BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I think Brainzooming has heard every strategic planning frustration. When clients reach out to us , they are generally up in arms about the shortcomings of their previous planning initiatives and are looking for a successful approach. They’ve come via talking and consulting with organizations across industries.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, it is the perfect time to reflect on lessons we’ve learned throughout the year and plan for 2024’s uncertainties. Maybe your strategy was successful, and perhaps it didn’t pan out, but you certainly faced unexpected challenges and victories that you didn’t plan for. Plan for tomorrow today.

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Cascade Strategy

APRIL 29, 2021

Strategic planning models exist as blueprints that we can follow when tackling the process of creating a strategic plan.

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Cascade Strategy

DECEMBER 24, 2019

What Would Strategic Planning For Santa Claus Look Like? There's been such a variety of industries, markets and organizations - and it got me thinking about how strategic planning is at the core of most things we do. So in the holiday spirit I've had a little fun and did some strategic planning for Santa Claus.

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Cascade Strategy

MARCH 8, 2023

Sounds like you need a strong and well-thought-out IT strategic plan. Looking for a way to execute key IT and digital initiatives faster to support business growth?

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Cascade Strategy

APRIL 6, 2023

It's time to take a step back and revamp your strategic planning process to ensure successful strategy execution. Tired of being stuck in a cycle of putting out fires and feeling like you're not using your resources effectively?

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Cascade Strategy

JUNE 17, 2019

Need a helping hand to create your strategic plan? Download our tried and tested strategic plan template - the same template used by thousands of startups and multinationals alike.

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Kainexus

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now is the time of year when many leaders turn their thoughts to crafting the strategic plan for next year. In most cases, this involves financial forecasting, resource planning, and a review of this year’s performance to date. Successful leaders don’t just create a plan and then hope for the best.

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 20, 2021

Writing a strategic plan can be a daunting process, even for seasoned strategy professionals. After surviving the chaos that was 2020, businesses and organizations of all sizes understand the importance of having a well devised strategic plan now so more than ever.

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Cascade Strategy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Strategic planning in government can be challenging. You need to ensure stakeholder input is taken into account, your strategy is aligned across all city departments, capital projects are linked to multiple plans, and all involved are bought into the strategy.

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 17, 2022

A strategic plan provides the clarity your business needs to make real progress, but how does this strategy actually get implemented? But how do you turn your strategic plan into something that impacts what you and your team do each day?

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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. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download). The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download).

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2017

One of the most popular Brainzooming blog posts the past few years is rich in strategic thinking tools. It features more than 200 strategic thinking questions we’ve gathered, envisioned, and created going back to The Brainzooming Group origins as a corporate strategic planning department. Innovation. Customer experience.

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Cascade Strategy

JUNE 23, 2022

Successful strategies are built on a strategic plan that outlines how your company or team will achieve its long-term goals. It’s a clear roadmap that explains to all stakeholders how will you get from the present state to desired future state.

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Cascade Strategy

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, we'll explore the pros and cons of using Excel for strategic planning. You can also grab your copy of our strategic plan template in Excel if you want to get your hands dirty.

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Cascade Strategy

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Conventional wisdom has it that first, you build the strategic plan including the Vision, the Mission and the Focus Areas of the company and then comes the operational plan. The latter connects the front-line projects with the long-term vision of the business.

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Focused Momentum

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The massive changes and uncertainty destabilized everything, the least of which was our ‘planning and managing disciplines.’ As we enter our second year of this global pandemic, leaders are asking us, “It is time to get planning back on track?”. In Time to Get Back-On-Track with Strategic Planning?

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2017

I’ll admit it upfront: I’m not a huge fan of highly-involved, fun strategic planning icebreaker activities that don’t provide direct value to the strategic thinking we need to do. Granted, the contribution doesn’t have to be something that will go into the final strategic plan. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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Focused Momentum

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

2020 challenged our tactical brilliance, but it was not the year to engage in strategic planning. So, as we begin 2021, many leadership groups wonder if they should re-engage their long-term planning efforts.

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Cascade Strategy

JULY 2, 2019

Strategic planning models exist as blueprints which we can follow when tackling the process of creating a strategic plan.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 6, 2021

Because of this, strategic planning (or re-planning) became the ace in the sleeve for corporations that quickly adapted to the new normal. And if you want to start designing a future that is really aligned with the moment we live in, now is the time to tear up the old planning and start a new one, from scratch.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. The two key components of structuring your offsite are the agenda design and the planning of breakout sessions.

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Focused Momentum

JUNE 21, 2019

Strategic thinking requires a shift in mindset from the problem-solving, now-oriented practice relied upon to manage transactions to a less linear, more chaotic future-oriented process in which problem-solving structures reaches their limits.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Based on executives visiting the Brainzooming website, there is considerable interest right now in “strategic planning icebreaker activities.” I guess that isn’t surprising. This is the time of year when most organizations that are going to do strategic planning are thinking about it or have already started.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Don’t create a plan. Create a system.

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Cascade Strategy

JUNE 5, 2019

Writing a strategic plan can be a daunting process, even for seasoned strategy professionals. However, if you have an intimate knowledge of your business, and have a clear strategic model to follow, writing a strategic plan is actually surprisingly easy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

Are you involved with the strategic planning process for your organization? That could involve leading it, participating in it, or trying to influence the strategic planning process so it delivers more value and better results for the organization? 7 Strategic Planning Process Challenges You Can Fix!

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Focused Momentum

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This roller coaster has taken a toll on long-range planning efforts, and rightly so. Can we get back to our strategic planning? This year has been full of ups and downs for all of us. But, as we enter our second year of this pandemic, leadership folks have to wonder, are we there yet?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Suppose the strategic planning task at hand is imagining what your organization will look like at some future point. What are strategic planning exercises you can use with a team? After securing individual responses, use a group strategic conversation to settle on the future strategic planning vision.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Are you still trying to finish your strategic planning process for next year ? Is it to that point where your biggest worry is being about to call the plan strategic without making other executives fall on the floor laughing hysterically? 29 Ideas to Speed Up Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Irrespective of why it wasn’t seen coming, when surprise decision making situations develop, you need a way to move forward in a strategic, orderly, and effective manner. Preparing mini-plans as part of your strategic planning activities is a way to do this. What does a mini-plan include? Goal of the Plan.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Chuck Dymer and I led the first step in a client’s multi-day strategic planning process this week. And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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Cascade Strategy

MAY 31, 2022

A crystal clear strategic plan can be the big difference between becoming the leading university… VERSUS ending up at the bottom. You know - where you struggle to attract students, the right staff members or even funds to support your institution.

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Carla Johnson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

December 3, 2020 It’s the time of year when people begin looking heavily at the change in the calendar and planning ahead. For every company, team and leader, strategic planning is the most important activity they do on a regular basis.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We just created twenty-five year roadmaps for a client’s strategic planning process in two hours and forty-five minutes. How do we eliminate so much time from typical strategic planning process approaches? 11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process. Start to finish, UNDER THREE HOURS.

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