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APRIL 7, 2024

We specialize in B2B strategic marketing, B2B analyst and influencer relations, and B2B thought leadership marketing putting your brand in front of active B2B buyers, analysts and influencers worldwide – Explore membership today ! In this edition, we speak with Paul Mehraban , CEO and Founder, Mehraban Advisory Group, LLC.

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Brunner

JULY 26, 2023

But simply churning out random blog articles or social media posts without a clear direction in mind can lead to chaos, wasted time, and lackluster results. At Brunner, we think of content strategy as the foundational guide for creating, distributing, and managing strategic content to meet specific business and marketing goals.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

The team was wrestling with a concern voiced by the organization’s senior leader that its complete innovation portfolio wasn’t capable of yielding the financial impact he is seeking. They were feeling a need to scramble. However, that would have entailed veering from their well-considered implementation plans.

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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. I understand that perspective on how a strategic planning process should play out.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. Right around the corner are threats or opportunities, depending on how you respond. Remote work , lean budgets , and the need for contingency plans are three big trends impacting the industry. percent in the U.S.,

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2022

Are we having an impact in the field? After all, web analytics can only tell us so much—to make a difference for our readers, we need to hear your perspectives to help guide our work. You need help. . Who comprises our audience? Are we communicating in formats that our audience wants? What we learned.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

No matter that the questions, you can prepare yourselves ahead of time without disrupting the business. However, the real question that arises is how can you keep yourself in a scenario where your business is not affected by the recession? Furthermore, how can you turn this major challenge into an opportunity to improve and grow.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

They execute to their own understanding and often the innovations end up as not strategically aligned. That is plainly wrong, not knowing the strategic objectives it is one of the principle causes of innovation failure and requires fixing. This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We just created twenty-five year roadmaps for a client’s strategic planning process in two hours and forty-five minutes. How do we eliminate so much time from typical strategic planning process approaches? 11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process. Start to finish, UNDER THREE HOURS.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

All businesses aim to create a successful product or service that will sell and meet customer expectations. This is possible when a company works diligently to validate a need in the market. However, many companies have difficulty making progress because they do not have well established KPIs to track. How to Use KPI Metrics.

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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. Are differentiated relative to competitors.

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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.

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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?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 3, 2018

The challenge is doing more than just sending out a plan and expecting people to naturally understand the organization’s direction. What can a senior leader do to share personal perspectives and expectations to facilitate stronger strategy implementation in an organization? How do they need to change?

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 13, 2023

Below, Nisha shares how CommonSpirit is addressing the drivers of health, and leveraging a key component of business model success outlined in You Are What You Treat : the partnership ecosystem. Below are some examples of how we do that in practice. Dean Institute for Humankindness & Health Justice, for their support.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. Whether strategic planning is months away or close at hand, however, it’s always smart to get a head start tackling big strategic thinking questions that warrant in-depth consideration.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

“Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured ideas keeping executives focused on strategic priorities during strategic planning meetings. An executive reported a real-time challenge: keeping the senior team at her company focused on strategic priorities.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 17, 2017

I was talking with a friend about how we approach developing a strategic planning process for a client. The statement does a great job of describing the brand impact we strive to create with a strategic planning process: Getting smart work done while expanding creative thinking more quickly than anyone imagined possible.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Are you a direction setter? They help ensure that it’s clear where fresh ideas and breakthrough projects are needed most. They work hard to create a compelling vision of the future. Creating a compelling vision of the future starts with purpose. Direction setters create clarity and frame priorities.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 14, 2017

Meeting with a client to design a visioning session for its upcoming strategic planning activities, I prepared several pages of options. The possibilities included many different directions we could incorporate within their strategic planning process. You do not always have as much flexibility we did in this situation.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? Have you identified what is coming in your business environment and have you prepared for it? Do you have a roadmap for its short- and longer-term implications?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2017

If you are doing strategic planning activities for a support function within a matrix organization , you can face challenges deciding what the plan should emphasize. It’s easy to focus on creating important capabilities for the functional area (i.e., Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team!

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 6, 2023

How can you harness its potential and translate it into tangible outcomes? While these are undoubtedly elements of innovation, they do not encompass its full scope. In truth, most organizations do not need to create “breakthrough” innovation. They don’t need to invent new technology or business models.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

In nearly every instance, we spend time with a prospective client discussing three aspects of their strategic planning process needs : What they think they want to achieve. What they need to achieve. Do you see your organization in any of these three current conversations we are having with prospective clients?

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Planview

AUGUST 7, 2023

This is part two in a series of blogs on decision making in the era of financial constraints. In some cases, they are making cuts without sufficient information to understand the impact of those cuts. In some cases, they are making cuts without sufficient information to understand the impact of those cuts. Let’s dive in.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

When do you start thinking about your organization’s strategic planning process ? Have you started thinking about it yet for next year? In the corporate world, I used to start planning for planning in April. 12 Questions for Jump starting Your Strategic Planning Process Early.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reading responses about the strategic planning challenges faced by executives downloading our eBooks suggests a variety of strong blog topics. One challenge mentioned recently is how one organization’s previous strategic planning processes did not work. Sometimes the gap was about the planning itself.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Stating that businesses are forced to do more with less and that many are finding better, simpler, less expensive, and faster ways to operate. Strategically deciding to innovate. At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Shaping the next normal.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Instead of playing catch up, you can become a front-runner and turn your business into a leader within your field. However, by breaking down those common misconceptions, you and your team can begin to build a growth and innovation strategy that will sustain your business for years to come. Creativity is all about potential.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We also don’t know how AI will impact the need for humans to tap even more into the defining trait of our species, our human creativity. In an experiment, participants using GPT-4 for creative product innovation outperformed the control group (those who completed the task without using GPT-4) by 40%.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this hypercompetitive world, you can expect your competitors to strike back just as fast and as hard as you can. These action and reaction forces mean that you need to be at least one step ahead as you plan a series of second acts to maintain your lead. Constant tension and pull create motivation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

How do you gain the best advantage from the expertise, experience, and ideas inside your organization as you pursue strategic planning? Creating Strategic Impact mini-book. You can listen to the full episode here. 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Talking with a client team about facilitating its strategic planning process , we discussed why completed strategic plans sit on shelves. I think an important reason is when a strategic planning process focuses on the wrong issues. A Strategic Planning Process Focused on the Wrong Issues.

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