BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Our immediate need was to identify potential innovation case studies to discover how other companies and industries are innovating in relevant ways. Who are our strategic partners?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. We are further along and can even more easily customize these strategic thinking exercises to your needs if you face comparable situations.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2017

His keynote got us thinking about how today’s ten-year-olds (the Class of 2025) will change the landscape for brands, following in the wake of the impact millennials have created. A Future-Looking Strategic Thinking Experiment. They are developing collaborative projects online in grade school.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2016

Strategic Thinking – 4 Strategies for Successful Remote Collaboration. What Do You Think? Based on ideas from the Wall Street Journal article and our remote working experiences, consider these strategies for successful remote collaboration. I Can’t See You!

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2018

I suggested another one: Go ahead and ask a great strategic thinking question. The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. 21 Strategic Thinking Questions When You Have Nothing to Ask. 21 Strategic Thinking Questions When You Have Nothing to Ask.

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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? Related posts 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential. 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. The Strategic Thinking Lesson? FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects. 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Talking with someone about the most difficult Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop EVER inspired the blurb below. Get creative in a group.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Reporting : Plan for a representative from each session to summarize the discussion for the larger group.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

In the context of leadership, XQ involves utilizing hands-on knowledge to make informed decisions, inspire innovation, and navigate the intricacies of leading a team or organization. Problem-Solving : These leaders are adept at thinking on their feet and devising innovative solutions to unforeseen challenges.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking. Enhanced Collaboration : Offsites encourage open communication and teamwork, fostering a spirit of cooperation that can lead to innovative solutions. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. Have the Group Perform an Abstract Task. via Shutterstock.

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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

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. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

People ask me frequently about why we give away so much of what The Brainzooming Group does on our website. 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?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. If you engage your audience early in the collaborative strategic planning process, you can make a legitimate claim to creating a collaborative vision. You gain insights your leadership group does not possess. – Mike Brown.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Delivering Innovation and Business Ecosystem Impact Increasing business ecosystem capacity through coaching There are many benefits from having an intense course of one-on-one coaching, irrespective of the level of responsibility you have for innovation and business ecosystem thinking and designing within your organization.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. An effective offsite should culminate in a strategic plan that outlines specific goals, timelines, and metrics for success.

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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

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The organization’s leaders, and many of the team, have been in place for a long time, limiting the collective view of how other organization’s do things in bold, innovative, and different ways. Innovation Vocabulary and Change Management Strategy. Lesson learned. Want to learn more about that process?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Originally, the goal was simply bringing a diverse group together from across the company. Over time, however, they discovered that while they wanted participants with creative diversity, it was important to include individuals from groups that would actually return to the business and work together to solve problems. Here Is Help!

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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

MARCH 15, 2016

I’ve mentioned my surprise upon realizing strategic planning techniques The Brainzooming Group uses seem to have emerged from Bible passages. Sometimes the strategic thinking best approach involves a large, in-person group. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

Looking for a quick way to generate tons of innovative ideas? If you need a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry, here’s a mega-simple way of generating them : Select the objective, opportunity, or challenge you are trying to address. Scores of innovative ideas! – Mike Brown. Find New Resources to Innovate !

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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

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. The board members want to think big on the heels of the organization wrapping up its current strategic plan. Framing the Thinking Perspectives. Ambitions for the Outcome.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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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

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Identifying innovation across industries.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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