BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

I suspect many, if not most industries, know there’s an elusive brand promise customers have been requesting for a long time that no competitor has figured out yet. One competitive response is to try to explain to customers why they don’t really need what they think they need.

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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. Ask them to provide concrete examples of when they devised creative solutions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Now apply that idea to the traditional industry knowledge – the conventional wisdom of your business. Conventional wisdom is especially prized by executives with tenure and experience in one industry, company, and/or discipline. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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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.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. But some things remain constant. Time is ticking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. Strategic Planning Process. Innovation.

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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. Increase the meeting’s speed and variety.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. LaRose Industries saw Walmart sales of its Cra-Z-Art glue increase over 50% monthly in the fall of 2016. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

This would happen irrespective of whether it was a brand from the same industry or a hotel, investment firm, or catalog company that wasn’t competing directly. You might say that passengers forgetting how to use cabs because of rideshare brands is all in the same industry. Granted, it’s all about getting from one place to another.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Additionally, there was a need to identify ways other businesses in comparable and far-flung industries are using this area to transform themselves. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

First and foremost, it was clear from our discussions that you need something that is on target strategically and not just interesting creatively. If there’s an organization that can come to the table and do strategy and tactics with previous experience in your industry, and do it all for the same price, that’s great.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The blog started on the Blogger platform in November 2007 after seeing Jessica Myers (who was at Garmin Industries at the time) speak at a conference about being able to start a blog for free in just ten minutes. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. MM, 2K, 2000. Yes, you can do too much of a good thing.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Positions itself as a poor industry member by playing up the biggest fear about your entire industry. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! We definitely have the ideas and experience to make it happen for you!

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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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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

However, as more companies and industries move to flexible work environments and hybrid schedules, business professionals have shifted how they approach workforce training. Our courses cover many business topics, from Coaching to Strategic thinking. Each comes with relevant resources and downloadable tools.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

We haven’t wavered from the initial reason for starting The Brainzooming Group: to take our learnings on simplifying, collaboratively approaching, and speeding up strategic planning to smart organizations wanting to conduct business differently. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. Evaluate if there’s a non-regulated aspect of your business, industry, or market that’s a close analogy to what’s regulated.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

By 2014, competitor innovation represented 35% of beer industry growth. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal featured a piece called “Two Cheers for Failure in a Tough Drug Industry,” by Jonathan D. Download your FREE copy of 7 Strategies to Conquer Your Organization’s Innovation Fears today! Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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