BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. 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.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Can Analogies Change the World? Enjoy this article? 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. Making Great Comparisons.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. 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

DECEMBER 2, 2015

When a brand strategy change is planned, what happens first? An earlier “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed this important brand strategy question about how changes are rolled out to the public. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Here are their comments on opportunities and challenges, along with links to Brainzooming posts addressing the strategy and innovation situations they face: People and Organizational Issues. “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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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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? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of requiring people complete complex strategic planning templates unrelated to daily business, we use productive interactions to change the strategic planning process from completing complex forms into conversations, events, and experiences people engage in and learn from as they participate. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

This is a starting point, however, to look around and see which current and emerging leaders are ready to step into new roles championing collaborative strategy. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next. Are you up for changing that? Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

Seriously, we started in April, laying out how we’d approach everything so that by the time we engaged the rest of the organization in mid-summer we had everything ready to go. What do we need to change about the upcoming strategic planning process to make it more effective and efficient?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With those changes, we turned the previous work into a platform to both describe the new initiative and help brainstorm ideas for what new, future programs they could introduce to support it. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With those changes, we turned the previous work into a platform to both describe the new initiative and help brainstorm ideas for what new, future programs they could introduce to support it. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

If the answers to the first two questions are “no” and “yes,” respectively, are you ready to formulate a plan to change your organization’s bad habits and realize more impact from creative thinking activities? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste. – Mike Brown.

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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. Do you see something here that could help develop or shape your strategy and project planning implementation? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If you are a leader (or even if you’re not a leader) where creativity in business is under appreciated, how about changing things for the better? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

This article covers techniques to rapidly visualize your idea and get early feedback. A marketing page is one version of the minimum viable product. Engaging with potential customers, right from the beginning, and learning what they want is an essential skill. This allows for quick changes. Why this matters to designers.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In order to be successful, product managers need to use whatever tools and tactics they have at their disposal to understand and engage with their target customers to gather information about what features to build and when. The most effective experiments measure real behavior, while also delivering real value to the customer.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Ever been in a product strategy meeting and unable to answer this simple question: So who is our customer? Both must find value in your solution to engage. You don’t need pretty designs and glossy diagrams – in fact, putting this much work into production will create resistance to future changes. Skip fancy.

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