BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2016

Strategic Thinking – 4 Strategies for Successful Remote Collaboration. What Do You Think? Instead of ideas tied to particular apps, we’ll concentrate on behaviors adaptable to the tools available to your work team. I Can’t See You! Create clear understanding about communication and decision making styles.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

An innovation mandate is a critical tool for defining the scope and direction of innovation and the underlying values, commitment and resources placed behind it. The innovation mandate is often overlooked or undervalued. The innovation mandate should articulate the organization’s innovation policy and how it will be implemented.

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Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 189

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

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

Strategy 151

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Additionally, anonymous feedback tools can be useful for gathering sincere thoughts that team members might hesitate to vocalize. Leveraging Team Dynamics Understanding and leveraging the dynamics of your executive team can transform the offsite from a routine meeting into a powerhouse of strategic planning.

Strategy 130

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

If there isn’t a standard methodology to project and quantify the innovation strategy impact, it would be a better use of their time to develop one, rather than launching a disruptive CYA effort. #3. Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. If yes, does it support the CEO’s perspective?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs. Exploring the right project planning questions from the start allows you to see what flexibility exists to modify initial planning. Exploring the right project planning questions from the start allows you to see what flexibility exists to modify initial planning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To learn how to leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience, see leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience. This assessment can be done through a variety of methods, including 360-degree feedback, performance appraisals, and self-assessment tools.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Playing is a tool that lets you eliminate hierarchies and foster collaboration between very different profiles. To start an innovation project. Gamification can be used to kick off a project by identifying, defining and agreeing on challenges. To identify profiles for innovation projects.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

What’s the project management answer to addressing this tendency among teams and team members? The acronym represents someone we’re always looking for in project management to make sure we will make progress. The DRI concept, however, obviously extends into all project management situations. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2017

7 Forgotten Project Management Skills from an Escape Room Fail. Our fail suggested seven solid project management skills we neglected to use. If you’re visiting an escape room or are suddenly hit with a new, time-constrained challenge, here are the project management skills you shouldn’t forget! It could have made a difference.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Looking back ten years, suffice it to say that starting to write and publish about the work I was first doing in the Fortune 500 world as a VP of Strategic Marketing and then in launching Brainzooming was one of the most important career decisions I ever made. Being a leader–even if you are not personally heading a group or project.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

Create expanded roles to ensure partners can contribute their expertise and strategic thinking early. I learned that lesson when I was on the client side and first put competitive marketing agencies together on project teams. Provide full visibility into all strategy development processes.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

11 Examples of Strategic Thinking without an Offsite Meeting. Strategic Thinking – 12 Ways Project Teams Can Stay out of the Weeds. Creating Strategic Impact – 3 Project Management Steps to Productively Review Concepts. Streamlining Meetings. 1 Simple Strategy for Improving Time Management.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

The article focused on dissecting mistakes to learn valuable lessons, similar to the oft-cited trade-off benefit in making more business mistakes: you will learn more things, faster. Actionable Learning: A comparable business situation involves regularly employing moonshot projects to boost innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

In an industry where life-or-death situations are constant, it can be difficult to think amid all the stress. Healthcare leaders must guide their team members through patient care, equipping them with the right knowledge and tools to protect the well-being of their patients. Strategic Thinking. Competing demands.

Leadership 52

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategic Thinking Training 52

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking. They also wanted a sense of when and why you should think creatively. Turning Creative Thinking into Action.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategic Thinking eBook 61

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

Project management : Effective project management skills are essential for keeping cross-sector collaborations on track. Strategic thinking : Participants should be able to think strategically and understand the broader context of the collaboration.

Collaboration 290

Collaboration Software Tools Culture 290

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In fact, I had a conversation just the other day with somebody who was discussing a project they were working on that had to be a certain way. Other than having pride of design, there was nobody else with any expectation of the certain way the project had to be. The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Meeting Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

Unfreezing a team begins with identifying the strategic path from where an organization is to where it needs to go and eliminating roadblocks along the way. Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. 12 Ways Project Teams Can Stay out of the Weeds. Strategic Thinking and 10 Fundamentals of Creating Strategic Impact.

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Change Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 40

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value. It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you’re interested in implementing personality inventories or style assessments into your own hiring practices, here are the top assessment tools we’ve used and have been hearing about from practitioners to help you understand your employees and potential hires better: DISC. The Big Five. StrengthsFinder (CliftonStrengths 2.0).

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Ideation 40

Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2017

These products are usually apps, because apps are suited to focused, mobile uses, but they can also be web sites and other digital tools. . It’s both a front-line function, fueled by the insights you get from daily customer interaction, and an executive function, demanding judgment, political skills, and strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 29, 2016

Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creating strategic impact can boost your success! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy Exercises 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 17, 2016

A client raised a question the other day in a Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop about what you can do when you are waiting on someone busy AND important to provide input on an initiative so you can continue making progress. 9 Strategic Ideas to Keep Moving without Important Input. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Addressing Project Planning with a Zoomference. After documenting the tactics, we used a Zoomference so the primary project team could efficiently and collaboratively identify timing for the six-hundred tactics in less than four hours – all online. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 9, 2023

All the elements of skills, processes, tools, capabilities and behaviours are essential in supporting an effective collaboration across sectors that need to be involved. In this post, I discussed We need to recognize there are specific skills and tools required for cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations.

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Collaboration Innovation Engagement Tools 130

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

Agile software development involves “sprints” in which teams define short-term goals (typically two weeks), work diligently to achieve them, and then apply what they learned from the sprint to their next sprint’s goals. For example, you might have a project you expect to take three months to complete.

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Agile Software Review Software Developers Software Development 130

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Cultivating a Forward-Thinking Mindset The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Reward calculated risk-taking, even when it doesn’t always lead to success.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

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Creativity Creative Thinking Exercises eBook 83

Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The industry will need to add manufacturing software engineers, robotics specialists, machine learning specialists, automated systems engineers, cybersecurity specialists as well as designers, product engineers, developers, analysts, pricing strategists and procurement specialists, many of which are forecast to be in short supply in years ahead.

Leadership 40

Leadership Artificial Inteligence Technology Culture 40

Ankush Chopra

AUGUST 25, 2020

After a few pleasantries, he explained the first project to me. “We My manager was the Vice President of business development and a veteran of the oil and gas industry. He was not only a great guy but also an excellent manager. We need to figure out how many jetties we need for the refinery. You will need to build a simulation model for it.

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How To Management Project Industry 60

The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Relatively few methods and tools exist to help companies gain insights into longer-term futures that include discontinuities and disruption.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

Her learned reluctance to push bold creative ideas now creeps into other situations where she does have tremendous latitude to introduce bold ideas. It takes the creative joy out of side projects she does. Contact us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 12, 2023

The series discusses the skills, tools, and processes required for successful cross-sector collaborations, including interdisciplinary thinking, co-creation processes, project management, cultural competence, intellectual property management, and data analytics and visualization tools.

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