BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2017

It’s avoidable if you do the right types of planning for planning and then eagerly, actively, and honestly engage all the appropriate parts of your organization in contributing to the strategies you develop. Strategic Planning – How many strategic plans do we need? Four Must-Know Ways to Read a Strategy Document.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This article originally appeared on Forbes. To harness the power of innovation effectively, organizations must navigate the intricate world of intellectual property (IP) management, a process that involves safeguarding novel ideas, inventions and creations while optimizing business potential. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This article originally appeared on Forbes. To harness the power of innovation effectively, organizations must navigate the intricate world of intellectual property (IP) management, a process that involves safeguarding novel ideas, inventions and creations while optimizing business potential. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

Many organizations are in the early stages of executing new strategies for this year. That is when you discover whether you have a solid, implementable plan or something that (maybe) looks good on paper, but doesn’t work well when you try to execute the strategy. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Helping Teams Execute Strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2016

That’s not the way to advance an internal branding strategy. My suggestion for these videos to have an impact on their internal branding strategy? Then, capture them explaining strategy at employee meetings. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. – Mike Brown.

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Norbert Bol

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The best read strategy blog in 2015 was the blog from 1 February 2015 about “ Sustainability driving innovation “ I personally like this blog the most as well, as it supports the evidence that sustainability strategies stimulate innovation, beacuse sustainability needs new knowledge and capabilities. Conclusion.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 29, 2015

Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times “ The different articles in this special edition all focus on the sustainability behavour of companies in tough times. Companies have used their sustainability strategy to maximize strategic value by focussing more on the real customer needs and reduce costs.

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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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

APRIL 5, 2017

Talking to executives, you hear the expectation that an organization should implement a solid strategic plan strategy-by-strategy. To the extent a strategic plan is not implemented in that way, it falls short in some fashion. 7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf).

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Norbert Bol

AUGUST 30, 2015

When companies are innovating for sustainability there are different strategies that can be pursued. In general these strategies aim to create positive benefits and/or to reduce negative impacts for society and nature. However all economic business models are still based on the stimulation of consumption.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Big strategy statements shaping your organization needn’t be complicated. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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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. 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy. D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Do you dread strategy meetings ? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? Every executive dreads strategic planning. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 17, 2019

Last week I wrote about the use of narratives in strategic foresight using the speeches of Steve Jobs as examples (see last week’s blog ). In their article, Van Cattenburg & Duijn (2019), show that the allegorical pattern is useful to reflect on all relevant perspectives to stimulate integral learning.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Amir Atarodian is currently PhD scholar in Management science at University of Naples, Federico II and University of Naples, Parthenope in Naples, Italy. His major professional specializations are innovation management, Business development, Business strategic planning (Strategy development and implementation) and Open business models.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Look at how many strategies and tactics you actually implemented this year, and use that as the threshold for how deeply detailed your plan for next year should be. If you have a bunch of unimplemented strategies and tactics for this year that are still sound, simply use those for next year’s plan. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 11, 2018

In this Strategy Blog I follow up on the topic of gamification. Based on their research Malshe & Friend (2018), created six supplier strategies to deal with these specific situations (see figure). In this blog I shall not go into detail about the six supplier strategies related to co-creation (please read the article).

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Norbert Bol

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In the journal of Technological Forecasting & Social Change is an interesting article about the effects of corporate identity on innovation strategies and sustainability (Staub et al., Innovation in this article is classified as product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation and organizational innovation.

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ITONICS

MAY 24, 2018

ITONICS benefits from his extensive experience in the areas of innovation and strategic management, R&D management, business modeling, IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and his comprehensive industry expertise. Mike is the founder, visionary and chief executive officer of ITONICS.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

In the april 2019 edition of the Journal of Cleaner Production there is an interesting article about corporate culture and corporate sustainability by Islam et al. In this article corporate culture is seen as an essential attribute to improve corporate sustainability performance. In my last blog I related culture to sustainability.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 17, 2016

To answer this question, I will use the upcoming article in June 2016 in the International Journal of Information Management about information management for innovation networks. In the article the major challenges are described to create new products and services where resources, processes and skill sets of others are needed.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

In the previous Strategy Blog the importance of education was discussed and I added a poll with the question: “Do you think decision makers educate themselves enough about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship?” ” The majority of the voters indicated that decision makers do not educate themselves enough.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

In the December 2015 issue of the Journal of Business Research there is an interesting article about positive marketing. In the article many examples are given such as Patagonia (see also blog: Sufficiency as the ultimate business strategy for sustainability ) that introduces material-meaning innovations as well as practice innovations.

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Norbert Bol

MAY 16, 2016

The International Journal of Information Management will publish in the August 2016 edition an article (Hau & Kang, 2016) that reveals more insight in the role that lead users have in these online user-communities. However as lead users have a high benefit and have large social trust, this can also result in a certain bias.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 3, 2016

Dear readers of strategy blogs, New Year brings a beautiful opportunity to thank you for reading and interacting with me on business strategy, innovation and sustainability. 2015, article in press, corrected proof). May the New Year open up new ways and new roads to success for you, fulfilling all your aspirations! Revelli, C.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Based on three recent scientific articles it looks like companies innovate more to resolve environmental and social problems when there are more external pressures and they can learn more form other companies (external sources). Journal of Management , 1446-1476. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences , 181 , 228-240. Herrera, M.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 6, 2016

Last week I wrote in StrategyBlogs that bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy implementation is possible through a true dialogue with your stakeholders. In the current edition of Business Horizons there is an interesting article about secondary stakeholders and their growing influence. Definitions.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 31, 2016

Last week in Strategy Blogs we discussed the topic of innovation speed and how this positively relates to organizational performance. In the March 2016 edition of Environmental Science & Policy there is an article by Gorddard et al. Next week in Strategy Blogs: Stakeholder co-creation during innovation. Norbert Bol.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 12, 2016

In the August 2016 edition of the Journal of Business Research there is an interesting article (Abecassis-Moedas, et al., To improve my Strategy Blogs I’ll start by learning next week more about blogging during the Blogging Challange of the Blog Universiteit (Blog University). Norbert Bol. Literature. Abecassis-Moedas, C.,

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 24, 2019

2019) show in their article that we often have a too optimistic view on technology and sustainability. Innovative sustainable technology is considered to be positively contributing to sustainability. For example where new technologies are able to solve climate change problems providing clean energy solutions. Gonella et al.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 3, 2016

In the June 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article how green jobs differ from non-green jobs. This article confirms the general understanding of the positive effects of green jobs. These jobs are less routinised and can be important drivers for innovation and the seeking of new knowledge and skills.

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