IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A good example of this is open betas for software, where the general public can download the latest version of an upcoming operating system or another tool with the understanding that it may not be stable and that they’ll need to disclose any bugs or issues they find. Open innovation isn’t for every project.

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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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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Click the infographic to download a high-resolution image. Personal Leadership: allows individuals and (multidisciplinary) groups to collaborate in every phase of an innovation process. Creativity: can consider and select new, surprising and valuable ideas. Experiencing, inspiration, testing and collaboration are key to that.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. We don’t deal with it more frequently because we consciously push in advance for diverse groups to engage in creative thinking and innovation workshops.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! If you want to collaboratively engage your team (or multiple teams) in a strategic and creative thinking process in which any of them can discover the secret to creative success, then it’s time to contact us. Extreme Creativity. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about collaborating with Mess! A Chicago Creative Nudge. We’d chatted, messaged, and emailed, but had never spoken in person.

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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. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 13, 2016

One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. They work hard to create a compelling vision of the future.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision? Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation. If you’d rather not wait, download the entire chapter today.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Breakthrough Ideas. Aspirations. ” – Mike Brown.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Creativity and innovation are universally considered as positive phenomena. Every culture esteems creativity in its own way. Moreover, innovation psychology researchers conclude that both creativity and innovation are well-distributed across all global cultures. Novelty and Usefulness in Creativity.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Be willing to collaborate with other units and promote your team members’ ideas to others in the organization. You are welcome to download the entire chapter of Leading Innovation: Ten Essential Roles for Harnessing the Creative Talent of your Enterprise. Offer balanced feedback on new ideas (e.g., Be inquisitive.

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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. Sticky notes +. A few minutes =. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2018

An executive responsible for strategy planning who was downloading our eBook on 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas posed an important question: How can you successfully identify and try new ways to get internal groups working together on strategic planning? 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. Using these creative thinking exercises, we pushed them to forget (temporarily) what they have been doing and re-imagine the situation from different perspectives. Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO!

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Utilitarian in its principles, seeking real-world use and implementation through a more creative, collaborative environment, leading to more discoveries that distinctly ‘blend’ the lab application with the customer discovery of unmet need. I finished with this: Ecosystem thinking can have a very transforming effect.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 23, 2016

If you invest the time to collect and use the ones that work for you, you can bring your innovation strategy superpower to life via all the creativity questions and strategic thinking exercises on the Brainzooming blog! NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2021

In any collaborative meeting, you, as a leader, have an opportunity to foster innovative thinking. Moving to an anonymous, text-based online collaborative environment, though, offers multiple new, intriguing possibilities for leaders to cultivate innovation. 6 Innovative Leadership Possibilities that Anonymity Enables. Say the Thing.

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IdeaScale

JULY 5, 2017

Steven Johnson explored the nature of disruptive and creative ideas that have transformed our society. Because these programs aren’t limited by one department and people can participate part-time in these creative exercises, crowd innovation programs generally have lower costs than traditional research & development departments.

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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. Let’s figure out how we can customize and develop the right strategic thinking and creativity tools to make you giggle, smile, and come up with winning strategies ! – Mike Brown.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 13, 2020

But did know you can be a more creative person by helping others become creative too? In this episode, let me share with you some things you can do to increase this sense of a collaborative environment when working with others and how to get others to share in that creative load. . Discover the Golden Rule of Creativity!

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

IdeaScale’s innovation platform was built to address these types of challenges collaboratively and at scale. You can harness its capabilities to tap into the passion and creativity of the people who know your business best – your employees. To learn which challenges that can be solved using crowdsourcing, download the full list. .

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Yet the methods they employ subconsciously derive from talents wired into human nature, accessible to us all – creativity, imagination, the ability to dream. Legendary entrepreneurs tend to be gifted futurists.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 9, 2020

Greater team and individual creativity. Maximized team and individual creativity. The fast-paced, collaborative buzz of an in-person workshop can be exhilarating. question, idea, prototype and implementation is captured in a detailed PDF report of the team’s entire journey, which you can download and share at any time.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. During the hackathon itself, teams create the magic and innovation, and it is the most exciting and creative phase. Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Strong innovation usually emerges from collaborative, hands-on or observational experiences that take place on the front lines with customers. If you’d like to skip ahead, you can download the entire chapter today. Begin with the End .

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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? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2017

Creativity. Stimulate creativity (even among people not seeing themselves as creative). Yes, we’re serious: these are the links to our 600 most powerful strategic thinking questions, all in one of the best strategic thinking tools you’ll download for FREE all year long! – Mike Brown. Extreme Creativity.

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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. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Cheerleading for creativity in business isn’t difficult. Yet, you see people, departments, and organizations where overtly expressing creative appreciation doesn’t happen naturally – or happen at all. It could be nobody realized it is good business and good manners to appreciate creativity in business. A clever idea.

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eZassi

AUGUST 14, 2017

Ideation Collaboration Software: Killing three or more birds with one software. We often find that our prospects and clients are amazed that our innovation software platform replaces or can replace what they need in an ideation collaboration software, killing three or more birds with one software.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Packaging your offerings in creative ways. If you want to learn more about putting innovation and crowdsourcing to work in nonprofits, IdeaScale invites you to download our Crowdsourcing and Nonprofits white paper. Nuts-and-Bolts Best Practices. Finding paying customers for your nonprofit. Exploring partnerships.

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!! Just Start!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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