BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Applying this Strategic Thinking Exercise Broadly. This is a great example of a simple strategic thinking exercise to speed and sharpen decision making.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

That’s why instead of typing out nine strategic thinking questions from various business conversations (and contemplations) so far this week, I decided to Sharpie marker and share them with you in this image. These are strategic thinking questions our clients are asking. Branding and Marketing. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. So we pushed back.

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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. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies. Here are five things we do to bring other marketing agencies in early to set them up for implementation success: Invite the partner organizations into all the planning activities for developing the branding strategy. Photo via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The conventional wisdom is you give away “what” you do as part of content marketing, but not “how” you do what you do. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

That was the question from two nonprofit executives tasked with planning market research to support a new marketing plan. Before diving into planning market research, I asked about old research they had. 14 Questions Before Planning Market Research. Examining Your Own Previous Market Research. That’s a Start!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Not sure what the right marketing language is? Building the Team.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. Are you making the best use of customer input and market insights to deliver innovation and growth? This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We use multiple ways to gather input to ensure that by the time we bring a bigger group together for an in-person visioning workshop we’ve fully exploited more efficient, lower-risk, lower-investment formats to engage participants and solicit input for strategic planning. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 26, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Stop Undermining Your Success. With that perspective, reconnect with the granddaddy of all strategic thinking questions: What are we trying to achieve? Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Branding and Marketing. Innovation.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2018

He has moved to a new role leading marketing for an organization shifting from the B2C to B2B market. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That sentiment all revolves around our content marketing strategy. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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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

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan.

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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The brands want to capitalize on market growth stemming from toys tied to popular social media themes. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways. From just the few toy industry innovation stories reported in the WSJ , you see multiples ways of incorporating broad and early market perceptions to shape innovation: Social Media Listening.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If you want to collaboratively engage your team (or multiple teams) in a strategic and creative thinking process in which any of them can discover the secret to creative success, then it’s time to contact us. – Mike Brown. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Innovation.

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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 24, 2019

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. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today!

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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

MARCH 13, 2017

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I stopped by the grocery store to use the ATM the other morning before leaving for New York to deliver a content marketing strategy workshop today at the Social Media Strategies Summit. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? Is your leadership team expressing its frustration with the inability to generate new insights about your brand’s strongest market opportunities? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. That doesn’t mean, however, it works best for him or her to close the door and spend weeks trying to write a marketing plan individually. The collaborative approach created more thorough and vetted plans. knowing the decision maker) generate answers.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This behavior obscures looking at their areas and the entire organization strategically, comprehensively, and with a smart investment perspective. If you’re interested in changing the strategic disconnect of budget meetings – whether you are in finance and accounting or not – we have a guide! 3 Ways to Fix Budget Meetings.

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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 2, 2017

The thing is, those characteristics won’t universally apply for all participants in all strategic planning situations. That’s where our background and experience in collaborative strategic planning play a major role in matching the right questions to the right situations. Download our FREE eBook! Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Prior to using free strategic thinking exercises, consider the participants, organizational culture, and layout of the room. Keep free strategic planning exercises out of the reach of untrained, unpracticed facilitators. If you want help in using any of our questions and strategic thinking exercises, let us know.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2016

For whatever reason, I’ve found myself explaining several times in the last few days how we use a wide variety of strategic planning techniques to gather participant input into strategies. Sometimes the strategic thinking best approach involves a large, in-person group. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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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. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? That’s no surprise.

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