BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Download this free, concise ebook to: Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

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. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! A few minutes =.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation. Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 18, 2018

Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success? If not, it is time right now to download your free copy of Disrupting Thinking – 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Brand Before Someone Else Disrupts You!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Many executives visiting the Brainzooming website for the first time review dozens of pages of articles and downloads. This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change. How Much Do You Love Free, Fun Strategic Planning Advice?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

Beyond these articles, it’s a wonderful time with strategic planning coming up for many firms, to download the free Brainzooming eBook, Disrupting Thinking – 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Own Brand Before Someone Else Disrupts You! . 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Breaking a Business.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They are handled out of context strategically , looking at the business by department instead of by initiative. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If you are responsible for leading the strategic planning process at your organization, dive in and tweak your process to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement. 12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process. 5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

I’m also enough of a realist and have been around the block enough times to not cling to those expectations about how a strategic planning process has to work. 7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf). This type of strategic planning process: Guides the organization to greater success.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

If any of that sounds like what you have in front of you for this year, we invite you to peruse our list of free innovation strategy eBooks and download all of them that will help you be more efficient and effective in the year ahead. Outside-In Innovation Strategic Thinking Tools. 5 Innovation Strategy eBooks from Brainzooming.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

This suggests that there are multiple failure points within the management of innovation. These can only come from formulating strategic thinking between the strategy of the organization (its goals, mission and visions) and innovation, for it to be directed in its efforts to contribute to these aims and growth aspirations.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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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. 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

MARCH 8, 2016

When individuals download our free Results!!! Someone downloaded Results!!! and listed “unfreezing (a) team, moving forward, and preparing for growth” as the strategic task at hand. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Our objective was to provide the innovation strategy workshop participants a chance to vary their activities, work with new people, self-manage their performance on a creative thinking exercise, and have a chance to win a prize (the orange socks). Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Vision Statement Impact. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

What’s the project management answer to addressing this tendency among teams and team members? The acronym represents someone we’re always looking for in project management to make sure we will make progress. The DRI concept, however, obviously extends into all project management situations. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2017

7 Forgotten Project Management Skills from an Escape Room Fail. Our fail suggested seven solid project management skills we neglected to use. If you’re visiting an escape room or are suddenly hit with a new, time-constrained challenge, here are the project management skills you shouldn’t forget!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

That’s why our approach is all about collaborating with a client’s management group, broader team, and even outside audiences to build on their understanding. For management teams that simply want an outside partner to go off and come up with all the ideas and pitch them, we aren’t a good fit.”

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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. Implementation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

What research methods can we use to reach out to customers on a manageable scale to gain their perspectives? 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 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

Prioritizing Strategic Opportunities. One frequent prioritization approach works well when we have tons of ideas in a strategy workshop and need to quickly (and spontaneously) narrow them to a manageable number. Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO! We divide the number of participants into that number.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

How closely will management expect teams to follow the plan? These questions will help you evaluate the right types of strategic planning exercises. Let’s talk about how to streamline your strategic planning to maximize collaboration and strategic impact. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

That insight drives the smart change management steps needed to navigate each innovation challenge. Managing with an exclusively short-term focus. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. Strategy Barriers.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

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. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2016

Here’s the big strategic thinking question: Who can best shed light on when your brand is defaulting to “never and always” in your competitive strategy? Your marketing and brand managers MAY be able to point out places where THEY have gone to the same old, same old in their strategic planning and implementation.

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