IdeaScale

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Creative thinking is key. If you want to start building a better innovation strategy, contact us. The post The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 3: Idea Review appeared first on IdeaScale. Teams should be able to clearly and quickly offer opinions, revisions, and considerations.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More. The strategy works tremendously well.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Virtual team building activities play a pivotal role in fostering communication, collaboration, and a cohesive culture within distributed teams. Increased Trust : By participating in team-building exercises, employees develop deeper trust in their colleagues, which is crucial for successful collaboration.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 6, 2024

This results in resistance to the creative changes using Generative AI might bring because they lack the vital creative and emotional energy to generate creative thinking with AI; they will typically resist innovation-led change and stay ‘stuck’ in their habitual, safe and conventional roles, capabilities and identities.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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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. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation? Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook. If you do, then contact us.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Strategies for Seamless Communication In the digital age, virtual teams need to master the art of seamless communication to thrive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Strategies for Seamless Communication In the digital age, virtual teams need to master the art of seamless communication to thrive.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To keep up with these changes and stay ahead, you must embrace innovation as a core value within your business strategy. Your actions and attitudes towards innovation can either stimulate a fertile environment for creative thinking or stifle potential breakthroughs. Innovation is not just about creating new products.

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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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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

An innovation strategy is a key business asset, and innovation leadership is no longer nice to have, but necessary. Innovation leadership can make the difference between an innovation strategy that actually produces results and one that languishes on paper. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.”

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy. If you’re interested in reviewing some of the innovation strategy content we shared during the workshop , here are links within three major focus areas: Imagine.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These programs often provide startups with resources and mentorship, enhancing the potential for successful collaboration and integration of startup innovation into larger corporate frameworks. The strategic objectives of CVC are multifaceted and can significantly influence a corporation’s trajectory.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. I think Mess reached out online after reading some Brainzooming articles. We spent time together seeing “Mess Wright’s Dallas” and attending the Social Media Strategies Summit. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about collaborating with Mess!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In this guide, well delve into what idea generators are, explore their various types, and examine how they can be applied to fuel creativity and innovation in any context. At its core, an idea generator is any tool, technique, or system designed to spark creative thinking and help individuals or teams come up with new ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. Any energy transition takes a long time, and it requires a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Mind maps also accomodate for different ideas that other note taking strategies struggle to entertain. Enables Tiered Thinking. Includes Larger Context.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

Disruptive, deviant and diverse teams that differ significantly and challenge the status quo can think the unthinkable, surprising the world with new inventions and unexpected solutions through their disruptive, collaborative, and creative thinking strategies, which are crucial for innovation success.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills. ” – Brené Brown on hurdles that stand between an idea and celebrated creativity. Related posts Making Challenging Content Accessible: 5 Steps to Creating a Nick Cave Fan Leadership Strategy – How Much Teaching and Coaching Is Enough? ” – Ed Catmull of Pixar.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2016

We were on a call with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was exhibiting. 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills. How are you doing on these 7 creative thinking skills?

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. They know innovation strategies come and go.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A human analyst to validate technology search results, conduct crucial subject matter expert interviews , and evaluate unique ideas from experienced, creative employees and stakeholders through open innovation challenges will prove to be the best approach to a fully developed innovation management strategy.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Build out the collaboration advantage.

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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 Results eBook makes our case for collaborative strategy planning among your organization’s employees (and even, in many cases, your customers).

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Kelly Scanlon Show. Just Start!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. – Mike Brown.

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