BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How, if you are facing this situation, can you initiate a conversation with strategic thinking questions safe enough to raise the issue? 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

At an Idea Magnets workshop, we shared a strategic thinking exercise we call Rock-Paper-Scissors. In the post-workshop evaluation, one attendee asked about extending this strategic thinking exercise to identify things you aren’t currently doing that you should be doing. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Sometimes it is very clear what an organization’s threats and opportunities are when performing a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). We use strategic thinking exercises and questions as “detours” around organizational thinking that is in a rut. An Old AND New SWOT Analysis Example.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Looking for Fresh Insights to Drive Strategy? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. We are further along and can even more easily customize these strategic thinking exercises to your needs if you face comparable situations. The result?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

The article inspired a laundry list of strategic thinking exercise prompts to re-imagine a threatened business model when your service offering is under assault from online offerings, bots, or some other form of complete automation. A New Strategic Thinking Exercise. Branding and Marketing. Innovation. Extreme Creativity.

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BrainZooming

JULY 24, 2017

More often, however, it seems great ideas come along with a variety of other things that are not going to add tremendous value to creating great strategy. That’s when having the strategic thinking skills to extract the great ideas from everything else is so vital to them seeing the light of day and getting the consideration they deserve.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Outrageous.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises. Challenge your thinking about what parts of your strategy are obsolete, opinion-based, and open to serious objections. and it’s FREE!

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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

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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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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. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

Do your organization’s strategic planning meetings turn into annual snoozefests ? 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. 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now!

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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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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 Results eBook makes our case for collaborative strategy planning among your organization’s employees (and even, in many cases, your customers).

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CMOE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Maybe your strategy was successful, and perhaps it didn’t pan out, but you certainly faced unexpected challenges and victories that you didn’t plan for. Learning from the Year Reflecting on the past year helps set the foundation for setting goals and adapting strategies in the coming year.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 16, 2018

This is a new slide for a two-day innovation strategy workshop we’ll be presenting this week in Los Angeles. While the slide is new, the appearance of all of these excuses (and more) for not advancing with an innovation strategy are anything but new. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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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

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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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This partnership will combine the extensive functionality of the Qmarkets platform with the expertise and services of RevelX’s team of growth entrepreneurs, to power the innovation efforts and strategies of companies around the world. About RevelX We are a strategic innovation professional services firm. That is our playing field.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2016

When you’re first launching some type of innovation initiative , what is the most important innovation strategy question to ask? What do you think? If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any amount of time, you probably know we think “C” is the most important first innovation strategy question to ask.

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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. 5 Ways to Boost Your Innovation Strategy’s Efficiency.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

Another application of AI is the analysis of communication patterns within an organization. These digital coaches can offer personalized guidance and training on a range of topics, from communication skills and empathy to strategic thinking and goal-setting.

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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?”. “I’m an executive that needs a new strategy. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Stimulate fresh thinking. Can you help?”

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. Less than five minutes. And it tastes darn good.

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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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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

For the past decades, companies have been defining their strategy following a traditional approach: On the one hand, they analyzed trends, selected the most relevant ones, and designed their strategy based on a “clear view of the future”. The strategy becomes a portfolio of different, coordinated business models.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What are basic brand strategy moves to quickly take an older brand into today’s market? An “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence looked at this brand strategy question last month. The Depeche Mode update involves multiple brand strategies: Involving a new producer and tech music luminaries.

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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. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

In this time of non-linear transformation, the ultimate winners will be those agile companies that are thinking now about their near-term survival AND their long-term advantage. A ‘dual-path’ strategy includes both ‘Today-for-Today’ and ‘Today-for-Tomorrow’ strategies that require new methods and tools to create.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Trait IQ EQ Nature Cognitive Emotional Focus Problem-solving Interpersonal skills Stability Relatively static Can be developed Leaders with high IQ may excel in strategic thinking and technical skills, but those with high EQ are often better at inspiring, motivating, and connecting with their teams.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. That continues to surprise me, since I’d expect everyone is focused on implementing strategies at this point. 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This partnership will combine the extensive functionality of the Qmarkets platform with the expertise and services of RevelX’s team of growth entrepreneurs, to power the innovation efforts and strategies of companies around the world. About RevelX We are a strategic innovation professional services firm. That is our playing field.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Inspired by an article in The Wall Street Journal by professor Scott Galloway, they lay out five strategic imperatives Amazon uses to disrupt markets and grow. The Amazon Strategy DNA. Working from Galloway’s analysis, let’s look at how to incorporate a strain of the Amazon strategic success DNA into your own strategy development.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When crises arise, strategic plans are often affected dramatically. As they respond to the situation at hand, leaders understand that they have to keep the overarching business strategy in mind to ensure continued success—in the day-to-day work and in the future. Instead, the creation of strategy must be ongoing.

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