Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Most organizations are seeking solutions to the necessary connections between Strategy and Innovation. Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Innovation needs a much stronger alignment to strategy, they need connecting far better.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

Strategic thinking : Participants should be able to think strategically and understand the broader context of the collaboration. They should be able to identify opportunities and challenges, assess risks and benefits, and develop strategies to achieve the collaboration’s objectives.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. They asked what they could do to better document strong processes. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Step 1: Select 10 to 15 very successful engagements.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

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. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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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.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. Getting to What Is Strategic.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Trait IQ EQ Nature Cognitive Emotional Focus Problem-solving Interpersonal skills Stability Relatively static Can be developed Leaders with high IQ may excel in strategic thinking and technical skills, but those with high EQ are often better at inspiring, motivating, and connecting with their teams.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We worked with a client to facilitate an information technology strategy vision. From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. Despite repeated requests, no one ever surfaced this type of strategy document.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When crises arise, strategic plans are often affected dramatically. As they respond to the situation at hand, leaders understand that they have to keep the overarching business strategy in mind to ensure continued success—in the day-to-day work and in the future. Instead, the creation of strategy must be ongoing.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. Gain a sense of what people already think. Learn what insights the participants already have and don’t have.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. The common denominator was we’d help internal teams generate ideas, document and categorize them, and deliver a long organized list. We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence looked at how you focus a distracted organization on an implementation strategy to align and focus activities. Here is a recommendation to make it happen through taking on three different strategic roles. . Not an easy task.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. The next step is documenting all the topics on a content calendar.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

MAY 13, 2016

We’ve said it before, experience its confirmation repeatedly, and will thus say it again: One of the best ways to learn more about what you know is to teach it to someone else. We routinely present strategic thinking workshops on the exercises and tools The Brainzooming Group uses to develop and implement innovative ideas.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 7, 2023

Strategic thinking : Participants should be able to think strategically and understand the broader context of the collaboration. They should be able to identify opportunities and challenges, assess risks and benefits, and develop strategies to achieve the collaboration’s objectives.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

In an edited excerpt, here is what they shared in their Inside the Executive Suite column about streamlining strategic planning. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning. Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

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. The thing is, they had done the hard strategic thinking and already had all the raw material they needed. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2016

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence shared, via their “Inside the Executive Suite” feature , a number of ideas to improve the effectiveness of rolling out your strategic planning document for the upcoming year. Making an Impact with this Year’s Strategic Planning Document. Don’t be ridiculous.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Yet, a client approached us to design and conduct a cross-operation innovation strategy engagement focused solely on identifying problems. If you need to heavy-up on problem identification as part of your innovation strategy, here were some of our learnings about the process. Go Deeper and Document. Identifying Pains.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Our priest asked during a recent homily at daily mass if we see the same type of miracles today that are documented in the Gospels. For organizational innovation success, contact The Brainzooming Group to help your team be more successful by rapidly expanding strategic options and creating innovative growth strategies.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts. RIM’s strategy depended on corporate IT adoption with centralized management, control and security of the devices.

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