BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The mini-book focuses on the tremendous value when an organization finds ways to strategically solicit employee insights and perspectives to shape its strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning. Switching among so many ways we facilitate community collaboration and learning for organizations keeps us at the top of our game. That is a huge change, and opens the door to some radically different future workshops.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of requiring people complete complex strategic planning templates unrelated to daily business, we use productive interactions to change the strategic planning process from completing complex forms into conversations, events, and experiences people engage in and learn from as they participate.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? If you have questions about the best ways to broaden participation in the earliest stages, be sure to download our Results, mini-book. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Want More Help?

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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.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 2, 2015

When a brand strategy change is planned, what happens first? An earlier “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed this important brand strategy question about how changes are rolled out to the public. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

What do we need to change about the upcoming strategic planning process to make it more effective and efficient? Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

They affiliate up, down, and across the organization; they reach out to all levels and areas to ask questions, listen, synthesize what they learn, and share updates back to all the areas that participate in implementation. #2 2 – They integrate the organization’s energy and activities into the collaborative strategy.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

After identifying these two, we gave each of them a pair of orange, “I am creative” notes to self ® socks and invited them to move to reserved, front row seats to work together and learn from each other during the remainder of the creative thinking workshop! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With those changes, we turned the previous work into a platform to both describe the new initiative and help brainstorm ideas for what new, future programs they could introduce to support it. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. And further divided the list into current and future activities.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With those changes, we turned the previous work into a platform to both describe the new initiative and help brainstorm ideas for what new, future programs they could introduce to support it. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. And further divided the list into current and future activities.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If you are a leader (or even if you’re not a leader) where creativity in business is under appreciated, how about changing things for the better? Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. The way an idea makes another idea better.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Working with five separate groups for an industrial manufacturer changing a major manufacturing process, we identified more than six hundred tactics for the multi-year initiative during a two-day in-person workshop. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

A marketing page is one version of the minimum viable product. Engaging with potential customers, right from the beginning, and learning what they want is an essential skill. Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself.

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