BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. Rather than starting by pushing your management team all the way out to a wildly reimagined future, start with where you are now. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Mike Brown. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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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 +. This Brainzooming eBook will help identify additional possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jump start your innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Innovation Strategy – 6 Ideas Better than “Clean Sheet of Paper” Creativity. 9 Extreme Creativity Questions from Peter’s Laws. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Innovation Strategy – 4 Change Management Struggles at Disney.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

The Brainzooming Group has you covered, with eBooks to: Evaluate innovation opportunities and challenges. If any of that sounds like what you have in front of you for this year, we invite you to peruse our list of free innovation strategy eBooks and download all of them that will help you be more efficient and effective in the year ahead.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The NEW sign to point out the new stop sign is a wonderful reminder of something that is easy to overlook in a change management strategy. 6 Questions to Highlight the New from Change Management Strategy. How do you identify opportunities to ensure your change management strategy and support for high performance align ?

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you’re in charge of a company or a significant business unit or department, are you actively managing gender diversity ? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. These questions are real.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The Brainzooming Results eBook . 5 Questions to Move Creative Thinking into Action. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results! Making a Decision – 7 Situations Begging for Quick Decisions . Prioritizing with Pain.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Download this free, concise ebook to: Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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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. What is Collective Creativity?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” This free Brainzooming eBook highlights ten common organizational innovation barriers. Do you need a quick evaluation to understand your organization’s innovation challenges so you can create a strategy to boost new ideas and successful implementation?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Employ extreme creativity and disruptive innovation-oriented questions to push your strategic planning vision exercise in bold, future directions. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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Planview

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Based in Cedar Park, Texas, Barron creates a wide variety of creative assets and works with Planview’s team of contract designers. Anybody from sales to marketing comes to me with a creative request like an ad for social media, a presentation, or a piece of collateral like an ebook. How do you manage your work/life balance?

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is your organization reaching its true creative potential? We compiled eight of them in a free ebook you can receive here. The tools for managing innovation can also hinder creativity by being either too simplistic, like a google form to submit an idea, or too process oriented with several bottlenecks.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Our industrial sales force needs training to be stronger at strategic thinking and developing creative solutions. Our brand managers are smart, but they haven’t figured this out yet. Our product team is creative, but they are tapped out right now. The sales team needs to take a new approach to business development.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. What’s the life cycle of creative ideas?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

The Brainzooming eBook 4 Strategies for Implementing in Uncertain Times will help you examine your strategy foundation, insights, profitability drivers, and decision making processes when few things ahead are clear. What’s Your Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times? Things aren’t getting saner and more calm.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Download this FREE eBook to turn ideas into actionable innovation strategies to drive your organization’s comeback! Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

I suggested looking at a version of one of our extreme creativity questions : How can we innovate our processes to test things faster than all our competitors? Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Specifically, how can we test ten products in the time our competitors test two things?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. We sped up the process by assembling a multi-functional team that together had many more great ideas than a single marketing manager. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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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. Help team members who are working on communicating and implementing the plan to perform effectively and creatively. Guidelines. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

Here’s a brief video produced by SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, where I talk about four easy ways for companies to boost creativity in the workplace without taking a lot of time to do it. My favorite expression of creativity at SEMA! 4 Tips to Efficiently Boost Creativity in the Workplace. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

When we started developing our varied extreme creativity questions and exercises to drive bolder business strategy, however, one of the approaches was to actively consider that an organization isn’t going to make choices. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change. Fun Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Last-Minute Creative Ideas. Creative Thinking Exercises – Would you like S, M, L, or XL Creative Ideas? 5 Fun Strategic Planning Activities.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Management team members rate where the organization is now, and where it should be at a future date. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results! Organizational structure. Competitor focus.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 6 Last-Minute Creative Ideas for Fun Strategy Exercises. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.”

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you want to make a profit, you have to learn to manage costs really well. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Take time to have fun and laugh. Sales is a numbers game.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

First and foremost, it was clear from our discussions that you need something that is on target strategically and not just interesting creatively. As it seems everyone in your senior management team recognizes, your brand and messaging is tailored currently to a narrower audience.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2017

I met Adrian Martinez at an internal management meeting for our client, LeSaint Logistics. Adrian has incredible creative thinking skills. How was I so sure about his creative thinking skills ? He is a manager with LeSaint, and he faced a challenge. Cutting a hole in the wall is a move rooted in extreme creativity.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

What’s the project management answer to addressing this tendency among teams and team members? The acronym represents someone we’re always looking for in project management to make sure we will make progress. The DRI concept, however, obviously extends into all project management situations.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Andrew Beaton addressed the topic of college football coaches forsaking their CEO-like management roles to create game plans, call plays, and behave like traditional coaches. He shares four pieces of advice for teachers (that can extend to leaders and managers): Don’t over-teach to a specific standard.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. How innovative do you want us to be? The easy answer is to say you are looking for big ideas. Marketing strategies.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week. These creative leaders recognize constraints but turn their attention to the available resources that are plentiful and can always be grown. Creativity. The topic was how to handle uncertain times successfully. Affiliating with Others. Enthusiasm.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

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. Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. Topics ranged from entrepreneurship to leading creative teams, from being cognizant of one’s news sources and information suppliers to the factors that make up a creative mindset.

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