BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Cheerleading for creativity in business isn’t difficult. Yet, you see people, departments, and organizations where overtly expressing creative appreciation doesn’t happen naturally – or happen at all. It could be nobody realized it is good business and good manners to appreciate creativity in business. A clever idea.

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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. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 40

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. The answer was easy: Yes!

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Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 72

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. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Creating Strategic Impact mini-book. Just Start!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We review the importance of including front-line decision makers, functional experts, and individuals with creative perspectives. 9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Great branding strategy examples abound. If your organization specializes in one particular area, your branding strategy discussions should include the question: “If our customers can think it, can we make it?” 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. We were in St. Flexibility?

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Strategy Strategy Guidelines Engagement 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There is a mutual contribution from both parties toward the strategy and ideas. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. 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.

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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. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Collaborating on a Vision Statement.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

mini-Book, we ask a question about the biggest strategy implementation opportunity or challenge the individual is facing in his or her organization. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. New Business Ideas and a Creative Block in Your Organization. Someone downloaded Results!!! Just Start!

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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. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Many consultants focus only on the first type of structure.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Collaboration Strategy 40

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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Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. While we perform a tremendous amount of what we do online via our Zoomference online collaboration platform , engaging people directly always pushes what we do into new areas.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. 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

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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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 40

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. What worked for you? – Mike Brown.

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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. Incubate ideas with visuals.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Have a strong grounding in business, creative, innovation, and strategic principles. Want to have someone outside your company make your strategic planning work for you in a creative, mentally stimulating and result-oriented way? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Willing to both serve and challenge participants.

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Collaboration Groups Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Strategic Thinking Innovation Engagement Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What is the business strategy behind launching this new program? 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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. And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 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. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking Engagement Tips Strategy 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy Tips 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 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. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 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. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement Tools 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

It’s often a challenge to describe what Brainzooming is to people that haven’t participated directly in collaborative strategy or innovation workshops. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Community to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your community with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Collaboration Exercises Strategic Thinking Brainstorming 40

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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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. But making fifty top executives “guess” and articulate what the CEO already thinks (which is very common) is a recipe for wasted time and a frustrating strategy meeting. – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Here are some key benefits: Increased Productivity : Teams that collaborate effectively often see a significant boost in productivity, as streamlined communication minimizes downtime and maximizes efficiency. Virtual teams bring together varied experiences and skills, leading to more creative solutions.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

It continues the conversation and creates a dialogue for greater understanding – vitally important when planning for our product and engaging with its potential customers. Creative Excursions – When you are up against a roadblock or need a breakthrough, creative excursions attempt to relax our strong internal censoring device.

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Ideation Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Technical Review 48

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

A marketing page is one version of the minimum viable product. Engaging with potential customers, right from the beginning, and learning what they want is an essential skill. Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI and powerful scenario-analysis capabilities will be crucial for assessing strategies against opportunity costs, product trade-offs, and the overall inherent risks of an R&D portfolio. These efforts should be crucial elements of any strategy aimed at driving long-term success and profitability.

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