BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The key question was, “Where’s the beef with this innovation strategy?”. They seemed ready to jump through hoops to justify the innovation strategy to the CEO. 3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss.

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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.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Dramatic changes in my activities throughout this pandemic took precedence. The New Important – Strategy in a Pandemic-Shaped World. Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. The short answer?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? Well, to identify the articles listed here, a search for “change” on the blog yielded eighty-six PAGES of articles.

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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.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2017

We say it so often, particularly during brand strategy workshops : a brand is more than a logo, a color, and a look. A brand encompasses the people, products, services, messages, promises, and reinforcing cues that create a complete customer experience strategy. 4 Customer Experience Strategy Questions Strong Branding Addresses.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 20, 2017

We share many Brainzooming strategy, innovation, and branding tools. One vital business strategy tool for me personally that I rarely mention directly in workshops is prayer. Prayer (and the humility in asking God for help) are an integral part of my business strategy tool repertoire. Here are two recent examples.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. This eBook has become a go-to guide for thousands of executives globally to explore fun strategic planning ideas. Then people start dozing off.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons. 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization. Here Is Help!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. They could also take the outside-in innovation strategy approach we wrote about recently: look at other testing situations ripe for speeding up and solve those. The reason why?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

What is the insight I’m not seeing that could make our content marketing strategy make sense?” ” An attendee at the 2018 Social Media Strategies Summit conference in San Francisco made that comment. She can’t change either of the first two strategic expectations.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

A similar phenomenon applies to brand strategy. While success can breed success, it can also lead to blindness about the importance of trying to disrupt your brand strategy before something else comes along to topple your brand. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2016

Do you suppose it is fear of change? If you are smart in how the organization is pursuing its innovation strategy, however, there are going to be wins along the way. 7 Strategies for Conquering Business Innovation Fears. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Ask most business executives about strategy, and they don’t spit out well-articulated strategy statements. That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. 11 Ideas to Make Planning Strategy More Fun!

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2017

Right before we left, we suddenly changed plans. A Bait and Avoid Customer Experience Strategy. Think about the customer experience strategy implications of this bait and avoid policy. Stop again and consider whether this bait and avoid customer experience strategy is smart. Choosing a Horrendous Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2017

In these situations, what implementation strategy makes sense for your business ? We concentrate on suggesting ideas to develop a solid implementation strategy that works for your organization during uncertain times. Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times. Do you: Speculate on riskier new opportunities?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

How far out are you looking out to create significant changes in your business ? Reviewing the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies issue suggested fourteen potential innovation themes based on the strategies the magazine reported. Slight changes with dramatic impacts? Through the next six months?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. Download Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. They know innovation strategies come and go.

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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 23, 2019

While the conference featured stronger keynotes, these innovation strategy-focused quotes and action items from Beth Comstock resonated with me. “Strategy is a story, well-told.” ” One Thought: Strategy shouldn’t be complex, jargon-filled, and nonsensical to anyone beyond the top executives.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Late December, we hosted a global conversation with leading experts sharing their perspective about what will (not) change for corporate innovation in 2024. Request your ebook copy here. Looking forward to 2024, what’s coming at us, and how can we as innovators make a difference? Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Robotic Process Automation: giants that already using this strategy and application: Walmart, Deutsche Bank, AT&T, Vanguard, Ernst & Young, Walgreens, Anthem and American Express Global Business Travel are among the many companies that already have Robotic Process Automation strategies. Set expectations. So what do you think?

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2016

Facing a major goal when seems you have is too few resources CAN BE an incredible inspiration for your organization’s innovation strategy. Because of this, he saw difficult and resource-scarce times as the BEST opportunity for creativity and moving ahead with a bold innovation strategy. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

Romano shared an important insight into the challenge of developing strategic thinking exercises to envision future strategy: “Until you drive an EV, you are colored by 135 years of going to the gas station. Understanding this change, however, is challenging when your perspective hasn’t broken from the past. For humans?

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BrainZooming

MAY 10, 2017

Chatting with a mid-career professional who is at the height of job frustration, she placed a career strategy challenge on the table: “A résumé is supposed to have metrics, but I have no real metrics I can own for my contributions at my day job. I know this isn’t an isolated career strategy challenge. Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Lots of people are right now enduring dreadful strategy meetings with all the same people, issues, and annoying behaviors they have been putting up with year after year. Then download our free Brainzooming eBook: 11 NSFW* Ways to Spice Up Strategic Planning. Are you in the midst of boring strategic planning meetings?

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 12, 2020

This movement involves a systemic change in many sectors and aspects of human life: the cross-cutting impacts of emerging technologies are even more importance than the resources they represent. how to guide this change in your company. Check out some tips below on how to guide organizational change towards Industry 4.0

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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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