Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Objectives might include reassessing market position, exploring new partnerships, or setting performance targets. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. Ensure that each objective is SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, if your team is heavy on big-picture thinkers, include activities that focus on detailed action planning to complement their strategic visions. Conversely, if your team excels in operational details, encourage activities that stretch their strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

You must be able to quickly run through the strategic theme cues whenever you are faced with large a volume of open-ended comments. Based on our experience, finding just the right number and range of strategic themes is one of the best methodologies you can employ to ensure broad strategic thinking AND clear steps to implement. – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking eBook Guidelines Exercises 81

BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

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 – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

They asked what they could do to better document strong processes. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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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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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Keep in mind that a strategic plan can no longer be a static document subject only to one- or five-year evaluations. Are there new opportunities for expanding the business, opening a new product line, or targeting a new market? Instead, the creation of strategy must be ongoing. What has changed?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. The common denominator was we’d help internal teams generate ideas, document and categorize them, and deliver a long organized list.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Documenting these starting points acknowledges current thinking and typically frees participants to consider new ideas. To accelerate thinking about new opportunities and approaches, ask unconventional strategic planning questions. Livening up strategic discussions with exercises designed to generate disruptive ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

If you have a clear strategic understanding of the needs of the business you are getting more of the understanding of where-to-play and how-to-win in your innovation activities and market investment. It becomes the “living” innovation document to refer too, engagement with (and improve).

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BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

I don’t want them to simply go into a big black box and then have to comb through a document or internal announcement later to see what happened after I was involved. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Let me know what’s going on.

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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

MAY 24, 2017

Beyond trade secrets and insider knowledge that could move markets, organizations consider a wide variety of information as confidential. ” Market-Moving and Insider Information. In these cases, you sign legal documents with specific parameters. The plan had to remain confidential to protect business relationships.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. That doesn’t mean, however, it works best for him or her to close the door and spend weeks trying to write a marketing plan individually. finance, operations, market research), and innovators (people that look at business situations differently).

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

After documenting the tactics, we used a Zoomference so the primary project team could efficiently and collaboratively identify timing for the six-hundred tactics in less than four hours – all online. We created a fast-paced half-day in-person workshop for a small group of sales and marketing leaders at an animal pharma company.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Conduct market research? After Discontinuity Futures. Would that company invest in R&D? Technology roadmapping?

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Leanstack

JUNE 9, 2015

Since then, lots have been published on strategic thinking and planning. In 1998, Henry Mintzberg proposed five ways of thinking about strategy: 1. Vision and strategy are foundational pieces in this pyramid, without which even a good product cannot withstand the weight of its market. as a plan, 2. as a pattern, 3.

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