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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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. The creative ones will add some interactivity, such as polls, to make sure people haven’t fallen asleep. Download the PDF version of this article.

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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? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The full report (which you can download for free at the above link) is over 451 pages long and has a substantial level of detail, for each country and also each index they use to form the total. Creative Outputs. Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016. Knowledge and Technology Outputs. What is innovation?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Innovation leaders must master a wide range of skills in order to enhance the innovation potential of their teams. Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. This is a classic example of a strength becoming a weakness.

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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. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated. Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult. Work with the team to develop an improvement plan.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

For an airline, determining the correct way for a gate agent to manage boarding, or for a flight attendant to interact with passengers, are both elements of managing an internal brand team. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights. Who Is Your Internal Brand Team?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. What this suggests for you is that when working with a team, you don’t necessarily have to be ready to respond by saying ideas and concepts are good or bad. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is what will drive an enterprise’s creative engine that is the source of long-term, future growth Most of today’s large corporate enterprises treat strategy, R&D, and innovation as separate and distinct functions – worthy of specialized teams, segmented funding, reporting structures and operational charters. It’s their choice.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. What are Wild and creative ideas our competitors or other relevant companies are doing that we need to consider? 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis.

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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? Facts about the current situation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Make Sure You Have the Right Team. The big first implementation strategy step is assembling the right team with the skills, experience, and perspectives to make a big initiative happen. For those less visually-inclined, it helps to get a couple of people you know will be on the team, the starting project timeline, and a white board.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. It is necessary to consider – and we will talk about this later – that Design Thinking is not just a creative process. Check out some tips to acculture your team around Design Thinking!

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. 10 Bad Reasons to Change Strategy. 16 Employee Idea Killers Your Management Team Could Be Committing. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful. Don’t Overthink It?

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Is it a good or bad career strategy if you do not have a job description ? Short of starting by developing a personal core purpose or branding statement, we suggested these three career straegy questions to balance aspirational activities and the “what has to get done” stuff that will not be as exciting.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 16 Creative Ways to Supercharge Presentations. 9 Extreme Creativity Questions from Peter’s Laws. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. 5 Dangers of Cheaping out on Hiring a Facilitator.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. Here are six creative ideas for last minute changes to turn around a boring strategy meeting by fashioning quick, fun strategic planning exercises and activities: Create a competition.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

Unless the people on the other side of the table feel they are on equal footing, though, it will likely take several reiterations for team members to trust this opening. Take Action: Want to make strides toward opening the way for your team to deliver bad or challenging news? What is your most compelling message?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For as much as we share about the Brainzooming approach to strategy, creativity, and innovation, I still frequently get the question, “What is it The Brainzooming group does?”. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. My sales force is stuck in old ways of selling, and I have to change how we do things. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. We’ll see if they take the advice. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

“Can we start by acknowledging that golf is a really bad spectator sport. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! .” – Jill Rowley, Social Selling. “Nine a.m.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

When times are bad, they underinvest because of a lack of resources and more pressing priorities. Imagine a business unit of a tech company organizing a hackathon to find new ideas that help them deliver new solutions, while the HR department organizes training on creative skills. Download a pdf of this article.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Click here to download the full case study between Intesa Sanpaolo and Qmarkets! . How to Harness both Internal and External Innovation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. You can download the full case study of Qmarkets' project for the Intesa Sanpaolo Card here. How to Harness both Internal and External Innovation.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). Atomic habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.

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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. As regular Brainzooming readers understand, we’re proponents for using structure (instead of blank pieces of paper) to make it easy for any employee to successfully contribute to developing strategy.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if every employee believed to be creative? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? You could start with bootcamps – a great way of developing new concepts in a short time. What if no staff was required?

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if every employee believed to be creative? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? You could start with bootcamps – a great way of developing new concepts in a short time. What if no staff was required?

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

Tech companies benefit greatly from holding hackathons for its developers where they have to think outside the box and prove their mettle under time and problem constraints. "It HR managers should advise team leads to gauge the competency of their team members before putting in requests for urgent hires. “If

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Click here to download the full case study between Intesa Sanpaolo and Qmarkets! . How to Harness both Internal and External Innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 24, 2009

Download them individually here, or get them all with the Boxes and Arrows iTunes feed. In this presentation, Dominic La Cava , Senior Information Architect at Vanguard, and Kellie Rae Carter UX researcher at Comcast Interactive Media, demonstrate how one design team incorporated game techniques into a redesign project.

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