BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Brainstorming Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

MAY 26, 2017

Diet Coke Strategy: Translating small to sip-sized. And rather than seeking permission for the change, this branding strategy idea begs forgiveness later – if ever! Background: Smaller cans do not usually suggest a positive brand experience. This takes advantage of alliteration and whimsy. Try these 6 Steps.

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Strategy Strategy Exercises Product Strategy 83

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

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

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

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement Tools 40

BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

Encouraging and supporting organizational change. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Inviting broad participation from employees throughout the organization. Implementing smart, innovative possibilities.

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Innovation Collaboration 70

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. He uses the same tools I have, but when he touches them, drawings appear. Definitely. .

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

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

JANUARY 24, 2017

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Conference Collaboration Product Strategy Strategy 40

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 40

Engagement Strategy Strategy eBook 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Can Analogies Change the World? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. Making Great Comparisons. Finding Your Brand’s Strategic Analogs. 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. What’s ahead?

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Resources Strategic Thinking Comparison Strategy 86

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.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 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

JANUARY 22, 2016

Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way.

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Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking Strategy 40

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.

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Engagement Strategy Strategy eBook 40

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

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. How aggressively do we need to update them for this year?

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Way before starting to code, discover the true value of the idea using tools you probably already have. 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. This allows for quick changes. Consider your tone.

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Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Design 57

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. How much leeway is built into the implementation schedule?

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Project Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 40

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Co-location was preferred, but those serving remote teams cited use of tools like Skype and IRC to maintain close connections. “Regular design review meetings are helpful in keeping both the scrum teams and researchers in the loop with decisions that seem to change every 2 minutes.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 111

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? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

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.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Before changing existing funding processes, try creating a small “slush” fund for digital innovation projects. An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.

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Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 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? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Before changing existing funding processes, try creating a small “slush” fund for digital innovation projects. An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.

Survey 40

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Roadmap Tools 80

Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

Trend #3: More Innovative Products with Reduced Concept Development Time and Cost Innovation is poised to accelerate in 2024, fueled by technological advancements such as 3D printing, AI, AR, and VR. As we look ahead to 2024, become encouraged by technological change and seek out ways it can be used to amp up your digital transformation.

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Product Development Innovation Management Management Trends 69

Planview

AUGUST 23, 2022

Technology-related issues that weren’t a concern just five or ten years ago are now top of mind as customer demands and a rapidly changing industry push automakers and OEMs in new directions. Those changes bring incredible growth and innovation opportunities but can also be a source of uncertainty and turmoil.

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Industry Software Review Software Developers Software Development 52

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? Personas are a tool for answering these chaotic questions. You can use the same tool bring speed and efficiency to your corporate innovation team. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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Innovation Guidelines Design Tools 61

Anaqua

JANUARY 11, 2018

Importantly, larger organizations need to ensure that IP aligns with the business at the individual product/market level. For each product market, there should be a distinct product strategy. Innovative tools promote attorney efficiency and productivity, while contributing to a firm’s competitive stance.

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Management Software Review Competition Technical Review 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. Another successful approach to generate and implement innovation is to search for ideas that are at a much later stage in their development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. Another successful approach to generate and implement innovation is to search for ideas that are at a much later stage in their development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

Bill Franks Director, Center for Data Science & Analytics Kennesaw State University Ian Beacraft CEO and Chief Futurist AI Correspondent Creative Generalists become armies of one… Millions have experienced the incredible capabilities of tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E but we haven’t seen anything yet. It is not different with AI.

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Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145