BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any length of time, you know we’re huge proponents of collaborative strategic planning. Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

NASA used this product strategy approach when manufacturing a glove worn by astronauts on spacewalks. The final design contained the same materials used for the wings worn by Victoria’s Secret runway models.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The coaching staff had done the work of designing and naming plays so suggesting a possibility was easy and quick. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

Trend #3: More Innovative Products with Reduced Concept Development Time and Cost Innovation is poised to accelerate in 2024, fueled by technological advancements such as 3D printing, AI, AR, and VR. Trend #4: Greater Coopetition Collaboration with competitors, known as coopetition, will become more prevalent in 2024.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. Know Your Company First and foremost, Rose believes innovators need to deeply understand the nature of their company and design the innovation process accordingly.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These processes help even the largest companies better understand current product portfolios and identify any gaps teams need to bridge to optimize business success and nurture continuous growth. The Anatomy of Customer-Centric Product Portfolio Management Framework. How connected should the business’ portfolio products be?

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

At Planview PSA we continue to “Build the Future of Connected Services,” which enables professional service organizations to fully connect, plan, and collaborate, while they work across the entire services lifecycle and within the context of the enterprise in which they live.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In my experience, when product development is managed with an Agile development approach, user experience professionals are expected to find a way to work within the Agile framework to succeed. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

It was only after pulling into the parking lot at Kris and Kate’s Ice Cream Treats on the return trip that something even more incredible than the building’s design jumped out: the best brand promise ever. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2017

I delivered a keynote on the importance of collaborative internal branding during the SMC3 2017 Connections conference. The talk prompted several conversations about the distinctions between branding strategy and advertising. Advertising relates to marketing strategy. Subscribe to the free Brainzooming email updates.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Companies are realizing that all their personnel can help contribute to the ideation process – not just a designated few. Other companies are going even further afield and turning to their customers or the general public to help them solve problems and create new products. . Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Companies are realizing that all their personnel can help contribute to the ideation process – not just a designated few. Other companies are going even further afield and turning to their customers or the general public to help them solve problems and create new products. . Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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