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Think Your Business Will Exist in 10 Years?

BrainZooming

.” Outgoing Cisco CEO, John Chambers, told the company’s customers that in 2015. Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success?

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Strategic Foresight for Key Projects

Innovation Excellence

Here are notes from the Back End of Innovation conference, 2015, in San Jose. These tips come from a workshop led by Tamara Carleton, Innovation Leadership Board, LLC. This session focuses on strategic foresight, which is the ability to build the future we envision.

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What Tim Brown of IDEO Taught us about Creativity in Corporate Innovation

Your Ideas are Terrible

Creative leadership isn’t about leaders simply becoming more creative. This is a fun exercise for teams who are stuck: ask “what if we did the opposite ?”. It worked for George Costanza … Coming up with scenarios is an exercise in creativity. Photo credit: Atmosphere 2015. The Creativity Myth. Do the opposite.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry. – Michael Raynor.

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Strategic Planning Process – 5 Things If You Haven’t Started Yet

BrainZooming

Book time with you organization’s leadership NOW for when you’ll need individual input, when you’ll want them to meet as a group for strategic planning, and when you’ll want them to review the preliminary planning work. Schedule Time Now.

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WYOD: Is Your Organization Ready?

Daniel Burrus

Exercise caution, but don’t run from this exciting new technology. ®2015 Burrus Research, Inc. It is an organizational issue, and every person, from the top down should play a role in ensuring that these devices benefit, rather than expose, your business. Take advantage of it. ###. All Rights Reserved.

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Becoming Real Innovators

Technology Created

You can exercise. Seuss, “Oh the places you’ll go!” [2] 2] You recognize an entire universe of things that you never really understood before. You can show off (“Look Mom!”). You can explore your world. You can get to places of convenience. You can compete! So it is with innovation. The Keys To Innovation. 1] “Innovation in 2014.”