Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To a great extent, we are becoming complacent, waiting for others to change or improve or modify our lives, rather than dreaming up big ideas and developing them ourselves. Yet, most companies stick within a very narrow range of new product development options, unable or unwilling to shift the frame and think differently.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This involves not only verbal encouragement but also the implementation of tangible policies and practices that empower your team to think differently and take risks. Effective leaders provide resources, create cross-functional teams, and ensure that innovation is aligned with business strategy.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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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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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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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

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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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

It may be time to make sure your bold creative ideas are clearly and understandably rooted in strategy. Alternatively, you may be in a place that is thinking way too small; you should get out as soon as you can. If no one ever says your ideas are too bold, that is also bad. Does your CPR vary by client or team?

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Whether it’s Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams or SharePoint, to name a few, we all use one tool or another to communicate with team members. But as good as these tools are for conversations, follow-ups, and meetings, they nonetheless lack the capacity to bring ideas to market through collaborative concept development.

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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

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). If innovation is lagging, purposefully use this concept to get your team thinking bigger while it throws off smaller, innovative benefits along the way. #2

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives. It involves five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

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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. These days, the "innovation thing" is something of a no-brainer.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System Exercises 59

MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

While learning to implement submarine tactics as OOD is challenging, learning to consistently lead a team of 30 sailors and keep them engaged and proficient was far more difficult. This led to poor team dynamics and organization throughout the submarine. CHANGE CAUSE. COMMAND-AND-CONTROL STYLE.

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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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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

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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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2019

The bad news : In the frenzy to do something fast you might make big mistakes or take risks that could be avoided. Creative thinking can rescue you , but it better be focused, and that’s going to be hard to do when you’re in panic mode, and, without assistance. Research and Homework thinking assignments for team.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

We can deliver strategic and creative thinking-based training that gives salespeople a structure to approach business development and solutions selling dramatically differently. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team eBook 40

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. – Mike Brown. 10 Employee Engagement Ideas to Improve Strategic Results.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation is the process of taking an idea and developing it further. Think of this as taking a product from concept to completion. Innovation requires creative thinking, imagination, and risk-taking. Product innovation is the development of new products. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. LEAN method.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Innovation Technical Review 52

The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Big Tech’s offerings – Google Meet (Hangouts), Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams – also experienced growth. Whether you are an executive, manager or individual contributor with the responsibility to effectively navigate the next 6-18 months, it is imperative to be thinking more deeply about what WFH means for you, your team and your organization.

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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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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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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Companies must focus on the future, and they are intensely interested in how the market is changing, what their customers will want, how technology is developing and what their competitors and partners are planning to do. Would that company invest in R&D?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. How might you frame the questions you want your team thinking about this week?

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 3, 2017

It occurred to him that it would be a good idea if he could develop a machine which could take these documents and create copies quickly and cheaply. It was still a struggle trying to convince someone to invest in the technology and develop it into product. Thus started the industry that revolutionised the world. to order a few.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. Every team has its own, individual way of operating.

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