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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Are you up for changing that? You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis

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

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

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

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

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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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). Getting to What Is Strategic. What Is Strategic and What Isn’t?

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11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas to Stop Strategy Snoozefests!

BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

To avoid it, it’s vital to break out of the typical strategic planning process formula where it’s all about the same old people, the same old strategy exercises, and the same old expectations to just get a plan done so it can sit on the shelf with other strategies while the organization keeps doing the same old things.

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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

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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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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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A 5-Level Collaboration Strategy Approach

BrainZooming

JANUARY 17, 2018

T – The team (or team member) will figure it out and bring the finished product back to the team leader. This collaboration strategy idea is still in the Brainzooming R&D lab. The situations and acronyms for this collaboration strategy approach may change. Do you have thoughts, reactions, or alternatives?

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Branding Strategy – 3 Product Branding Ideas to Beg, Borrow, and Steal

BrainZooming

MAY 26, 2017

Diet Coke Strategy: Translating small to sip-sized. And rather than seeking permission for the change, this branding strategy idea begs forgiveness later – if ever! Background: Smaller cans do not usually suggest a positive brand experience. This takes advantage of alliteration and whimsy. Try these 6 Steps.

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4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

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. Help to me to productively contribute to identifying what we need to do and what it might mean for us. That’s no surprise.

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Here are their comments on opportunities and challenges, along with links to Brainzooming posts addressing the strategy and innovation situations they face: People and Organizational Issues. “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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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

If so, this Brainzooming compilation on various ways to combat creative thinking challenges is for you. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges. Creative Thinking Skills: 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas. Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

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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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

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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4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

These fourteen articles recap our thinking and recommendations across these three areas. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way.

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10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Working with five separate groups for an industrial manufacturer changing a major manufacturing process, we identified more than six hundred tactics for the multi-year initiative during a two-day in-person workshop. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

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

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas to Stop Strategy Snoozefests!

Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

A 5-Level Collaboration Strategy Approach

Branding Strategy – 3 Product Branding Ideas to Beg, Borrow, and Steal

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders

Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

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