BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Applying this Strategic Thinking Exercise Broadly. This is a great example of a simple strategic thinking exercise to speed and sharpen decision making.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. First though, a little background. What’s an Examination of Conscience?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

AI offers the ability to process vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and provide insights that are beyond the capability of human analysis. Accelerated Development Cycles : By automating routine tasks and providing real-time data analysis, AI reduces the time spent on each phase, allowing for quicker progression through the gates.

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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. The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download). The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. Importance of Executive Team Offsites Executive team offsites offer a unique opportunity to disconnect from routine pressures and foster a creative environment for high-level strategic discussions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In business, you’re usually equal parts discovering problems AND using creative problem solving to address the issues. They wanted to leave the creative problem solving for later. Trying Painstorming Before Creative Problem Solving. The innovation opportunity in this example? The client dubbed this a painstorming process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Encouraging creativity and experimentation among your team members can lead to breakthroughs that keep your company on the cutting edge.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

About RevelX We are a strategic innovation professional services firm. We excel at disruptive creativity, rigorous analysis and disciplined execution. We add strategic thinking and execution power to your team. Discovering and maximizing opportunities for growth through innovation. That is our playing field.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

Emma Gibson forwarded an article from Harvard Business Review addressing four factors that distinguish top chief executive performers in creating strategic impact. In “What Sets Successful CEOs Apart,” authors Elena Lytkina Botelho, Kim Rosenkoetter Powell, Stephen Kincaid, and Dina Wang reported their analysis of several thousand CEOs.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

If you don’t have 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning, get your copy today ! Related posts Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a SWOT Analysis Nobody Expects Creative Ideas – 5 Authors’ Perspectives for Defeating “Enemies of Invention” 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Aggressive data mining and analysis to create focus.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 11, 2022

About RevelX We are a strategic innovation professional services firm. We excel at disruptive creativity, rigorous analysis and disciplined execution. We add strategic thinking and execution power to your team. Discovering and maximizing opportunities for growth through innovation. That is our playing field.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 16, 2018

If these excuses (or the idea of struggling to get an innovation strategy going and producing results) sound familiar in your organization, you need to complete a quick, ten-question analysis to determine how your innovation strategy stacks up. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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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. After securing individual responses, use a group strategic conversation to settle on the future strategic planning vision. Develop an analysis of future trends.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To help leaders reset the strategy, provide team members with direction, model a strategic mindset, and inspire new levels of strategic thinking across the organization, leaders must look at the crisis from two perspectives: evaluating the situation and reimagining the future. Instead, the creation of strategy must be ongoing.

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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

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. Short story, on the client side, I found that getting the right strategy consistently led to getting the creative right. Our approach and experience will deliver solid strategy.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? It can be especially effective to conduct a PESTLED analysis on both a global level and a regional level, and to identify the key legal, political, and demographic drivers of each. Using PESTLED to Build Scenarios.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Invariably, executives are seeking information on strategic thinking exercises suited to making strategic planning participants more effective and successful.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 13, 2016

In Henry Mintzberg’s 1994 landmark book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, the author calls for a new method to create effective strategies. He notes that, “Strategic planning isn’t strategic thinking. One is analysis, the other is synthesis.”

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Strategic Thinking Exercises: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis” features eleven ideas for adapting, stretching, and reinvigorating how you see your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Mike Brown. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 26, 2023

Empowered Decision-Making Through Predictive Analysis One of the most transformative impacts of AI on leadership is the shift towards data-driven decision-making. They can spend more time on strategic thinking, problem-solving, and nurturing relationships, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

An innovation keynote speaker brings a forward-thinking perspective and stimulates a culture of creativity and progressive ideas within organizations. The focus on innovation encourages attendees to think outside the box, embrace new challenges, and seek cutting-edge solutions in their professional roles.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Strategic Thinking Exercises: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis” features eleven ideas for adapting, stretching, and reinvigorating how you see your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you’re developing an innovation strategy initiative inside your company, is your primary focus on bringing executives together in a creative way to imagine new ideas? That’s the focus some companies get enamored with based on innovation training that puts creativity front and center as the key to jump starting innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

Companies need to have a ‘dual-path’ for their strategic thinking and efforts that include both. In these strategic efforts, it is critical to focus on the day-to-day, week-to-week, and month-to-month for near-term survival with a Today-for-Today strategy. It is evidence-based, not data-driven.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

As the manufacturing sector speeds into a world of futuristic tech and disruptive business models, creativity and innovation are becoming critical skills for figuring out how to unlock value strategically. Attracting the most skilled talent has already become a strategic focus for future-forward companies.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Look at opportunities and challenges from multiple perspectives in shorter bursts of time to generate more diverse thinking. Have clear times for coming up with new ideas, protecting divergent thinking from extensive explanations or analysis. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is training employees to conduct thorough post-R&D analysis. Do you back up communication about the value of risk taking with obvious support and encouragement when individuals and teams pursue new ideas that fail to come to fruition? Failing and Learning.

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