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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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

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.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Innovation Engagement Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

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. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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Exercises Strategy Strategy Collaboration 65

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. Nicknamed “FutureMap,” it is creative session to document an idea in its earliest stage. Embracing marketing is a powerful way designers can lead product strategy. He had lost the creative spirit.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. We completed a transportation company’s entire strategic planning process via four 90-minute Zoomferences over a couple of weeks.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Friday’s priority involved finalizing a new product innovation workshop we’re developing in collaboration with a market research company for one of its clients. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start?

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

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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Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

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.

Survey 40

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 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

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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Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. It means leadership has not made a credible case for WHY employees will benefit from going beyond the bare minimum to justify going all in to make company initiatives successful. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Engagement Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

With United, a Wall Street Journal Story reports the company cultivates a “rules-based culture where its 85,000 employees are reluctant to make choices not in the ‘book.’”. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 72

Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

It continues the conversation and creates a dialogue for greater understanding – vitally important when planning for our product and engaging with its potential customers. Creative Excursions – When you are up against a roadblock or need a breakthrough, creative excursions attempt to relax our strong internal censoring device.

Ideation 48

Ideation Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Technical Review 48

BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

I suggested that instead of starting with a pre-defined list of big strategy statements her company needed, they should invest time in more thoroughly what mattered for the organization’s success and its intended direction. 6 Steps to Figuring out Your Company’s Big Strategy Statements.

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Examples Strategy Strategy Conference 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Many products fail because they don’t solve a need their customers have or because the customer doesn’t know they themselves have a need for the product. Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Be creative and have fun!

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Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Design 57

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

CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here’s a phone call I sometimes receive, usually from someone senior in executive management or the investment team behind a once promising company: Inquirer: Hey, we need your help with something. Inquirer: Are you saying we need to fix something else in our company so that maybe it can have an impact on morale?

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Survey Engagement Competition Company 63

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. That is quite far away from the usual (and unfair) stereotype of the designer as the introverted creative type slaving away alone on a computer or in a studio. Where is the future-minded designer headed now?

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Design Technical Review Software Review Course 93

CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It was a bold statement, and whether intended or not an incomparable public relations move that got much of the nation talking about his online retail company at precisely the most important time of year for consumer purchasing. Companies come and go. And Amazon will be disrupted one day. Charlie Rose: And you worry about that?

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Video Creativity Strategy Strategy 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.

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Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145