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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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Companies that aren’t optimized for speed often don’t generate the returns on innovation and product development that they’re looking for; in fact, 42% of global innovation executives believe their development times are too long and cite it as the largest barrier to success. At the heart of innovation is change.

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Yet2

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The automotive industry is undergoing massive technological and social change. 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. Safety/ADAS/Autonomous Vehicles and. Content/Infotainment/Entertainment.

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

Encouraging and supporting organizational change. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Implementing smart, innovative possibilities.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Collaboration 70

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. 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

JANUARY 25, 2016

Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. 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

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). Can Analogies Change the World? via Shutterstock. What’s ahead?

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Resources Strategic Thinking Comparison Strategy 86

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.

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Engagement Strategy Strategy eBook 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning. Switching among so many ways we facilitate community collaboration and learning for organizations keeps us at the top of our game. That is a huge change, and opens the door to some radically different future workshops.

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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.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Engagement Tips Strategy 40

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

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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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 40

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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategy 40

Strategy Strategy Engagement Marketing 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Brainstorming Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Exercises 40

Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking Strategy 40

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 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

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.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Engagement Strategy 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

They affiliate up, down, and across the organization; they reach out to all levels and areas to ask questions, listen, synthesize what they learn, and share updates back to all the areas that participate in implementation. #2 2 – They integrate the organization’s energy and activities into the collaborative strategy.

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

After identifying these two, we gave each of them a pair of orange, “I am creative” notes to self ® socks and invited them to move to reserved, front row seats to work together and learn from each other during the remainder of the creative thinking workshop! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

What do we need to change about the upcoming strategic planning process to make it more effective and efficient? Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Project Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 40

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? Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. An idea magnet in your midst.

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Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy 40

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. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Exercises 40

Exercises Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

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. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement Tools 40

Michael Roberto

JUNE 21, 2018

Here's an excerpt from Lublin's column: Technology industry veteran Puneet Goel says he wishes he had done greater due diligence a few years ago before taking charge of product management at a midsize tech company He never reached out to his immediate predecessor who no longer worked there.

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Technical Review Software Review Product Strategy Leadership 20

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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Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Design 57

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Working with five separate groups for an industrial manufacturer changing a major manufacturing process, we identified more than six hundred tactics for the multi-year initiative during a two-day in-person workshop. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

By reading their responses, I learned that effective relationships between UX and technical staff could be created and sustained by actively involving scrum teams in the UX process, by active participation by UX professionals in team activities, and by frequent communication with team members about UX issues. UX managers.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 111

Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

Trend #5: An Amplified Voice of the Customer In 2024, one of the most significant trends we’re predicting in product development will be the heightened amplification of the voice of the customer (VoC), leveraging AI, machine learning, and crowdsourcing to deliver enhanced customer and user experiences along with more personalized products.

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Product Development Innovation Management Management Trends 69

Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Organizations that lead the pack have two things in common: an airtight alignment between investment spending and business strategy and a formal scoring model in place to determine any in-market product changes. Bridge the Gap Between Product Strategy and Delivery.

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Management Agile Analysis Strategy 52

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Experimentation: How to Setup and Execute A Good Experiment Experimentation is an important part of the product management process. Structured experiments are used to expose any weak points in the product strategy and identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled with evidence gathered from customer insights.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Roadmap Tools 80

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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Design Technical Review Software Review Course 93

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? You don’t need pretty designs and glossy diagrams – in fact, putting this much work into production will create resistance to future changes. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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Innovation Guidelines Design Tools 61

Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to change our lives for the better. Consumer-led AI disruption in the enterprise The next wave of disruption is here and it’s going to change the way we work, interact with each other and do business. But jobs changed. People had to learn new skills.

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