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Content Marketing Metrics Template for Business

Leapfrogging

APRIL 7, 2025

Content Marketing Metrics in Marketing Strategy Content marketing isnt just about publishingits about using the right data to continually refine your message, audience targeting, and distribution strategy. Co nclusion Content Marketing Metrics turn storytelling into strategy.

Marketing

Marketing Engagement Data Software Review

3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The key question was, “Where’s the beef with this innovation strategy?”. They seemed ready to jump through hoops to justify the innovation strategy to the CEO. 3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss.

Strategy

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5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies

BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. In these cases, a critical question arises: How do you open branding strategy development to other partner organizations to create a seamless implementation process?

Strategy

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 7 Tools to Boost Strategic Impact

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. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. That doesn’t mean you turn over strategy setting.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process. Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival?

Innovation

4 Roles to Push Bold Customer Experience Strategy Thinking

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We were set to work with a client team exploring the customer experience strategy they’d introduce to their internal customers. Each of the four roles were intended to help push the group’s thinking on its customer experience strategy in varied ways. 4 Roles to Push Bold Customer Experience Strategy Thinking. Innovation.

Strategy

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Content Marketing Strategy – 8 Ways to Create New Growth from Evergreen Content

BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2017

If you’ve been pursuing a content marketing strategy for a few years, you have some content that worked and some that didn’t work when you first published it. Reviewing the most successful pieces emerging from your content marketing strategy up to now provides the opportunity to create new growth from your evergreen content.

Marketing

Marketing Strategy Strategy eBook

Banking on Transformation: Unlock the Future of Financial Services with Value Stream Management

Planview

MARCH 19, 2025

To stay competitive, many of these organizations are transforming their approach to strategy execution, ensuring they can not only survive but thrive in a dynamic and disruptive environment. Evolving Business Models : Customers expect seamless, personalized experiences, forcing businesses to balance profitability with human-centered design.

Management

Management Agile Disruption eBook

Design Thinking Tools: how to use them to solve complex problems

mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Knowing how to use DT tools can transform even your daily routine into a problem-solving strategy. This is because they break down the complexity of processes so that the designer has a full 360-degree view of the problem, anchoring them in their way of thinking. What is Design Thinking. What are some Design thinking tools ?

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New eBook: 11 Ways to Reimagine the SWOT Analysis

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. Make sure your strategy is addressing typically overlooked opportunities and threats.

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Is Your Brand Making this Customer Experience Strategy Mistake?

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I stopped by the grocery store to use the ATM the other morning before leaving for New York to deliver a content marketing strategy workshop today at the Social Media Strategies Summit. Finding nothing even remotely appealing, I headed for the door, not expecting to witness a solid customer experience strategy lesson.

Strategy

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Saving Hours with Strategic Planning Exercises Galore!

BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? Yet when we create new eBooks, our main goal is ensuring the content is heavy on ideas and tools you can apply to improve strategic thinking and implementation in your organization. Plus, we share it ALL THE TIME! – Mike Brown.

Exercises

Exercises eBook Strategic Thinking Disruption

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 18 Ideas to Re-imagine a Threatened Business Model

BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

Design unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. 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! Create exclusive access to incredible experiences.

Strategic Thinking

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Leadership Strategy – How Much Teaching and Coaching Is Enough?

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.

Leadership

Leadership Strategy Strategy eBook

Business Strategy – How to Handle Confidential Information

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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There Is a Secret to Creative Success for Everyone

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding? Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions.

Creativity

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13 Ways to Sponsor Strategic Planning Process Success

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning. We have been preparing the strategic planning process design for this workshop over the last month. 11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun!

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4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy

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. 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. What does your future strategy hold?

Strategic Thinking

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Creative Diversity – What group will drive implementation success?

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

While we work aggressively to ensure a strongly diverse group that understands the issues we’re addressing , we’ll had this new question to our creative thinking workshop design process. We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! Mike Brown. Scarce resources ?

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1 Question to Test Effective Strategic Plan Development

BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2017

We designed a group exercise for participants to identify strategic plan topics. How faithfully the steps carry out the stated strategy. if you know the right ways to liven it up while still developing solid strategies! Is there such a thing as a quick check to determine whether a strategic plan is on the right track or not ?

