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IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises.
IdeaScale
JULY 21, 2022
In this article, we will outline four innovative exercises that help provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specific virtual whiteboard instances. Exercises. Exercise #1 ? Exercise #2 ? Exercise #3 ? Exercise #4 ?
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Michael Michalko
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
This exercise based on the forming of associative elements into new combinations. The more mutually remote the new combinations, the more creative the process or solution. Instructions: You are presented with three words and asked to find a fourth word that is related to all three.
IdeaScale
MARCH 9, 2021
The post Four Exercises to try in your next Virtual Whiteboarding Session appeared first on IdeaScale. Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. It serves as a tool to visualize, actualize, and realize the full potential of your ideas.
InnovationTraining.org
JUNE 14, 2022
Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. In this blog post, we’ll share some of the most popular design thinking exercises and activities, validated by research shared in a popular design thinking book, the Design Thinking Toolbox.
Michael Michalko
APRIL 10, 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. To restore the flow of current, the wire had to be spliced back together. The solution took the form of a revolutionary bandage containing magnesium, an element known to conduct electricity.
InnovationManagement
MAY 25, 2022
This article will highlight some popular innovation exercises you can conduct with your team to get your creative juices flowing. These will be a combination of workplace exercises and ice-breakers.
Imagineer7
APRIL 10, 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. To restore the flow of current, the wire had to be spliced back together. The solution took the form of a revolutionary bandage containing magnesium, an element known to conduct electricity.
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. Brainstorming and Ideation arms brainstorm exercise fluid icebreaker ideation physiology psychologyIt is well known that our physiology can affect our psychology. If our posture is more positive then our thinking is more positive.
IdeaScale
MARCH 9, 2021
In this article, we will outline some important exercises that help both provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specified virtual whiteboard instances. Exercises. Exercise #1 ? Exercise #2 ? Exercise #3 ? Exercise #4 ?
Imagineer7
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. To restore the flow of current, the wire had to be spliced back together. The solution took the form of a revolutionary bandage containing magnesium, an element known to conduct electricity.
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. When quarantine first started I was motivated to work out more often. Twice a day even.
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. Here are our suggestions for strategic thinking exercises to lead an executive team to consider its current situation and future opportunities in dramatically different ways. Consider these strategic thinking exercises if you need to stretch executive perspectives about: Your Current Situation.
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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. We try to regularly offer these types of strategic thinking exercises both from others and from the Brainzooming R&D lab.
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. Since it worked so well the other day, however, we wanted to pass it along right away as a strategic thinking exercise to consider when you have the right types of characters to make it work. Want to try something to get a particularly new and insightful look at a situation?
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. Considering that, here’s an example of how, as one previous boss might say, we eat our own dog food (in this case, strategic thinking exercises ).
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. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. You probably can’t stop, research different strategic thinking exercises, and incorporate them into your strategy session. What can you do right away to turn deadly strategic thinking exercises into fun strategic planning exercises?
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. The individual asking the question suggested it as a fourth element of the Rock-Paper-Scissors strategic thinking exercise (perhaps as Rock Number 2).
Ideanote
JANUARY 28, 2019
Get 4 brainstorming exercises that get everybody’s creative juices flowing. Loved by some, dreaded by many. How do we make brainstorming enjoyable, valuable and fun for everyone involved? Friendly and approachable, solves problems by talking them through, open and willing to share. All personality traits favored by modern corporate cultures. And all often associated with extroverts.
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. You can use this strategic thinking exercise with a group to help them push their thinking into areas they might otherwise ignore – purposely or by accident.
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. Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Yes, try a SWOT strategic thinking exercise looking for ideas that are: Scary.
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.
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. Innovation feasibility growth revenue model Sales
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. The point of the Shrimp creative thinking exercise is to generate ideas that will get you in all kinds of trouble with whatever authority figure is most responsible for telling you can’t do any wildly creative ideas. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise.
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. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Some Work, Some Don’t. Why, you may ask, does this video remind me of strategic planning exercises?
The Future Shapers
MARCH 10, 2020
The post The Best Design Thinking Exercises for Any Phase of a Project appeared first on The Future Shapers. Design thinking is a popular concept and many techniques can be used to great effect!
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 22, 2015
We use strategic thinking exercises and questions as “detours” around organizational thinking that is in a rut. Revisiting our online repository of strategic thinking exercises, I came across this one from our early days of collecting and developing new ways to help people think about their threats and opportunities. The caveat with this strategic thinking exercise is we pulled it from the “safe.” Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.
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. If you’re among the executives planning for strategic planning, no matter what time of year, you need to ask these ten questions as you consider the right strategic planning exercises and approaches to pursue: Do we know what the expected outcome needs to be?
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 12, 2016
How can you effectively employ visioning exercises in strategic planning that invite your entire organization to contribute their perspectives? That is where visioning exercises that employ a collaborative approach come into play. Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Ebook Implementation Strategic Planning Strategic Thinking Strategy Tools strategic thinking exercises
BrainZooming
JANUARY 22, 2016
The search term “strategic visioning exercises” has been consistently near the top recently for what has bringing people to the Brainzooming website. 14 Articles on Strategic Visioning Exercises. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Strategic Visioning Exercises to Create a Vision Statement. Strategic Visioning Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact.
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. Within about ten minutes, using the seventeen questions in this strategic thinking exercise, a group of nine or ten people generated more than seventy possible companies and industries to explore for comparable innovation case studies.
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. Each strategic thinking exercise poster had four or five brand dimensions on the Y-axis. You do the math with this strategic thinking exercise.
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. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction.
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? Romano shared an important insight into the challenge of developing strategic thinking exercises to envision future strategy: “Until you drive an EV, you are colored by 135 years of going to the gas station. 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing.
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 → Creativity Innovation innovative thinking michael graber Southern Growth Studio
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. 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go Right Now!
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.
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. Here is how we see this new strategic thinking exercise coming together. This strategic thinking exercise is straight from the Brainzooming R&D Labs.
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.
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. It combines the Shrimp creative thinking exercise , the ultra-popular-at-Brainzooming mad face emoji, the extreme creativity and celebratory slogan (“Winner, winner chicken dinner”) of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives , and one of our favorite products: orange, “I Am Creative,” notes to self socks.
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. In fact, there are only a few exercises we use that we DON’T share with you here – all for free. 5 Warnings for Free Strategic Planning Exercises.
BrainZooming
MARCH 22, 2016
One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. Even though creative thinking exercises and strategy questions are intended to help people approach familiar situations in new ways, they can easily become new boundaries to constrain thinking. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.
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.
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