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. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Selecting the Right Venue The venue for your offsite plays a significant role in contributing to its success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By recognizing these benefits, you can appreciate the value that strategic planning offsites add to your organization. For a deeper dive into how you can lead your team to strategic success, explore leading executive team offsites for business strategy. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Planning and Preparation For leading executive team offsites for business strategy, meticulous planning and preparation are essential. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined.

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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. This involves embracing new perspectives and cultivating skills that foster strategic leadership.

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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. This involves embracing new perspectives and cultivating skills that foster strategic leadership.

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CMOE

APRIL 28, 2021

In a recent survey, 97% of 10,000 senior leaders surveyed said that being strategic was the leadership behavior most important to their organization’s success—but another study indicated that fully 96% of leaders say they lack the time for strategic thinking.*. They firmly believe that strategy is everyone’s job.

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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. ” Yes, the role is different.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2017

Someone searched and came to the Brainzooming.com website looking for strategic thinking in the office examples. While we have a post on doing thinking strategically without leaving the office , we don’t have anything on how the physical surroundings of an office can boost strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

At an Idea Magnets workshop, we shared a strategic thinking exercise we call Rock-Paper-Scissors. Things that don’t add incredible value, but could if they received more attention and resources. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Stimulate fresh thinking. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How, if you are facing this situation, can you initiate a conversation with strategic thinking questions safe enough to raise the issue? 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Stimulate fresh thinking. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy.

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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. Who are our strategic partners? What other companies have similar strategies to ours?

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CMOE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the calendar flips to the last quarter of the year, it’s the perfect time to revisit and readjust your personal and organizational strategy. With changing industries, politics, and labor markets, how has your strategic landscape changed? Review how your strategic initiatives are going. What progress have you made?

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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? Looking for Fresh Insights to Drive Strategy? Stimulate fresh thinking. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Most organizations are seeking solutions to the necessary connections between Strategy and Innovation. Often it is within the strategies that should be outlined, lies the potential new spaces to play for innovation’s design. Innovation needs a much stronger alignment to strategy, they need connecting far better.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Impact on strategy and innovation What does this mean for two concepts near and dear to my heart - strategy and innovation? If strategy is a "plan of action designed to achieve a major aim" then what should our strategies look like as we encounter a competitive environment with little stability and a significant amount of change?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 14, 2016

I was talking with an executive charged with implementing an innovation strategy for a new company initiative. While the business objectives and expectations are lofty, the budget available to fund the innovation strategy has disappeared. 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2016

Facing a major goal when seems you have is too few resources CAN BE an incredible inspiration for your organization’s innovation strategy. I worked with a CMO who would revel in difficult situations where it seemed we had too few resources, negligible support, and slight chances of success. Find New Resources to Innovate

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Additionally, here are four areas we recommend exploring right away (and 12 resources to support your work): Identify what has been done previously.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Outrageous.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Here is a quickie strategic thinking question for you: If you saw your life as a teeter-totter, what rules of life would guide your behaviors and how you treat others? If teeter-totter rules of life guided your strategic thinking and actions, would you. Scarce resources ? Teeter-Totter Rules of Life.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

If you have the right people present , and they are in a chatty mood, how can you morph the gathering into a strategic conversation? One way is by introducing strategic thinking questions that steer meandering conversations into strategic conversations. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Don’t settle for boring strategic planning.

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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

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. 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.

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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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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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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. Normally this innovation mandate comes in the form of a document, generally build up by a small team of senior leaders, innovation experts and subject matter experts.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s a systematic approach designed to minimize risk and allocate resources effectively. Optimize resource allocation throughout the development process. Efficient Resource Management : AI can forecast the resources needed for each phase, optimizing the allocation and utilization of both human and financial capital.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. 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.

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CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2019

Military strategy is thousands of years old but the field of business strategy has only been around for about fifty years. Because this field is so new, there’s still a lot of disagreement about how business strategy and business models should be defined—and often among those who write about these topics the most!

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