BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

Because expertise is central to the organization’s products, it has only considered a very strict definition for the attribute. One meeting participant said this type of strategic thinking was a breakthrough for them. If that seems to be the case, rethink your narrow definitions of brand attributes.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We provided strategic thinking questions of their own to use, including: “That’s great and how can we do that _?” That role went to the group’s senior executive to focus us on transformative ideas during a strategic thinking exercise involving imagining Chick-fil-A designing their customer experience strategy.

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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. Start by making sure your definition is up to date. If they don’t match, perhaps it’s time for a little internal disruptive thinking ?

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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

JUNE 20, 2016

He streamlined traditional steps, introducing fun videos, and creating a tolerable experience for executives creating a strategic plan over a weekend. If this guy could do it in two days, we DEFINITELY could! Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A big part of making strategic planning fun, however, involves focusing on boring details that create a fun* experience. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*. Letting everyone know upfront that WE will handle turning the input into a strategic plan (so they don’t have to).

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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

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 1, 2017

10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople. Thinking about innovative sales people I have known, how we teach strategic and creative thinking skills to sales teams, and strategic thinking questions we use to spur new thinking, here are ten questions to identify innovative thinking in salespeople.

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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. That was definitely true. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. 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’. The key principles of strategic thinking Limit your time: strategic thinking is all about efficiency.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The Brainzooming eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning,” has generated lots of downloads since we published it during the early days of strategy season. The eBook shares ideas we developed in the past ten-plus years to create fun strategic planning exercises. – Mike Brown. Need Ideas to Make Strategy Planning Fun?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. First though, a little background.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You will get a sense of someone who, while obviously devoting himself to his job, his organization, and his players, definitely realizes his job is not bigger than he is. I would encourage you, however, to watch the press conference video. – Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

You may have to do homework on yourself and your own background to flesh out the definition and range of your expertise. Even if you expertise is narrow, you can generalize it and apply it to analogous or comparable situations. You don’t have to be smarter than other people in the field.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If you really doubt a supporter’s intentions toward you, try operating as if the person that selected you wants to be fantastic and is definitely going to be your biggest fan! No one wants to be the person having to self-admit such things. Because when you succeed, your supporter looks smart.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. That’s a bunch of creative thinking exercises for thirty minutes. We’ll definitely be going through it quickly, so I’m guessing even attendees will find value in these links. New, Innovative Ideas with What’s It Like. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. I think Mess reached out online after reading some Brainzooming articles. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about collaborating with Mess! A Chicago Creative Nudge.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Convergent Thinking Week – A BDTP Perspective. Getting done can definitely be more important than being perfect. When time is running down on a project you have approached with higher than expected standards, consider relaxing those standards. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done.

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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. How can an innovation program find its purpose?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

With our takeaways from the training we have a lot of exciting opportunities to use the tools give to us to inspire the adoption of a new collaborative and collective mindset agency-wide." - Laura Hansen, Marketing Manager, MWW. My coworkers and I spent exactly eight consecutive hours with Idea Champions.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2016

What creative thinking skills do you use when you’re stuck creatively? 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. Pretty up marginal ideas any way you can. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 8, 2017

He is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of The Impossible Institute™ , a strategic think-tank that helps organisations understand what motivates the staff, customers and communities so that they can make impossible things possible. His show definitely made me smarter. Then he came up with his next book Pre-suasion.

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