Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? We were working with an organization on its future vision while facilitating its strategic planning process. Despite the static language, strategic conversations with the team suggested they possessed a legitimate interest in pursuing innovative strategies.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working. When things took an unexpected turn the other day, I mentally flew through various strategic thinking questions trying to comes up with ideas to adjust what we were doing. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

The general manager at an industrial manufacturer wondered about how to effectively engage the hourly workforce as innovation strategy participants ? His question reflects legitimate senior executive interest in engaging the entire workforce to drive innovation and ROI through far-reaching process improvements. via Shutterstock.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. But with the dramatic overnight changes in work and society caused by the coronavirus crisis, the disruptive transformation of the consulting industry will only accelerate. The more you bill, the more you make.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

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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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2019

We were proposing a change initiative for a multi-agency department within a city government. As our in-person presentation drew to a close, the review team asked about each of our experiences with comparable culture changes. What lessons did I share on how culture change works? Culture Change works when: #1. Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These carefully curated retreats offer more than just a change of scenery; they provide a unique opportunity for senior leaders to step back from daily operations, recalibrate strategies, and strengthen the interpersonal bonds that are critical for cohesive decision-making.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Alignment of an organizations strategy and innovation approach is essential and this needs to flow and connect from the top, but I have often felt there has not been a suitable engagement platform to gather around and work through to build a robust, well-connected innovation capability.

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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. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. Branding Strategy – Engaging an Internal Brand Team. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Engaging Employees.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

Facing a complete business shutdown, our team used a combination of strategic thinking and real-time course correction to stay engaged with and attempt to re-win the customers we couldn’t currently serve. In what vital areas do you have the greatest strategic leverage to innovate and impact your success?

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2022

Strategic thinking has become one of the most valued skills in managers, and many organizations know that strategic thinking is integral to their success. Unfortunately, managers often run into challenges that prevent them from engaging in strategic thought and action with consistency and regularity.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

By integrating online collaboration platforms , you can ensure that your team remains connected, engaged, and aligned with your organization’s goals. Offer scalability to grow with your team and adapt to changing demands. Accelerate project timelines through streamlined processes and real-time communication.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. 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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

BrainZooming

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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

The innovation team will consist of experts in various fields, including technology, design, marketing, and finance but will not be mutually exclusive but open, encouraging and seeking consistent engagement and alignment across the organization and beyond.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Building a detailed Ecosystem thinking and design of collaboration needs Intellectual property management : Innovation often generates valuable intellectual property, and the innovation mandate should outline how this intellectual property will be managed and protected.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

One reason for asking the question is to identify organizational change topics we can address here. and listed “unfreezing (a) team, moving forward, and preparing for growth” as the strategic task at hand. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Someone downloaded Results!!!

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Often we are inherently resisting to exploring change as it becomes risky and far more demanding. One absolute critical one that needs resolution is achieving alignment and engagement of innovation understanding throughout the organization. Is this because innovation is not at the core of the business as it should be?

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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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CMOE

JULY 27, 2022

Applied Strategic Thinking®. Find a balance between meeting today’s expectations and requirements and reaching for tomorrow’s possibilities by thinking and acting in a strategic way. All of our digital courses include resource guides and interactive tools that promote engagement and ongoing application.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A supervisor’s objective has an internal focus—they are mainly focused on their team members’ level of engagement of day-to-day tasks, problems, and challenges that may affect quality and deliverability of goals and services to customers. Examining the department’s budget and resources and making the necessary adjustments. Objectives.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

If you work with consultants or have your own consultancy, take note: Things are changing, fast. But with the dramatic overnight changes in work and society caused by the coronavirus crisis, the disruptive transformation of the consulting industry will only accelerate. The more you bill, the more you make.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Old trading patterns and rules of engagement may be re-evaluated or may change entirely. We aren't quite certain yet how IoT, Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies will change things. The pace of change - a common refrain in my writing - seems to only accelerate.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

Instead of efficiency, we strive for originality, for what will change the game. There must first be an intimate connection between strategic thinking and innovation. Strategic planning must co-exist with strategic foresight. Innovation becomes an answer to a set of strategic questions.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past couple years working with cities around the country to increase their community impact by adopting Lean Innovation principles, we have noticed four key learnings about changing the way local government can work.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2017

How can we establish Innovation as the vital link to a process of change and strategic direction options? One that lifts the debates of managing today’s business by linking it into the future and then turning this thinking into a series of plausible and coherent set of activities? Innovation can drive change, change is required.

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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. Adaptability : An ability to pivot and respond to changing market conditions and business needs.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

In that type of situation, we recommend using strong strategic thinking questions and frameworks to quickly understand the situation, the players, and the opportunities. Getting to What Is Strategic. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. What Is Strategic and What Isn’t?

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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. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

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