CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration. Knowing how to make virtual training more engaging is crucial to meet the needs of the workforce. With virtual training front and center, business leaders must find strategic ways to spark community and engagement in their learning programs.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. I disabused them of the idea, however, that their narrow job descriptions were synonymous with narrow strategic thinking roles.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. It’s about leadership, organizational structure, knowledge management, corporate purpose and values, norms regarding collaboration, and strategic foresight processes. The Innovation Pathway.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download). The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download).

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Employees are more engaged, motivated, and committed to the organization’s success when they feel aligned with its cultural values. Strategic Alignment: You should ensure that the culture change aligns with the overall business strategy, enhancing performance and competitive advantage.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. Thursday included working with a local non-profit to develop the strategic foundation for an important initiative, along with developing initial themes from the Carbondale community collaboration workshops.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any length of time, you know we’re huge proponents of collaborative strategic planning. Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making.

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CMOE

JULY 27, 2022

With the rise of new technologies and recent advancements in digital instructional-design capabilities, there are even more advantages to offering online training solutions: Learners can progress through the training at their own pace, when and where it is most convenient for them. Applied Strategic Thinking®. Coaching TIPS2™.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Together we will create highly transparent, collaborative, and manageable processes to support our joint clients’ innovation goals.” About RevelX We are a strategic innovation professional services firm. We add strategic thinking and execution power to your team. That is our playing field.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 9, 2023

To get to a good understanding of cross-sector innovation ecosystems collaborations, you need to take a very considered holistic view of what is needed in any collaboration, let alone cutting across sectors to generate a successful outcome. My second post identified specific skills and toolkits to be considered.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This is the second post that I am sharing on both my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through my paul4innovating posting site , which has different audiences to discuss this with.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Consultants are increasingly being pigeonholed as either “strategic” (and worth the high price) or basic “resources” for implementation (and not worth more than a modest hourly rate). How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example?

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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

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Online input and collaboration for greater access.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

How do we eliminate so much time from typical strategic planning process approaches? 11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process. Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Consultants are increasingly being pigeonholed as either “strategic” (and worth the high price) or basic “resources” for implementation (and not worth more than a modest hourly rate). How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. Create expanded roles to ensure partners can contribute their expertise and strategic thinking early. Find engaging topics your brand can credibly address via social-first content.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. 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

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning. We have been preparing the strategic planning process design for this workshop over the last month. Greet workshop participants as they arrive.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? Are you searching for ways to quickly and effectively engage brand leaders to anticipate and address emerging threats you face? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 12, 2023

I wrote a four part series on cross-sector innovation ecosystems in April and I felt it was worth summarizing these into one, so I engaged my new office partner, ChatGPT to deliver this in a series of summaries. sector collaborations innovation ecosystem thinking.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 12, 2018

The Academy of Entrepreneurs launched a Corporate Challenge in collaboration with the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) in response to the Australian Government Initiative to develop a stronger Nation Brand. The initiative is all about better positioning Australia to enhance our global competitiveness.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

What a moonshot project yields, ideally, are near-term benefits through collaboration and smaller discoveries and innovations along the way. Business Impact: Executives typically think about current competitors and ways to outsmart them. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is a different, and much better way to carry out a strategic planning process. It is faster, more collaborative, and effectively engages the voices and perspectives to create a stronger, more successfully implemented plan. Livening up strategic discussions with exercises designed to generate disruptive ideas.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Consultants are increasingly being pigeonholed as either “strategic” (and worth the high price) or basic “resources” for implementation (and not worth more than a modest hourly rate). How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example?

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