BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. 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.

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Meeting Collaboration Creative Thinking Tips 40

IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

NASA used this product strategy approach when manufacturing a glove worn by astronauts on spacewalks. Though the collaborators came from very different industries, the same idea could be applied to multiple uses due to similarities in the approach. Where Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Meet.

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Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Industry Engagement 189

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any length of time, you know we’re huge proponents of collaborative strategic planning. Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy.

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Collaboration eBook Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting. Without defined objectives and the proper timing, however, a big in-person meeting can be a huge waste for everyone. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. i2M operates as a separate legal entity, with simple processes and separate financing controls, so innovators can test ideas, fail, and learn without affecting the core business.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

To complement the in-person workshop content, The Brainzooming Group collaborated with Breanna Jacobs at GSMI, the Brand Strategy Conference producer, to publish a new free branding strategy eBook called, “Engaging Employees as an Internal Brand Team: 3 Actionable Strategies.”.

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Engagement Strategy Strategy eBook 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. If you need to go into the meeting or new situation and move things forward with less knowledge and experience than you prefer, here are ways you can fake it until you make it.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent study by Oracle revealed that 82% of consumers would prefer an AI-powered assistant over a human being when performing tasks like scheduling meetings, buying tickets online and traveling abroad. AI will keep on improving in the field of Perception, Representation & Reasoning, Learning, Human-AI Interaction, and Societal Impact.

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Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The potential supporters in the later meeting were community organizations. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. 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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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. They saw it as too prescriptive, i.e., limiting participants to four strategic dimensions the CEO articulated based on meeting hundreds of employees across the organization. The idea of a leader collaboratively determining the direction organization should go is rare.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If this is something people struggle with in your organization, here are 48 creative appreciation ideas you can start using in meetings. People who collaborated for the first time. Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy 40

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. 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

MARCH 16, 2016

We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. 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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Exercises Groups Strategy Strategy 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.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 111

Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To meet buyer needs and ensure products resonate with audiences, organizations must assess how well their product capabilities map to the required portfolio capabilities. With that knowledge, they can take the most informed corrective actions to meet the customer’s top needs. This principle gets you to ask, “where.”

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