BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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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. Discovering New Ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2025

SCAMPER is a structured ideation tool designed to enhance creative thinking and innovation by prompting systematic questions around an existing product, service, or process. Reverse (or Rearrange): Can we change the sequence, flow, or structure? What is SCAMPER? Can another audience benefit from this solution?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 29, 2022

What do you know about creative thinking today that you wished you knew twenty years ago? That creativity is a phenomena that results from a certain combination of relationships. I also deliberately program changes into my daily life. Then I take the habits, one by one, and consciously change them for a day or so.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 6, 2024

The impact of disruption, hyperconnectivity, and uncertainty, coupled with the pace of change, causes many people to feel fearful and anxious. Emotional energy is the catalyst that fuels the creative process. Identify the key challenges, strengths, and systemic nature of the core problem and set a goal for change.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Develop proactive strategies to manage change. Key benefits include: Enhances strategic flexibility Allows companies to pivot as conditions change. Facilitates long-term planning Encourages leadership to think beyond immediate challenges. These could include: Economic variables Recessions, inflation, interest rate changes.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 13, 2022

We speak about what it takes to go from beginner to expert, the hurdles and changes along the way and the impact of expertise on creative thinking. 00:18:00 – The balance of repetition what has worked before and beginning to be creative. 00:05:00 – The apprentice, journeyman, master progression.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 20, 2022

Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught. You are creative. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker. The only difference between people who are creative and people who are not is a simple belief. Creative people believe they are creative. Creative thinking is work.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Example: Imagine you’re drawing at the top of the board with a dry erase marker and it changes its color as you get to different sections of the board. Using the Systematic Inventive Thinking or SIT method, there are five techniques you can use to break fixedness: Breaking Functional Fixedness. 5 Ways to Break Fixedness.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Strategies to Help Executives Change Mindset For senior executives to remain competitive and successful, a shift towards a more strategic mindset is often necessary. Below are strategies that can facilitate this change and enhance the strategic thinking capabilities of leaders within your organization.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Strategies to Help Executives Change Mindset For senior executives to remain competitive and successful, a shift towards a more strategic mindset is often necessary. Below are strategies that can facilitate this change and enhance the strategic thinking capabilities of leaders within your organization.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In a world where change is like a pesky neighbor who always shows up unannounced, planning ahead is your best friend. The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 18, 2021

2 Techniques to Master Creative Thinking. Any time you notice something creative that catches your eye, try to spot which of the five SIT patterns might have been used or could be used to explain that innovation. . Creative thinking is a team sport. Division – you take something, cut it, and rearrange it.

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Digital Tonto

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Yet as Daniel Pink explained in Drive, decades of studies show incentive pay often decreases productivity, especially for tasks that require creative thinking. So rather than working to construct some Rube Goldberg-like incentive structure and then adjusting it every time you want a change in behavior, try treating people with dignity.

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Innovation in Practice

JUNE 14, 2020

Each week, we feature structured creativity and innovation strategies for leaders who want to think differently and who want to be more innovative, implement change, and grow. . This podcast is about the idea that creativity can be systematic. .

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to build a strong case, stay informed, and think critically is the key to unlocking success and driving innovation. In this environment, success isn’t just about being prepared for change; it’s about actively shaping it. My 2nd offer point.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2022

How much of our lives, our abilities, our beliefs is down to the genes we are born with and which cannot be changed (that “nature” gave us), and how much is down to the environment around us as we grew up, which can change over time (the “nurture” in which we developed).

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results. And, yes, in this light there is a fair amount of investment and some change required.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

No matter how hard or how long you think about a zipper, you will continue to see a zipper as an independent part of an independent reality and will continue to focus on the particulars of a zipper. Change Your Thinking Patterns. You can change your thinking patterns by focusing on the universal instead of the particular.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 10, 2020

But you can actually learn to be creative like you could learn any other skill – whether it be in business or in your personal life or some other skill that you want to learn like a new sport. What is Creativity? Think of creativity as a process, a cognitive process, which is something that happens inside your head.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 10, 2020

But you can actually learn to be creative like you could learn any other skill – whether it be in business or in your personal life or some other skill that you want to learn like a new sport. What is Creativity? Think of creativity as a process, a cognitive process, which is something that happens inside your head.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. Finally, safely exit your comfort zone, unlearn, learn, and relearn variations in how you feel, think, and act to remain agile, adaptive, and innovative during uncertain and unstable times.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. Then applying, experimenting and learning from novel practices that provide growing confidence in creative thinking.

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Idea to Value

MAY 11, 2022

If you want to improve your creativity , what is more likely to make you better in the long run: Creating a large volume of average-quality work, or focusing on a single piece and working tirelessly to try and make it perfect? A large number of creatives think that in order to make anything worthwhile, you need to strive for perfection.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 7, 2023

However, another 2016 study shows it is not clear if simply engaging in pretend play leads to higher creativity as an adult. Examples such as gardening and construction were as valuable for supporting creative thinking as ones traditionally associated with creativity, for example, music and painting.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 17, 2023

By encouraging new ideas, creative thinking, and experimentation, companies can continuously improve their products and services, streamline processes, and stay relevant in an ever-changing market. In today's fast-paced business world, foster a culture of innovation is crucial for staying ahead of the competition.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. What can we change?

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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.”. The answer to the question is to change the nature of the conversations you are having when you are working on the business.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Exago

AUGUST 10, 2017

The tool to deliver this change is creative thinking, in the hands of a leadership that believes in and embodies its principles. The post Creativity, creative leadership and the value of innovation management appeared first on Exago.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Can You Change Your Look?

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HYPE Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2017

This exploring of different innovating activities is including a growing number of many of our larger companies, perhaps with deeper pockets, trying a variety of creative thinking concepts. We seem to be layering on more and more activities to grab the attention and spread out our innovation resources. Is this for excitement and buzz?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thinkertoys , by Michael Michalko Creative thinking can be a struggle for some. Michalko’s book, designed to get you thinking and trying new approaches to problems, is one you’ll keep handy to jumpstart your innovative thinking processes. Creative Construction , by Gary P.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2016

That conversation, and a related one on creative thinking and what is funny got me reflecting on a day in my life and the creative thinking and creative self-talk that goes on behind the scenes. As I started to jot down ideas from the day, it read like a bunch of creative thinking policies and non-policies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Once attainable and proven useful, those tools change the way we live and work. Thus, the tools we created and shaped will eventually change and shape the way we live and work. What was an incredible innovation is now changing how we work and live. If you doubt this is true, look no further than the iPhone.

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