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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning. We have been preparing the strategic planning process design for this workshop over the last month. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. Create expanded roles to ensure partners can contribute their expertise and strategic thinking early. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. This design came about specifically for this client. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation? All that in the poster shown here.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Poor visibility into customer interactions or faulty customer experience strategy design could both be issues. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. That was the case in the grocery store.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out these quotes about Reid’s sources for innovative ideas: “He set up an R&D unit for offensive football, scouring film and tinkering with new play designs. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. Where does Andy Reid find innovative ideas?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

How do we eliminate so much time from typical strategic planning process approaches? 11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process. Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

They are taking time to design something they will likely never implement. The real market research design will only take shape after the client selects a vendor and meaningful exploration takes place. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Stimulate fresh thinking. Mike Brown. What to Leave Out?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas. By facilitating the strategic conversations in a targeted, productive way, even potentially off-topic chatter contributed to completing the strategic planning template we designed.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2016

I fielded a request for a few ideas on social engagement for an upcoming eBook an online company is creating. Shifting the focus to ongoing customer engagement, however, necessitated a different look than the one we’ve used for years in designing events. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. This Brainzooming eBook will help identify additional possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jump start your innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

We can design and implement an overall and initiative-specific process to foster and cultivate innovation across your organization. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The relationship between them was integral to the design and layout of the Idealoft. Enjoy the video and Chuck’s insights and expertise on how place influences creative thinking skills! If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While we are whole-hearted proponents of fun strategic planning activities , that doesn’t mean every strategic planning workshop we design and facilitate has exactly the same type of fun. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.”

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Other times it means giving old ideas a new day and putting solid tactics and strategic project management planning behind them to move them from ideas to implementation. Now, when designing a strategy workshop , we often start with time for participants to share ideas they are already bringing with them at the start.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design. Other than having pride of design, there was nobody else with any expectation of the certain way the project had to be. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! What are my pizza meetings?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

While we work aggressively to ensure a strongly diverse group that understands the issues we’re addressing , we’ll had this new question to our creative thinking workshop design process. Ultimately, business creativity is about creating strategic impact. Mike Brown. Scarce resources ? An overly-internal focus ?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

We design collaborative strategy planning for each client with a clear understanding of the overall goal. While the individual steps may seem to go in varied and unexpected directions, they’re all pointing toward the end result of a highly-actionable strategic plan. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The JetBlue training program fulfills the regulations along with extra training and measurement steps designed to (JetBlue hopes) demonstrate the greater efficacy of its alternatives approach to standard training. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2016

Designing the right type of workshop to help participants maximize their contributions. ” This free Brainzooming eBook highlights ten common organizational innovation barriers. Synthesizing pre-work into themes and directions to shape the innovation strategy (and workshop).

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

What are the different varieties, the implications behind a confidential information designation, and the way executives are using it? How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy? It was not a legal conversation (so don’t take his comments as legal advice).

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

While the two team approach was designed to keep the longer-term team from getting pulled into today’s fires, it presented challenges. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Pat formed two innovation teams. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

This transition forces me to formally communicate aspects of the Brainzooming brand, including strategic assumptions and brand personality, vocabulary, design standards, and other elements that have only been in my head until now. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

If you’re struggling with corporate branding decisions no one is moving forward to resolve, maybe it’s time to design new business cards. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , 5 Ways to Start Implementing Faster and Better!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The moves the Buffalo Bills are making and the associated reasons and benefits match closely to how The Brainzooming Group designs a strategy workshop. All those moves make sense and easily translate into a strategy workshop design. 6 Ways a Strategy Workshop Is Most Productive. Or, you can call The Brainzooming Group.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

The audience for the presentation consists of educators, landscape designers, government officials, and others involved with creating outdoor classrooms for children. Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. Things aren’t getting saner and more calm.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

Implement a Structure that Emphasizes Discussions on Strategic Priorities. Using what you identify during pre-meeting conversations, design a meeting format and structure to help the team focus on strategic issues. As you evaluate what is strategic, we recommend ignoring whether issues are long- or short-term.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2017

I don’t think we even asked if anyone had participated in an escape room before and had lessons to share. Without a designed project leader , the person that just found a clue or more boldly advanced an idea assumed leadership. We didn’t select a project leader. We didn’t assign any other specific roles, either.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Richt is prioritizing working with the team’s quarterbacks, designing game plans, and calling plays during the game. We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! That’s why some coaches are reversing the trend. Scarce resources ? Limited innovation perspectives ?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. Less than five minutes.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie Howell is a broadcast personality, producer, author, designer, and instructor in the DIY world. Ultimately, I would like to produce DIY programming in all different craft realms so that I can help other designers and hosts rise. I would executive produce them. Quilting, jewelry, sewing, maybe baking, that type of thing.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2017

Is there such a thing as a quick check to determine whether a strategic plan is on the right track or not ? While reviewing mini-strategic plans attendees developed at a recent logistics company customer event we facilitated, I relied on one that works well. 11 Ideas to Make a Strategic Planning Process More Fun!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

Stefan Mumaw, Director of Creative Strategy at Hint , shared a creative thinking exercise in a morning break segment. He gave us three minutes to imagine what might be part of a Swiss Army knife designed especially for a pirate. After finishing the creative thinking exercise, he asked us who had more than 50% of ideas that were absurd.

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