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking eBook Exercises Groups

Fun Strategic Planning Activities – 4 Times to Avoid Toys

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While we are whole-hearted proponents of fun strategic planning activities , that doesn’t mean every strategic planning workshop we design and facilitate has exactly the same type of fun. And we all know that toys are a universal signal that a strategy workshop is supposed to be fun. Yes, developing strategy can be fun.

eBook

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3 Ways to Economically TEDify Your Event Strategy

BrainZooming

JULY 10, 2017

It detailed how TED and its CEO, Chris Anderson, are trying to aggressively penetrate the corporate event strategy and production market. An Event Strategy to Tell Your Stories and Ideas. If you are looking to an event strategy that creates impact but TED is not the answer, try these practices TED masters.

Strategy

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5 Growth Strategies CPG companies should follow in 2019 and Beyond

Acuvate

JANUARY 24, 2019

The following strategies can prove to be very useful, in that endeavour in 2019. By aligning current strategies with where the market is headed, market-conscious brands are able to achieve a heads up on the competition by identifying and capturing new avenues of growth. FREE EBOOK. Presence in Multiple Channels. Download Now.

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Implementation Strategy – How to Create Strategy for Results

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We were discussing our approach for developing a specific business strategy. After completing their strategic plan a few months earlier, we’re now fleshing out a successful implementation strategy for an initiative they spelled out in the plan. Designing Strategic Planning with Your Implementation Strategy in Mind.

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11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around. We eliminate unnecessary parts of developing strategy and do away with all the complex templates to complete. Via Shutterstock.

Exercises

Exercises eBook Strategic Thinking Roadmap

Creative Thinking Exercise – The New-and-Improved, Surf-to-Turf

BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. This design came about specifically for this client. Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday.

Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity eBook

How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Automotive Supply Chains

Planview

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This integration facilitates the management and optimization of supply chain activitiesfrom the initial design and development of automotive components to manufacturing, distribution, and final delivery to the customer.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Agile Software Big Data

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. All the Strategy Roles You Need.

Resources

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Creative Thinking Exercises – 2 Ways to Create Innovation Workshop Inspiration

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! A client looking for more extreme ideas, finding the right inspiration triggers, and designing an innovation workshop to deliver bigger thinking. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , The leader wanted to see them broaden and expand the concept’s horizons.

Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking Exercises Creativity eBook

8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client

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. Get the strategy down before you move to creative ideas. Return to the brand strategy and the creative strategy frequently. Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

Creativity

Creativity Creative Thinking eBook Exercises

Customer Experience Strategy – Brand Expectations and Experience

BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2016

I fielded a request for a few ideas on social engagement for an upcoming eBook an online company is creating. One of the questions related to how brands can set themselves apart through a customer experience strategy and outstanding customer engagement. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business? Brainzooming Has an Answer!

Strategy

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5 Keys to a Flexible Strategic Planning Process

BrainZooming

AUGUST 14, 2017

Meeting with a client to design a visioning session for its upcoming strategic planning activities, I prepared several pages of options. Ideally, though, you want some latitude to design your strategic planning process to create an experience that will be both productive and engaging for participants. via Shutterstock.

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9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy

BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you’re developing an innovation strategy initiative inside your company, is your primary focus on bringing executives together in a creative way to imagine new ideas? But convening executives for a creativity session is the right step ONLY AFTER you’ve done a lot of decidedly non-sexy innovation strategy work.

Strategy

Strategy Strategy eBook Innovation

Dynamic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

Planview

JULY 26, 2022

But there is another way: By tying resources to initiatives and initiatives to business outcomes, and using software designed to enable dynamic planning , managers can make intelligent decisions about how to reduce costs with the least adverse impact to business outcomes. A more informed approach. Need to get started with dynamic planning?

eBook

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I’m an Executive and Need a New Strategy – Can Brainzooming help?

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?”. “I’m an executive that needs a new strategy. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Can you help?” Mike Brown.

Strategy

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11 Hacks for Strengthening Your Brand’s Visual Vocabulary

BrainZooming

MAY 15, 2017

I’ve spent a heck of a lot of time considering on design as we solidify the Brainzooming brand’s visual vocabulary through creating more eBooks on strategy and innovation (with our initial offer on branding on the way). Let’s talk about your brand’s visual vocabulary. Here are the hacks that have worked for us.

eBook

eBook Strategy Strategy Creativity

Innovation Strategy – 6 Possibilities with Regulatory Constraints

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled an intriguing innovation strategy example within a regulated industry. The Armada article highlights six ways to formulate innovation strategy in a regulated environment, including the approach JetBlue is taking. A shadow innovation strategy.

