Yet2

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Automotive manufacturers, companies in the automotive supply chain, and technology startups eyeing the automotive market need to understand the innovations that are taking place today – and those that will take place tomorrow. Since then, Ford has acquired four emerging technology companies. Note: these numbers come from Crunchbase).

Industry 45

Industry Innovation Technology Product Strategy 45

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., FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

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.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Groups Strategy Strategy 40

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. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Strategic Thinking 40

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

What are ideas to make strategic planning less cumbersome than it’s been at your company in the past? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results.

Analysis 40

Analysis Strategic Management Strategy Strategy 40

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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy 40

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. Contact us to discuss how your next strategic planning process can be energizing, productive, AND improve your business results. – Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Engagement 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. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 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. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 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

AUGUST 11, 2016

These collaborative leaders are motivated and act based on the overall good instead of what suits their own agenda or part of the company. They are in the collaborative strategy leader role for the organization’s overall success even if it means their own interests have to take one for the team. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 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. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

Exercises 65

Exercises Strategy Strategy Collaboration 65

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

My personal antipathy toward thought leadership strategy stems from a moment during corporate life. A peer was developing a “think piece” on the transportation industry’s and our company’s place role in its future. 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Leadership 40

Leadership Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

To demonstrate the wasted potential and importance of diversity to creative thinking activities, midway through the creative thinking workshop, we used a Brainzooming exercise to identify individuals with the most and least experience with the company. FREE Download: “Results!!! Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 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.’”. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 72

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We created a fast-paced half-day in-person workshop for a small group of sales and marketing leaders at an animal pharma company. They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year. Afterward, we used a Zoomference to introduce strategies to its top-performing sales people. – Mike Brown.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

An idea aligning with the company strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Something ingenious.

Creativity 40

Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy 40

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. FREE Download: “Results!!! 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

Training 40

Training Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 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. Download Infographic. 1) Align your IP with business strategy. Download Infographic.

Management 40

Management Software Review Competition Technical Review 40