BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? Under that scenario, you say ‘Where is the new company that’s doing EV charging on street corners or in my highway entrance?’ ” Yes, the role is different.

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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. The result?

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Strategy Strategy 89

Idea to Value

JULY 9, 2021

A few years ago I had a very interesting discussion with Lisa Bodell , CEO of Futurethink and bestselling author of innovation books Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. Fortunately, she has a simple exercise to help eliminate wasted effort: Kill a stupid rule. They were too busy to get any real work done throughout the day.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 27, 2018

One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is to hold a session where a team role plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand. As far as the ground rules for this ideation session, any ideas should be welcomed—and the cultural antibodies of HOW WE HAVE.

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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. They present an opportunity for you to reassess the company’s direction, realign with the core values, and ensure that every leader is committed to a shared vision.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

The point these individuals (who are usually innovation experts that comment on other companies’ content without ever generating any innovation strategy content of their own) make is that a whole variety of factors contribute to disruptive innovation. 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 14, 2016

One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is hold a session where a team role-plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand. Continue reading →

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Untreated mental illness impacts companies through lost productivity , higher healthcare costs , more disability claims , and higher turnover. Leading companies have recognized this and are offering mental health benefits to help employees get the care they need. However, not all employee benefit programs are created equal.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Alignment on Vision and Goals : Time spent together allows for robust discussions, ensuring everyone is aligned with the company’s vision and strategic goals. Increased Morale and Engagement : Offsites can also serve as a team-building exercise, boosting morale and increasing engagement among team members.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Find vision templates that can help your organization focus on company or product direction and goals. Company Vision Workshop – Miro. This template from Miro is a great place to start if you are working on developing an overarching, tangible company or organization-wide vision. Vision Storyboard – MURAL.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

In my corporate days, I was dispatched to work with competitive companies our corporation purchased. Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. Practical Exercises to Encourage Innovative Thinking To cultivate an innovative mindset, leadership development programs should incorporate practical exercises that challenge leaders to think outside the box.

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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! In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next. Outrageous.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

As the workforce mental health provider for more than 2 million Americans, Lyra Health is transforming the way companies care for the well-being of employees and their families. Offered as a benefit for self-insured companies, Lyra Health is changing the way employers across the globe offer mental healthcare services.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface. That is no surprise.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups. Plan If You Can.

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Planview

MARCH 7, 2018

In this article, I’m going to share a simple exercise that can help you help decision makers decide which idea – or ideas – to invest in. With the right people, a concept development exercise can be run on a few key ideas in a half or full day. Often, these can lead to bigger business impact. Concept development.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Companies often have three levels in the management hierarchy: frontline, mid-level, and senior-level leadership. Provides companies with solutions in times of uncertainty. Offers a structure for companies to improve their teamwork capabilities. Fosters innovation by challenging team members to explore other work frontiers.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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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. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Here are a few actions that we recommend at Mind Share Partners, a national nonprofit that’s changing the culture of workplace mental health through public awareness, professional communities, and strategic training and advising to leading companies: 1. Share your story. This is one of the most powerful things that all leaders can do.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 8, 2020

I have done this activity with the names of Fortune 50 companies; the top 50 companies focused on sustainability, etc. For example, if you were to pretend to be the CEO of Amazon (Jeff Bezos), based on the characteristics of that company, what advice would he give you regarding a future product or service?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

According to research conducted by findcourses.com , companies with real revenue growth were more than twice as likely to use innovative training techniques in their L&D strategy. Companies that foster and encourage innovation were also significantly more likely to have satisfied or highly satisfied employees. The Main Points.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It isn’t just tech companies and startups that are emphasizing innovation, but businesses in all industries and of all sizes. As a result of increased focus on innovation, innovation training programs are springing up – both inside companies and as entities that are marketed to businesses. Key Elements of Innovation Training.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 20, 2022

Having worked with innovation teams from global companies like Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Disney, Medtronic and many others, there’s one consistent success factor when it comes to innovation, no matter what you’re doing: it all starts with the customer.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 9, 2022

The most important part of this exercise isn’t to point out that an assumption may have been made in the first place – it’s only natural to do so. This exercise will help you better understand what’s most important to further explore so you can broaden your perspective. But of course, that’s not the case.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future. This exercise should be thorough, as it lays the groundwork for informed strategy development.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 26, 2021

” I’ve used this exercise both in my boutique hotel company, Joie de Vivre, as well as at Airbnb. Sometimes, we have to get back to the essence of why we’re in business. A question every hospitality leader should ask themselves is this, “What business are we in?”

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

The principle behind this exercise is simple yet profound: if team members are hesitant in their personal buying decisions, how can they expect to act differently with prospects? Bridging the Gap between Thought and Action: This exercise pushes team members out of their comfort zones, forcing them to act rather than overthink.

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Idea to Value

MAY 26, 2017

Go through a warm up exercise wherein the brand has been newly acquired and they are there to rebirth it. Now, go through an Orthodoxy exercise to make all inherent bias explicit. Then, run a Business Model Canvas exercise on the existing model. Then, arm the team with stories of other companies who have made a similar leap.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Leaders looking to enhance their empathy skills can benefit from active listening exercises and empathy training. Empathy Exercises: Engage in exercises to enhance empathy. Cultural Sensitivity Being aware and respectful of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. Exercising. You're busy. The result?

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Innovation Leader

MAY 22, 2020

Few companies have experienced more of a surge of customer interest than Peloton Interactive, the maker of Internet-linked exercise bikes. We spoke to Rick Paster, Peloton’s VP of M&A Integration…

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Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Launched in 2018, the program initially served as an exploration exercise to build internal capacity for managing its partnerships. Feasibility (given the challenges startups face when collaborating with a multinational company, will it practically work?) The Zurich Innovation Championship is an important link in this chain.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

An internal consultant at a healthcare company asked about ways to add value to many open-ended comments using a group strategic thinking exercise. Because a market researcher at her organizations facilitates the same exercise with their leadership team every year. The exercise will provide additional flavor to dry statistics.

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