Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking is a critical element in the leadership toolkit, essential for steering organizations towards long-term success. Benefits of Strategic Thinking for Leaders The benefits of strategic thinking for leaders are manifold.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. We are further along and can even more easily customize these strategic thinking exercises to your needs if you face comparable situations. The result?

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2017

In Brainzooming presentations and workshops , attendees want case studies and the answers somebody else has used. Or you receive confirmation from a speaker that what you have been thinking is right (or pretty close to right), and you can take that back to the office and tell the boss. Because that seems easy. Bring the Questions!

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Both team members and leaders are highly valued for their strategic thinking capabilities. The characteristics of a strategic thinker represent skills that can elevate a team or organization, to the point where identifying strategic thinkers is a priority for leaders across the organization. appeared first on CMOE.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The three supporting mechanisms: Change leadership Strategic thinking AI technology resources These are essential for ensuring an effective integration and implementation of AI business initiatives. Think of it as three legs on a stool: without one it is difficult to maintain balance.

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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. One slide during the workshop focused on analysis styles and featured two contrasting images. You’ll enjoy it! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. ” Yes, the role is different.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Without strategic thinking, leaders risk falling into short-term fixes that fail to drive long term sustainable success. Strategic thinking is a skill that can be developed through study, practice, reflection and deliberate effort. How Do You Start Thinking Strategically?

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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. Sharing Ideas Openly and Actively. Narrowing Ideas.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Mintzberg’s 5 Ps of Strategy: A Lens to Understand Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking helps businesses analyze situations, make decisions, and solve problems. For those new to strategic thinking, this process can be difficult to master. What Is Strategic Thinking According to Mintzberg?

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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. Talking with someone about the most difficult Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop EVER inspired the blurb below.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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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. Benefit 2 – New Learnings.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

It allows you, as an executive, to draw upon a repertoire of learned behaviors and strategies that are essential for tackling the unpredictable nature of leadership roles. By embracing the principles of XQ, you can transform the traditional leadership development paradigm and foster a culture that values learning from experience.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Leaders with a strategic mindset can transcend day-to-day operational thinking and focus on long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Leaders with a strategic mindset can transcend day-to-day operational thinking and focus on long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more insights into how a strategic mindset can augment leadership capabilities, consider exploring strategic thinking for leaders , a resource designed to broaden your perspective on leadership strategies. Learn from Challenges : View challenges as opportunities to grow rather than obstacles that limit you.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more insights into how a strategic mindset can augment leadership capabilities, consider exploring strategic thinking for leaders , a resource designed to broaden your perspective on leadership strategies. Learn from Challenges : View challenges as opportunities to grow rather than obstacles that limit you.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Knowing where to place your innovation thinking becomes critical; it is knowing where the leadership places its importance, its ‘bets to win’. This might be in having the need for a richer user engagement experience, a more robust futurist product portfolio to test, learn and explore potential options.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. The reason?

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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. Lesson learned. Want to learn more about that process?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

The topic was trust, and how people that grew up in negative home environments with crappy parents can learn to trust and not trust the right people. I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. And how much time do I have to get ready before the next workshop? Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

We have a call with a client about an upcoming Brainzooming innovation workshop. One question (which we think MAY have been included by mistake on the list of topics they sent us) is what we do when energy is diminishing during a workshop. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure that leaders have the necessary skills to foster such a culture, it is crucial to integrate innovation into leadership development programs and offer leadership development workshops focused on enhancing innovation leadership skills. Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more.

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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. What do you LOVE about your business? Can you say what you LOVE about your business, and what it does?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. Structure and Creative Thinking Skills.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. First though, a little background. What’s an Examination of Conscience?

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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.

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BrainZooming

MAY 13, 2016

We’ve said it before, experience its confirmation repeatedly, and will thus say it again: One of the best ways to learn more about what you know is to teach it to someone else. The latest confirmation took place this week as we created and presented a new Brainzooming innovation workshop on how to develop insights to fuel innovation.

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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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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These events, often conducted away from the usual office environment, provide a setting conducive to strategic thinking, decision-making, and team alignment. Leaders interested in learning more about setting objectives for an offsite should consider reading leading strategy offsites for leadership.

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