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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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Related posts 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now! Mike Brown.

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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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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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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success To set the stage for a successful strategic planning offsite, several key steps should be taken: Define Clear Objectives : Be clear about what you want to achieve during the offsite. Choose an Appropriate Venue : The location should be conducive to strategic thinking and free from interruptions.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2024

That’s a very smart move to efficiently expand the thinking and perspectives. Brainzooming is designing an online collaboration where the organizer embraced our invitation to include both experienced and inexperienced participants.

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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. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. An Alternative Strategic Thinking Exercise to Develop a Vision Statement.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Breakout Sessions Planning Breakout sessions are a valuable component of any offsite as they allow smaller groups to focus on specific topics, encourage participation from all attendees, and foster collaboration. Facilitators : Assign a facilitator for each group to keep discussions on track and ensure that all voices are heard.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 7, 2016

Yes, I’m serious about that strategic thinking question. If you struggle with those questions, take a time out right away and do the strategic thinking needed to get back in touch with the love in what you do. While its clients are businesses, it is ultimately a part of a consumer market that is ALL about love.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

People ask me frequently about why we give away so much of what The Brainzooming Group does on our website. The conventional wisdom is you give away “what” you do as part of content marketing, but not “how” you do what you do. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. Originally, the goal was simply bringing a diverse group together from across the company.

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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. Sometimes the strategic thinking best approach involves a large, in-person group. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Objectives might include reassessing market position, exploring new partnerships, or setting performance targets. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. Ensure that each objective is SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 26, 2021

In Airbnb’s case, we are in the “belong anywhere” business and, once we did the archeological dig to discover that, it influenced our strategic thinking, how we trained our hosts, how we marketed the company and the like. Find the differentiator for your business and you’ve discovered gold. .

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

That was the question from two nonprofit executives tasked with planning market research to support a new marketing plan. Before diving into planning market research, I asked about old research they had. 14 Questions Before Planning Market Research. Examining Your Own Previous Market Research. That’s a Start!

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Brunner

MAY 25, 2021

With approximately 40 years of experience as a leading personal injury law firm, the company sought a new agency partner to help continue the evolution of its brand and marketing strategy. Brunner is a customer-centric, data-driven marketing agency. ABOUT EDGAR SNYDER & ASSOCIATES. For more information, visit? ABOUT BRUNNER.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I’ve been asked that question multiple times recently after delivering Brainzooming social-first content marketing strategy workshops. Return to the fundamentals we teach for building a content marketing strategy. 3 Steps to Find Multi-Brand Content Marketing Strategy Similarities. Step 1 – Audience Personas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

An internal consultant at a healthcare company asked about ways to add value to many open-ended comments using a group strategic thinking exercise. Because a market researcher at her organizations facilitates the same exercise with their leadership team every year. Why was she asking? Add flavor to quantitative data.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Emma Alvarez Gibson and I were talking about identifying strategic themes within tens or hundreds of ideas from a strategic planning workshop or from thousands of comments within a survey. Other than a big dose of help from outside forces , what are dependable ways to identify meaningful strategic themes? Branding and Marketing.

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CMOE

JULY 27, 2022

77 percent of B2B marketers use educational materials to nurture their leads. While it may be easy to find digital or e-learning products on the market, it is important that you find the right solution—one that will drive maximum value for individual contributors, teams, leaders, and the organization as a whole. It’s no wonder that.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Based on this list, think ahead: What you would do NOW to prepare if 2020 were going to be the year of. Turning your company into the ultimate content creator in your market? Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. appeared first on The Brainzooming Group.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. Within each phase, the small groups identified questions audience members might ask.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Step 2: Have two individuals or two groups work completely separately on diagnosing the critical success (or lack of success) factors. Use a structure so each group fully explores all aspects of the client experience, along with relevant internal processes, interactions, and tools to deliver the client experience. On your side?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download). This is our biggest collection ever of strategic thinking questions to move strategy planning ahead in finding the best strategic direction. The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As we thought about how many of them there were (about twenty), the two of us from The Brainzooming Group, and the value of having an inner circle of informal facilitators, we hit upon an idea: create roles for a small group of clients to play during our two-day branding workshop. Branding and Marketing. The result? Innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I’m in Las Vegas this week, speaking at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas. Last year, I brought one attendee up with me on the stage and had the entire group help come up with ideas for the retail store she represented. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact .

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2018

Morgan Chase looked to Amazon Prime as a disruptive business model for its own market. It likely won’t be by charging current market rates for what your platform delivers.) Opportunities to sell access to other brands (even competitors) that want to market to the platform’s users. Benefits, Capabilities, and Adjacent Markets.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

His comment got me thinking: How much of what we do is based around right now, when it REALLY should be oriented toward getting ready for whatever is next ? Unexpected Market Development ? Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. The next. . Opportunity ?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For the closing song, the group played their version of Chuck Berry’s Roll Over, Beethoven. Branding and Marketing. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Innovation.

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