BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The key question was, “Where’s the beef with this innovation strategy?”. They seemed ready to jump through hoops to justify the innovation strategy to the CEO. 3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer. Looking for Ideas to Make Strategy Planning More Fun? So too with ideas!

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Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Strategic Thinking 91

BrainZooming

APRIL 3, 2018

Two junior team members in chief of staff / program manager roles asked how to best align with senior leaders to successfully share a strategy across an organization. The Way to Successfully Share a Strategy. Help team members who are working on communicating and implementing the plan to perform effectively and creatively.

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Strategy Strategy Guidelines eBook 92

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding? It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. 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

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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Creativity Creative Thinking Exercises eBook 83

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2017

On Tuesday, we were at the Kansas City Public Library to shoot videos featuring content from Brainzooming articles, downloads, and workshops. We shot twenty-five videos during the day to support our own brand’s content marketing strategy. Completed a strategic creative brief ahead of time. It was a whirlwind day.

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Video Marketing Strategy Strategy 92

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. Establishing a Future-driven Business Strategy.

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How To Handbook Leadership Strategy 167

BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2018

Are you too comfortable to generate new creative ideas? Would inventing something to make you nervous align with your creative thinking formula and attract more creative ideas? Asking people what they think about my creative ideas. Taking away my most important creative resources. circa 1995). I’ve experienced it.

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Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Leadership 81

Innovation in Practice

JUNE 14, 2020

You can actually learn to be creative like you could learn any other skill whether it be in business or in your personal life or some other skill that you want to learn like a new sport. This podcast is about the idea that creativity can be systematic. . In this episode you’ll hear: Reasons you want to improve your creative skills.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Culture of Innovation Learning 76

BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons. 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur.

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Strategy Strategy Learning eBook 84

BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. 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.

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Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking eBook 75

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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Exercises Tools eBook Strategic Thinking 94

BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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Strategy Strategy Exercises Strategic Thinking 96

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Stronger creative leadership to identify productive tactics, make better (and faster) decisions, and successfully implement with a major impact. The Answer to Boosting Creative Leadership within Your Team! This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity.

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Leadership Creativity Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking 78

BrainZooming

MARCH 20, 2017

We share many Brainzooming strategy, innovation, and branding tools. One vital business strategy tool for me personally that I rarely mention directly in workshops is prayer. Prayer (and the humility in asking God for help) are an integral part of my business strategy tool repertoire. Here are two recent examples.

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Tools Strategy Strategy eBook 77

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We were set to work with a client team exploring the customer experience strategy they’d introduce to their internal customers. Each of the four roles were intended to help push the group’s thinking on its customer experience strategy in varied ways. 4 Roles to Push Bold Customer Experience Strategy Thinking. Extreme Creativity.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 79

IdeaScale

JULY 17, 2019

A strong innovation strategy depends on solid critical thinking skills. Critical thinking encompasses self-direction, self-discipline, self-correction, communication, and problem-solving – all of which are necessary ingredients in a successful innovation strategy. Learn from others’ mistakes and successes.

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How To Innovation Exercises Strategy 164

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” (available for download from Tuesday 7 Feb 2023), the outlook shows that there are potentially major problems ahead for innovation teams. And while managers already dislike creative new ideas , this feeling of unease will become even stronger as the fears over the impact of a recession grow.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Report Innovation 307

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. The strategy works tremendously well.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises 67

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 Strategic Thinking eBook Creativity 94

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Innovation goes beyond bright ideas by combining processes with creative minds to breathe life into something that makes life easier, days brighter, and helps organizations get closer to their goals. However, you need to have a strategy and plan for implementing and maximizing those ideas for real innovation to happen.

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Ideation Innovation Project Resources 184

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Thus, building an innovation management strategy starts with identifying your company’s goals. You must encourage and enthusiastically fund creativity while keeping burgeoning ideas on track. Using Common Strategies to Get Uncommon Results. If it’s your goal to cross the finish line and you come in last, you have succeeded.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Groups 183

BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. They know innovation strategies come and go.

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Strategy Strategy Exercises Disruption 87

BrainZooming

JULY 23, 2018

Today, Monday, July 23, we’re launching the new Brainzooming book, Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders. My objective in writing this new book was to help individuals cultivate their personal strengths as Idea Magnets, attracting other Idea Magnets through their creative energy.

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Leadership Creativity Strategy Strategy 53

BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2017

If you’ve been pursuing a content marketing strategy for a few years, you have some content that worked and some that didn’t work when you first published it. Reviewing the most successful pieces emerging from your content marketing strategy up to now provides the opportunity to create new growth from your evergreen content.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy eBook 84

BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Idea Generation 88

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Just as you must tear away wrapping paper to get to the great gift inside, you must tear away conventional wisdom that stands in the way of innovative strategies.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Strategic Thinking 76

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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Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity eBook 68

IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2018

And yet, I hear employers say all the time that the reason they’re excited to hire folks right out of college, is because not only do they come on board with a wealth of new technological savvy, but they’re also considered to be more creative. Budget Strategy. Now what if they could share those strategies with everyone else?

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Innovation Survey Creative Thinking Creativity 93

BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2017

This eBook’s questions cover the areas we address here and in our client work, including: Organizational strategy. Creativity. Stimulate creativity (even among people not seeing themselves as creative). Stimulate creativity (even among people not seeing themselves as creative). Extreme Creativity.

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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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Exercises Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 76

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For their innovation strategy, time-limited challenges work better. What Organizations Need for a Successful Innovation Strategy. For organizations interested in developing an innovation strategy, it helps to have a few key components. Figuring this out is a big step toward developing an innovation strategy.

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Crowdsourcing Case Study Innovation Strategy 113

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Innovators face a wide mix of business strategy and interpersonal challenges on their road to success. Leaders play it safe and settle for “me too” strategies just to keep up with the pack, rather than boldly investing in a better future. If you’d rather not wait, download the entire chapter today.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Handbook 189

IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Convene special strategy sessions just for generating ideas and exploring options. As they make the potential future visible and foster an environment of creative collaboration, leaders form a kind of “innovation sandbox” where employees throughout the enterprise are invited to play, with the goal of generating new business value.

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Handbook Innovation Leadership Project 150

BrainZooming

MAY 10, 2017

Chatting with a mid-career professional who is at the height of job frustration, she placed a career strategy challenge on the table: “A résumé is supposed to have metrics, but I have no real metrics I can own for my contributions at my day job. I know this isn’t an isolated career strategy challenge. Boost Your Creativity with.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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Strategy Strategy Exercises eBook 69

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

During this year’s presentations, I’ll be covering both brand strategy (Thursday) and social-first stories (Friday). 9 Areas to Tune-Up Your Brand Strategy for Peak Performance. Blog Topic Ideas – Social Media Content Strategy for a Large B2B Company . Boost Your Brand’s Social Media Strategy with Social-First Content!

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