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

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’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. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Power of Virtual Team Collaboration In a world where remote work has become increasingly prevalent, virtual team collaboration stands as a cornerstone of modern business operations. Benefits of Effective Collaboration in Virtual Teams The advantages of cultivating effective collaboration within virtual teams are manifold.

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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). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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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

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful. – Mike Brown.

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Anaqua

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When it comes to product strategy and development at Anaqua, the key word is LISTEN. The product roadmap process at Anaqua is always iterative. Our clients and Client Working Groups are involved every step of the way and help to establish priorities, review prototypes, and more. going live this spring, 10.7

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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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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way. If you’re up for abruptly halting the cluster f%@k of the modern business meetings you attend, contact The Brainzooming Group ?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

To make it a little easier to track down ideas for how you can approach developing strategy this year, here are nineteen Brainzooming articles filled with 113 techniques and ideas for improving your organization’s strategic planning process. 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

And by done well, we mean that the vision statement: Is developed broadly and collaboratively. Collaborating on a Vision Statement. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Collaborating on a Vision Statement. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Prioritize the time you invest in creating specific product/service marketing plans based on each one’s expected contribution to revenue and profit growth. Look at how many strategies and tactics you actually implemented this year, and use that as the threshold for how deeply detailed your plan for next year should be.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Then contact us at The Brainzooming Group and let’s get started working together! 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We apply that approach no matter whether we’re clarifying strategy, determining objectives, developing the strategy plan, or beginning implementation. If you need new ideas about how to approach strategic opportunities and challenges, a collaborative workshop to imagine a variety of possibilities can be very productive.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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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. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. So we pushed back.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. The group did include several different sales groups. The Canadian were also largely grouped in pockets throughout the audience.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table !

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table ! 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. On the other hand, Moody's new products are incubated in dedicated business units, completely ring-fenced from business as usual. MANN+HUMMEL has adopted a slightly different approach.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. What can you do to make strategic planning more productive before, during, and after? Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I reminded them (in case no one ever had) that they had a HUGE brand role no matter how narrow everyone thinks they are as a group. A description of a job role isn’t identical to the description of how an individual or group can contribute to solid, dynamic, and innovative strategic thinking. The Strategic Thinking Lesson?

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures. But does that mean that designers should just make pictures and leave the strategy to others? The best designers transcend the gap between strategy and execution. Design itself is a product. Wrong.” – Bradford Shellhammer.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This will help overcome fear of risk and company group think which are common obstacles.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This will help overcome fear of risk and company group think which are common obstacles.

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Anaqua

JANUARY 11, 2018

Instead of following the same IP plan year after year, IP managers should focus their strategy on aligning their IP with their business, including developing a more concise IP plan, and switch to using smarter and modern analytics. 1) Align your IP with business strategy. 1) Align your IP with business strategy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

But perhaps above all, the scouting team's mission is to evaluate whether the direction of the potential company or technology to be bought matches with the strategy of the acquiring company. Our friends, families, colleagues, acquaintances, gym-buddies and all our other social groups all form different networks.

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