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

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. We don’t deal with it more frequently because we consciously push in advance for diverse groups to engage in creative thinking and innovation workshops.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 19, 2017

3 Conditions for Explosive Creative Thinking Skills. Reflecting on grain elevators led me to consider explosive creative thinking skills , and the parallels between the two. Achieve intensity by constraining time and creating high expectations for the number of ideas a creative group should imagine. Creativity Goes Boom!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

How about Creative Thinking Questions? To prepare for the in-person planning, Tara forwarded creative thinking questions that looked out from today to more than a decade into the future. 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year. 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year. It was twenty pages of questions.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It was a perfectionist and an innovator’s dream: I WILL BE MISTAKE-FREE NO MATTER WHAT I DO! 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. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We facilitated a follow-up innovation workshop for an industrial client. They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

How about looking out at least to 2020 with an innovation theme to set priorities? While you typically hear about an annual theme as the New Year starts , the point here is different: establish an innovation theme for next year NOW. Selecting Your Organization’s Innovation Theme. Through the next six months? The end of the year?

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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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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

Looking for a quick way to generate tons of innovative ideas? If you need a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry, here’s a mega-simple way of generating them : Select the objective, opportunity, or challenge you are trying to address. Scores of innovative ideas! – Mike Brown. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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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.

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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. 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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

If your organization is like most, your new plan calls for some combination of major innovation, significantly improved processes, strong cost reductions, and dramatic growth in the year ahead. Stronger creative leadership to identify productive tactics, make better (and faster) decisions, and successfully implement with a major impact.

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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. Do you like the idea of working with a partner that designs what it does all around what makes sense for your brand and the innovators you have on your team?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 23, 2016

.” But what if the superpower weren’t fictional, at least when it comes to your ability to envision and implement an innovation strategy ? If you actually had an innovation strategy superpower, which one would you want to wield? Find New Resources to Innovate ! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? If growth is an important component of what you are trying to accomplish, innovation is likely getting a hard look as an important part of realizing that objective. Identify and develop innovation strategies with a customer perspective.

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Planview

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By integrating AI capabilities into VSM practices, businesses can unlock new levels of efficiency, decision-making agility, and continuous innovation. Intelligent automation powered by AI can handle repetitive and mundane tasks, freeing up valuable human capacity for strategic and creative activities that drive innovation and customer value.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The team was wrestling with a concern voiced by the organization’s senior leader that its complete innovation portfolio wasn’t capable of yielding the financial impact he is seeking. via Shutterstock.

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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. What internal policies and procedures should we start ignoring immediately to innovate faster?

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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. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 14, 2016

I was talking with an executive charged with implementing an innovation strategy for a new company initiative. While the business objectives and expectations are lofty, the budget available to fund the innovation strategy has disappeared. Budget dollars disappear, but expectations for innovation and growth remain.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. We can suggest more ways to dial in these strategic thinking questions for your organization’s specific opportunities and challenges. Mike Brown.

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Be-novative

JANUARY 29, 2018

To start deliberately establishing cultural practices, process improvements and the tools necessary to take innovation to the next level, we learned that Collective Creativity, coined by Linda Hill, is the next generation methodology and toolset that delivers fast and valuable breakthroughs for organizations.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The objective was to solicit their innovative ideas for how to create the highest impact in a challenging conference space. With that situation, we wanted to ask plenty of questions and provide plenty of room for them to contribute their experience-based, innovative ideas. Ready to boost your innovation strategy?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

22 Ice Breaker Questions on Disruptive Innovation and Uncertainty. We helped plan a full day event focused on disruptive innovation. The good news here is that looking back through the list, most of these ice breaker questions will work even IF your event isn’t solely tied to disruptive innovation and uncertainty.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

Our immediate need was to identify potential innovation case studies to discover how other companies and industries are innovating in relevant ways. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. What companies are trying to innovate in similar ways to ours? Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 29, 2018

Download our FREE eBook on eleven ideas for fun strategic planning that are not stuffy for work. We released this eBook for the traditional strategic planning season. This fun strategic planning eBook tells how to incorporate surprise, new situations, and toys to bring life to ANY strategy meeting you conduct throughout the year.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

JULY 24, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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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? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To start deliberately establishing cultural practices, process improvements and the tools necessary to take innovation to the next level, we learned that Collective Creativity, coined by Linda Hill, is the next generation methodology and toolset that delivers fast and valuable breakthroughs for organizations. it churns innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Facing Innovation Barriers? Are you facing organizational innovation barriers related to: The fear of change ? Limited innovation perspectives ? Multiple innovation challenges ? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! Here Is Help! Scarce resources ?

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. So, it’s time to announce an innovation program, because that will undoubtedly fill the growth gap facing your brand. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! Who doesn’t love big ideas?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. The engineers are so accustomed to testing EVERYTHING, they routinely shoot down any innovative ideas. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. Looking for Brand Innovation to Grow Your Business? The reason why?

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BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

This early Taking the NO Out of Innovation presentation was at a Chinese restaurant. Michael won the creative kit door prize I gave away. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. And it wasn’t for not having a friendly audience. Somehow, though, none of things saved the presentation!

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