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.

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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. We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. We see great leaders among our clients successfully taking steps that meaningfully involve employees in shaping strategy and implementation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2020, ESOs within SaaS companies and Management Consultancies represented the highest growth segment in the professional service marketplace. 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.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. While I’m sure it was a completely sincere gesture, I think pursuing a thought leadership strategy isn’t something a brand or an individual shouldn’t do. What to Say about a Thought Leadership Strategy? Value Leadership Strategy.

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

At a recent keynote presentation, an attendee asked me who should facilitate strategic planning for your company – someone outside or inside the company? It is definitely viable that a facilitator from inside the company can lead strategic planning. 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

What are ideas to make strategic planning less cumbersome than it’s been at your company in the past? Prioritize the time you invest in creating specific product/service marketing plans based on each one’s expected contribution to revenue and profit growth. 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

Spending that much time planning was a luxury when the strategic planning process suddenly became important to our company. What’s the minimal amount of plan documentation we need to do to align everyone toward the company priorities? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Who should be on our core planning team?

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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

JULY 6, 2017

I delivered a keynote on the importance of collaborative internal branding during the SMC3 2017 Connections conference. The talk prompted several conversations about the distinctions between branding strategy and advertising. 3 Big Differences between Branding Strategy and Advertising. Advertising relates to marketing strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

In my corporate days, I was dispatched to work with competitive companies our corporation purchased. Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

It’s a high volume, high expectation, and deadline-focused role critical to the company’s success. The company positions the team in a tactical, critical path role that would suffer with needless distractions. I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company.

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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. One woman had 37 years with the company; a native-Spanish-speaking male had one week under his belt. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

What a waste for the employees and the companies using strategic planning exercises in ways that cultivate this experience! 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

We’ve talked before about how one company even uses entry interviews (as opposed to exit interviews) to gain input from new employees before they’ve consumed too much of the incredible corporate Kool-Aid. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

People who collaborated for the first time. An idea aligning with the company strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Something ingenious.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Designers yearn for a world where companies depend on their ideas but usually work in a world where design is just one voice. At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures. But does that mean that designers should just make pictures and leave the strategy to others?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

If the retail certification takes hold and becomes a gateway to more attractive future positions (whether inside Walmart or elsewhere), it makes Walmart a more attractive employer, as it would any company offering a recognized certification. That does not mean everyone determines and forms strategy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Companies are realizing that all their personnel can help contribute to the ideation process – not just a designated few. Other companies are going even further afield and turning to their customers or the general public to help them solve problems and create new products. . You will be surprised by the response.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Companies are realizing that all their personnel can help contribute to the ideation process – not just a designated few. Other companies are going even further afield and turning to their customers or the general public to help them solve problems and create new products. . You will be surprised by the response.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ten key trends surfaced from that request with great potential for driving innovation, reshaping R&D practices, and redefining product portfolio management. Trend #1: Greater Financial Scrutiny on New Product Development Balanced Against Innovation Opportunity While the U.S.

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Product Development Innovation Management Management Trends 69

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

When I left the company three years later, more than 150 teams at that company were using Scrum for developing both infrastructure and product features. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product. Product owners. Using prioritized personas to groom the backlog.

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Planview

AUGUST 23, 2022

But for companies with the right tools and forethought, these challenges are chances to create a competitive advantage. To reach this point, automakers need to understand the answers to three critical questions : How Can Companies Balance R&D Costs with Innovation? Several challenges stand in the way of this widespread innovation.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

One essential part of this adaptation strategy is building a strong product portfolio ; this requires a unified approach to aligning portfolio objectives with the overall business strategy, not just within a single team or function. The Anatomy of Customer-Centric Product Portfolio Management Framework.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most companies and start-ups today have dedicated UX roles and titles that struggle to keep up with a designer’s actual work. One course that stands out as an example of bridging the academic divide between design and business is the Luxury Design and Strategy course in collaboration with Columbia Business School.

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Design Technical Review Software Review Course 93

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. While tech scouting is a crucial element in any large company’s ability to stay ahead, it is also an extremely challenging task requiring lots of skill, experience and a scouter’s honed intuition. 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. While tech scouting is a crucial element in any large company’s ability to stay ahead, it is also an extremely challenging task requiring lots of skill, experience and a scouter’s honed intuition. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65

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Innovation Processes Innovation Data Technology 40

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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Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

But to be introduced in a way to make a difference on large scale for most companies it needs to be easy to be implemented alongside most companies’ processes of today and not their processes of tomorrow. With access to an open AI assistant, AI will become a new partner in creativity and productivity. I don’t agree.

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