BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

Many organizations are in the early stages of executing new strategies for this year. That is when you discover whether you have a solid, implementable plan or something that (maybe) looks good on paper, but doesn’t work well when you try to execute the strategy. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Helping Teams Execute Strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We worked with a client to facilitate an information technology strategy vision. From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. Despite repeated requests, no one ever surfaced this type of strategy document.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 27, 2019

Interpersonal competence : the ability to motivate, enable, and facilitate collaborative and participatory sustainability activities and research. Personal knowledge transfer and collaborative behavior encouraged within the project-teams is indispensable. In general, Lambrechts et al.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

These are just a few of the situations where we have helped organizations embrace a different type of collaborative strategic planning process. If you find yourself on this list, contact us and let’s talk before this year’s strategic planning season starts. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2017

It’s avoidable if you do the right types of planning for planning and then eagerly, actively, and honestly engage all the appropriate parts of your organization in contributing to the strategies you develop. Strategic Planning – How many strategic plans do we need? Four Must-Know Ways to Read a Strategy Document.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration. There are conditions that influence collaboration and therefore a successful outcome.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They are handled out of context strategically , looking at the business by department instead of by initiative. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Understanding Innovation Management. Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 1, 2017

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Amir Atarodian is currently PhD scholar in Management science at University of Naples, Federico II and University of Naples, Parthenope in Naples, Italy. His major professional specializations are innovation management, Business development, Business strategic planning (Strategy development and implementation) and Open business models.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Arguments for this lower score are that the real estate industry is a very fragmented industry where every building is relatively unique, capital intensive, composed of many different components which are put together on site and the management of buildings during the life cycle is organized in various ways depending on the ownership and use.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It is time for strategic planning across organizations. To make it a little easier to track down ideas for how you can approach developing strategy this year, here are nineteen Brainzooming articles filled with 113 techniques and ideas for improving your organization’s strategic planning process. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Look at how many strategies and tactics you actually implemented this year, and use that as the threshold for how deeply detailed your plan for next year should be. If you have a bunch of unimplemented strategies and tactics for this year that are still sound, simply use those for next year’s plan. Mike Brown.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There are hierarchical, competitive and collaborative strategies. To find innovative solutions for the more complex and unruly problems it is generally accepted that multi-actor collaboration is superior to both hierarchy and competitive strategies. Collaborative innovation in the public sector: the argument.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 19, 2022

As we discussed in the previous blog , a key element to learning is the strategy that participants in the supply chain pursue. In the previous blog there was a poll question about the strategy. More collaborative strategies, such as contributive strategies and pro-active strategies, are less usual as the poll indicates.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy. Keep reading for the code!

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Conference Marketing eBook Strategic Management 40

Norbert Bol

JANUARY 22, 2017

Although there were many topics discussed at the World Economic Forum that relate to the topics that are used in Strategy Blogs, I would like to share two interesting discussions about innovation, which are: Maintaining innovation and the Strategic Update: The Future of Innovation. Norbert Bol. Literature. Gurd, B., & Helliar, C.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In science and management it is a virtue to be truthful and fair. To be a good scientist or manager it requires decision making and communcation to be clear and specific. Strategic ambiguity is of course ambiguous as well as the term itself suggests, because it can also have negative effects. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Do you dread strategy meetings ? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? Every executive dreads strategic planning. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 2, 2017

Last year the number of rearders of Strategy Blogs increased enourmously to 22,634 followers today. If I have to formulate a motto for 2017, it would be “working smarter and greener” Olaisen & Revang (2017) give a great insight how collaborative knowledge sharing can lead to more innovation and sustainability.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 1, 2017

Last year the number of rearders of Strategy Blogs increased enourmously to 22,634 followers today. If I have to formulate a motto for 2017, it would be “working smarter and greener” Olaisen & Revang (2017) give a great insight how collaborative knowledge sharing can lead to more innovation and sustainability.

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Academic Relevance.

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Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Design 80

Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In the recent blog Innovation through collaboration some important conditions were presented how people with different expertise can work together to develop innovative ideas, such as being open to innovative work, respecting others and willing to learn. Strategy & Leadership , 43 (5), 24-31. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

MAY 16, 2016

The International Journal of Information Management will publish in the August 2016 edition an article (Hau & Kang, 2016) that reveals more insight in the role that lead users have in these online user-communities. International Journal of Information Management , 36 (4), 520-530.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In our two decades of collaboration with diverse organizations, we’ve observed shared characteristics that distinguish highly successful innovators from those contending with these obstacles. At the heart of the Future-Fit mindset is a commitment to collaboration that extends beyond the boundaries of the organization.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 11, 2018

In this Strategy Blog I follow up on the topic of gamification. Based on their research Malshe & Friend (2018), created six supplier strategies to deal with these specific situations (see figure). In this blog I shall not go into detail about the six supplier strategies related to co-creation (please read the article).

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Research shows that companies using so called interorganizational collaboration or co-creation in their innovation process excel in firm innovativeness. If you are in any way involved in interorganizational collaboration or co-creation to innovate, I found that it is most important to look at myself first. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

I have mentioned the company in Strategy Blogs a few times related to suf fi ciency-driven business and positive marketing. In their research they used as a case study the American clothing company Patagonia that sells outdoor clothing marketed as sustainable. Patagonia however does not present itself as a degrowth-oriented company.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 5, 2016

Theories of Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Business Strategy. When it comes to co-creation or innovation, it is the result of the interaction between people that are transferring their knowledge and are learning. Norbert Bol. Literature. M., & Asnawi, N. Procedia Economics and Finance 37 ( 2016 ) 545 – 553.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

The coming Strategy Blogs shall be focused more on sustainability-oriented innovations. These adjustments are: Take more time to be aware of situations without immediate judgements. Be more aware of the ecological, social and ethical issues involved. Be more creative to keep what is good and improve where possible or needed.

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Comparison Innovation Creativity Study 56

Norbert Bol

APRIL 14, 2019

Last week I wrote about the “ green finance gap “, where investments in green technology suffer from a lack of financial resources and less attractive risk-return expectations compared to other investments.

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Policies Technology Project Analysis 90

Norbert Bol

APRIL 14, 2019

Last week I wrote about the “ green finance gap “, where investments in green technology suffer from a lack of financial resources and less attractive risk-return expectations compared to other investments.

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Policies Technology Project Analysis 40

Norbert Bol

MAY 29, 2016

Modern knowledge-based organizations face continuous challenges to remain competitive. These challenges today are driven by globalization, the possibilities of the internet and the increasing need for more sustainable products and services.

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