BrainZooming

APRIL 19, 2017

One way to look at your branding strategy to identify new value opportunities is to ask this strategic thinking question: What mistakes are customers prone to make before and after they work with us, and how can we eliminate (maybe even guarantee to eliminate) any of those mistakes? Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In case you missed any Brainzooming strategy planning eBooks, here are seven to jump start your strategic planning exercises and better engage your team in shaping your organization’s direction. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Reimagining the SWOT Analysis (Download).

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BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2017

The Power of Positive Thinking Plus Strategic Thinking Questions. As an alternative, I tried being more like my dad, coupling the power of his positive thinking with the strategic thinking questions that are so comfortable for me. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

If you have a clear strategic understanding of the needs of the business you are getting more of the understanding of where-to-play and how-to-win in your innovation activities and market investment. Here is a download to its cascading effect approach: Cascading Choices for Greater Alignment (a PDF file).

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

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? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Mike Brown. Looking for Fresh Insights to Drive Strategy?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. Are you making the best use of customer input and market insights to deliver innovation and growth? This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas.

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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?” She’s trying to manage through three strategic expectations the senior management team and board have regarding a content marketing strategy: They want to keep everything on one Facebook page. Not a great situation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

That was the question from two nonprofit executives tasked with planning market research to support a new marketing plan. Before diving into planning market research, I asked about old research they had. 14 Questions Before Planning Market Research. Examining Your Own Previous Market Research. That’s a Start!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. Less than five minutes.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. 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.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Applying this Strategic Thinking Exercise Broadly. This is a great example of a simple strategic thinking exercise to speed and sharpen decision making.

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BrainZooming

MAY 25, 2017

If your creativity ideas have dried up, today is the day to download our FREE ebook, The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. There are links in this eBook for 600 of the most powerful brainstorming and extreme creativity questions we use , including ones specifically tailored for innovation and creative boldness!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

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. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. To add depth and breadth to the strategic thinking exercise, however, we add four probes to each area of the SWOT analysis. Being a leading instigator for market disruption ?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

That’s why instead of typing out nine strategic thinking questions from various business conversations (and contemplations) so far this week, I decided to Sharpie marker and share them with you in this image. These are strategic thinking questions our clients are asking. Branding and Marketing. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 26, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Stop Undermining Your Success. With that perspective, reconnect with the granddaddy of all strategic thinking questions: What are we trying to achieve? Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Branding and Marketing. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We use strategic thinking exercises and questions as “detours” around organizational thinking that is in a rut. Asking questions in a different way than is typically done forces people to look at new possibilities and actually think before blurting out the standard answers. Opportunities come about when.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 13, 2016

A sidewalk message to navigate the way to what is already a very visible landmark reminds me of my wife’s marketing activities in college. Before we dated, she was in charge of marketing for student activities at Fort Hays State University where we both earned our bachelor’s degrees. Louis arch. Using the St.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Based on our experience, finding just the right number and range of strategic themes is one of the best methodologies you can employ to ensure broad strategic thinking AND clear steps to implement. – Mike Brown. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 7, 2016

Yes, I’m serious about that strategic thinking question. If you struggle with those questions, take a time out right away and do the strategic thinking needed to get back in touch with the love in what you do. While its clients are businesses, it is ultimately a part of a consumer market that is ALL about love.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The conventional wisdom is you give away “what” you do as part of content marketing, but not “how” you do what you do. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2018

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

You may think your brand is strong and ready to withstand anything that might come its way. But all the while, competitors or market forces you may not even suspect are disrupting your place in the market. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Breaking a Business. 12 Permissions to Disrupt New Markets.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This behavior obscures looking at their areas and the entire organization strategically, comprehensively, and with a smart investment perspective. If you’re interested in changing the strategic disconnect of budget meetings – whether you are in finance and accounting or not – we have a guide! 3 Ways to Fix Budget Meetings.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Not sure what the right marketing language is? Building the Team.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2017

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That sentiment all revolves around our content marketing strategy. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 18, 2018

Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success? If not, it is time right now to download your free copy of Disrupting Thinking – 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Brand Before Someone Else Disrupts You!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I’m in Las Vegas this week, speaking at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact . Establishing a Clear Market Position. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He has moved to a new role leading marketing for an organization shifting from the B2C to B2B market. 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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We provided strategic thinking questions of their own to use, including: “That’s great and how can we do that _?” That role went to the group’s senior executive to focus us on transformative ideas during a strategic thinking exercise involving imagining Chick-fil-A designing their customer experience strategy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

They counter suggesting strategic thinking questions as a starting point over-promises and ignores all the other dynamics involved. Marketing strategies. Industry and market dynamics. If you need to start the difficult strategic conversations on disruptive innovation strategy, Disrupting Thinking is for you!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead, executives talk about customers or growth or cost cutting or new markets or a whole variety of other areas that can contribute to business success. 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.

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