Change, Collaboration, Download and Product Strategy

Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Dr. Szajnfarber’s degree from MIT in aerospace engineering and experience working in the industry have changed the way she views problem-solving. NASA used this product strategy approach when manufacturing a glove worn by astronauts on spacewalks. Download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper to learn more today!

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Industry Engagement

4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. 4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders.

Collaboration

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking

Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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.

Collaboration

Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement

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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

When individuals download our free Results!!! mini-Book, we ask a question about the biggest strategy implementation opportunity or challenge the individual is facing in his or her organization. One reason for asking the question is to identify organizational change topics we can address here. Someone downloaded Results!!!

Change

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop.

Collaboration

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups

Innovation Strategy – Here, There, and Everywhere

BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

Encouraging and supporting organizational change. On Monday, I discussed the community collaboration process we facilitated for Carbondale, IL in September 2015. We’ve worked with Dave’s team on multiple community collaboration engagements related to broadband initiatives, economic development, and Smart Cities.

Strategy

Strategy Strategy Innovation Collaboration

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

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.” Can Analogies Change the World? FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Resources

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7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

FREE Download: “Results!!! 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.

Conference

Conference Collaboration Product Strategy Strategy

Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

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. FREE Download: “Results!!! In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Meeting

Meeting Collaboration Creative Thinking Tips

Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

And by done well, we mean that the vision statement: Is developed broadly and collaboratively. Collaborating on a Vision Statement. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. 5 Questions for Creating a Collaborative Vision.

Exercises

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4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

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. Download the Ultimate Guide to Professional Services Automation.

How To

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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

The executives asking about and offering opinions on the topic tended to believe it was okay to advise employees about branding strategy decisions immediately after introducing changes to customers. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy.

Engagement

Engagement Strategy Strategy eBook

Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

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. . 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis

Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges.

Creative Thinking

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12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process

BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

What do we need to change about the upcoming strategic planning process to make it more effective and efficient? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Collaboration

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

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.

Strategic Thinking

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10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? If you have questions about the best ways to broaden participation in the earliest stages, be sure to download our Results, mini-book. FREE Download: “Results!!! In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Project

Project Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

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? FREE Download: “Results!!! – Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is. FREE Download: “Results!!! This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results.

Engagement

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Engagement Strategy

Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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? FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team

Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas

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? People who collaborated for the first time. FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Creativity

Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy

Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

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. FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

Exercises

Exercises Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement

Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

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. FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement Tools

Brand Strategy – Giving Employees Time with a New Brand Promise

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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Strategy

Strategy Strategy Engagement Marketing

5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Help to me to productively contribute to identifying what we need to do and what it might mean for us. That’s no surprise.

Engagement

Engagement Strategy Strategy eBook

3 New Year’s Resolutions Every IP Portfolio Manager Should Make for 2018

Anaqua

JANUARY 11, 2018

Instead of following the same IP plan year after year, IP managers should focus their strategy on aligning their IP with their business, including developing a more concise IP plan, and switch to using smarter and modern analytics. Download Infographic. 1) Align your IP with business strategy. Download Infographic.

Management

Management Software Review Competition Technical Review

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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

Innovation Strategy – Here, There, and Everywhere

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas

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Brand Strategy – Giving Employees Time with a New Brand Promise

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