BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

I have been traveling more recently for speaking than at any time during history of The Brainzooming Group. While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups.

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Strategyn

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Market segmentation is a method that companies use to target unique offerings to groups of customers that will value them. In other words, this group had unmet needs that other drivers did not have. Knowing if and why segments of customers have different unmet needs is the key to an effective market and product strategy.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Split your group into two or four groups if it is large enough. If not, then let the entire group work on the four questions within this different SWOT strategic thinking exercise.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. As I described it to an associate, facilitation may look easy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way. If you’re up for abruptly halting the cluster f%@k of the modern business meetings you attend, contact The Brainzooming Group ?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table !

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. Another possibility is always combining two of these groupings to create a matrix or a table ! 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Then contact us at The Brainzooming Group and let’s get started working together! 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Taivara

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. As I always say, those searches are no surprise.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They pivoted their value proposition after realizing that this group believed smoking was a social choice, and that consumers care more about choosing the right time to quit versus simply curbing their addiction. set of customers, collect their feedback to inform your product strategy and positioning. There might be 43 of them.

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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. The group did include several different sales groups. The Canadian were also largely grouped in pockets throughout the audience.

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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. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

such as The Brainzooming Group) can take the output from great strategic thinking exercises and shape it into templates. The Brainzooming Group uses the second type of productive structure to create a lively, positive, and collaborative strategic planning process.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Design itself is a product. Many groups in an organization have a thing that they “own” that gives them leverage in decisions. To break this conflict between early access and full process, our group developed a process to help executives visualize their ideas. If you can’t sell a feature, maybe you shouldn’t build it.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 18, 2018

By having an accurate picture of the state of innovation, these companies can better assess and incorporate new technologies into the long-term business and product strategy. Alliance Ventures, a group from the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, was started in January 2018 and plans to invest up to $1 billion over the next five years.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. 10 Signs of a Strategy Planning Meeting Nightmare. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategy Planning Fun. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. Contact us , and let’s customize a strategy process specific to your organization.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

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. Contact us , and let The Brainzooming Group facilitate your planning for next year using our collaborative and streamlined Brainzooming planning methodology.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Friday’s priority involved finalizing a new product innovation workshop we’re developing in collaboration with a market research company for one of its clients. These weeks require shifting among groups of widely different sizes, community situations, and objectives.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

It’s a course for innovation project managers, consultants, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs who want to have more productive strategy, idea generation, and innovation action plans. Master trainer Gregg Fraley (yes that’s me) will show you how to scaffold thinking of a group towards amazing innovative concept combinations.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Related posts When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On the other hand, Moody's new products are incubated in dedicated business units, completely ring-fenced from business as usual. In contrast, a centralized innovation group focuses on making the overall innovation process more efficient and smoother across the company. MANN+HUMMEL has adopted a slightly different approach.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. You can use this strategic thinking exercise with a group to help them push their thinking into areas they might otherwise ignore – purposely or by accident. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help!

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

Even without revealing specifics to employees in advance, purposefully involving them in developing branding ideas opens up opportunities to familiarize employees with the direction and insights leading to a new branding strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I reminded them (in case no one ever had) that they had a HUGE brand role no matter how narrow everyone thinks they are as a group. A description of a job role isn’t identical to the description of how an individual or group can contribute to solid, dynamic, and innovative strategic thinking. The Strategic Thinking Lesson?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. Creating Strategic Impact – The Brainzooming Group Strategic Planning Toolkit Strategic Planning Exercises – Have you tried a Zoomference yet?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. What can you do to make strategic planning more productive before, during, and after? 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

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Small unknown group collaboration”. Group work”. Collaboration was so easy with the group that I was with.”. One of best group brainstorming sessions in a long time.”. Increase focus for your community with productive strategy questions everyone can use. The team interaction”. Very enjoyable and fun.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

With the additions of IdeaPoint, AcclaimIP, PatentRiver, Beacon Innovation Group, Lecorpio, and launch of AQX, we’re leading the IPM space with a fresh new set of product and technology perspectives that embrace big data, analytics, advanced search, and new technology frameworks that continue to enrich our ecosystem. New Technologies.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

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. knowing the decision maker) generate answers.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Related posts Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Instead of just inviting people and seeing what happens, we carefully identify and vet potential participants in collaborative strategy planning. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. A democracy.

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