BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

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

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2016

We (and by “we” I mean “I”) would like to believe we’re strong at strategic thinking in business. And an appreciation of strategic thinking from a business perspective SHOULD extend over into ALL the decisions we make. Need a few examples to back that claim up? Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case.

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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. Productive Structure for Strategic Planning Exercises.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In business, you’re usually equal parts discovering problems AND using creative problem solving to address the issues. They wanted to leave the creative problem solving for later. The innovation opportunity in this example? Trying Painstorming Before Creative Problem Solving. Instead, we took a different approach.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

The key is to design exercises that simulate actual challenges leaders may face in their roles. Activities may include role-playing, simulations, or hands-on projects that require collaboration and strategic thinking. The goal is for participants to apply theoretical knowledge in a controlled, risk-free setting.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2016

4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be a Smarter Innovation Strategy. Finally, in a seemingly far afield example, George Varga interviewed musician, Billy Joel for the San Diego Union Tribune. This extends to the classically-oriented pieces he finds more creatively intriguing. Yet, consider these stories.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

We haven’t talked about stealing (or copying) ideas as a creative strategy for some time. There’s a fun example, however, of what might be considered a double idea steal in the marketplace via Snickers wrappers. Translated into a creative strategy formula, it’s an example of “Lead, Copy (1 and 2), Swerve, Integrate, Go.”

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Decompose the vision into strategic dimensions. Strategic dimensions are areas where an organization has the opportunity to make major decisions or where industry players are creating competitive advantage. Examples include: Business models. We cannot share client-specific examples here on the blog. Market areas served.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2016

One of my favorite things is when clients, blog readers, and Brainzooming workshop attendees use our strategic thinking exercises to explore new ideas. The most recent example came our way this weekend. Thanks, Diane, for expanding the range of Brainzooming tools with your creativity and skill! – Mike Brown.

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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. 5 Ways to Boost Your Innovation Strategy’s Efficiency.

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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. Short story, on the client side, I found that getting the right strategy consistently led to getting the creative right. Our approach and experience will deliver solid strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As an example, we’ve been scoping a number of innovation initiatives for a client. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Each situation came to us as an innovation strategy challenge.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

The instructor pointed out a specific example of how this happens with customer expectations. While his point resonated, there weren’t many direct examples to prove out his perspective. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

We talk about Southwest Airlines frequently example in Brainzooming branding and content marketing workshops. 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 26, 2016

One example might be the bakery that occasionally and somewhat randomly gives you a free donut because you’re a familiar face, not because of a loyalty program. 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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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. 5 WAYS TO SHARPEN YOUR SOFT SKILLS .

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. 5 WAYS TO SHARPEN YOUR SOFT SKILLS .

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 25, 2016

We wrote recently about lowering the stakes for sharing creative ideas. The question emerged of how much prior thinking to share with the newly involved participants. Customizing and sequencing exercises based on what participants are thinking and need to accomplish (instead of some standard arrangement that’s always the same).

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2015

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.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Example – A cereal or candy brand marketing itself as a brand you remember from childhood). Reintroduction – This strategic option involves updating the brand promise, elements, and experience to reflect current capabilities, knowledge, and market realities. Everything else is completely redesigned and modernized.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These examples can get you thinking about new ways to streamline innovation. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. What Else Do You Need? Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 17, 2015

” Another possibility is using a benefits exercise to understand what you do (i.e., Example titles include everything from “Olympic Athlete,” to “Fat Woman,” to “A Questioning Christian, to “Iraq War Veteran,” to “Homeless Man.” Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of 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. What can other regulated businesses learn from the JetBlue example that they can adapt? Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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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. First though, a little background.

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BrainZooming

MAY 26, 2017

We haven’t road tested this exercise for generating product branding ideas. Ask: What brand attributes from our higher value / more significant offers can we use to sell-in something less? From the Brainzooming Product Branding Lab. If you beat us to putting it into practice, let us know how it works! – Mike Brown. Try these 6 Steps.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Chuck shared the following example to push the participants toward greater specificity in the ideas they shared. But you can’t implement them.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Great branding strategy examples abound. I think we just stumbled over our newest brand experience exercise! – Mike Brown. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. We were in St. Joseph, MO for a client session.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Such big-picture visions of the future can provide insights that expand and influence current strategic thinking, but they often lack the specifics to effectively inform current actions. Develop Backstory: Forces and Trends are the Creative Drivers of Futures. For example, blockchain is an enabling technology.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

My most memorable example of this goes back to early in my career. When we started developing our varied extreme creativity questions and exercises to drive bolder business strategy, however, one of the approaches was to actively consider that an organization isn’t going to make choices.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2016

We were on a call with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was exhibiting. 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills. How are you doing on these 7 creative thinking skills?

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