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. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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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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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. The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download). The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In business, you’re usually equal parts discovering problems AND using creative problem solving to address the issues. They wanted to leave the creative problem solving for later. Trying Painstorming Before Creative Problem Solving. We split the group in two. Each group performed the same prioritization exercise.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. Importance of Executive Team Offsites Executive team offsites offer a unique opportunity to disconnect from routine pressures and foster a creative environment for high-level strategic discussions.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Aggressive data mining and analysis to create focus.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

If you don’t have 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning, get your copy today ! Related posts Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a SWOT Analysis Nobody Expects Creative Ideas – 5 Authors’ Perspectives for Defeating “Enemies of Invention” 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas!

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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

APRIL 10, 2017

Employ extreme creativity and disruptive innovation-oriented questions to push your strategic planning vision exercise in bold, future directions. Have a group respond individually on which of the attributes needs to change dramatically, which can change marginally, and which need to be eliminated in the future.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 16, 2018

If these excuses (or the idea of struggling to get an innovation strategy going and producing results) sound familiar in your organization, you need to complete a quick, ten-question analysis to determine how your innovation strategy stacks up. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For as much as we share about the Brainzooming approach to strategy, creativity, and innovation, I still frequently get the question, “What is it The Brainzooming group does?”. Probably both intentionally and unintentionally, we are vague in describing a specific set of services and products The Brainzooming Group delivers.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

First and foremost, it was clear from our discussions that you need something that is on target strategically and not just interesting creatively. Short story, on the client side, I found that getting the right strategy consistently led to getting the creative right. I saw that time and time again as a corporate marketing VP.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Invariably, executives are seeking information on strategic thinking exercises suited to making strategic planning participants more effective and successful.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Strategic Thinking Exercises: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis” features eleven ideas for adapting, stretching, and reinvigorating how you see your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Mike Brown. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategic Thinking Analysis 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The group is making a “comeback” and incorporated a variety of brand strategy approaches to freshen its brand. After identifying a robust list of brand-related aspects, assemble a group of people from throughout your organization with strong insights into the brand. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The moves the Buffalo Bills are making and the associated reasons and benefits match closely to how The Brainzooming Group designs a strategy workshop. The Bills are: Splitting the team into two groups – Players are active all the time, with no waiting around for the next thing to happen. Or, you can call The Brainzooming Group.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

But this is also a time when thinking about the world beyond the immediate aftermath can make your company stronger, more resilient and, to use a term coined by Nassim Talib, anti-fragile – becoming stronger not weaker in the face of stress. Companies need to have a ‘dual-path’ for their strategic thinking and efforts that include both.

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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. Encouraging creativity and experimentation among your team members can lead to breakthroughs that keep your company on the cutting edge.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

Part two will address whether a person has the right ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ qualities like communication style, creativity and leadership ability to fit your particular organizational context. Your group spends almost as much time together as apart, they need to respect and like one another to work well together.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Such big-picture visions of the future can provide insights that expand and influence current strategic thinking, but they often lack the specifics to effectively inform current actions. Develop Backstory: Forces and Trends are the Creative Drivers of Futures. Forces and trends describe change. How ubiquitous is its impact?

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