BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy. If you’re interested in reviewing some of the innovation strategy content we shared during the workshop , here are links within three major focus areas: Imagine.

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BrainZooming

MAY 25, 2017

If your creativity ideas have dried up, today is the day to download our FREE ebook, The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. There are links in this eBook for 600 of the most powerful brainstorming and extreme creativity questions we use , including ones specifically tailored for innovation and creative boldness!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. By identifying these traits, organizations can pinpoint the individuals most likely to succeed in roles that require innovative thinking and leadership.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. 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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. By cultivating psychological safety, leaders can establish a fertile ground for creativity and experimentation, which are the lifeblood of innovation.

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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.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Mike Brown.

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Idea Champions

MAY 15, 2019

Here's what three savvy PR professionals at Purple Strategies had to say about Idea Champions' highly engaging brainstorm facilitation training: Conducting Genius. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. In defense of brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Encourage the use of collaborative digital whiteboards or brainstorming tools to facilitate creative and strategic thinking sessions in real-time. Keep exploring our resources, such as virtual team productivity , to discover more strategies for optimizing your virtual team’s performance.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

In this instance, we’re exploring three strategic thinking variables: The Strategic Thinking’s Intended Target. Framing the Thinking Perspectives. Perspectives for Enabling Blue Sky Thinking. The point is to be additive to the current strategy without reopening it to counter-productive strategizing.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When crises arise, strategic plans are often affected dramatically. As they respond to the situation at hand, leaders understand that they have to keep the overarching business strategy in mind to ensure continued success—in the day-to-day work and in the future. Instead, the creation of strategy must be ongoing.

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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. Getting to What Is Strategic.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? Extreme Creativity.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. The client is a non-profit focused on healthcare.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Beyond these possibilities, what else can your brand explore to expand its repertoire of market listening strategies? The strategy is consistent, though, with other case studies of major brands creating small, separate incubators to rapidly develop new ideas. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thinking of ideas for different categories.”. Brainstorming for technological advancements”. One of best group brainstorming sessions in a long time.”. A bunch of brainstorming.”. Required a lot of critical thinking”. Discovering Shared Thinking. New and thought provoking ideas.”. Learned a lot”. Networking.

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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’. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered. Can we constrain our brainstorming session to a fixed time frame?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Because of this, the list was worthless for doing what I suspect everyone hoped it would do: provide a starting point for the strategic thinking needed to back into a definition of and explanation for what the new initiative would turn out to be. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This special team needs to be strategic, tactical, agile and fast. Depending on companies’ innovation readiness, the responsibility areas of the ‘innovation team’ may include the following: Set the strategy, define success. The strategy and the roadmap towards the desired innovation-driven mode are critical. Strategists.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer. Looking for Ideas to Make Strategy Planning More Fun?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

We have tons of strategic planning questions, including a few we have singled out as more fun than others. We also have quite a bit on fun strategy planning, including one of our most popular new eBooks, 11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning. 3 Short, Funny Strategic Planning Questions. Yes, developing strategy can be fun.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. What outside-the-box ideas could really help us grow if they work?”

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