BrainZooming

JULY 9, 2019

She is seeking strategic thinking exercises to include in her organization’s executive committee senior retreat. 12 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Stretch Executive Perspectives. 12 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Stretch Executive Perspectives. Addressing the future: 4 Ways to Envision Strategy for the Future.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. ” Yes, the role is different.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Let’s dive into the pivotal advantages of integrating avatars into your innovation strategy, supplemented by three fun examples illustrating how avatars can be leveraged: Flattening The Hierarchical Landscape Avatars push ranks to the sidelines, spotlighting ideas instead. I help organizations build a sustainable culture of innovation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

Whenever we discuss using questions to foster disruptive innovation strategy , it prompts objections. 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Disrupting Thinking eBook. Marketing strategies. The objections center on the idea that questions do not create disruptive innovation. Risk-taking behavior.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises. The nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises term popped into my head during a Brainzooming client workshop. This new exercise translated its internal brand promise into specific behaviors its five-hundred employees will use to create the experience. Yet, they are vital.

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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. First, detail all the elements of your current service offering.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights on orchestrating successful offsites, consider exploring leading executive team offsites for business strategy , which delves into best practices and effective leadership approaches. Initial activities set the tone for the offsite, so choose exercises that are aligned with the overall objectives of your strategic planning.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. What other companies have similar strategies to ours? Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

We frequently facilitate a strategic thinking exercise that uses a character outside a situation as the perspective. Switching their characteristics unveiled multiple insights about the strategies, decisions, and outcomes related to their interactions. This is different, however. Mike Brown.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. The client is a non-profit focused on healthcare.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? The reason?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. – Mike Brown.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. To further explore the characteristics of high potential leaders, consider reviewing our leadership development strategies for additional insights.

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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

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. We see it with our clients, though.

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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. Benevolence?

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

By guiding leaders through the process of setting SMART goals, AI coaches can help them establish clear objectives and develop strategies to achieve them. AI-powered coaches can guide leaders through exercises that focus on delivering feedback in a constructive and empathetic manner, as well as receiving feedback with an open mind.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’m delivering a workshop at the Social Media Strategies Summit in San Francisco today. It will cover creating a sustainable, social-first content marketing strategy. Angelo has also brought us to Curaçao for content marketing strategy workshops the past two years. Developing an audience persona. Finding the cool in a brand.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

As we mentioned, business people are expending considerable energy preparing for strategy planning meetings. That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Some Work, Some Don’t.

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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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Ankush Chopra

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Do you have a data-driven strategy? I often see organizations with a non-data-driven strategy. For a strategy professional, it may be an oxymoron to say that a strategy is not data driven, but it is not uncommon. When firms let an emergent strategy become a de-facto strategy, it can often be driven without data.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. We can help! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2016

How can you effectively employ visioning exercises in strategic planning that invite your entire organization to contribute their perspectives? 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.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2018

Is your business-to-business brand looking for new product ideas, stronger innovation strategy opportunities, and a bigger impact ? We took that approach when developing an innovation strategy workshop for a B2B manufacturer. How can you orient your innovation strategy to the experiences THEY have? – Mike Brown.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 18, 2021

The Leadership Alignment Workmat provides a unique examination of the executive’s role in innovation, it offer a framework that the leadership of the organization can adopt to ensure linkages and synergies between strategy and innovation, innovation and capabilities, innovation and culture.

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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

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. 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now! Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Suppose however, you are in a strategy session where things are dragging. Go outside.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

Striking the right balance between these two extremes is a tricky exercise for leaders. The author presents five strategies to help you figure out what to say and do when you can’t yet be fully transparent with your employees.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

A similar phenomenon applies to brand strategy. While success can breed success, it can also lead to blindness about the importance of trying to disrupt your brand strategy before something else comes along to topple your brand. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

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. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. If it was off-target, we’d suggest alternative strategic thinking exercises to try.

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