BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working. When things took an unexpected turn the other day, I mentally flew through various strategic thinking questions trying to comes up with ideas to adjust what we were doing. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

In this time of non-linear transformation, the ultimate winners will be those agile companies that are thinking now about their near-term survival AND their long-term advantage. A ‘dual-path’ strategy includes both ‘Today-for-Today’ and ‘Today-for-Tomorrow’ strategies that require new methods and tools to create. Derek F. “For

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Late at night while reading the daily mass readings for the next day and thinking about how one can better understand oneself, I started writing. This list of strategic thinking questions emerged. Strategic thinking questions aren’t only for businesses and organizations.

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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? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

The New Important – Strategy in a Pandemic-Shaped World. Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. Rethinking your brand and growth strategy to address lower demand expectations.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic thinking about a new initiative. Those are six starting places to use when you are doing strategic thinking about big lists. The thing is, they had done the hard strategic thinking and already had all the raw material they needed.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. What other tips have we learned about how extreme creativity questions boost creative thinking skills? They start filling the extra space big questions create with ideas of ALL sizes. Here are five of them: 1.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 26, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Stop Undermining Your Success. With that perspective, reconnect with the granddaddy of all strategic thinking questions: What are we trying to achieve? This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2016

One of my favorite things is when clients, blog readers, and Brainzooming workshop attendees use our strategic thinking exercises to explore new ideas. Imagine my surprise when Diane’s drawing turned out to be a representation of an innovation strategy formula we shared on the Brainzooming blog a year earlier.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

Does your organization excel at its strategy implementation process ? Do you execute new strategies quickly, effectively, and successfully? A few clients we talk with mention a strong strategy execution process. We address their experiences in our collaborative strategy implementation approach.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions. Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do. Quick Decision Making.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I delivered a Brainzooming workshop on “Budget-Extending Social Content Strategy” at the Social Media Strategies Summit this week. During the time together, we worked through various Brainzooming tools to develop and implement social content strategy that is smart online and drives results for a brand.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2017

Moving from planning to implementation strategy , it’s easy to focus on the end goal and never look back – or forward beyond launch. That type of focus and momentum helps drive your implementation strategy. 15 Questions to Identify Heads Up People in Your Implementation Strategy.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Encourage the use of collaborative digital whiteboards or brainstorming tools to facilitate creative and strategic thinking sessions in real-time. For more tips on fostering team unity, check out our suggestions for virtual team building activities.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Here are strategies to maximize learning and impact from an event of this magnitude. Only you know what maximizes your own mobility, but these tips will likely help: Travel with as few things as possible. The typical rules do not apply at a small-town business conference. Do Homework and Scope Out the Business Conference Location.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. The Armada article highlights six ways to formulate innovation strategy in a regulated environment, including the approach JetBlue is taking. A shadow innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Ensure you have all the strategic thinking perspective and voices we always recommend. Additionally, for these strategic planning vision exercises, make sure you include external participants with expertise and perspectives not burdened by the organization’s current, status quo vision.

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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

JUNE 30, 2016

Instead, how about a list of 14 event marketing strategy questions you can use the next time you or your organization plan an event? 14 Event Marketing Strategy Questions You NEED to Ask Early. Yes, you need to be able to answer “Yes” to all these event marketing strategy questions. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2016

I’ve just signed on to speak at the 2016 Social Media Strategy Summit in Las Vegas. The topic will be an update to the “Staying Sane as a Solo Social Media Professional” workshops I’ve delivered at previous Social Media Strategy Summit events (and elsewhere). 2 Ways to Decide When to Write What with Your Content Marketing Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2018

An executive responsible for strategy planning who was downloading our eBook on 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas posed an important question: How can you successfully identify and try new ways to get internal groups working together on strategic planning? Yes, strategic planning can be fun. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

Preparing for a creative thinking workshop this week, I looked back at a recent workshop to review the expectations participants shared. The expectations are a good representation of issues, from personal creativity to organizational strategy, important to getting things accomplished in a large company.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fun Strategic Planning Activities – Do you like doing an ice breaker exercise? A Strategy for Bringing Customers Into Every Meeting. Musical Chairs – A Seating Strategy. 7 Tips to Improve Conference Call Presentations. 1 Simple Strategy for Improving Time Management. 1 Simple Strategy for Improving Time Management.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

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. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Enjoy the video and Chuck’s insights and expertise on how place influences creative thinking skills! Looking for Ideas to Make Strategy Planning More Fun? Yes, developing strategy can be fun. if you know the right ways to liven it up while still developing solid strategies! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Because of this, the list was worthless for doing what I suspect everyone hoped it would do: provide a starting point for the strategic thinking needed to back into a definition of and explanation for what the new initiative would turn out to be. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2020

This issue of Seasons featured multiple articles filled with recipes and how-to tips for holiday cooking. Ready to stay at the forefront of new ideas for developing innovation strategies? Sign up to gain your strategic advantage! 5 Store-Bought Cooke Hacks employed a comparable theme but with a twist.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. For organizational innovation success, contact The Brainzooming Group to help your team be more successful by rapidly expanding strategic options and creating innovative growth strategies.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Successfully going from strategy to implementation, however, is critical to business success. Creating a strong, innovative plan is only part of the strategy equation. Built for Discomfort – An Alternative Prioritization Strategy for Innovation. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Amanda Sibley recommends making sure you have at least one DRI for each significant activity in lead generation projects (which was the topic of her presentation at the Social Media Strategies Summit). The DRI concept, however, obviously extends into all project management situations.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

It may be time to make sure your bold creative ideas are clearly and understandably rooted in strategy. Alternatively, you may be in a place that is thinking way too small; you should get out as soon as you can. : If you are told to rein in every creative idea, that’s not a good place. There is a disconnect.

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Matthew May

AUGUST 28, 2015

I started developing a visual tool for team facilitation of strategy development over two years ago, after I learned the Playing to Win framework from Roger Martin. It is designed to be at once a visual tool, a creative device, a standard operating procedure, and an artifact of a team’s strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2016

NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. One challenge, however, is finding and dedicating the resources necessary to develop an innovation strategy and begin innovating. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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