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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. As I always say, those searches are no surprise.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Split your group into two or four groups if it is large enough. If not, then let the entire group work on the four questions within this different SWOT strategic thinking exercise.

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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? Then contact us at The Brainzooming Group and let’s get started working together! Mike Brown.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Design itself is a product. Many groups in an organization have a thing that they “own” that gives them leverage in decisions. To break this conflict between early access and full process, our group developed a process to help executives visualize their ideas. He had lost the creative spirit. Therefore, we must do [X].

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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. such as The Brainzooming Group) can take the output from great strategic thinking exercises and shape it into templates.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. As I described it to an associate, facilitation may look easy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Friday’s priority involved finalizing a new product innovation workshop we’re developing in collaboration with a market research company for one of its clients. These weeks require shifting among groups of widely different sizes, community situations, and objectives. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I reminded them (in case no one ever had) that they had a HUGE brand role no matter how narrow everyone thinks they are as a group. A description of a job role isn’t identical to the description of how an individual or group can contribute to solid, dynamic, and innovative strategic thinking. The Strategic Thinking Lesson?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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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. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Related posts Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Small unknown group collaboration”. Group work”. Collaboration was so easy with the group that I was with.”. One of best group brainstorming sessions in a long time.”. Increase focus for your community with productive strategy questions everyone can use. The team interaction”. Very enjoyable and fun.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table !

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table ! 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

It’s a course for innovation project managers, consultants, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs who want to have more productive strategy, idea generation, and innovation action plans. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

We’ve found a few methods to be consistently helpful with the teams we work with: Blue Sky – Creative ideas are encourage without constraints, don’t let beliefs or even current technology limit you. Also, group performance gets worse as group size increases, so keep your group to 6 – 10 people. Kevin Dwinnell.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. But for many, a practice as spontaneous and creative as innovation may seem something incapable of being measured. DEDICATED METRICS.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. But for many, a practice as spontaneous and creative as innovation may seem something incapable of being measured. DEDICATED METRICS.

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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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