BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

The executives asking about and offering opinions on the topic tended to believe it was okay to advise employees about branding strategy decisions immediately after introducing changes to customers. I was horrified by this viewpoint coming from senior executives because it is so strategically misguided.

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JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

If you’ve been frustrated in your efforts to challenge the strategic planning status quo, we have good news: There’s hope, and you can change all the bad things about how a boring strategic planning process ! There are actually many fun strategic planning ideas that you can start implementing for next year’s planning!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

He changed jobs early in 2017 and re-subscribed to the blog with his new company’s email address. It changed a few times as he worked to sell-in the initiative. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Employ extreme creativity and disruptive innovation-oriented questions to push your strategic planning vision exercise in bold, future directions. Identify the most important elements of the business that hold great potential to materially change the organization’s future prospects. Identify all the elements of the brand.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

That can be okay, but in a fast-changing market, ensuring everything is 100% proven slows solutions customers need. One meeting participant said this type of strategic thinking was a breakthrough for them. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! It opens up a whole new array of potential options.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

One way to deal with a common innovation strategy barrier – fear of change and new ideas – is to disguise new ideas as your team develops and implements them. Thinking further about the leadership qualities it takes to successfully engage an innovation strategy in disguise reminded me of a litany of humility I read frequently.

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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.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

That insight drives the smart change management steps needed to navigate each innovation challenge. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.”

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BrainZooming

MARCH 20, 2017

Short Story: With strategic thinking tools, you want dependable ones that deliver help to move forward in a smart fashion – no matter how unusual the tool may seem. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. We share many Brainzooming strategy, innovation, and branding tools.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I am taking over an organization and want to engage our employees more directly in culture change and moving forward. We can bring you a multi-dimensional approach to involve all of your employees in sharing their perspectives and aspirations in a way that you can do something with the ideas AND meaningfully engage your people.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

On a personal basis, certain strategic leadership basics are a good place to start adjusting your attitude and growth as a strategic leader. Organizationally, a change management assessment we use identifies the types of change challenge an organization faces, along with ideas for approaching them successfully.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

By that point, the specifications have changed so much, the proposal is likely irrelevant. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. The messaging and audience strategy must change and be immediately on target to make rapid headway in the broad B2B market you are beginning to target. . Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

And how do you REALLY know what factors are driving changes in expectations? You might even engage a firm specializing in competitive intelligence to do this. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Here’s the story of how a request from a big supporter, then and still, instigated a major change in the Brainzooming methodology. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

She’s trying to manage through three strategic expectations the senior management team and board have regarding a content marketing strategy: They want to keep everything on one Facebook page. She can’t change either of the first two strategic expectations.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

If you have a long-standing brand needing a boost to reach its previous heights, what are your options for bringing it back to the market in a way that attracts attention, engages existing and new audiences, and delivers improved business results? After some finite period, the brand change or addition is reversed.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

All the good ideas are getting in the way of the game-changing idea you need to develop and successfully implement. You have a major strategic move to make with the company. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Your next challenge is communicating the vision and getting your new, senior team onboard.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2016

D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook! Are you looking for new, more effective ways to engage your employees in shaping and successfully carrying out your brand strategy? You need to download this FREE Brainzooming eBook, published with the Global Strategic Management Institute.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Yesterday marked a momentous day professionally, that seemed big on the day it happened, but not as life-changing as it has become. The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Current Orange Socks.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Every executive dreads strategic planning. The reason is while it is important for organizations, participants hardly ever see the connection between participation and positive changes for brands and customers. While a strategic planning process may promise to deliver real objectives and tactics, it often never happens as promised.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are many temptations out there to cut corners, take the easy but questionable way, or engage in behaviors that seem okay in secret but are clearly not okay when exposed in the light of day. Provides the opportunity to engage with people daily. Daily mass creates engagement with other people first thing.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I long ago learned an important lesson about corporate branding decisions : no matter how many intriguing, mentally-engaging brand strategy conversations you have among senior executives, those conversations NEVER lead to final decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , See what I mean?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

A Wall Street Journal article on how the Buffalo Bills are changing their typical practice routine caught my eye. Making deliberate decisions about group composition and activities – Players are getting used to working with a specific group and are always engaged to stay focused. The headline included the phrase “No Wasted Time.”.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Amazingly, the advice for couples falling into dreadful patterns with the same boring conversations and daily routines was easily adaptable to changing how senior executives engage in strategic planning. Want to learn the keys to putting the sizzle back into your senior teams strategic planning?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Someone downloading the new 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning eBook when we released it stated his biggest strategy challenge as coming up with fresh ways to do the same strategic planning exercises with the same executives every year. 9 Ways to Keep Strategic Planning Process Exercises Fresh Every Year.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is targeting both learning and emotion to prompt engagement and risk taking among its nearly 700 employees. To further engage its team, Ironwood asks staff to submit clever early-stage names for products in development. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears.

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