BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2017

Or you receive confirmation from a speaker that what you have been thinking is right (or pretty close to right), and you can take that back to the office and tell the boss. A Strategic Thinking Framework Is Better than an Answer, Really! Instead, I include lots of strategic thinking frameworks for decision making.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

Strategic Thinking 100

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Training 100

BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2017

The Power of Positive Thinking Plus Strategic Thinking Questions. As an alternative, I tried being more like my dad, coupling the power of his positive thinking with the strategic thinking questions that are so comfortable for me. I’m not saying these specific examples will work for you. Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more insights into how a strategic mindset can augment leadership capabilities, consider exploring strategic thinking for leaders , a resource designed to broaden your perspective on leadership strategies. Inspire Others : Lead by example and encourage your team to also adopt a growth mindset.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more insights into how a strategic mindset can augment leadership capabilities, consider exploring strategic thinking for leaders , a resource designed to broaden your perspective on leadership strategies. Inspire Others : Lead by example and encourage your team to also adopt a growth mindset.

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Strategic Thinking Leadership Trends Learning 100

BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Applying this Strategic Thinking Exercise Broadly. This is a great example of a simple strategic thinking exercise to speed and sharpen decision making.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. To add depth and breadth to the strategic thinking exercise, however, we add four probes to each area of the SWOT analysis. Being a leading instigator for market disruption ?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The establishing of innovation within any Strategic thinking is becoming even more important today than ever. This is one example of allocating appropriate resources. If you are in a highly dynamic, changing market it might look like 10:30:60. Possible Three Horizon Investment Portfolio Allocation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Ask them to provide concrete examples of when they devised creative solutions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Who Needs Vision Statement Examples? Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 26, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Stop Undermining Your Success. With that perspective, reconnect with the granddaddy of all strategic thinking questions: What are we trying to achieve? How can we mock up something as an example to demonstrate the value of alternative approaches? Branding and Marketing.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2016

4 Examples Where NOT Acting Might Be a Smarter Innovation Strategy. Within the fast moving tech sector, these deals once looked critical for scale, but now are seen as inhibiting agility and the flexibility to move with the market. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 26, 2023

Understanding this mandate is for all employees and specifically those impacted by the program, especially in research and development, marketing, operations, technical support and development, finance and sales. I work in supporting and building both the strategic and operational needs of an organization as an external advisor or coach.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

At each gate, key criteria are assessed by a cross-functional team, which may include factors like market viability, technical feasibility, and financial projections. Integrating AI into the phases and gates processes is essential for organizations striving to maintain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced market.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs. Lead by Example : These leaders demonstrate innovative behavior, setting a precedent for others to follow. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, if your team is heavy on big-picture thinkers, include activities that focus on detailed action planning to complement their strategic visions. Conversely, if your team excels in operational details, encourage activities that stretch their strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Cable TV is a great recent example with dozens of disrupters like YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple, and others nipping at the heals of–and taking bigger and bigger bites out of–established players like Comcast. Consulting is a $250 billion behemoth global market. The Covid-19 discontinuity is accelerating it.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

These branding exercises focused on identifying: The organization’s strategic foundation. Future strategic aspirations. The pairing of brand attributes that best describes its market position. The combination of branding exercises effectively identified new language to describe its strategic direction and supporting strategies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Currently we have national and global economic tension, the rise of nationalism, large trading communities breaking apart (Brexit) and trade tensions between large trading partners - the US and China for example. Not everything that is strategic must be executed through innovation, and not all innovation is strategy.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 24, 2016

An attendee at the Curacao Social Media and Content Marketing Strategy Workshop raised a new (for me) and pertinent question: What are ideas to go live with brand impact? Nevertheless, thinking of content marketing strategy analogies , brands doing live video strikes me as very similar to “destination TV.”

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

Years ago, I attended a services marketing conference sponsored by a prominent university. The instructor pointed out a specific example of how this happens with customer expectations. While his point resonated, there weren’t many direct examples to prove out his perspective. This is easier done in consumer markets.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Cable TV is a great recent example with dozens of disrupters like YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple, and others nipping at the heals of–and taking bigger and bigger bites out of–established players like Comcast. Consulting is a $250 billion behemoth global market. The Covid-19 discontinuity is accelerating it.

Software Review 100

Software Review Change Technical Review Disruption 100

Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

As a discipline, EA seeks to create a holistic, strategic view of an organization’s technology landscape, enabling better alignment between business objectives and IT capabilities. For example, adopting cloud-based solutions can reduce the need for physical data centers, lowering energy consumption and e-waste.

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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. 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Disrupting Thinking eBook. Marketing strategies. Industry and market dynamics. Our response? Organizational structure and processes.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He has moved to a new role leading marketing for an organization shifting from the B2C to B2B market. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The brands want to capitalize on market growth stemming from toys tied to popular social media themes. Listening to the Market in Multiple Ways. From just the few toy industry innovation stories reported in the WSJ , you see multiples ways of incorporating broad and early market perceptions to shape innovation: Social Media Listening.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2016

I’ve mentioned my surprise upon realizing strategic planning techniques The Brainzooming Group uses seem to have emerged from Bible passages. It always startles me, however, when a new example appears. Sometimes the strategic thinking best approach involves a large, in-person group.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

Her example was their all-day Happy Hour on Sundays. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What are basic brand strategy moves to quickly take an older brand into today’s market? We raised the question yesterday of how brands rekindle, dust off, improve, innovate upon, and reintroduce themselves to the market. Example – A cereal or candy brand marketing itself as a brand you remember from childhood).

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Strategic dimensions are areas where an organization has the opportunity to make major decisions or where industry players are creating competitive advantage. Examples include: Business models. Market areas served. We cannot share client-specific examples here on the blog. Product line breadth. Organizational structure.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

We talk about Southwest Airlines frequently example in Brainzooming branding and content marketing workshops. If you are a marketer hoping to deliver smart performance for your brand, stay away from extending your branding strategies haphazardly into fears about your brand. If you do that, it’s a REALLY scary mistake!

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? Often it is misused as a framework for assessing a specific market or even an organization itself. In fact, thinking much more broadly produces the most value. Let’s work through an example together.

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