Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking Skills for Sales.

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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. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

This strategy involves structured processes to gather insights from various stakeholders, assess these ideas for feasibility and impact, and select the most promising ones for further development. Ideation is integral to the innovation process, serving as a critical component for companies aiming to harness creativity and drive growth.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The authors report four characteristics that set top CEOs apart, According to the article, “roughly half the strong candidates had distinguished themselves in more than one of the four essential behaviors, while only 5% of the weak candidates had.”. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

06:15] Technology now means we are no longer locked to our desks, or to our teams. [08:00] 09:15] How conflicting requirements between neighbouring teams can cause distractions and lower performance. [10:30] Therefore, what would be an office environment that makes teams productive, creative and also able to execute innovative ideas?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 17, 2021

Every company worth its low-salt lunch has identified innovation as a core competency needing to be developed. Then note which ones are your weaknesses -- and how can you strengthen them. You might even give them to your team and ask them to rate themselves. Situationally collaborative. And don't forget to floss.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System Exercises 59

BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store.

Strategy 88

Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking Exercises 88

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

“The more bad ideas the better. If you work really hard on coming up with bad ideas, sooner or later, some good ideas are going to slip through.” – Seth Godin (June 19, 2018). What a moonshot project yields, ideally, are near-term benefits through collaboration and smaller discoveries and innovations along the way.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. This strategic thinking exercise allows a large group (perhaps hundreds of online participants) to provide targeted input on an organization’s future direction. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Speculation about strengths and weaknesses the organization faces. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas?

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Millions of office workers around the world were told to “stay in your homes…but keep on working and collaborating.” Big Tech’s offerings – Google Meet (Hangouts), Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams – also experienced growth. Even WFH evangelist Matt Mullenweg asks his global teams to meet face-to-face several times per year.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Just pick a method, book a conference room, invite some team members, and dive head first into your brainstorm, right?

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Think fast, move faster. In a meeting in 2013, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty gave her workers quite a talking to, telling them to move fast and respond to customers faster to combat poor revenues. She preferred nondescript hotel rooms, away from home, to get her creative juices flowing. The only way to win is as a team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Creativity 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills! Photo: Harper Point Photography.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. becomes the salient question, and discovering the likely answers determines the responses that will be developed. A Waterfall variant, ADDIE, is commonly used in course development and professional training. Core Elements of Waterfall.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Releasing the creative potential in your organization will provide you with a powerful new resource that can take you into the future. The idea box lacks transparency and offers no collaboration opportunity. If the challenge is too high a level, creative thinking will be all over the place. Global collaboration.

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