BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Scarce resources ?

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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. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I also push my creative thinking skills and look through newspaper or magazine articles to inspire ideas. It followed her as she pursued junk at a rural South Dakota hoarders house to look for ideas to fit into her twice-yearly magazine, “Flea Market Style,” and annual “Junk Bonanza flea market festival.”.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today’s creative thinking post is all about music. That’s why these music videos are the centerpiece of today’s creative thinking post. I met Leslie at Content Marketing World at a music event appropriately enough. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Kate Davis.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We haven’t tackled that topic previously, so the first creative thinking move was sketching out a matrix comparing the degree someone is able to express a personal creative version versus how much they are getting paid for it. 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion and Creativity.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead, executives talk about customers or growth or cost cutting or new markets or a whole variety of other areas that can contribute to business success. The consultants we worked with to help us develop our first big strategic marketing plan back in 1997, didn’t provide productive structure to help us. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization. The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. Marketing strategies. Industry and market dynamics. Who doesn’t love big ideas?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

To put it succinctly, Diane came in and kicked my creative and content marketing ass in the nicest possible way. In late September 2016, I’ll be co-presenting and hanging out with Whip-Smart Wordsmith, Emma Alvarez Gibson , at the Social Media Strategies Summit and Marketing Conference in San Francisco.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. That doesn’t mean, however, it works best for him or her to close the door and spend weeks trying to write a marketing plan individually. finance, operations, market research), and innovators (people that look at business situations differently).

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

This Brainzooming eBook will help identify additional possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jump start your innovation strategy. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The conventional wisdom is you give away “what” you do as part of content marketing, but not “how” you do what you do. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

Beyond trade secrets and insider knowledge that could move markets, organizations consider a wide variety of information as confidential. ” Market-Moving and Insider Information. When the new service reached the market, the staff of another, competitive subsidiary visited my office to try to understand the market implications.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When translated into a simplified creative strategy formula, you can consider ways your brand could use a comparable formula to develop a new creative strategy: Is there a creative idea out in a market comparable to yours that is gaining attention and buzz that you could copy ? BTW, A Word about Personalization.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While we have done a bunch of strategic and creative thinking skills workshops for sales teams in the past several years , we have never put together a specific diagnostic on this topic. 10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople. For more on this innovation strategy, download our Outside-In Innovation eBook! ).

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

He’s about to leave his job as a strategic planning and marketing VP at a Fortune 500 transportation company and he’s got this whole other direction mapped out for himself—he’s been blogging now for a couple of years in preparation for this move. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

EAG: I think it’s the fact that when you saw that the market wasn’t doing what it had been doing, you took things into your own hands and found a way to do it anyway. However, you’re creative, whether it’s picking up a Fender Strat, or a paintbrush, or knitting needles, that is how you channel your creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

Here’s a brief video produced by SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, where I talk about four easy ways for companies to boost creativity in the workplace without taking a lot of time to do it. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Do you need to take better advantage of your brand’s customer inputs and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we’re headed into a client session or a meeting and need a few creative thinking questions, I visit the blog and grab suitable questions from one of our compilation posts. In creating a new eBook or Fake Book, the blog provides the starting content we can arrange and share in new formations.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

All the while, demand for Brainzooming workshops on innovation, strategic thinking, and content marketing increased. I’ve been a proponent for regular, if not daily, blogging as vital for successful content marketing. It would have been easy to decide the best thing to do was sticking with what we’ve been doing.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. Start Implementing Faster and Better!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I don’t think I need to say much about this Innovation! It made me LOL, which is a great way to inspire creative thinking. Creative Thinking Turns a Problem into a Solution. Solar panels are almost black and in Africa, the market for the Desolenator, they get really hot in the sun. Yes, Please.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. The Death of Marketing Strategy – Killer Article! Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

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