Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Power of Virtual Team Collaboration In a world where remote work has become increasingly prevalent, virtual team collaboration stands as a cornerstone of modern business operations. Benefits of Effective Collaboration in Virtual Teams The advantages of cultivating effective collaboration within virtual teams are manifold.

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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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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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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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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!

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

At Planview PSA we continue to “Build the Future of Connected Services,” which enables professional service organizations to fully connect, plan, and collaborate, while they work across the entire services lifecycle and within the context of the enterprise in which they live.

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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. Faster Strategy through Collaboration.

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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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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. 10 Signs of a Strategy Planning Meeting Nightmare. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategy Planning Fun. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. Contact us , and let’s customize a strategy process specific to your organization.

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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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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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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. Speakers from outside Moody’s are often invited to the annual managing directors meeting or other flagship events to educate leaders about innovation and disruption.

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

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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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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. 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

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. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. Something ingenious.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Respondents also reported creating successful relationships with their product teams by involving their scrum teams in the UX process–especially by collaborating on UX issues with technical staff. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product. Timing is difficult.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo. The key is being willing to collaborate and get outside of our comfort zone. Wrong.” – Bradford Shellhammer.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

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. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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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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Planview

AUGUST 23, 2022

The tricky part is that this must all occur regularly and simultaneously — from innovation prioritization to planning, execution, and in-market analysis — to ensure accelerated investments meet market demand. The goal is for the software developers and mechanical engineers to speak the same production language and use the same processes.

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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. With access to an open AI assistant, AI will become a new partner in creativity and productivity.

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