BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

Talking to executives, you hear the expectation that an organization should implement a solid strategic plan strategy-by-strategy. When you develop a plan from a collaborative, conversationally-driven strategy planning process , you see other tangible impacts. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

One course that stands out as an example of bridging the academic divide between design and business is the Luxury Design and Strategy course in collaboration with Columbia Business School. It was the student’s responsibility altogether to take the initiative to register in certain electives and workshops that could provide skill training.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. I suspect someone asked a question at the workshop about who the audience considered as thought leaders. Value Leadership Strategy.

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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 26, 2018

I participated in the City Partnership Workshop yesterday at the 2018 Gigabit City Summit. Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. – Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

To dive deeper into communication strategies for virtual teams, explore our article on virtual team communication tools. To further improve your team’s efficiency, consider implementing virtual team productivity strategies alongside these platforms.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. 6 Steps to Figuring out Your Company’s Big Strategy Statements. These steps will more readily lead to big strategy statements that work hard for your organization.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

To make it a little easier to track down ideas for how you can approach developing strategy this year, here are nineteen Brainzooming articles filled with 113 techniques and ideas for improving your organization’s strategic planning process. 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. One reason is they are now able to facilitate their own strategy and ideation sessions, that can save a lot of money. Register through CRC here. 773-251-8567.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Getting as much homework and other stuff involving individual work done before the strategic planning workshop so everyone isn’t waiting around for one person to share information. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We apply that approach no matter whether we’re clarifying strategy, determining objectives, developing the strategy plan, or beginning implementation. If you need new ideas about how to approach strategic opportunities and challenges, a collaborative workshop to imagine a variety of possibilities can be very productive.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 29, 2016

We are working with a client to develop a content marketing strategy for multiple business units in the organization. With that information, we will be in a strong position to identify a content marketing strategy specific to each business unit’s needs.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

But for current and future clients, don’t be surprised if some form of it starts cropping up in your strategy planning workshops! – Mike Brown. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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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. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself. Taking on the role of customer researcher also empowers a designer to shape the product strategy when it is the most undefined. Also, it’s fun as heck! ” Slide.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

Your thoughts, opinions, and views will change, but the diagram won’t, and so you’ve added a constraining boundary to the idea – and a tool for concretely visualizing how the product vision is changing. A visualization of a product strategy (or almost any strategy) is easily consumable, while a requirement document is not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

It had a shrinking labor force, low labor productivity, low technological competitiveness of Russian exports, and excessive government meddling that constrained investment. This will guide how they align sales, marketing, and product strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The partners were concerned about levels of staff productivity and performance relative to the competition. First up, I conducted a workshop, giving all staff the chance to address the issue and propose solutions. What could be the cause? I was called in to see if I could find out. Do you praise and reward a job well done?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management'

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