BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Strategic Planning Questions that Create Surprise.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 3, 2018

Two junior team members in chief of staff / program manager roles asked how to best align with senior leaders to successfully share a strategy across an organization. The Way to Successfully Share a Strategy. Facilitate objectivity when judging the effectiveness and success of early strategy implementation. Objectives.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But if not for the blog, it would live in a file somewhere with no way to effectively retrieve it, even though it still holds up all these years later as a guideline for servant leadership and solid business behavior. If you are in a leadership position or aspire to one, feel free to borrow and adapt it to share with your team.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Strategic drift Strategic drift occurs when an organization fails to adapt its strategy to changing trends and customer demands. Access our eBook, “Pivot at Speed: The Leader’s Guide to Planning Course Corrections,” to see which actionable steps you can take to keep your enterprise ahead of the curve.

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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. Bridges the gap between high-level strategic planning and day-to-day execution, enabling leadership to track progress at every stage.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Customer-Focused Innovation Strategy. Which ones would we accelerate? Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? Is your leadership team expressing its frustration with the inability to generate new insights about your brand’s strongest market opportunities? If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. and it’s FREE!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 19, 2017

Other than dropping price, in what ways can you adapt your branding strategy to boost the benefits and reduce the costs (be they financial or non-financial) of having your company as a provider? That’s not a new branding strategy question, but it came to mind once again while heading to my car after morning mass yesterday.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

I also created and delivered a 6-part webinar series addressing The New Important for businesses trying to innovate and restart during the pandemic; the webinar series involved a 2 ½ hour combination of existing and new frameworks plus creating six eBooks in five weeks. The New Important – Strategy in a Pandemic-Shaped World.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. The interview is an outgrowth of an eBook on thought leadership. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. What to Say about a Thought Leadership Strategy?

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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? 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.

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Planview

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Tools like Planview Viz enable coaches to ensure that teams and leadership are aligned on goals and progress, fostering a shared understanding of the impact of Agile adoption.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy. Download our FREE eBook, 3 Ways to Turn Budget Meetings into Strategic Activities. Get your copy of 3 Ways to Turn Budget Meetings into Strategic Activities and grow your strategic leadership to drive better business results! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

You have a strategic plan completed by a small senior leadership team. You have just taken over leadership of a company. Your senior leadership team held a meeting to develop a strategic plan. Big strategy statements shaping your organization needn’t be complicated. Your organization is pursuing lots of good ideas.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2017

Creative Leadership – Do Idea Magnets Get a Pass on Empathy? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! Creative Quickies – Taking Both Business Strategy Paths at Once 9 Extreme Creativity Questions from Peter’s Laws. Are too many bold ideas killing your creativity?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For each strategic imperative, they suggest strategic planning questions to adopt an Amazon-like perspective in devising a company’s strategy: Bringing Amazon-Based Strategic Planning Questions into Your Planning (via Inside the Executive Suite ). The Amazon Strategy DNA. ” Via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We worked with a client to facilitate an information technology strategy vision. From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. Despite repeated requests, no one ever surfaced this type of strategy document.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That sentiment all revolves around our content marketing strategy. The client we’re onsite with today working on an innovation strategy comes with an intriguing history. By mid-year, he completed a Contact Us form on the website, wanting to discuss his brand’s innovation strategy.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tara’s exercise prompted me to adapt the eight questions below from our free eBook, 49 Idea Magnet Questions to Attract Amazing Ideas. That depends on what will work best for you to stay on top of goals and strategies. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2018

11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun! if you know the right ways to liven it up while still developing solid strategies! If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” How would making yourself nervous fit your creative thinking formula?–

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

One frequent prioritization approach works well when we have tons of ideas in a strategy workshop and need to quickly (and spontaneously) narrow them to a manageable number. This involves working with the organization’s leadership team to identify important factors shaping strategic decisions. Prioritizing Strategic Opportunities.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. The leader wanted to see them broaden and expand the concept’s horizons.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

One way to deal with a common innovation strategy barrier – fear of change and new ideas – is to disguise new ideas as your team develops and implements them. Innovation Strategy in Disguise. As an innovation leader, pursuing an innovation strategy in disguise requires a different perspective. Yes, you got that right.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The folks over at “Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed an important aspect of customer experience strategy this week: turning your organization’s claims of customer focus into real actions. Customer Experience Strategy: 4 Ideas for Creating Customer Focus.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2018

Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders , my new Brainzooming book on daily innovation, is now available on Amazon.com. Using Idea Magnets strategies, you’ll be able to envision new creative paths that deliver powerful impact, attract new ideas and people, and strengthen your leadership.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reading responses about the strategic planning challenges faced by executives downloading our eBooks suggests a variety of strong blog topics. 13 Strategic Planning Process Questions When Strategy Planning Isn’t Working. Leadership sponsoring strategy planning. Looking for Ideas to Make a Developing Strategy More Fun?

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

A participant at a Brainzooming creative leadership presentation stayed afterward. Looking for Fresh Insights to Drive Strategy? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. .

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

My natural inclination when it comes to business strategy is to identify what is MOST IMPORTANT and build everything around that. Tie the objectives, priorities, and strategies to a very tight focus for an organization. Granted, it is SO MUCH EASIER to talk about a single-focused business strategy say than it is to actually create one.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2016

That’s not the way to advance an internal branding strategy. The question was what to do to get the leadership team comfortable with actually being casual and approachable on camera. My suggestion for these videos to have an impact on their internal branding strategy? D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence looked at how you focus a distracted organization on an implementation strategy to align and focus activities. 3 Roles to Focus a Distracted Organization on Implementation Strategy. An Implementation Strategy that Creates Focus.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. One theme for the Leadership Institute presentation is finding the blue sky – the open opportunities – even amid what seems to be an onslaught of constraints and limitations. Asking Others for Help.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. We see great leaders among our clients successfully taking steps that meaningfully involve employees in shaping strategy and implementation.

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