BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Now apply that idea to the traditional industry knowledge – the conventional wisdom of your business. Conventional wisdom is especially prized by executives with tenure and experience in one industry, company, and/or discipline. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. LaRose Industries saw Walmart sales of its Cra-Z-Art glue increase over 50% monthly in the fall of 2016. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

I suspect many, if not most industries, know there’s an elusive brand promise customers have been requesting for a long time that no competitor has figured out yet. One competitive response is to try to explain to customers why they don’t really need what they think they need.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

They counter suggesting strategic thinking questions as a starting point over-promises and ignores all the other dynamics involved. Industry and market dynamics. If you need to start the difficult strategic conversations on disruptive innovation strategy, Disrupting Thinking is for you! Our response?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

This would happen irrespective of whether it was a brand from the same industry or a hotel, investment firm, or catalog company that wasn’t competing directly. You might say that passengers forgetting how to use cabs because of rideshare brands is all in the same industry. Granted, it’s all about getting from one place to another.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

What are the stupid unwritten rules in our industry we must upend right away? NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Disruption.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Since the release of Idea Magnets, we’ve delivered unique creative thinking workshops for companies such as Farmers Insurance , Cerner Corporation , and Amsted Industries. Your Go-To Resource for High-Impact Creative Thinking! Want your own ready-to-go supply of creative thinking questions?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Additionally, there was a need to identify ways other businesses in comparable and far-flung industries are using this area to transform themselves. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

Are there industry associations with ideas on answers or research methods to make us smarter? NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. Strategic Planning Process. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

You probably can’t stop, research different strategic thinking exercises, and incorporate them into your strategy session. What can you do right away to turn deadly strategic thinking exercises into fun strategic planning exercises? Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Positions itself as a poor industry member by playing up the biggest fear about your entire industry. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

They are out there; we’ve worked with them across industries. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! We definitely have the ideas and experience to make it happen for you!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

If there’s an organization that can come to the table and do strategy and tactics with previous experience in your industry, and do it all for the same price, that’s great. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. They’d be the smart choice over us. Then get the right partners to implement it.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The blog started on the Blogger platform in November 2007 after seeing Jessica Myers (who was at Garmin Industries at the time) speak at a conference about being able to start a blog for free in just ten minutes. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! MM, 2K, 2000.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. Evaluate if there’s a non-regulated aspect of your business, industry, or market that’s a close analogy to what’s regulated.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

However, as more companies and industries move to flexible work environments and hybrid schedules, business professionals have shifted how they approach workforce training. Our courses cover many business topics, from Coaching to Strategic thinking. Each comes with relevant resources and downloadable tools.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Working with five separate groups for an industrial manufacturer changing a major manufacturing process, we identified more than six hundred tactics for the multi-year initiative during a two-day in-person workshop. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. Industry and market dynamics. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Brand benefits and value propositions.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

We haven’t wavered from the initial reason for starting The Brainzooming Group: to take our learnings on simplifying, collaboratively approaching, and speeding up strategic planning to smart organizations wanting to conduct business differently. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

By 2014, competitor innovation represented 35% of beer industry growth. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! In 2012, competitor innovation accounted for just 5% of growth in the beer market; Anheuser-Busch was the overwhelming leader in innovation-driven growth.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. Best practices common in your industry. Best practices common in other industries that are relevant to your own. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

So, the programming industry has had to completely hustle like the rest of us. And because I’d been in the entertainment industry, as you know, since I was 18 or 19, on and off, I knew a lot of it. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills!

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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic being part of our lives for a much longer time than expected, this worldwide crisis has shown strategists the limits of traditional strategic thinking. For more information about the approach, download our brochure. Download brochure. The BMI Lab, a spin-off of the University of St.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal featured a piece called “Two Cheers for Failure in a Tough Drug Industry,” by Jonathan D. Download your FREE copy of 7 Strategies to Conquer Your Organization’s Innovation Fears today! Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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