BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Originally, the goal was simply bringing a diverse group together from across the company. Solving the creative diversity puzzle with an eye toward ultimate implementation success led to better cultivating a creative environment.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Reading it and digesting its message should be part of any innovation strategy. Thinkertoys , by Michael Michalko Creative thinking can be a struggle for some. Running Lean , by Ash Maurya Innovation strategy starts with a plan.

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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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Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Strategic Thinking 67

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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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Many innovation tools and ways of thinking are scalable to a specific need and are reasonably user friendly, and often generate a tremendous amount of value for a small investment. I think these tools work exceptionally well, but they are often grouped with other "innovation" tools and seem risky.

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Innovation Design Thinking Tools Creative Thinking 193

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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In previous workshops, a large group convened and re-imagined a manufacturing process to improve quality, while maintaining costs and production efficiency. They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. All in a day’s work for The Brainzooming Group! A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity eBook 69

BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? The reason?

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Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team 88

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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Strategy Strategy eBook Brainstorming 98

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. Begin with the End .

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Innovation Technical Review Handbook Idea Generation 173

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? The call was an opportunity for board members to react and share perspectives for the first time as a group about a critical business topic. 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action.

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Strategic Thinking Groups eBook Creative Thinking 33

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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Disruption Creative Thinking Creativity Technical Review 52

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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Creative Thinking eBook Strategic Thinking Innovation 94

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 tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Ask most business executives about strategy, and they don’t spit out well-articulated strategy statements. That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. 11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. How do you move an organization and its strategy from reactive to proactive?

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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.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. They should inspire, not limit thinking. I gave each table a specific focus for identifying new ideas.

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Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Don’t Speak – I’m Thinking.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team 40

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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Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity eBook 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer.

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Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises 40

BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Another reason to embrace extreme creativity questions is they provide a more beautiful, amazing mental landscape to inspire creative thinking skills.

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Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Tips 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And the best strategy to boost their creative leadership talents is to get copies of Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Attracting and Cultivating Creative Business Leaders for all your team members. This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity. appeared first on The Brainzooming Group.

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Creativity Leadership Creative Thinking eBook 78

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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Creative Thinking Creativity Underperforming Technical Team eBook 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. As we were wrapping up, the next group came in for their lunch meeting. – Mike Brown.

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Creative Thinking Meeting Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. What ideas did I need to imagine?

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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. Mike Brown.

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Creativity Creative Thinking eBook Exercises 83

BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Exercises 40

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. Identify strong ideas upfront so you are ready to listen for and act on them in the larger group meeting. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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Collaboration Meeting eBook Strategic Thinking 77

BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Strategic Thinking 40

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. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! The first is seasonal. All of them are perennial.

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Creative Thinking Video Creativity eBook 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For the closing song, the group played their version of Chuck Berry’s Roll Over, Beethoven. Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding? It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.

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Creativity eBook Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking 79

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

Who wouldn’t want to have explicit permission, even encouragement, to routinely make mistakes with your innovation strategy? An article in The Wall Street Journal addressed this issue relative to baseball and how the strategies many major league baseball teams are using to improve player performance translate to typical office settings.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

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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Idea Generation Tools Brainstorming Software Review 52

BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Pick eight random words and give the list to someone or to a small group (for example: flower pot, baby, glass, grasshopper, coffee pot, box, toast and garage). Ask them to divide the words into two groups without giving them any rationale for the division. The word “drip” was among the words the group suggested that intrigued Pollock.

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