BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. Lesson learned.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. We spent time together seeing “Mess Wright’s Dallas” and attending the Social Media Strategies Summit. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. Additionally, she’s been editing our eBooks this year.

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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. In these cases, a critical question arises: How do you open branding strategy development to other partner organizations to create a seamless implementation process?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. Download Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We were discussing our approach for developing a specific business strategy. After completing their strategic plan a few months earlier, we’re now fleshing out a successful implementation strategy for an initiative they spelled out in the plan. Designing Strategic Planning with Your Implementation Strategy in Mind.

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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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Off the top of my head, I suggested the following strategy to strengthen the consistency of their customer experience strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. We see great leaders among our clients successfully taking steps that meaningfully involve employees in shaping strategy and implementation.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2022

You’ll learn how to adopt a modern approach that keeps up with the speed of business. You’ll also learn how to overcome common challenges as you move away from a traditional mindset. You’ll learn five best practices to help your organization improve adaptability and keep work aligned with company goals.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

Romano shared an important insight into the challenge of developing strategic thinking exercises to envision future strategy: “Until you drive an EV, you are colored by 135 years of going to the gas station. 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. What does your future strategy hold?

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Planview

JANUARY 20, 2022

Read on to learn. In Planview’s global benchmark study – The State of Strategy Execution – only one-third of the 1,000 business professionals surveyed said their companies have access to timely, accurate data. Strategy and execution aren’t connected. Lack of collaboration is another of the obstacles to digital transformation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We worked with a client to facilitate an information technology strategy vision. From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. Despite repeated requests, no one ever surfaced this type of strategy document.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2016

We are big fans of strategy statements incorporating simple language an organization uses to talk about its daily business activities. Strategy statements should not be filled with complex jargon that most people cannot understand or with generic language that could apply to ANY business. Think about that for a minute.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Encourage a unique, personal path.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

On November 2, 2009, we launched Brainzooming as a new company helping organizations across industries imagine and implement strategy, branding, and innovation initiatives. Because when you allow people to positively shape the organization’s strategy and results, they’re empowered. It is certainly obvious now.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. The interview is an outgrowth of an eBook on thought leadership. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. What to Say about a Thought Leadership Strategy?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence looked at how you focus a distracted organization on an implementation strategy to align and focus activities. 3 Roles to Focus a Distracted Organization on Implementation Strategy. An Implementation Strategy that Creates Focus.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 14, 2017

Here are five practices to help ensure you have options and flexibility when you begin designing how you will develop your business strategies: #1. Start planning your strategy as early as makes sense. Starting early doesn’t necessarily mean spending more time on developing your strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 25, 2016

Right after that article, The Brainzooming Group facilitated a small innovation strategy workshop with a client. We discussed the approach for the client’s upcoming thirty-person new process innovation strategy workshop. 5 Ways to Lower Risk in an Innovation Strategy Workshop. Ready to boost your innovation strategy?

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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.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. All the Strategy Roles You Need.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

By identifying key challenges and proposing actionable solutions, we aim to shed light on the strategies necessary for success in the industry’s dynamic landscape. This blog discusses the critical role of end-to-end visibility in scaling and streamlining automotive production.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

As you think about your career strategy , how do you see yourself? I had not really considered this career strategy question until the end-of-season speculation about which NFL coaches would be fired immediately after the regular football season’s final weekend. Boost Your Career Strategy with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2017

However, if your organization is like many others, teams struggle to turn an implementation plan into action, even with smart, sound strategies. If you find your teams continually struggling to turn strategic plans into implementation success, the Brainzooming strategy eBook, 321 GO! If they do all these things, congratulations!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At the Chicago Traffic Club conference last week , I presented on social media strategy and content marketing. In an hour-long presentation, we spent considerable time discussing why it is a smart social media strategy for business-to-business salespeople to take an active role on social media platforms. And get this.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. The Armada article highlights six ways to formulate innovation strategy in a regulated environment, including the approach JetBlue is taking. A shadow innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2016

I retweeted a Brainzooming article on seven reasons to ask for forgiveness, not permission in launching a new strategy. Beacon Enterprises , a strategy development and execution consulting firm, replied that there needed to be a post on the seven best reasons to be forgiven, instead. Tara Rethore , CEO of M.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

To help you get a handle on what you have left to complete for strategic planning, here are five things you can do to cope AND get completely on top of things for 2017 : Keep as much of last year’s strategy in place as is practical and focus only on updating tactics. Streamline and Complete 2017 Strategic Planning!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Despite Seth Godin’s career strategy warning to not wait around for people to select you , there are plenty of situations where someone else has had to select you as THE RIGHT PERSON. That’s a good thing when it comes to your career strategy. It might be a boss that recruited and hired you for a new job.

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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. Need Ideas to Make Strategy Planning Fun?

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2023

To address this challenge, IT leaders are seeking innovative ways to tie their digital initiatives to business strategy while reducing costs within SAFe. This empowerment encourages employee engagement through collaboration while maintaining the right balance of work, avoiding burnout, and maximizing output.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

With an ever-increasing growth in the composition of millennials in the workforce, understanding their needs and applying strategies for their retention has become quite a challenge. Prefer a culture of open collaboration. Learn More: What is an idea management software & why your business needs one. More technology focused.

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