BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The team was wrestling with a concern voiced by the organization’s senior leader that its complete innovation portfolio wasn’t capable of yielding the financial impact he is seeking. via Shutterstock.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sometimes, a fresh perspective from outside the industry can catalyze innovation and drive unprecedented growth. Vision and Strategic Thinking The Universal Need for Direction: Regardless of the industry, every organization seeks a brighter future. In fact, relying solely on industry experience can be limiting.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2018

Is your business-to-business brand looking for new product ideas, stronger innovation strategy opportunities, and a bigger impact ? We took that approach when developing an innovation strategy workshop for a B2B manufacturer. How can you orient your innovation strategy to the experiences THEY have? – Mike Brown.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Pros and Cons: Benefits embrace enhanced morale and stimulated innovation. Design Thinking Principles to Merge Metrics and Empathy: Empathize with Stakeholders: Begin by understanding team needs, setting a human-centric foundation. Ideate and Prototype: Advocate for a culture of brainstorming, experimentation, and iteration.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? If growth is an important component of what you are trying to accomplish, innovation is likely getting a hard look as an important part of realizing that objective. Identify and develop innovation strategies with a customer perspective.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. The engineers are so accustomed to testing EVERYTHING, they routinely shoot down any innovative ideas. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? The reason why?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Talking with various colleagues, clients, and potential clients recently, each discussion included a reference to innovation expertise. You’re the expert in innovation, what do you think?”. That started me thinking, “Am I an expert?”. Who exactly IS an innovation expert? And WHAT is an innovation expert?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

This Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 1 pm CDT (US) I’ll be appearing on Social Jack TV™ with host Dean DeLisle talking about Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Whether personally or organizationally, the desire to be more innovative can run straight into all kinds of barriers, brick walls, and booby traps.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

To become really innovative, your company needs a special culture, a new mindset across all levels, disciplines, and functions. As a leader, you need to introduce and promote a solid innovation framework, which will gradually become part of the normal, day-to-day business. Provide the innovation framework. Team Responsibilities.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2017

Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The client we’re onsite with today working on an innovation strategy comes with an intriguing history. By mid-year, he completed a Contact Us form on the website, wanting to discuss his brand’s innovation strategy. Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Don’t automatically presume the sole enabler behind an innovation strategy is generating new thinking and innovative ideas. That’s a significant part of the innovation strategy process, but it’s just one part. As an example, we’ve been scoping a number of innovation initiatives for a client.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

Talking with a potential client about an already-planned innovation strategy workshop, the going-in innovation strategy called for giving participants “a clean sheet of paper.”. We listened to the rationale for adopting an innovation strategy based on broad creative freedom. Sharing Your Innovation Strategy Decision Making.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Prior to using free strategic thinking exercises, consider the participants, organizational culture, and layout of the room. Keep free strategic planning exercises out of the reach of untrained, unpracticed facilitators. If you want help in using any of our questions and strategic thinking exercises, let us know.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2016

For whatever reason, I’ve found myself explaining several times in the last few days how we use a wide variety of strategic planning techniques to gather participant input into strategies. Sometimes the strategic thinking best approach involves a large, in-person group. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business?

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2016

Based on several stories last week extolling the benefits of being “lazy” when it comes to innovation strategy, you would think the LAZY days of summer are here a few weeks early (at least in the northern hemisphere). 4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be a Smarter Innovation Strategy. Yet, consider these stories.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Googling “innovation and failure” yielded these top five stories: Creating An Innovation Culture: Accepting Failure is Necessary. Baba Shiv: Why Failure Drives Innovation. Failure is the Mother of Innovation. Why most innovations are great big failures. Why Failure Is the Foundation of Innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

10 Barriers to Organizational Innovation – Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. An Individual Strategy to Embrace and Cultivate Change – Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

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? Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments. In fact, thinking much more broadly produces the most value. Innovation 360 uses a six-step process. The PESTLED Framework.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2016

Perhaps the TV ad is a delayed reaction to a Domino’s TV ad several years earlier about innovating because it finally listened to customers saying how bad Domino’s was. It’s a significant point though when it comes to the barriers to innovation many organizations erect. 30 Barriers to Innovation (other than Lamination).

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

Seek out any available information to understand top brands’ disruptive innovations, practices to set expectations, and performance levels. It may be tougher to push for innovating your performance levels relative to players you don’t compete with directly. Looking to Boost Customer Experience Innovation?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. The Armada article highlights six ways to formulate innovation strategy in a regulated environment, including the approach JetBlue is taking. A shadow innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2016

Here’s the big strategic thinking question: Who can best shed light on when your brand is defaulting to “never and always” in your competitive strategy? Your marketing and brand managers MAY be able to point out places where THEY have gone to the same old, same old in their strategic planning and implementation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Specific innovative ideas the organization wants to pursue. Simply by having a plan for what we would need later during strategic planning, we were able to turn what could have been a wasted strategic conversation into a huge head start in completing our work. Factors influencing the initiative’s success.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2016

Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This is the second post that I am sharing on both my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through my paul4innovating posting site , which has different audiences to discuss this with.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We worked with Chuck multiple times, and started to adopt many of his ideas and approaches into our strategic planning methodology. Creative Thinking Skills and Place with Chuck Dymer. Chuck is closing his ideation space, The IdeaLoft. Suffice it to say, there wouldn’t be a Brainzooming if I hadn’t met Chuck Dymer.

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KindlingApp

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Don’t have time for innovation? This third entry in the “Sincerely Sima” Innovation Q&A series provides some tips for fitting innovation into your schedule, whether you’re an employee participating in an innovation program, a manager who’s leading one or a senior leader who’s tracking and expecting results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. With a restart on objectives, NOW you can start exploring alternative, innovative ways to achieve the intended objective.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

With this information, you can better collaborate and innovate with others and build more effective team relationships by playing to everyone’s strengths. By reviewing the ways in which your employees process and handle information and tasks, you can design better workflow in your organization and design teams primed to innovate together.

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