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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2017

One of the most popular Brainzooming blog posts the past few years is rich in strategic thinking tools. It features more than 200 strategic thinking questions we’ve gathered, envisioned, and created going back to The Brainzooming Group origins as a corporate strategic planning department.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How, if you are facing this situation, can you initiate a conversation with strategic thinking questions safe enough to raise the issue? 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization. Stimulate fresh thinking. Mike Brown. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The fourth thread, competitive positioning, teaches us that thriving in this dynamic environment requires strategic thinking and new visions. It fosters collaboration between individuals, organizations, and institutions, creating a symphony of ideas that resonate far beyond the boundaries of any single actor.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. The establishing of innovation within any Strategic thinking is becoming even more important today than ever. The link to this conversation is here , it is just over 15 minutes long.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Stimulate fresh thinking. Related posts 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now!

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2017

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Answer Before Making a Decision. Here are five strategic thinking questions you should identify well before you are on the verge of making a decision: Who owns making the decision? 9 ideas for introducing your strategic plan with style and impact to engage your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The fourth thread, competitive positioning, taught us that thriving in this dynamic environment required strategic thinking. It was a dance where every move mattered, and strategic partnerships were the secret to success. And at the heart of it all, this framework was a champion of collaboration.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises. The nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises term popped into my head during a Brainzooming client workshop. Each strategic thinking exercise poster had four or five brand dimensions on the Y-axis. You do the math with this strategic thinking exercise.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Power of Online Collaboration Tools In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the ability to adapt and thrive in a digital environment is essential. Online collaboration tools serve as the cornerstone for virtual teams, fostering communication, project management, and a sense of community among distributed colleagues.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Without strategic thinking, leaders risk falling into short-term fixes that fail to drive long term sustainable success. Strategic thinking is a skill that can be developed through study, practice, reflection and deliberate effort. How Do You Start Thinking Strategically?

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

It encompasses the skills and insights a person acquires through active engagement and reflection on real-world challenges. Collaborative Projects : Facilitate group projects that require cross-functional teamwork, communication, and problem-solving.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Whether strategic planning is months away or close at hand, however, it’s always smart to get a head start tackling big strategic thinking questions that warrant in-depth consideration. 9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now. 9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. It involves more constraints.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer.

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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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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

If your organization ’s strategic plan process comes together based on a few senior executives sitting in a room followed by a bunch of managers working alone in their offices, however, pulling the strategic plan notebook off the shelf is a HUGE metric for whether it’s successful. Contact us, and let’s book time to talk.

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Engaging Employees.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Resource allocation: The innovation mandate should outline how resources, including funding, personnel, and technology, will be allocated to support innovation initiatives and where these will be drawn down from and the “equity of resources” shared so this is a collaborative endeavour.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working. When things took an unexpected turn the other day, I mentally flew through various strategic thinking questions trying to comes up with ideas to adjust what we were doing. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Strategic Presentations : Share the vital info and data insights. Get folks talking, questioning, and engaging. To keep folks thinking big-picture and making decisions together, youve got to play your cards right. Ramping Up Strategic Thinking Getting everyone into a strategic mindset calls for some clever approaches.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

Facing a complete business shutdown, our team used a combination of strategic thinking and real-time course correction to stay engaged with and attempt to re-win the customers we couldn’t currently serve. Engage and Re-Engage Customers. Remember, engaging and re-winning customers is only partly about messaging.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Here’s the strategic thinking question I saw in that moment: Where are your mirrors? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. What’s your mirror?

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BrainZooming

MAY 22, 2017

I was thinking about tables recently, and the role they play in creating or thwarting team collaboration. In different situations, distance around a table can offer space for individual reflection or a couple of people to collaborate without being drawn into something bigger. Team Collaboration with No Table at All.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. To add depth and breadth to the strategic thinking exercise, however, we add four probes to each area of the SWOT analysis. Creating engagement with our employees ?

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

The general manager at an industrial manufacturer wondered about how to effectively engage the hourly workforce as innovation strategy participants ? His question reflects legitimate senior executive interest in engaging the entire workforce to drive innovation and ROI through far-reaching process improvements. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These events, often conducted away from the usual office environment, provide a setting conducive to strategic thinking, decision-making, and team alignment. The offsite format encourages participation from all members, ensuring diverse perspectives are heard and integrated into the strategic vision.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

If you have the right people present , and they are in a chatty mood, how can you morph the gathering into a strategic conversation? One way is by introducing strategic thinking questions that steer meandering conversations into strategic conversations. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations.

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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

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. The answer could suggest their strategic thinking wasn’t effective in this situation.

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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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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2018

An executive responsible for strategy planning who was downloading our eBook on 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas posed an important question: How can you successfully identify and try new ways to get internal groups working together on strategic planning? 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Helping Teams Execute Strategy. When it comes to helping teams execute strategy, we recommend leaders ask themselves these strategic thinking questions before convening the team to launch a new initiative. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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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. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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