BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Then people start dozing off.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long. The answer was easy: Yes!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

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. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “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

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. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

A core part of this focus and commitment is serving ESOs as they work to streamline their product and customer strategy and adapt to meet the varying needs of their customers. Below we outline four critical challenges that ESOs are facing, and how to solve them: ESOs Must Serve Two Masters: Profits & Product Adoption.

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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

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.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. All the Strategy Roles You Need.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Client needs are ever-changing, which should be reflected in the evolution of their IP solution. Over the years, Anaqua has made it a priority to engage with customers and harness their valuable feedback to help create the market leading IPMS, as recognized by industry analyst Hyperion Research. Our Clients Make an Impact.

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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. Make sure you stand up for your own people. Share the glory. Remain calm in the eye of the storm.

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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. Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into 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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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

From being an early adopter of Apple Pay in its stores to making voice ordering available through the Google Assistant, the company has been nimble and fast in making changes over the years. On the other hand, Moody's new products are incubated in dedicated business units, completely ring-fenced from business as usual.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. While we perform a tremendous amount of what we do online via our Zoomference online collaboration platform , engaging people directly always pushes what we do into new areas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Mike Brown.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2016

What is the business strategy behind launching this new program? What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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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. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year.

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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? Mike Brown.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

They got to be a part of the steady execution of the company's slowly evolving product line, happy to help develop and launch the next version of the company's stayed and true products. But that day has long come and gone, and all that has changed now. Today's young marketers, designers, and engineers are very different.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures.

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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. Let me ask a few questions: Does your organization have all the diversity it needs to uncover creativity and innovative strategies? – Mike Brown.

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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

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? An idea aligning with the company strategy. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

It continues the conversation and creates a dialogue for greater understanding – vitally important when planning for our product and engaging with its potential customers. That feeling of “good” is what we’re striving for when we develop a new product idea, and it’s not going to be there if there is no pain. Genuine interest.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI and powerful scenario-analysis capabilities will be crucial for assessing strategies against opportunity costs, product trade-offs, and the overall inherent risks of an R&D portfolio. These efforts should be crucial elements of any strategy aimed at driving long-term success and profitability.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

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. Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

From “webmaster” to “information architect” to “interaction designer” to “UX designer,” we have always been able to adapt what we do in response to changing needs. The reliable way, therefore, to see what designers do is to analyze what they are busy doing, not the titles they hold at slow-to-change enterprises. Looking at the future.

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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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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. 1) Align your IP with business strategy. 1) Align your IP with business strategy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. But perhaps above all, the scouting team's mission is to evaluate whether the direction of the potential company or technology to be bought matches with the strategy of the acquiring company. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. But perhaps above all, the scouting team's mission is to evaluate whether the direction of the potential company or technology to be bought matches with the strategy of the acquiring company. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65

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