BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2017

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Answer Before Making a Decision. Here are five strategic thinking questions you should identify well before you are on the verge of making a decision: Who owns making the decision? 9 ideas for introducing your strategic plan with style and impact to engage your organization.

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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. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

The strong value of collaborative strategic planning comes, in part, from involving parties critical to strong implementation even before you create the plan. Fast Forward Your Strategy Implementation Process – Free eBook. 4 keys for selecting the right collaborative leaders for implementation.

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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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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? In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Engaging Employees.

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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 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Scarce resources ?

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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. That used to be me ALL the time. Innovation.

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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. Successful Implementation.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? Are you searching for ways to quickly and effectively engage brand leaders to anticipate and address emerging threats you face? If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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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. It’s still early. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

Create expanded roles to ensure partners can contribute their expertise and strategic thinking early. It becomes clear quickly if a partner isn’t engaging with the best intentions. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. Provide full visibility into all strategy development processes.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Step 1: Select 10 to 15 very successful engagements. Also, select 10 to 15 unsuccessful (or less successful) engagements. What talents, perspectives, energy, engagement, and activities did each person and group contribute to the process? too much oversight or not enough engagement)? comparable engagements)?

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If you want to collaboratively engage your team (or multiple teams) in a strategic and creative thinking process in which any of them can discover the secret to creative success, then it’s time to contact us. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. I like the concept, a lot.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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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. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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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.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Ensure you have all the strategic thinking perspective and voices we always recommend. Additionally, for these strategic planning vision exercises, make sure you include external participants with expertise and perspectives not burdened by the organization’s current, status quo vision.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. Branding Strategy – Engaging an Internal Brand Team. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Download Our FREE eBook – 11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning. If you are trying to figure out how to spice up strategic planning activities at your company, you need to download our new FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” Fun Strategic Planning Ideas are within reach!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact . Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live? . Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. Find engaging topics your brand can credibly address via social-first content.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

I was horrified by this viewpoint coming from senior executives because it is so strategically misguided. 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy. Download Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2017

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise ebook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It’s because I can’t fathom trying to assign credit for this deal if it unfolded in a Fortune 500 company: The relationship started multiple years ago through a speaking engagement. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. I led the call that moved us toward winning the business.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

Step one in the process is to download 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning ! This eBook has become a go-to guide for thousands of executives globally to explore fun strategic planning ideas. If you don’t have 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning, get your copy today ! More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We don’t deal with it more frequently because we consciously push in advance for diverse groups to engage in creative thinking and innovation workshops. 3 Ways to Find Strong Creative Thinking Skills in Logic-Oriented Groups. They can do this based on their strategic thinking perspectives alone. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It may be an old and tired story, but it still illustrates an important point about engagement and the willingness (or unwillingness) of employees to go all in with a new business initiative. The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. – Mike Brown. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 20, 2017

Short Story: With strategic thinking tools, you want dependable ones that deliver help to move forward in a smart fashion – no matter how unusual the tool may seem. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. We share many Brainzooming strategy, innovation, and branding tools.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision.

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