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MAY 8, 2017
So before your next idea generation session try this exercise. Share : The post Get Better Ideas with this Starter Exercise appeared first on Destination Innovation. Brainstorming and Ideation arms brainstorm exercise fluid icebreaker ideation physiology psychology
BrainZooming
JULY 9, 2019
She is seeking strategic thinking exercises to include in her organization’s executive committee senior retreat. 12 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Stretch Executive Perspectives. Disrupting tired, old thinking: 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Brand.
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Kainexus
APRIL 2, 2020
During this era of Covid-19, I've had to make some adjustments to my exercise habits. One improvement that comes from not being able to travel for work is that I really have no excuse for not exercising.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 27, 2018
One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is to hold a session where a team role plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand.
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. It is smart to collect strategic thinking exercises throughout your career.
Ideanote
JANUARY 28, 2019
Get 4 brainstorming exercises that get everybody’s creative juices flowing. Loved by some, dreaded by many. How do we make brainstorming enjoyable, valuable and fun for everyone involved? Friendly and approachable, solves problems by talking them through, open and willing to share.
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 7, 2016
We frequently facilitate a strategic thinking exercise that uses a character outside a situation as the perspective. There’s no guarantee this strategic thinking exercise works in every situation. Want to try something to get a particularly new and insightful look at a situation?
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BrainZooming
JUNE 22, 2017
We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. One way we test that expectation is by working with the exercises ourselves to ensure their effectiveness and utility. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun.
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.
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 10, 2016
Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 14, 2016
One generative exercise for any CPG company to explore growing market share is hold a session where a team role-plays a wide array of alternative revenue models for a particular brand.
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BrainZooming
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Invariably, executives are seeking information on strategic thinking exercises suited to making strategic planning participants more effective and successful.
The Future Shapers
MARCH 10, 2020
The post The Best Design Thinking Exercises for Any Phase of a Project appeared first on The Future Shapers. Design thinking is a popular concept and many techniques can be used to great effect!
BrainZooming
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises. The nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises term popped into my head during a Brainzooming client workshop. Each strategic thinking exercise poster had four or five brand dimensions on the Y-axis.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises. These questions will help you evaluate the right types of strategic planning exercises.
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 22, 2015
We use strategic thinking exercises and questions as “detours” around organizational thinking that is in a rut. The caveat with this strategic thinking exercise is we pulled it from the “safe.” Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.
InnovationManagement
JUNE 7, 2017
Creativity works a lot like a muscle—you have to exercise it for it to work properly. All it means is that it’s time to exercise your creative muscles more than you have been! Feeling like you’re stuck in a creative rut?
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 12, 2016
How can you effectively employ visioning exercises in strategic planning that invite your entire organization to contribute their perspectives? That is where visioning exercises that employ a collaborative approach come into play.
BrainZooming
APRIL 5, 2016
Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction.
BrainZooming
MAY 19, 2016
But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 22, 2016
The search term “strategic visioning exercises” has been consistently near the top recently for what has bringing people to the Brainzooming website. 14 Articles on Strategic Visioning Exercises. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 10, 2018
Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go Right Now!
BrainZooming
AUGUST 28, 2017
How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing.
BrainZooming
JANUARY 16, 2018
The article inspired a laundry list of strategic thinking exercise prompts to re-imagine a threatened business model when your service offering is under assault from online offerings, bots, or some other form of complete automation. A New Strategic Thinking Exercise.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 20, 2018
As your innovation efforts begin to move from the ideation to the testing phase, or the co-creation with consumers or customers, outlandish and disruptive concepts present themselves.
BrainZooming
MARCH 1, 2018
Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle.
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these.
BrainZooming
MARCH 22, 2016
One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. Even though creative thinking exercises and strategy questions are intended to help people approach familiar situations in new ways, they can easily become new boundaries to constrain thinking.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. The SWOT analysis is the workhorse of strategic planning exercises.
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. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise.
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. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab.
BrainZooming
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic planning exercises about a new initiative. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises. Do you ever get stuck with a big list of items and struggle to make sense of it all ?
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 9, 2015
From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. What questions or exercises can I eliminate to save time while still getting enough input in all the areas we are covering for each innovation strategy?
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics.
BrainZooming
MARCH 16, 2016
Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises.
BrainZooming
AUGUST 23, 2016
Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Those creative thinking exercises don’t work for some people, however.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 14, 2016
The eBook shares ideas we developed in the past ten-plus years to create fun strategic planning exercises. We warn readers early in the eBook that everybody’s definition of “fun strategic planning exercises” may differ. 7 Types of Fun with Strategic Planning Exercises.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. Using these creative thinking exercises, we pushed them to forget (temporarily) what they have been doing and re-imagine the situation from different perspectives.
BrainZooming
AUGUST 17, 2016
Here’s an overview of each of the strategic thinking exercises : 5 Content Marketing Strategy Exercises to Generate Audience-Oriented Topics. The initial exercise explored three phases of an audience member’s journey.
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. Productive Structure for Strategic Planning Exercises.
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