BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2017

This is the reason we are emphatic about having both line and functional leaders participate in strategic planning activities for functional departments. 2 Strategic Thinking Questions for Strategic Planning Activities in a Matrix Organization. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team!

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

We use a diagnostic with senior leadership teams that ties to the ten innovation barriers. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.” Tackling Innovation Barriers.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

After every idea is placed, the group engages in a strategic conversation about each idea’s placement. With more time, we frequently develop a decision support tool for a client to use in prioritizing strategic opportunities. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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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. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A search on the Brainzooming blog to track down content for an updated strategic thinking presentation uncovered it. The title is from a leadership presentation that I do. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! It was written back in my corporate days during the blog’s first year (June 27, 2008).

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

What the prospective client wants to achieve: “We’ve sold-in a specific strategic planning process methodology, so that’s the approach we need to take.”. The best way to make it happen: We’re proposing arranging our strategic planning exercises within the framework they have already advanced.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

Typical complaints about a strategic planning process. If you have a role in strategic planning, do any of these describe your situation? You have a strategic plan completed by a small senior leadership team. The executive director, on the other hand, is not inclined to want to complete a strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

On a personal basis, certain strategic leadership basics are a good place to start adjusting your attitude and growth as a strategic leader. We offer a wide variety of strategic thinking exercises to change perspectives and look at day-to-day and longer-term problems in novel ways. Limited innovation perspectives

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are many temptations out there to cut corners, take the easy but questionable way, or engage in behaviors that seem okay in secret but are clearly not okay when exposed in the light of day. Provides the opportunity to engage with people daily. Daily mass creates engagement with other people first thing.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. Based on the results, it has a new role as a strategic planning question. The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

Thinking further about the leadership qualities it takes to successfully engage an innovation strategy in disguise reminded me of a litany of humility I read frequently. An Innovator’s Prayer for Humility. As an innovation leader, pursuing an innovation strategy in disguise requires a different perspective. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Current Orange Socks. The presentation took place at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs play.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I long ago learned an important lesson about corporate branding decisions : no matter how many intriguing, mentally-engaging brand strategy conversations you have among senior executives, those conversations NEVER lead to final decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

When details emerge, record and organize them in a way that both highlights their strategic nature and provides a visual aid to align the group. We’ve used this technique to allow a leadership team the flexibility to talk in an open format, while capturing their strategic insights and organizing them in a way they can productively use.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. I was working yesterday on designing an upcoming strategic planning Zoomference for a client.

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