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Thinking Strategically – 32 Ideas for a Strategic Thinking-Friendly Office

BrainZooming

Someone searched and came to the Brainzooming.com website looking for strategic thinking in the office examples. While we have a post on doing thinking strategically without leaving the office , we don’t have anything on how the physical surroundings of an office can boost strategic thinking.

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8 Strategic Thinking Experiment Starters for Anticipating the Class of 2025

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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. What could we do better in this scenario?

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

This part of the document provides the guardrails and guidance and the essential encouragement to bring risk evaluations into all innovation conversations. Overall, an innovation mandate should be a comprehensive document that considers all relevant factors that contribute to successful innovation in the organization.

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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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10 Cues to Identify Strategic Themes in Your Ideas

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

BrainZooming

In that type of situation, we recommend using strong strategic thinking questions and frameworks to quickly understand the situation, the players, and the opportunities. Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. Getting to What Is Strategic.