BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. With groups changing out every few hours, there was a continual, tight window to get all the input we’d need to build out a strategic plan and timeline for our client’s strategic initiative.

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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

MARCH 30, 2017

Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Download this free, concise ebook to: Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! A few minutes =.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

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. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation. Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We target the greatest relevance for strategists and innovators inside organizations that are excited about the opportunities that collaborative strategy offers in the way of culture transformation and results. Many executives visiting the Brainzooming website for the first time review dozens of pages of articles and downloads.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If you are responsible for leading the strategic planning process at your organization, dive in and tweak your process to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement. 12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process. 5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Following up the initial email exchange, I shared the following: “If you are looking to accelerate branding development, we use a streamlined process that is highly collaborative. “ For organizations that valuable broad collaboration, we deliver fantastic results. Yes, your strategic planning process can be fun.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They are handled out of context strategically , looking at the business by department instead of by initiative. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. 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

APRIL 11, 2017

We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

In nearly every instance, we spend time with a prospective client discussing three aspects of their strategic planning process needs : What they think they want to achieve. The best way to make it happen using our collaborative process. Conducting a Strategic Planning Process with a Certain Framework.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

When individuals download our free Results!!! Someone downloaded Results!!! 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. Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Do we have the right people, both in number and the mix of perspectives to collaborate successfully? How closely will management expect teams to follow the plan? These questions will help you evaluate the right types of strategic planning exercises. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

We address their experiences in our collaborative strategy implementation approach. You can’t invite others to collaborate on a strategic plan and later ignore them when you launch it. Specific features include: 10 ways to simplify and strengthen the language you use to communicate strategic priorities.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

As it seems everyone in your senior management team recognizes, your brand and messaging is tailored currently to a narrower audience. Plus, we integrate well and collaborate openly with organizations that do focus on implementation. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

And by done well, we mean that the vision statement: Is developed broadly and collaboratively. These fourteen articles recap our thinking and recommendations across these three areas. Collaborating on a Vision Statement. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Collaborating on a Vision Statement.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. The collaborative approach created more thorough and vetted plans. Involving more people turned weeks of solo work into a one-day collaboration to prepare a strategy plan. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

What research methods can we use to reach out to customers on a manageable scale to gain their perspectives? NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Our objective was to provide the innovation strategy workshop participants a chance to vary their activities, work with new people, self-manage their performance on a creative thinking exercise, and have a chance to win a prize (the orange socks). Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

What’s the project management answer to addressing this tendency among teams and team members? The acronym represents someone we’re always looking for in project management to make sure we will make progress. The DRI concept, however, obviously extends into all project management situations. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? Innovation.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration. Here are a few examples of real-life organizations that leverage gamification for virtual training methods: Manufacturing company Siemens created a storyline and game around a character named “Pete the Plant Manager.” Our courses cover many business topics, from Coaching to Strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. FREE Download: “Results!!! Via Armada Corporate Intelligence.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2017

7 Forgotten Project Management Skills from an Escape Room Fail. Our fail suggested seven solid project management skills we neglected to use. If you’re visiting an escape room or are suddenly hit with a new, time-constrained challenge, here are the project management skills you shouldn’t forget!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas!

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