BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Exercises Strategic Thinking Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. 4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. – Mike Brown.

Exercises 40

Exercises Groups Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

I have been traveling more recently for speaking than at any time during history of The Brainzooming Group. While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups. – Mike Brown.

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Innovation Collaboration 70

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

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.

Resources 86

Resources Strategic Thinking Comparison eBook 86

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Design itself is a product. Many groups in an organization have a thing that they “own” that gives them leverage in decisions. The key is being willing to collaborate and get outside of our comfort zone. Embracing marketing is a powerful way designers can lead product strategy. Wrong.” – Bradford Shellhammer.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Roadmap Software Review Design 94

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

Exercises 65

Exercises Collaboration Strategy Strategy 65

BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 63

Strategic Thinking Exercises Brainstorming Strategic Management 63

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way. If you’re up for abruptly halting the cluster f%@k of the modern business meetings you attend, contact The Brainzooming Group ?

Meeting 40

Meeting Collaboration Tips Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Exercises 40

Exercises Strategic Thinking Collaboration Strategic Management 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

And by done well, we mean that the vision statement: Is developed broadly and collaboratively. Collaborating on a Vision Statement. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. 5 Questions for Creating a Collaborative Vision.

Exercises 40

Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking Creativity 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Creativity 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Split your group into two or four groups if it is large enough. If not, then let the entire group work on the four questions within this different SWOT strategic thinking exercise. Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. As I described it to an associate, facilitation may look easy.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

To complement the in-person workshop content, The Brainzooming Group collaborated with Breanna Jacobs at GSMI, the Brand Strategy Conference producer, to publish a new free branding strategy eBook called, “Engaging Employees as an Internal Brand Team: 3 Actionable Strategies.”.

Engagement 40

Engagement eBook Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Then contact us at The Brainzooming Group and let’s get started working together! 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Groups 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In addition, remember: The Brainzooming Group is here to assist you in applying these techniques and more to make developing strategy a productive and high-impact activity for your organization. Contact us , and let’s customize a strategy process specific to your organization. 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Guidelines Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

If you have a bunch of unimplemented strategies and tactics for this year that are still sound, simply use those for next year’s plan. Contact us , and let The Brainzooming Group facilitate your planning for next year using our collaborative and streamlined Brainzooming planning methodology.

Analysis 40

Analysis Collaboration Strategic Management Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you need new ideas about how to approach strategic opportunities and challenges, a collaborative workshop to imagine a variety of possibilities can be very productive. If the gaps pertain to unknown facts and information, brainstorming won’t be productive. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Brainstorming Collaboration Exercises Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. So we pushed back.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. The group did include several different sales groups. The Canadian were also largely grouped in pockets throughout the audience.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. You can use this strategic thinking exercise with a group to help them push their thinking into areas they might otherwise ignore – purposely or by accident. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help!

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Analysis Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table !

Exercises 40

Exercises Strategic Thinking Groups Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table ! 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Groups Brainstorming Tools 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Collaboration 40

Anaqua

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When it comes to product strategy and development at Anaqua, the key word is LISTEN. The product roadmap process at Anaqua is always iterative. Our clients and Client Working Groups are involved every step of the way and help to establish priorities, review prototypes, and more. going live this spring, 10.7

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Roadmap Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Survey 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Tips Engagement Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I reminded them (in case no one ever had) that they had a HUGE brand role no matter how narrow everyone thinks they are as a group. A description of a job role isn’t identical to the description of how an individual or group can contribute to solid, dynamic, and innovative strategic thinking. The Strategic Thinking Lesson?

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Innovation Creative Thinking Engagement 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. What can you do to make strategic planning more productive before, during, and after? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Engagement Strategy 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. 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.

Strategy 40

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Engagement 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. On the other hand, Moody's new products are incubated in dedicated business units, completely ring-fenced from business as usual. MANN+HUMMEL has adopted a slightly different approach.

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Disruption Project Roadmap Innovation Processes 52

Anaqua

JANUARY 11, 2018

Importantly, larger organizations need to ensure that IP aligns with the business at the individual product/market level. For each product market, there should be a distinct product strategy. Develop a multi-year plan; group opportunities in phases over several years; start with the highest impact, low-hanging fruits.

Management 40

Management Software Review Technical Review Competition 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This will help overcome fear of risk and company group think which are common obstacles.

Innovation 40

Innovation Crowdsourcing Survey Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This will help overcome fear of risk and company group think which are common obstacles.

Innovation 40

Innovation Crowdsourcing Survey Idea Management 40