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Bringing True Strategic Foresight Back to Business

Harvard Business Review

Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. And they should be again.

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Four Exercises to try in your next Virtual Whiteboarding Session

IdeaScale

Virtual whiteboards are shared workspaces that people operate through to collaborate from anywhere. They range from different teams operating side by side to using specific pre-made templates for guiding your team’s collaboration. You can also create your own templates to fit the most unique scenarios.

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7 Ways Mind Maps Fuel Innovation

IdeaScale

Here is a brief overview of the 7 ways mind maps help fuel innovation: Inherently Creates Visual Association: Mind maps are inherently visual templates, and organizing ideas visually is the best way to create a shared understanding of how they operate. Enables Tiered Thinking.

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Four Exercises to try in your next Virtual Whiteboarding Session

IdeaScale

Virtual whiteboards are shared workspaces that people operate through in order to collaborate from anywhere. They range from different teams operating side by side to using specific pre-made templates in order to guide your team’s collaboration. This means that the fundamentals can easily get lost when collaborating virtually.

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What are Marketing Dashboards and Why Do They Matter for Marketing Departments?

Leapfrogging

Managing an effective marketing strategy and continually correcting course requires careful monitoring. In fact, most businesses are constantly tweaking their marketing strategies from moment to moment in order to reach their true destination. All businesses change over time. This was our reason for building the Marketing Dashboard.

Marketing 100
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Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration

Tullio Siragusa

Approaches based on templates and checklists can have constraints regarding memory retention and people’s ability to collaborate. ? There are six steps to designing an effective post-merger integration making up for the shortcomings of the templatized approach and the agile principles for uncertainty. There is a better way.

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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. For insights on orchestrating successful offsites, consider exploring leading executive team offsites for business strategy , which delves into best practices and effective leadership approaches.