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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

The clarity and directness of this strategic challenge prompted me to assemble this list of organizational change articles focused on these three areas. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas. New Business Ideas and a Creative Block in Your Organization.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges.

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Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Cheerleading for creativity in business isn’t difficult. Yet, you see people, departments, and organizations where overtly expressing creative appreciation doesn’t happen naturally – or happen at all. It could be nobody realized it is good business and good manners to appreciate creativity in business. A clever idea.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare.

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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How to Develop Your Idea to Become the Next Big Thing Using Kanban System?

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

The Kanban system is a visualization strategy that helps you manage innovative development projects. Kanban can help you eliminate bottlenecks and pain points across your processes , which are likely limiting your team’s creative productivity. Timely Manufacturing and Post Production Campaigns.

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The Best Time to Engage Your Audience in Collaborative Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

There are other questions you can ask, but once the strategy recommendation is complete, you don’t want to waste time opening doors to non-productive strategy options. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. – Mike Brown. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential. I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. A description of a job role isn’t identical to the description of how an individual or group can contribute to solid, dynamic, and innovative strategic thinking.

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise.

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Following our post on the tenth anniversary of the Brainzooming strategic planning methodology , the guys at Armada Corporate Intelligence , who were an important part of developing and testing the process, wrote a companion article. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it.

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

All the Strategy Roles You Need. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Innovative Ideas from Experts. 6 Strategies – Innovative Business Ideas to Stay Ahead of Customer Needs. Enjoy this article? In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. What’s it like?

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Who Should Facilitate Strategic Planning? 10 Vital Characteristics

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Have a strong grounding in business, creative, innovation, and strategic principles. Want to have someone outside your company make your strategic planning work for you in a creative, mentally stimulating and result-oriented way? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Have adequate time to prepare to facilitate.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises

BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We review the importance of including front-line decision makers, functional experts, and individuals with creative perspectives. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

What are Wild and creative ideas our competitors or other relevant companies are doing that we need to consider? Creating Strategic Impact” The Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” highlights ten proven lessons leaders can use to develop collaborative strategy and results for next year.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis

5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Related posts Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

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10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The previous Brainzooming article was on listening for strategic insights in order to not waste strategic conversations. Along with introducing these questions to steer strategic conversations, apply the listening routine from the previous article to identify the right snippets you’ll need to turn strategic conversations into strategic plans.

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Branding Strategy – The Best Brand Promise EVER

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Strategic Thinking – 16 Ideas for Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment Inside Your Company

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

Ask them to provide concrete examples of when they devised creative solutions. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

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Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas

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How to Develop Your Idea to Become the Next Big Thing Using Kanban System?

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

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