BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? The call was an opportunity for board members to react and share perspectives for the first time as a group about a critical business topic. 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Practical AI applications can significantly boost decision-making capabilities and strategic thinking. These sessions can improve their understanding of AI’s impact on business operations, making them more adept at leveraging technology for strategic advantages. Strategic Thinking Scenario planning and trend analysis.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2018

Strategic Thinking Questions to Imagine a Radically Different Future. Once you provide hypotheses on what you suspect the future will be like in your market, these strategic thinking questions are productive to reinforce dramatic changes ahead. Photo via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies. Who are our strategic partners? Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2018

I suggested another one: Go ahead and ask a great strategic thinking question. The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. That’s why having a book of Brainzooming creative leadership ideas all in one place will be so handy! ). via Shutterstick. ).

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises. They help groups (or an individual) efficiently explore many more opportunities and ideas than they otherwise might. The nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises term popped into my head during a Brainzooming client workshop. Extreme Creativity. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

The article inspired a laundry list of strategic thinking exercise prompts to re-imagine a threatened business model when your service offering is under assault from online offerings, bots, or some other form of complete automation. A New Strategic Thinking Exercise. Extreme Creativity. Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

At an Idea Magnets workshop, we shared a strategic thinking exercise we call Rock-Paper-Scissors. In the post-workshop evaluation, one attendee asked about extending this strategic thinking exercise to identify things you aren’t currently doing that you should be doing. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

How about Creative Thinking Questions? To prepare for the in-person planning, Tara forwarded creative thinking questions that looked out from today to more than a decade into the future. While the document was daunting, working with a fresh set of questions forced me to think about completely new opportunities and issues.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

What Are the Behaviors of a Strategic Thinker? The traits of strategic thinkers manifest in certain behaviors that can help you identify them. Look for these actions that are consistent with strategic thinking: They anticipate future challenges. They offer creative solutions. They adapt to new situations.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2017

They are either overly or underly-inclined to point out data gaps to try to push the group to choose a certain outcome. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Answer Before Making a Decision. If you answer those strategic thinking questions early, your decision making will likely be more simple, clear, and streamlined.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Once you’re out of that usual office bubble, your crew can get those creative juices flowing, team up like never before, and really think strategically, cooking up brilliant solutions and fueling business success. What’s in it for you with these strategic meet-ups? Logistics : Nail down the where and how.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

We turn to extreme creativity questions to help clients imagine big ideas. It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. Here are five of them: 1.

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BrainZooming

MAY 18, 2016

During a strategic thinking skills workshop for a client, we shared ideas for taking information from varied sources and identifying strategic themes. The picture represents two approaches to strategic thinking skills that analysts I’ve met throughout my career display. You’ll enjoy it! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

A participant at a Brainzooming creative leadership presentation stayed afterward. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For the closing song, the group played their version of Chuck Berry’s Roll Over, Beethoven. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Extreme Creativity. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. I like the concept, a lot. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer. It’s lunchtime and a colleague asks you what you’d like to eat.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Whenever you have too many “creatives” in the room, it can devolve into each one trying to outshine the others in extreme creativity.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Stronger creative leadership to identify productive tactics, make better (and faster) decisions, and successfully implement with a major impact. The Answer to Boosting Creative Leadership within Your Team! This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 19, 2017

3 Conditions for Explosive Creative Thinking Skills. Reflecting on grain elevators led me to consider explosive creative thinking skills , and the parallels between the two. Achieve intensity by constraining time and creating high expectations for the number of ideas a creative group should imagine.

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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? 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Breakthrough Ideas. Aspirations.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2016

We put this infographic together for a client today to distill The Brainzooming Group approach into a few images depicting what we do to pave the way for a great strategic thinking workshop. 6 Guidelines for a Great Strategic Thinking Workshop. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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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

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store. Disrupting Thinking. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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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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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

That would definitely take extreme creativity ! A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects. You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis.

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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. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. An Alternative Strategic Thinking Exercise to Develop a Vision Statement.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. I disabused them of the idea, however, that their narrow job descriptions were synonymous with narrow strategic thinking roles.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. The answer could suggest their strategic thinking wasn’t effective in this situation.

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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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