The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

In this time of non-linear transformation, the ultimate winners will be those agile companies that are thinking now about their near-term survival AND their long-term advantage. A ‘dual-path’ strategy includes both ‘Today-for-Today’ and ‘Today-for-Tomorrow’ strategies that require new methods and tools to create.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

The combination of branding exercises effectively identified new language to describe its strategic direction and supporting strategies. During the exercises and conversations to develop its big strategy statement , we discussed the role that expertise plays in the organization’s brand.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2016

They reported the team’s defensive coordinator, Bob Sutton, told them that when planning competitive strategy , “I want to stay out of ‘never’ and ‘always.’”. What fantastic competitive strategy advice to incorporate this time of year as you implement new strategies. Who Sees Predictable Competitive Strategy Moves?

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

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. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Inspired by an article in The Wall Street Journal by professor Scott Galloway, they lay out five strategic imperatives Amazon uses to disrupt markets and grow. The Amazon Strategy DNA. Working from Galloway’s analysis, let’s look at how to incorporate a strain of the Amazon strategic success DNA into your own strategy development.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last week, The Brainzooming Group was in San Francisco for the Social Media Strategies Summit , where Mike presented a content marketing strategy workshop and a talk on collaborative engagement. That’s important, because brand strategy has everything to do with cool. Start by making sure your definition is up to date.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. Here’s the story of how a request from a big supporter, then and still, instigated a major change in the Brainzooming methodology. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

As you think about your career strategy , how do you see yourself? I had not really considered this career strategy question until the end-of-season speculation about which NFL coaches would be fired immediately after the regular football season’s final weekend. – Mike Brown.

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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. Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Despite Seth Godin’s career strategy warning to not wait around for people to select you , there are plenty of situations where someone else has had to select you as THE RIGHT PERSON. That’s a good thing when it comes to your career strategy. It might be a boss that recruited and hired you for a new job.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”. That was definitely true. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. That is a huge change, and opens the door to some radically different future workshops.

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Successfully going from strategy to implementation, however, is critical to business success. Creating a strong, innovative plan is only part of the strategy equation. Here are twenty-one articles organizing project management techniques we’ve been sharing with clients to help create needed changes in their organizations.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Anything about faith I try to link to strategy, creativity, and innovation, all pillar topics for our work and the blog. These connections aren’t difficult to make, having discovered over the past decade that my Catholic faith positively and meaningfully influences every aspect of how I think and what I do, even in business.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Even if you aren’t in Chicago today, here are links to the creative thinking exercises from my presentation, arranged according to Pink’s ABC structure: Attunement. Can You Change Your Look? 5 Strategic Questions for When You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop. Brand Value – A Simple Way to Identify Your Brand Benefits.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. RIM’s strategy depended on corporate IT adoption with centralized management, control and security of the devices. Bill Gates. Highlights: Companies make continuous bets on their future.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2015

This year, however, I think is going to be the last one. I’ve been realizing how much I’ve changed since living the corporate life full time. It’s not always easy to know when patience has outlived its usefulness, and the time to definitely act has arrived. I like the surprising, informal ones a lot more.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

For the past decades, companies have been defining their strategy following a traditional approach: On the one hand, they analyzed trends, selected the most relevant ones, and designed their strategy based on a “clear view of the future”. The strategy becomes a portfolio of different, coordinated business models.

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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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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

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. The learnings from that session instantly changed the way we run our ideation sessions -- both internally and externally with our clients.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Change the angle from which you’re considering the idea. These 15 creative thinking skills to turn junk ideas into treasures are definitely worth considering, in my view, to help get you unstuck creatively. – Mike Brown. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

We spent time together seeing “Mess Wright’s Dallas” and attending the Social Media Strategies Summit. She dropped a strategy and business model on me that both makes so much sense AND runs wildly against the balance I’ve tried to create between The Brainzooming Group brand and how visible I am in the mix.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 8, 2017

They are changing the world as we know it. Adam Grant – Super Power – Being Prolific at Original Thinking. BJ Fogg – Super Power – Making Behaviour Change Happen. You can look at his model of behaviour change here. I don’t remember how I discovered BJ.

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