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4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy

BrainZooming

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? Understanding this change, however, is challenging when your perspective hasn’t broken from the past. 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy.

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Creative vs. Strategic Thinking: What’s The Difference?

Idea Drop

If the conditions are right, meaningful change can evolve from the smallest seed of inspiration; an observation, a discussion, or even just an interesting question. 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’.

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

BrainZooming

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. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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Innovation Strategy – 40 Articles on Fostering an Innovative Workplace Culture

BrainZooming

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. 4 Encourages Change.

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

BrainZooming

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic thinking about a new initiative. Those are six starting places to use when you are doing strategic thinking about big lists. The thing is, they had done the hard strategic thinking and already had all the raw material they needed.

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Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

Problems such as climate change, health care, and social inequality that not only transcend sectoral barriers but leverage the unique strengths of those involved in resources can create more innovative and effective solutions.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

Until we have practices that go beyond brainstorming on the one hand or simply tweaking a new product development process on the other, we will never arrive at the promised land of strategic innovation. Instead of efficiency, we strive for originality, for what will change the game.