BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

While everyone hopes these meetings are smart, strategic, and have a meaningful impact on the business , that rarely seems to be the case. 12 Reasons Budget Meetings Aren’t Strategic. Too often, budget meetings aren’t strategic. They are handled out of context strategically , looking at the business by department instead of by initiative. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles.

Meeting 94

Meeting eBook Exercises Strategic Management 94

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

Talking to executives, you hear the expectation that an organization should implement a solid strategic plan strategy-by-strategy. To the extent a strategic plan is not implemented in that way, it falls short in some fashion. This goes along with the idea that if you never remove the big strategic planning notebook from your office shelf, it is a complete failure: you might as well not even do a strategic plan. More effectively creates alignment in strategic thinking.

Collaboration 73

Collaboration Exercises Strategic Management Engagement 73

BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

Are you involved with the strategic planning process for your organization? That could involve leading it, participating in it, or trying to influence the strategic planning process so it delivers more value and better results for the organization? 7 Strategic Planning Process Challenges You Can Fix! Typical complaints about a strategic planning process. If you have a role in strategic planning, do any of these describe your situation?

eBook 83

eBook Exercises Strategic Management Leadership 83

BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

What can you expect from a strategic planning process ? As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process. That question was the topic of several recent conversations.

Exercises 69

Exercises Strategic Management Resources Strategic Thinking 69

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Every executive dreads strategic planning. While a strategic planning process may promise to deliver real objectives and tactics, it often never happens as promised. That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun.

Exercises 41

Exercises Meeting Strategic Management Creative Thinking 41

BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2017

These are just a few of the ways your strategic planning process can produce a plan that is disconnected from your organization. When that happens, you wind up with a strategic plan that sits on the shelves of your employees, as they go back to doing what they were doing before you interrupted their daily fire fighting with a strategic planning process. Your strategic planning process does not have to fall into this trap.

Exercises 72

Exercises Strategic Management Strategic Thinking Resources 72

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass. A Narrow Strategic Planning Process. A Broad Strategic Planning Process.

Guidelines 89

Guidelines eBook Exercises Agile 89