Strategy

Strategy Strategy eBook Innovation

Experience Design: how to work user’s needs in favor of business

mjvinnovation

JULY 12, 2019

Today’s consumer behavior sets the tone of business strategies. Experience Design is a set of methods that aims to provide complete and unforgettable consumer experiences. Experience Design: what it is and what it is for. How to Work the Experience Design concept. User-centric steps. ? Successful cases.

Design

Design How To eBook Design Thinking

Andy Reid Borrows Innovative Ideas. Do you?

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out these quotes about Reid’s sources for innovative ideas: “He set up an R&D unit for offensive football, scouring film and tinkering with new play designs. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Where does Andy Reid find innovative ideas?

Innovation

Innovation eBook Strategic Thinking Disruption

Strategic Planning Workshop Ideas – The Brainzooming Process Is 10 Years Old!

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

By facilitating the strategic conversations in a targeted, productive way, even potentially off-topic chatter contributed to completing the strategic planning template we designed. All they needed to do was review what we’d created and assign dates and names to strategies and tactics. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

Exercises

Exercises Strategic Thinking eBook Creativity

Content Marketing Strategy – 7 Situations for Outsourcing Content Creation

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

That was one content marketing strategy question attendees asked in the solo social media workshop I presented at the Social Media Strategies Summit. We have a significant bias toward handling content creation inside a company as part of its integrated content marketing strategy. Curating content that fits the brand’s strategy.

Marketing

Marketing Strategy Strategy eBook

6 Ways a Strategy Workshop (or NFL Practice) Is Most Productive

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Not wasting time is a major part of why a Brainzooming strategy workshop is so focused on effective time management. We’re continually trying to be as productive as possible, generating business strategies in as little time as possible. All those moves make sense and easily translate into a strategy workshop design.

Strategy

Strategy Strategy eBook Groups

Go to Market Strategy – 10 Sections Your Strategy Plan Should Include

BrainZooming

JANUARY 21, 2016

Our buddies at Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed what sections you should include in your go to market strategy plan in their “Inside the Executive Suite” feature. They highlighted ten different sections to include your strategy plan. 10 Sections Your Go to Market Strategy Plan Should Include via Armada Corporate Intelligence.

Strategy

Strategy Strategy Marketing eBook

The EPIC International Summit: Does What it Says on the Tin

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

Conference

Conference Strategic Thinking eBook Creativity

Content Marketing Metrics Template for Business

3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss

Webinars

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5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 7 Tools to Boost Strategic Impact

Measuring Innovation Performance

4 Roles to Push Bold Customer Experience Strategy Thinking

Content Marketing Strategy – 8 Ways to Create New Growth from Evergreen Content

Banking on Transformation: Unlock the Future of Financial Services with Value Stream Management

Design Thinking Tools: how to use them to solve complex problems

New eBook: 11 Ways to Reimagine the SWOT Analysis

Is Your Brand Making this Customer Experience Strategy Mistake?

Saving Hours with Strategic Planning Exercises Galore!

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 18 Ideas to Re-imagine a Threatened Business Model

Leadership Strategy – How Much Teaching and Coaching Is Enough?

Business Strategy – How to Handle Confidential Information

There Is a Secret to Creative Success for Everyone

13 Ways to Sponsor Strategic Planning Process Success

4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy

Creative Diversity – What group will drive implementation success?

1 Question to Test Effective Strategic Plan Development

Fun Strategic Planning Activities – 4 Times to Avoid Toys

3 Ways to Economically TEDify Your Event Strategy

5 Growth Strategies CPG companies should follow in 2019 and Beyond

Implementation Strategy – How to Create Strategy for Results

11 Ways to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process

Creative Thinking Exercise – The New-and-Improved, Surf-to-Turf

How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Automotive Supply Chains

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

Creative Thinking Exercises – 2 Ways to Create Innovation Workshop Inspiration

8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client

Customer Experience Strategy – Brand Expectations and Experience

5 Keys to a Flexible Strategic Planning Process

9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy

Dynamic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

I’m an Executive and Need a New Strategy – Can Brainzooming help?

11 Hacks for Strengthening Your Brand’s Visual Vocabulary

Innovation Strategy – 6 Possibilities with Regulatory Constraints

Experience Design: how to work user’s needs in favor of business

Andy Reid Borrows Innovative Ideas. Do you?

Strategic Planning Workshop Ideas – The Brainzooming Process Is 10 Years Old!

Content Marketing Strategy – 7 Situations for Outsourcing Content Creation

6 Ways a Strategy Workshop (or NFL Practice) Is Most Productive

Go to Market Strategy – 10 Sections Your Strategy Plan Should Include

The EPIC International Summit: Does What it Says on the Tin

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