BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We provided strategic thinking questions of their own to use, including: “That’s great and how can we do that _?” That role went to the group’s senior executive to focus us on transformative ideas during a strategic thinking exercise involving imagining Chick-fil-A designing their customer experience strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

Facing a complete business shutdown, our team used a combination of strategic thinking and real-time course correction to stay engaged with and attempt to re-win the customers we couldn’t currently serve. Prioritize Strategic Issues. We’ve always preached that the definition of strategic doesn’t include a time component.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

Because expertise is central to the organization’s products, it has only considered a very strict definition for the attribute. One meeting participant said this type of strategic thinking was a breakthrough for them. If that seems to be the case, rethink your narrow definitions of brand attributes.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2023

If you have questions that work in one situation, you definitely want to make sure you use them again. I’m not sure when I first realized that one of my life’s passions was collecting questions. I guess it probably had to be early in my corporate career when market research became a greater focus in my job.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 13, 2016

In Henry Mintzberg’s 1994 landmark book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, the author calls for a new method to create effective strategies. He notes that, “Strategic planning isn’t strategic thinking. Mintzberg draws a definitive line between those that create strategy and those that devise the plan,

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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. Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is.

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

Enabling organizations – strategic roadmaps, IT optimization, operating model definition. Strategic Thinking. Solving complex problems – capability transformation, large-scale program delivery and turnaround. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management. Agile Engineering Practices. DevOps Practices. Business Strategy.

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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. Diane modified “Revel” to become “Reveal,” which creates an additive impact to the formula since you definitely have to let the world know about your innovation!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Start by making sure your definition is up to date. Its definition has expanded, if not outright exploded, and now there’s much more space at this particular table. What’s definitely necessary is to have the feedback of multiple representatives from each group. 3 Keys to Creating Cool Brands from Boring Brands. Define Cool.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

He streamlined traditional steps, introducing fun videos, and creating a tolerable experience for executives creating a strategic plan over a weekend. If this guy could do it in two days, we DEFINITELY could! Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The reality is, we are going to need new strategic thinking, and new strategic models, to face all of the change that is about to unfold in the next 10-20 years. We will definitely live in interesting times, very soon if not already. It's entirely possible that many jobs will disappear, with humans replaced by robots.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

One of the basic troubles increasingly today is we are not in the world of stable markets, we are seeing increasing competitive intensity and challenges to market definitions that are radically altering how we proceed. One suggestion here is the adoption of the choice cascade model , discussed later as part of the suggested solution.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2016

When it comes to competitive strategy, you definitely want to take advantage of the power of surprise whenever and wherever possible. Here’s the big strategic thinking question: Who can best shed light on when your brand is defaulting to “never and always” in your competitive strategy?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A big part of making strategic planning fun, however, involves focusing on boring details that create a fun* experience. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*. Letting everyone know upfront that WE will handle turning the input into a strategic plan (so they don’t have to).

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2015

It’s also definitely not for the faint of heart. Exploring those varied types of expertise in future weeks will help determine this innovation expert definition yet. 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople. Thinking about innovative sales people I have known, how we teach strategic and creative thinking skills to sales teams, and strategic thinking questions we use to spur new thinking, here are ten questions to identify innovative thinking in salespeople.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. That was definitely true. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Because of this, the list was worthless for doing what I suspect everyone hoped it would do: provide a starting point for the strategic thinking needed to back into a definition of and explanation for what the new initiative would turn out to be. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises.

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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. We definitely have the ideas and experience to make it happen for you! FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. The key principles of strategic thinking Limit your time: strategic thinking is all about efficiency.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

We definitely have the experience and proven processes to bring your community together productively and successfully! – Mike Brown. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for ways to create robust and productive collaboration within their communities. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Community to Create Stronger Results.

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CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2019

We believe the answer is “yes,” and we have chosen to stand by definitions of those terms that are similar to the position of professors at Harvard Business School. and gives you a deeper way of thinking about strategy that can help you in your role. They might even scrap their current model completely and adopt an entirely new one.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I think “Adorable as it is infuriating” (via Emma Alvarez Gibson) could be the definition for smooth jazz. I’m not sure who it is, but it’s definitely not coming from me. Some organizations make decisions based on deciding. Others make them based on no one disagreeing. That’s a huge difference.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The Brainzooming eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning,” has generated lots of downloads since we published it during the early days of strategy season. The eBook shares ideas we developed in the past ten-plus years to create fun strategic planning exercises. – Mike Brown. Need Ideas to Make Strategy Planning Fun?

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Provides a definitive start each day. Strategic Thinking – Are You Leaving Room for Unknown Ideas? All this time spent in church during the heart of my business career has profoundly shaped my perspective and learning. In what ways, you might ask? For me, attending mass daily.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

For planning and implementing strategy, the need is for a broad definition that encompasses both ‘today-for-today’ and ‘today-for-tomorrow’ … The primordial task of leadership is the strategic one of moving the company towards the future.”.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You will get a sense of someone who, while obviously devoting himself to his job, his organization, and his players, definitely realizes his job is not bigger than he is. I would encourage you, however, to watch the press conference video. – Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

You may have to do homework on yourself and your own background to flesh out the definition and range of your expertise. Even if you expertise is narrow, you can generalize it and apply it to analogous or comparable situations. You don’t have to be smarter than other people in the field.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If you really doubt a supporter’s intentions toward you, try operating as if the person that selected you wants to be fantastic and is definitely going to be your biggest fan! No one wants to be the person having to self-admit such things. Because when you succeed, your supporter looks smart.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2016

It highlighted that “innovation” is a popular topic throughout the year, and confirmed that “strategic planning” is most popular during the late summer and early fall months. Never having used this approach to shaping a content calendar, I can’t report what it does to grow visits.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

The definition of agility isn’t just about being adaptable. Agility is the ability to think and understand quickly, so you can move faster and easier. Strategic thinking. The agile approach accelerates and leverages continuous learning, which reduces the overall risk of your project. It’s a mindset.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. That’s a bunch of creative thinking exercises for thirty minutes. We’ll definitely be going through it quickly, so I’m guessing even attendees will find value in these links. New, Innovative Ideas with What’s It Like. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Answering these questions is integral to identifying profitable opportunities and trying to over-penetrate lucrative market segments your brand can own definitively. #3 3 – Strategic Imperative: Leapfrog on what’s next or what’s after what’s next.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2015

It’s not always easy to know when patience has outlived its usefulness, and the time to definitely act has arrived. Judging whether you are making progress can be way more abstract than you would think it ever should be.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Convergent Thinking Week – A BDTP Perspective. Getting done can definitely be more important than being perfect. When time is running down on a project you have approached with higher than expected standards, consider relaxing those standards. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done.

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