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. What will we need to get started?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. It’s about leadership, organizational structure, knowledge management, corporate purpose and values, norms regarding collaboration, and strategic foresight processes.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

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. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A speaker specializing in innovation can also highlight trends, emerging technologies, and industry disruptions, providing valuable context for future strategic planning. Meeting planners should consider: The size and scope of events where the speaker has presented. The relevance of past topics to the theme of innovation.

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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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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. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I suggested they invite potential market research partners to come in and present their credentials, experience, and initial thinking on helping the client explore what types of market research they will really need. A Request for Presentation will likely be a more fruitful RFP process than once focused on a Request for Proposal.

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

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. This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

As a discipline, EA seeks to create a holistic, strategic view of an organization’s technology landscape, enabling better alignment between business objectives and IT capabilities. EA can serve as a bridge between these disparate teams, fostering a culture of communication and collaboration.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. It should be conducive to the creative and strategic thinking that you aim to foster among your executive team. Facilitate a session where your team can collaboratively identify each of these elements.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Present while walking throughout the room / audience.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Following up the initial email exchange, I shared the following: “If you are looking to accelerate branding development, we use a streamlined process that is highly collaborative. “ For organizations that valuable broad collaboration, we deliver fantastic results. 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Strategic Thinking Exercise – New Product Idea Basics and Extremes in 30 Minutes. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing? Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. One attendee stuck around after the “Results” presentation to ask about a situation his son is facing. And who knows.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 14, 2016

Accelerate features sixteen strategic thinking questions to expand your possibilities for finding ways to move ahead with your innovation strategy even if your available dollars have disappeared. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A search on the Brainzooming blog to track down content for an updated strategic thinking presentation uncovered it. The title is from a leadership presentation that I do. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

What do you think will be commonplace first – a car with NO ONE behind the wheel on the highway or no more cell phone calls where you must tell someone to repeat something because they dropped out? Which will disappear first – boring PowerPoint presentations or the K-Mart brand?

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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. For our purposes, “your people” comprises customers, colleagues, higher-ups, partners, collaborators, and, if possible, competitors.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

He was wrestling with a common challenge executives face when thinking about engaging an hourly workforce: How can I pull people off the line, shop floor, phones, or wherever else they are producing or serving customers to participate in this non-productive activity? Whether that concern surfaces immediately or later, it is always present.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass. A Narrow Strategic Planning Process. Despite repeated requests, no one ever surfaced this type of strategy document. Putting This to Use.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”.

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BrainZooming

MAY 13, 2016

The latest confirmation took place this week as we created and presented a new Brainzooming innovation workshop on how to develop insights to fuel innovation. We routinely present strategic thinking workshops on the exercises and tools The Brainzooming Group uses to develop and implement innovative ideas.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Ecosystem thinking and design are fundamental challenges to how existing organizations go about their business. Many businesses are claiming “ecosystem” but are, in fact, extending their present, established open innovation activities and placing a greater emphasis on open networking to seek out diverse ideas.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration. Interactive presentation software rather than static PowerPoint presentations. Our courses cover many business topics, from Coaching to Strategic thinking. These changes include: User increase on education platforms. Each comes with relevant resources and downloadable tools.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. This Brainzooming eBook will help identify additional possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jump start your innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2016

These strategic thinking questions pushed our thinking on potential internal and external partners, strategy changes, places to borrow short cut ideas, and new outreaches for support. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

Listening to the discussion among the team leader and other members of the organization driving the event, I grabbed paper, a Sharpie, and started organizing their aspirational comments into a presentation for the next day’s meeting. There may also be equally important creative thinking skills not included on the list.

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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 eBook includes three strategic thinking exercises you can use with your internal brand team to invite collaboration, solicit input, and create early learning opportunities.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and presenters included professionals from around the globe; educators, actors, consultants, special-effects supervisors, directors, musicians, and others. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you want strategic planning to be more productive in your organization, here are 13 ways our clients made it happen that you can do also: Be present and active throughout the process. Actively take part in identifying who to involve in the strategic planning process. Greet workshop participants as they arrive.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Innovation Perspectives – Taking the NO Out of InNOvation Presentation.

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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 initiative is all about better positioning Australia to enhance our global competitiveness.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

7 Tips to Improve Conference Call Presentations. 11 Examples of Strategic Thinking without an Offsite Meeting. Strategic Thinking – 12 Ways Project Teams Can Stay out of the Weeds. Creating Strategic Impact – 3 Project Management Steps to Productively Review Concepts. When Is a Meeting Over?

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