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8 Strategic Thinking Experiment Starters for Anticipating the Class of 2025

BrainZooming

His keynote got us thinking about how today’s ten-year-olds (the Class of 2025) will change the landscape for brands, following in the wake of the impact millennials have created. A Future-Looking Strategic Thinking Experiment. A Radically Different Audience Base. Where should the team start exploring?

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

Normally this innovation mandate comes in the form of a document, generally build up by a small team of senior leaders, innovation experts and subject matter experts. This part of the document provides the guardrails and guidance and the essential encouragement to bring risk evaluations into all innovation conversations.

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

BrainZooming

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic thinking about a new initiative. The challenge with using the big list of ideas they had created was they simply documented the list in the order in which each idea was identified. This was even before formally launching the initiative.

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). What you see as strategic may not be what others think is strategic.

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Innovations linkages to Strategy is vitally important

Paul Hobcraft

Having a distinct framework mechanism linking strategy and innovation becomes the innovation strategic foundation document that articulates innovation and provides the guiding aspects of innovation for others to work through. The establishing of innovation within any Strategic thinking is becoming even more important today than ever.

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27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy

BrainZooming

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing?

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How a Strategic Planning Process Impacts Communication Options

BrainZooming

From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision.