BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Over the years, Anaqua has made it a priority to engage with customers and harness their valuable feedback to help create the market leading IPMS, as recognized by industry analyst Hyperion Research. Company Culture That Empowers Clients - The Anaqua Experience. Our Clients Make an Impact. The Journey Forward, Together.

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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. From being an early adopter of Apple Pay in its stores to making voice ordering available through the Google Assistant, the company has been nimble and fast in making changes over the years.

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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups. Innovation Strategy in Your Organization – An Innovative Workplace Culture. Meaningfully engaging employees when inviting them to share ideas. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). All the Strategy Roles You Need. via Shutterstock. Enjoy this article?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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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., 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start?

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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.

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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.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. 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.

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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. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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.

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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.’”. 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

Seriously, we started in April, laying out how we’d approach everything so that by the time we engaged the rest of the organization in mid-summer we had everything ready to go. Spending that much time planning was a luxury when the strategic planning process suddenly became important to our company.

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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. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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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. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. – Mike Brown.

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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.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 13, 2017

Go out to acquire a product that can provide the growth for the organisation. Unfortunately, most such acquisitions don’t pan out well for the acquiring companies. Start an innovation project with the intention of creating the next high growth product internally.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

What are ideas to make strategic planning less cumbersome than it’s been at your company in the past? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. 5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning this Year.

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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. The best designers take advantage of the opportunity to engage in a strategic discussion. Design itself is a product. They’d like to engage a designer, but many don’t think they can afford it.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. We created a fast-paced half-day in-person workshop for a small group of sales and marketing leaders at an animal pharma company. Having Sales Leaders Vet and Expand Ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

An idea aligning with the company strategy. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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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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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. – Mike Brown.

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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. What to do? Mike Brown.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This brings us to the subject of trend timing and innovation strategy. When looking out across the near-term and far-term horizons to plan out short-term and long-term product strategies, one has to pay particularly careful attention to the relevant trends and to the pace with which they are emerging.

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

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2017

Those topics seemed far removed from what our marketing team could effectively improve and align in our company. They kept talking about the design of our facilities and employee behaviors, making me wonder why we were there. via Shutterstock. Subscribe to the free Brainzooming email updates.

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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. This more complete picture will aid in gaining support, defining next steps and proving the idea has merit – to help move it from idea to product.

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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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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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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. Why this matters to designers.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. While tech scouting is a crucial element in any large company’s ability to stay ahead, it is also an extremely challenging task requiring lots of skill, experience and a scouter’s honed intuition. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Acquiring a company is a common way to stay relevant in a quickly changing business world. While tech scouting is a crucial element in any large company’s ability to stay ahead, it is also an extremely challenging task requiring lots of skill, experience and a scouter’s honed intuition. In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Ever been in a product strategy meeting and unable to answer this simple question: So who is our customer? Both must find value in your solution to engage. When I was working on new product innovation for Coca-Cola, I quickly realized the first customer I had to satisfy was The Coca-Cola Company and bottlers.

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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. One course that stands out as an example of bridging the academic divide between design and business is the Luxury Design and Strategy course in collaboration with Columbia Business School. Installation.

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Anaqua

JANUARY 11, 2018

Importantly, larger organizations need to ensure that IP aligns with the business at the individual product/market level. For each product market, there should be a distinct product strategy. So, engage with your business clients and ask them what they need. Also, determine what do we want to do? “The

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