BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

We turn to extreme creativity questions to help clients imagine big ideas. It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. Here are five of them: 1.

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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

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

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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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. That doesn’t mean you turn over strategy setting.

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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 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 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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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?

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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. 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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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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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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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? NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2017

We say it so often, particularly during brand strategy workshops : a brand is more than a logo, a color, and a look. A brand encompasses the people, products, services, messages, promises, and reinforcing cues that create a complete customer experience strategy. 4 Customer Experience Strategy Questions Strong Branding Addresses.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? The Brainzooming Group has you covered, with eBooks to: Evaluate innovation opportunities and challenges. Identify and develop innovation strategies with a customer perspective. 5 Innovation Strategy eBooks from Brainzooming.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? 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. Make sure your strategy is addressing typically overlooked opportunities and threats.

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

If that’s the case, your task is to start turning the vision statement into strategy to drive and align activities consistent with it. 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy. Here are five ideas The Brainzooming Group uses to help clients when turning a vision statement into strategy. – Mike Brown.

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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. 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Reviewing the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies issue suggested fourteen potential innovation themes based on the strategies the magazine reported. Related posts Innovation Strategy – 5 eBooks to Boost Innovation this Year 10 Signs to Invest in Your Brand’s Innovation Strategy – Right Now!

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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. 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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. Using these creative thinking exercises, we pushed them to forget (temporarily) what they have been doing and re-imagine the situation from different perspectives.

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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 +. FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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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. Creative Thinking Skills and Breakthrough Ideas. The strategy works tremendously well.

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. 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? 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. The reason why?

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. This eBook has become a go-to guide for thousands of executives globally to explore fun strategic planning ideas. Then people start dozing off.

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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 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

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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