. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. And it tastes darn good.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Don’t create a plan. Create a system.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises. The nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises term popped into my head during a Brainzooming client workshop. This new exercise translated its internal brand promise into specific behaviors its five-hundred employees will use to create the experience. Yet, they are vital.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

The article inspired a laundry list of strategic thinking exercise prompts to re-imagine a threatened business model when your service offering is under assault from online offerings, bots, or some other form of complete automation. A New Strategic Thinking Exercise. First, detail all the elements of your current service offering.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 12, 2022

Author and consultant Lisa Bodell has created a simple, yet ingenuous, exercise for stimulating change and innovation at companies. Therefore, Bodell asks executives to engage in a powerful exercise to reshape their thinking. The exercise exposes a series of key vulnerabilities.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Flipping Minimal and Abundant.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. The SWOT analysis is the workhorse of strategic planning exercises. The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. We are further along and can even more easily customize these strategic thinking exercises to your needs if you face comparable situations. The result?

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. See, with this strategic thinking exercise, there’s no reason your business has to feel so alone in its innovation challenge.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday. In its new form, it’s called Surf-to-Turf.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 10, 2020

Diet and exercise are obviously very important lifestyle choices that severely impact a person’s long-term health and well-being. Thanks to a new experimental gene therapy that may prevent obesity and build muscle mass while essentially eliminating the need for diet and exercise. But that may change in the near future.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 27, 2018

One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is to hold a session where a team role plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand. As far as the ground rules for this ideation session, any ideas should be welcomed—and the cultural antibodies of HOW WE HAVE.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. To them, a strategy development exercise involved PowerPoint slides with boxes and grids to complete. The Secret to Making a Strategy Development Exercise Faster and Easier.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about brainstorming, and we have found that whiteboard sessions are some of the best exercises to conduct to get the most out of your brainstorming session. .

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 7, 2017

Creativity works a lot like a muscle—you have to exercise it for it to work properly. All it means is that it’s time to exercise your creative muscles more than you have been! Feeling like you’re stuck in a creative rut? Once you get stuck in a cycle of routine, it’s easy to feel like you’ve lost your creativity.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Disrupting Thinking eBook. That’s why we’re releasing the innovation strategy eBook, Disrupting Thinking – 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Own Brand Before Someone Else Disrupts You! . Marketing strategies. Organizational structure and processes.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Applying this Strategic Thinking Exercise Broadly. This is a great example of a simple strategic thinking exercise to speed and sharpen decision making. Benevolence?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 14, 2016

One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is hold a session where a team role-plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand. Continue reading →

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2023

It’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.”

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises. These questions will help you evaluate the right types of strategic planning exercises. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Michael Michalko

JULY 31, 2022

Creative thinking requires the generation of associations and connection between two or more dissimilar and unrelated subjects. When the Israeli air force needed a way to speed up the healing process for wounds, an analogy was drawn between the wound and a severed electrical cord.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Invariably, executives are seeking information on strategic thinking exercises suited to making strategic planning participants more effective and successful. That’s just like many strategy meetings.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. Using these creative thinking exercises, we pushed them to forget (temporarily) what they have been doing and re-imagine the situation from different perspectives. A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. In planning how we would help these companies, we realized there were three possibilities whenever we asked people to answer a question inside our strategic thinking exercises: The answer could show their strategic thinking was in the right direction.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects. You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. Outrageous. Threatening.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface. That is no surprise.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. To add depth and breadth to the strategic thinking exercise, however, we add four probes to each area of the SWOT analysis. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help!

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