BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On the other hand, Moody's new products are incubated in dedicated business units, completely ring-fenced from business as usual. In contrast, a centralized innovation group focuses on making the overall innovation process more efficient and smoother across the company. In other words, what is the best way to bring the business along?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. The group did include several different sales groups. The Canadian were also largely grouped in pockets throughout the audience.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table !

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table ! 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

And not only does it help them develop the current strategy, using productive strategic planning exercises helps them learn to be more effective in future strategic planning. such as The Brainzooming Group) can take the output from great strategic thinking exercises and shape it into templates.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

And while they don't mind being hands-on⃜ being makers if you will, they simply cannot tolerate slow execution of stale product lines. In the age of Content Marketing and MakerBots, they want to fail fast, learn fast, and get to market fast with awesome new products. ¹ Name credited to Thomas M.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

*Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. In years of presentations working at an agency, I learned to sense the tension building before a design was revealed. The best designers take advantage of the opportunity to engage in a strategic discussion.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. What can you do to make strategic planning more productive before, during, and after? Contact us to discuss how your next strategic planning process can be energizing, productive, AND improve your business results. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. VERY NARROW AND VERY TARGETED.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Originating from an Edward De Bono technique we learned from Chuck Dymer , the PMIRQ asks five open-ended questions on what worked (Plus), didn’t work (Minus), was surprising (Interesting), should be done next time (Recommendation), and didn’t get fully addressed (Question). “The Small unknown group collaboration”. Group work”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Then contact us at The Brainzooming Group and let’s get started working together! 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Instead of just inviting people and seeing what happens, we carefully identify and vet potential participants in collaborative strategy planning. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. Want to learn more about collaborative strategic planning benefits? A democracy. Download our Results!!!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

If you have a bunch of unimplemented strategies and tactics for this year that are still sound, simply use those for next year’s plan. Contact us , and let The Brainzooming Group facilitate your planning for next year using our collaborative and streamlined Brainzooming planning methodology.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

They affiliate up, down, and across the organization; they reach out to all levels and areas to ask questions, listen, synthesize what they learn, and share updates back to all the areas that participate in implementation. #2 2 – They integrate the organization’s energy and activities into the collaborative strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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