Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Conversely, if your team excels in operational details, encourage activities that stretch their strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry. Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability.

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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

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

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

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

Identifying innovation across industries. Brainzooming identified relevant best practices and innovative strategies across industries. Online input and collaboration for greater access. The early input shapes the strategic priorities, innovation exercises , and additional deliverables to foster successful implementation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

If there’s an organization that can come to the table and do strategy and tactics with previous experience in your industry, and do it all for the same price, that’s great. Plus, we integrate well and collaborate openly with organizations that do focus on implementation. They’d be the smart choice over us.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

What are the stupid unwritten rules in our industry we must upend right away? This exercise produced my biggest personal insight about creative thinking skills: When you need huge thinking, don’t ask for big ideas ; instead, use big questions to cultivate extreme creativity and breakthrough ideas. Disruption.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Decompose the vision into strategic dimensions. Strategic dimensions are areas where an organization has the opportunity to make major decisions or where industry players are creating competitive advantage. Here are five ideas The Brainzooming Group uses to help clients when turning a vision statement into strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. LaRose Industries saw Walmart sales of its Cra-Z-Art glue increase over 50% monthly in the fall of 2016. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last week, The Brainzooming Group was in San Francisco for the Social Media Strategies Summit , where Mike presented a content marketing strategy workshop and a talk on collaborative engagement. This is true even if you’re an industrial brand, as Mike pointed out: Well, okay, you might be thinking, But there’s nothing cool about our brand.

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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 Academy of Entrepreneurs was founded by CEO Paula Mills with the aim of disrupting the education industry.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Additionally, there was a need to identify ways other businesses in comparable and far-flung industries are using this area to transform themselves. 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

MARCH 7, 2017

Are there industry associations with ideas on answers or research methods to make us smarter? You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Exploring Research Others Have Done. Anticipating Surveys Others May Be Doing.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. Industry and market dynamics. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Marketing strategies.

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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. Evaluate if there’s a non-regulated aspect of your business, industry, or market that’s a close analogy to what’s regulated.

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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. Best practices common in your industry. Best practices common in other industries that are relevant to your own. First though, a little background.

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KindlingApp

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

This is a question we hear a lot, from organizations large and small, and across a variety of industries. For instance, if your goal is to make exercise a part of your life, dedicating just 5 minutes a day for a few weeks can get you in the habit of exercising and help you achieve your fitness goals.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

We haven’t wavered from the initial reason for starting The Brainzooming Group: to take our learnings on simplifying, collaboratively approaching, and speeding up strategic planning to smart organizations wanting to conduct business differently. Situations where your best strategy is taking business innovation underground.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Trait IQ EQ Nature Cognitive Emotional Focus Problem-solving Interpersonal skills Stability Relatively static Can be developed Leaders with high IQ may excel in strategic thinking and technical skills, but those with high EQ are often better at inspiring, motivating, and connecting with their teams.

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