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

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Here is something I do not remember ever seeing before to call out a change in traffic regulations: a NEW sign pointing out a recently-installed stop sign at a street intersection. The NEW sign to point out the new stop sign is a wonderful reminder of something that is easy to overlook in a change management strategy.

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Strategy Strategy Change Management 68

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization. Here Is Help!

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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The business world is caught up in a whirlwind of change. How your enterprise responds to that change can determine whether your organization is an industry leader or another company stuck in the middle of the pack. This change could be motivated by economic headwinds, political uncertainty, or even a change in internal priorities.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons. 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur.

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Strategy Strategy Learning eBook 84

BrainZooming

APRIL 3, 2018

Two junior team members in chief of staff / program manager roles asked how to best align with senior leaders to successfully share a strategy across an organization. The Way to Successfully Share a Strategy. Facilitate objectivity when judging the effectiveness and success of early strategy implementation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 20, 2017

We share many Brainzooming strategy, innovation, and branding tools. One vital business strategy tool for me personally that I rarely mention directly in workshops is prayer. Prayer (and the humility in asking God for help) are an integral part of my business strategy tool repertoire. Here are two recent examples.

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Tools Strategy Strategy eBook 77

BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? The Brainzooming Group has you covered, with eBooks to: Evaluate innovation opportunities and challenges. The Brainzooming Group has you covered, with eBooks to: Evaluate innovation opportunities and challenges. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

What is the insight I’m not seeing that could make our content marketing strategy make sense?” ” An attendee at the 2018 Social Media Strategies Summit conference in San Francisco made that comment. She can’t change either of the first two strategic expectations.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy eBook 93

BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2017

We say it so often, particularly during brand strategy workshops : a brand is more than a logo, a color, and a look. A brand encompasses the people, products, services, messages, promises, and reinforcing cues that create a complete customer experience strategy. 4 Customer Experience Strategy Questions Strong Branding Addresses.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. They know innovation strategies come and go.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

How far out are you looking out to create significant changes in your business ? Reviewing the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies issue suggested fourteen potential innovation themes based on the strategies the magazine reported. Slight changes with dramatic impacts? Through the next six months?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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Planview

MARCH 19, 2025

Financial services organizations are navigating a rapid pace of change, driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer demands, and the complexity of global economic forces. Responding strategically to these forces of change is critical.

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Management Agile Disruption eBook 52

BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

Right before we left, we suddenly changed plans. A Bait and Avoid Customer Experience Strategy. Think about the customer experience strategy implications of this bait and avoid policy. Stop again and consider whether this bait and avoid customer experience strategy is smart. Choosing a Horrendous Strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Idea Generation 88

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Ask most business executives about strategy, and they don’t spit out well-articulated strategy statements. That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. 11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. They could also take the outside-in innovation strategy approach we wrote about recently: look at other testing situations ripe for speeding up and solve those. The reason why?

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 63

BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

A similar phenomenon applies to brand strategy. While success can breed success, it can also lead to blindness about the importance of trying to disrupt your brand strategy before something else comes along to topple your brand. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 68

BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Innovation 69

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. Customer-Focused Innovation Strategy. How is our B2B brand dramatically changing individuals’ lives? Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Company eBook 89

BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. This eBook has become a go-to guide for thousands of executives globally to explore fun strategic planning ideas. Then people start dozing off.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Exercises 60

BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. The Brainzooming Results eBook . Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do. Anticipating Forward-Looking Change. Engaging Employees.

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BrainZooming

MAY 10, 2017

Chatting with a mid-career professional who is at the height of job frustration, she placed a career strategy challenge on the table: “A résumé is supposed to have metrics, but I have no real metrics I can own for my contributions at my day job. I know this isn’t an isolated career strategy challenge. Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

One way to deal with a common innovation strategy barrier – fear of change and new ideas – is to disguise new ideas as your team develops and implements them. Innovation Strategy in Disguise. As an innovation leader, pursuing an innovation strategy in disguise requires a different perspective.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? Well, to identify the articles listed here, a search for “change” on the blog yielded eighty-six PAGES of articles.

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Change Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy?

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Strategy Strategy How To Strategic Thinking 69

BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Dramatic changes in my activities throughout this pandemic took precedence. 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. The short answer?

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 59

BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

What other companies have similar strategies to ours? Looking for a Successful Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Incorporate market-based perspectives into your innovation strategy in successful ways.

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Case Study Strategic Thinking Exercises Study 89

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Provide ample room to disagree and interpret your input.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

Romano shared an important insight into the challenge of developing strategic thinking exercises to envision future strategy: “Until you drive an EV, you are colored by 135 years of going to the gas station. Understanding this change, however, is challenging when your perspective hasn’t broken from the past. For humans?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

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. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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Creative Thinking eBook Strategic Thinking Innovation 94

BrainZooming

JUNE 1, 2017

When things haven’t gone as expected, is your organization agile enough to change the direction? Download our FREE eBook: Fast Forward – Successfully Implementing Your Plan. If your implementation plan results are lacking by this point in the year, we have just the thing for you! It’s not too late!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.

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