Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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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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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

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. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. An Alternative Strategic Thinking Exercise to Develop a Vision Statement.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. With groups changing out every few hours, there was a continual, tight window to get all the input we’d need to build out a strategic plan and timeline for our client’s strategic initiative.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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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. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 40

BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Engaging Employees.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 27, 2015

The reason is that working from the incredible resource of strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, and collaborative models The Brainzooming Group has created, what Brainzooming does can vary dramatically for each client engagement.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

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. To optimise co-creation.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises. We’ve done this hundreds of times, so we know how to adapt our strategic planning methodology so it’s highly efficient for you. We bring the fun to strategic planning , so the time will zoom by more quickly than you can ever imagine.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking eBook Roadmap 74

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. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. Engaging Employees in High Turnover Situations. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure these leaders are equipped to fulfill their role in shaping innovation, it’s essential to provide them with the right tools and training through leadership development programs and leadership development workshops. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

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. Engaging atypical stakeholders and experts for input.

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Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Strategy 66

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Looking for the Elusive Big Idea during Strategic Planning. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking Skills – Using Questions and Structure Successfully. Just Start! Mike Brown.

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

Shame on me, but I’ve never put the criteria I look for from a business collaboration into the type of strategic decision making tool we develop for clients. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. – Mike Brown.

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking 92

Idea Champions

MAY 15, 2019

Here's what three savvy PR professionals at Purple Strategies had to say about Idea Champions' highly engaging brainstorm facilitation training: Conducting Genius. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Letting everyone know upfront that WE will handle turning the input into a strategic plan (so they don’t have to). Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

Short Story: You can take serious questions and wrap them in child-like situations to add fun and new thinking to a strategic planning process. One way to create greater engagement during a strategic planning process is through framing important questions in new ways. Jack and his Extreme Creativity Beans.

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Creativity Strategic Management Strategic Thinking Exercises 73

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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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

Business Impact: Executives typically think about current competitors and ways to outsmart them. How often do you engage your team in developing and implementing strategies to wear down your competitors’ resources to create new advantage for your brand? #3 Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. 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. So, have you ever faked your way to a successful start?

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For instance, the team needs to select, adapt and provide ideation and brainstorming tools, platforms to set up programming and ideation challenges like hackathons , ideas processing pipelines, information sharing applications etc. You need strategic thinking to plan the innovation transformation journey. To innovate by example.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years.

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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. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

"Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. The Idea Champions Conducting Genius training gave us the tools to better unleash the full potential of our employees and clients. And we had fun while doing it!

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Brainstorming Training Creativity Ideation 22

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I spent many late nights modifying each workshop format to change them enough to keep the participants (and me) engaged, mentally sharp, and creative. 9 Ways to Keep Strategic Planning Process Exercises Fresh Every Year. Change just one element of an exercise as an experiment in improving your process and adding variety.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. 3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016. Today, here are three valuable creative thinking skills ideas no matter where your creative community is located.

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