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. What’s even better about these four strategic thinking questions?
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? In an a mid-August 2017 article in The Wall Street Journal , Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, Inc., 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.
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BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
That’s why instead of typing out nine strategic thinking questions from various business conversations (and contemplations) so far this week, I decided to Sharpie marker and share them with you in this image. These are strategic thinking questions our clients are asking. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.
BrainZooming
MARCH 9, 2017
What could you do to your boring office so you and others are thinking strategically more readily and effectively? Someone searched and came to the Brainzooming.com website looking for strategic thinking in the office examples. While we have a post on doing thinking strategically without leaving the office , we don’t have anything on how the physical surroundings of an office can boost strategic thinking. Strategic Inputs.
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. 9 Strategic Thinking Skills to Create Clarity for Great Ideas. Do you stand out at these strategic thinking skills?
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. 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. Using today as a starting point, reimagine specific strategic aspects, one at a time, to initiate the conversation. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?
BrainZooming
MARCH 30, 2017
Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization. Developing an Agile Strategy.
BrainZooming
MAY 8, 2017
Or you receive confirmation from a speaker that what you have been thinking is right (or pretty close to right), and you can take that back to the office and tell the boss. A Strategic Thinking Framework Is Better than an Answer, Really! Instead, I include lots of strategic thinking frameworks for decision making. While these strategic thinking frameworks aren’t answers, they allow you to quickly develop answers even in areas where you lack experience.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 1, 2017
Matt Britton, a millennial generation expert , spoke about the anticipating the Class of 2025 as the keynote speaker on the closing day of the October 2017 Social Media Strategies Summit in New York. His keynote got us thinking about how today’s ten-year-olds (the Class of 2025) will change the landscape for brands, following in the wake of the impact millennials have created. A Future-Looking Strategic Thinking Experiment. Old Hat, Old Thinking, or Both?
BrainZooming
JULY 18, 2017
5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Answer Before Making a Decision. Here are five strategic thinking questions you should identify well before you are on the verge of making a decision: Who owns making the decision? If you answer those strategic thinking questions early, your decision making will likely be more simple, clear, and streamlined. 9 ideas for introducing your strategic plan with style and impact to engage your organization.
BrainZooming
APRIL 12, 2017
My dad was a huge believer in The Power of Positive Thinking. I think that book, by Norman Vincent Peale (affiliate link) was the first self-help book he tried to get me to read. For some reason, I particularly resisted The Power of Positive Thinking , although I’m hard pressed to say why. For whatever reason, though, I do not think I ever read the book in its entirety. The Power of Positive Thinking Plus Strategic Thinking Questions.
BrainZooming
AUGUST 15, 2017
We mentioned how frequently we’re being asked to incorporate uncertainty into Brainzooming creativity and strategic thinking presentations. We have considerable content on moving forward amid uncertainty (including the 4 Strategies for Implementing in Uncertain Times eBook), and we’re developing additional strategic thinking pieces on uncertainty and flexibility. What’s Your Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times?
BrainZooming
JANUARY 16, 2018
Before an impending purge of The Wall Street Journal back issues in my office, I reviewed an article from a late December 2017 issue: The New Age of Bespoke Travel. 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.
Idea Drop
JULY 20, 2017
There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. There are many possible definitions for these two modes of thought, but practically you can think of them in terms of the following principles… The key principles of creative thinking Take your time: a creative thought can strike any time, day or night.
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. Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. A 5-Step Innovation Strategy Formula.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action. Here are five strategic thinking skills you can employ in comparable group situations: Listen for verbs. If you can find agreement there, it’s a powerful combination: the leader picking up on a more marginal player’s strategic thinking.
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. Is there a legitimate basis for the C-Suite challenge to their innovation strategy? Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 27, 2017
Most organizations are seeking solutions to the necessary connections between Strategy and Innovation. Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Yet how often do we fail to connect the innovation’s we design and execute specifically aligned to the strategic need? Strategic intent informs innovation. Strategy informs”.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 26, 2017
We added supporting links on many of the points and wanted to share the ideas with you: Leadership Skills – 15 Ideas for Innovative Leadership in 2017. ” The article shares the thinking of ninety-six global business leaders on a variety of leadership skills. We wanted to highlight specific questions, recommendations, and challenges that seem particularly pertinent for leading strategically and innovatively in the year ahead.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 31, 2017
Suppose you are on the hook to put together a team meeting or workshop to develop a strategy. Maybe you have done something similar before, or maybe you have never led a strategic planning process. Is there something or some place you can go to get ideas on how to develop a strategy workshop? Since this was a recent search topic here, we are sharing our recommendations for ideas on coordinating a strategic planning process workshop. Engaging a Team to Develop Strategy.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? We were working with an organization on its future vision while facilitating its strategic planning process. 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.
BrainZooming
JULY 5, 2017
I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons.
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. We provided strategic thinking questions of their own to use, including: “That’s great and how can we do that _?”
