Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

AI will keep on improving in the field of Perception, Representation & Reasoning, Learning, Human-AI Interaction, and Societal Impact. But to be introduced in a way to make a difference on large scale for most companies it needs to be easy to be implemented alongside most companies’ processes of today and not their processes of tomorrow.

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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. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 40

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).

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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

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.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Companies that aren’t optimized for speed often don’t generate the returns on innovation and product development that they’re looking for; in fact, 42% of global innovation executives believe their development times are too long and cite it as the largest barrier to success. Sharpen your focus on the things you don’t know most. .

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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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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

It’s a high volume, high expectation, and deadline-focused role critical to the company’s success. As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” ” Makes sense.

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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. That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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

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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. What I learned in design school. As is the case for most designers, their actual training in UX still comes from learning on the job and/or through freelance client work.

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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

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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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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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. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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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. Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. Embracing marketing is a powerful way designers can lead product strategy.

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

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

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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? Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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

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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? Then update personas as you do Customer Development and learn more about customers. You’ll often split a single customer profile into multiple profiles as you learn more. So… just who is our customer anyway?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Such events can include the introduction of an innovative new product or service that preempts public knowledge of the need – cases in point are iTunes and the Nest Learning Thermostat. This brings us to the subject of trend timing and innovation strategy. Sometimes these trends can be seen coming from afar (e.g.

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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

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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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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Michael Roberto

JUNE 21, 2018

Here's an excerpt from Lublin's column: Technology industry veteran Puneet Goel says he wishes he had done greater due diligence a few years ago before taking charge of product management at a midsize tech company He never reached out to his immediate predecessor who no longer worked there.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

They affiliate up, down, and across the organization; they reach out to all levels and areas to ask questions, listen, synthesize what they learn, and share updates back to all the areas that participate in implementation. #2 2 – They integrate the organization’s energy and activities into the collaborative strategy.

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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.’”. Sharing the videos may, in fact, have happened even before senior United executives learned of the incident through internal communication channels.

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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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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. knowing the decision maker) generate answers.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

An idea aligning with the company strategy. Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Leanstack

MAY 21, 2015

Read on to learn how to effectively define, measure, and communicate progress with your internal and external stakeholders without drowning in a sea of numbers. She uses this learning to quickly define a solution. Whenever Mary’s company had a good quarter, everyone pointed to their department-level KPIs and took credit for it.

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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.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Note: If you want to learn more about the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief system and get in on this great publication for an incredibly low monthly rate, please visit the Armada website.). Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In terms of sustainability, those companies and organizations that see, and more importantly understand the value that IoT capabilities offer will advance considerably faster as compared to those who do not. Complexity driving new architecture: 2023 will see machine learning (ML), AI, and compute accepted as a standard part of an IoT network.

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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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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

To be good leaders, managers must continuously foster a learning approach in themselves and their team members. Research shows that organizations that offer a learning culture, which can help build strategic skills, knowledge, and competencies, are 92% more likely to create original products and services.

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