BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2017

The topic is about engaging your internal brand team and delivering on a great customer experience strategy. This Brainzooming branding keynote is built around eight questions for senior executives to ask themselves about how they are preparing their teams to help shape brand strategy and deliver incredible experiences to customers.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2016

That is where visioning exercises that employ a collaborative approach come into play. Collaboratively develop new strategies that effectively guide your team today and into the future. Download “Big Strategy Statements” and get started evaluating, modifying, or reworking the big strategy statements guiding your organization.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2018

An executive responsible for strategy planning who was downloading our eBook on 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas posed an important question: How can you successfully identify and try new ways to get internal groups working together on strategic planning? 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! The New Important – Strategy in a Pandemic-Shaped World. Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. Make sure your strategy is addressing typically overlooked opportunities and threats.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The more typical adjectives that come to mind when you think about strategy planning in your organization likely include: Tedious. Do those words sound more like familiar adjectives for the strategy planning you have participated in previously? That is why we developed a new strategy planning resource just for you ! Cumbersome.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. We spent time together seeing “Mess Wright’s Dallas” and attending the Social Media Strategies Summit. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. Additionally, she’s been editing our eBooks this year.

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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. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. – Mike Brown.

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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

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. Download Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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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. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We were discussing our approach for developing a specific business strategy. After completing their strategic plan a few months earlier, we’re now fleshing out a successful implementation strategy for an initiative they spelled out in the plan. Designing Strategic Planning with Your Implementation Strategy in Mind.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. In these cases, a critical question arises: How do you open branding strategy development to other partner organizations to create a seamless implementation process?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any length of time, you know we’re huge proponents of collaborative strategic planning. Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Off the top of my head, I suggested the following strategy to strengthen the consistency of their customer experience strategy.

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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

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. They could also take the outside-in innovation strategy approach we wrote about recently: look at other testing situations ripe for speeding up and solve those. The reason why?

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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

JULY 20, 2016

Facing a major goal when seems you have is too few resources CAN BE an incredible inspiration for your organization’s innovation strategy. Because of this, he saw difficult and resource-scarce times as the BEST opportunity for creativity and moving ahead with a bold innovation strategy. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Many executives perceive developing strategy as a long, slow process. In fact, senior executives that contact The Brainzooming Group for help in developing strategy often do so because previous strategic planning efforts drug on for almost a year. To our way of thinking, it is less about quick strategy questions. Innovation.

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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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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. The room configurations don’t allow for people to move around and collaborate with each other.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 31, 2017

Suppose you are on the hook to put together a team meeting or workshop to develop a strategy. Is there something or some place you can go to get ideas on how to develop a strategy workshop? Strategic Planning Process – Ideas for a Workshop to Develop Strategy. 12 Reasons Why Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration .

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2017

In these situations, what implementation strategy makes sense for your business ? We concentrate on suggesting ideas to develop a solid implementation strategy that works for your organization during uncertain times. Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times. Do you: Speculate on riskier new opportunities?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I stopped by the grocery store to use the ATM the other morning before leaving for New York to deliver a content marketing strategy workshop today at the Social Media Strategies Summit. Finding nothing even remotely appealing, I headed for the door, not expecting to witness a solid customer experience strategy lesson.

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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If this sounds like your situation (and we know, based on searches many of you are using to peruse Brainzooming strategic planning content, that at least SOME of you are facing this challenge), then the new eBook from The Brainzooming Group is the answer: Right Now! FREE eBook: 29 Ideas to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process Right Now!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

Romano shared an important insight into the challenge of developing strategic thinking exercises to envision future strategy: “Until you drive an EV, you are colored by 135 years of going to the gas station. 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. What does your future strategy hold?

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