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

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 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download). The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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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.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas.

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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

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. An Alternative Strategic Thinking Exercise to Develop a Vision Statement.

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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. via Shutterstock.

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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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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

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. Branding and Marketing. Extreme Creativity. I like the concept, a lot. Innovation.

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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. Not sure what the right marketing language is? Building the Team.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

I guess it probably had to be early in my corporate career when market research became a greater focus in my job. I’m not sure when I first realized that one of my life’s passions was collecting questions. If you have questions that work in one situation, you definitely want to make sure you use them again.

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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. 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.

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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By fostering innovation in the workplace, you lay the groundwork for your organization to adapt, thrive, and dictate market trends. Companies that prioritize innovation tend to report higher growth rates, better market share, and increased profitability.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. 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. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

His comment got me thinking: How much of what we do is based around right now, when it REALLY should be oriented toward getting ready for whatever is next ? Unexpected Market Development ? Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. The next. . Opportunity ?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I see three take-aways from this story: The benefit of creative structure to generate LOTS of ideas, because the winner may be cool product name number eighty-three. The power of strategy-focused creative thinking questions to help generate a high proportion of on-target ideas. More about that customer experience fail.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

Based on someone reaching our website looking for reflections to kick off a strategic planning process, I started imagining adapting and wrapping strategic thinking questions in nursery rhymes. Except now, I can’t remember WHY I was thinking about using nursery rhymes. Jack and his Extreme Creativity Beans.

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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Importance of Developing Innovative Leaders Developing innovative leaders is critical to driving business growth and staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market. Leaders with an innovative mindset can identify emerging opportunities, inspire creative thinking, and challenge the status quo to drive progress.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 27, 2015

The reason is that working from the incredible resource of strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, and collaborative models The Brainzooming Group has created, what Brainzooming does can vary dramatically for each client engagement. That’s why it’s tough to give a short answer to the question.

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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

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? Extreme Creativity.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

You can purposefully use promotions, market pilots, and the concentration of your resources in niche markets to attempt to divert a competitor’s attention from its pre-planned strategy and force them to follow you. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. By leveraging experiential insights, executive teams are better positioned to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and potential disruptions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. Encourages leaders to seek out emerging trends and technologies that could influence future markets. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

When it is crunch time, what will emerge as your real strategic priorities? And are the priorities you pick the same strategic priorities you said you’d emphasize when it was time earlier in the year for strategic thinking? Those questions are front and center for me. Suffice it to say, it feels like crunch time.

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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. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

Here are six ways to strategically and productively fill up a LITTLE bit of that clean sheet of paper to maximize creativity: Letting People Know What’s Important. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. A Strategic Creative Brief – 4 Benefits for Your Communications Efforts.

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