BrainZooming
AUGUST 7, 2017
It made me think of the phrase “too big to fail.” A similar phenomenon applies to brand strategy. You may think your brand is strong and ready to withstand anything that might come its way. 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.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Just as you must tear away wrapping paper to get to the great gift inside, you must tear away conventional wisdom that stands in the way of innovative strategies.
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. Let’s suspend judgement and see the innovation strategy decisions certain pharma players are introducing to motivate taking risks.
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. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.
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. In case you missed any Brainzooming strategy planning eBooks, here are seven to jump start your strategic planning exercises and better engage your team in shaping your organization’s direction. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download). That doesn’t mean you turn over strategy setting.
BrainZooming
MAY 31, 2017
Are your employees celebrities within your branding strategy activities? I’m asking about whether you feature your employees within your branding strategy in ways that allow them to attract attention and accolades for how great it is to have them as part of your brand? These duties would give customers exposure to smart, strategic, and dynamic team members they might never typically know. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.
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. Decompose the vision into strategic dimensions. Prioritize strategies moving toward the vision. Your organization has a vision statement. Congratulations!
BrainZooming
MARCH 2, 2017
What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? That this is taking place during a period when many companies are IMPLEMENTING strategies suggests you understand the importance of strategy even beyond initial planning. As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities.
BrainZooming
MAY 24, 2017
The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. Here are ideas the Armada newsletter shared on how to handle confidential information: Business Strategy – How to Handle Confidential Information via Inside the Executive Suite. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. Handling Business Strategy.
BrainZooming
MAY 26, 2017
You need to reduce what your brand delivers, but still put sizzle into your product so consumers think it is an attractive option. Diet Coke Strategy: Translating small to sip-sized. And rather than seeking permission for the change, this branding strategy idea begs forgiveness later – if ever! Diet Coke Strategy: Borrowing “mini” and using it in a maxi fashion across the entire side of the box.
BrainZooming
MAY 11, 2017
Whenever we discuss using questions to foster disruptive innovation strategy , it prompts objections. The point these individuals (who are usually innovation experts that comment on other companies’ content without ever generating any innovation strategy content of their own) make is that a whole variety of factors contribute to disruptive innovation. 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Disrupting Thinking eBook. Marketing strategies.
BrainZooming
MAY 2, 2017
Does your organization excel at its strategy implementation process ? Do you execute new strategies quickly, effectively, and successfully? A few clients we talk with mention a strong strategy execution process. We address their experiences in our collaborative strategy implementation approach. You can’t invite others to collaborate on a strategic plan and later ignore them when you launch it. Fast Forward Your Strategy Implementation Process – Free eBook.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
During this year’s presentations, I’ll be covering both brand strategy (Thursday) and social-first stories (Friday). 9 Areas to Tune-Up Your Brand Strategy for Peak Performance. The branding presentation features a nine-point brand tune-up any business can use to evaluate a variety of the most important aspects of your brand strategy and performance. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact .
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. The consultants we worked with to help us develop our first big strategic marketing plan back in 1997, didn’t provide productive structure to help us. 11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun!
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
How solid is the strategy implementation process at your organization? Some companies move seamlessly from ideas to strategies to execution. Other organizations continually struggle with translating great new product or process improvement strategies into results. Do you have a well-defined strategy implementation process, or is implementation a haphazard activity? You’re going to see more from us on strategy implementation in the coming weeks.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 16, 2017
Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? Identify and develop innovation strategies with a customer perspective. If any of that sounds like what you have in front of you for this year, we invite you to peruse our list of free innovation strategy eBooks and download all of them that will help you be more efficient and effective in the year ahead. 5 Innovation Strategy eBooks from Brainzooming.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 12, 2017
This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence looked at how you focus a distracted organization on an implementation strategy to align and focus activities. Here is a recommendation to make it happen through taking on three different strategic roles. . 3 Roles to Focus a Distracted Organization on Implementation Strategy. A large leadership group shaped a strategic plan with several strategies and accompanying tactics.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 18, 2017
Moving from planning to implementation strategy , it’s easy to focus on the end goal and never look back – or forward beyond launch. That type of focus and momentum helps drive your implementation strategy. 15 Questions to Identify Heads Up People in Your Implementation Strategy. If the plan behind your implementation strategy identifies all the “heads ups” you need, that’s fantastic.
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. Yet when we create new eBooks, our main goal is ensuring the content is heavy on ideas and tools you can apply to improve strategic thinking and implementation in your organization. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises.
BrainZooming
JULY 3, 2017
A common fear about selecting a single target market or audience persona is that focusing on one market when making branding strategy decisions is risky. I can understand why a brand owner may think that. Why Target Marketing Won’t Cripple Your Branding Strategy. Here’s an example of how target marketing helps your branding strategy: From the outside, one suspects Starbucks targets only a coffee drinking audience.
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