Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2020, ESOs within SaaS companies and Management Consultancies represented the highest growth segment in the professional service marketplace. Below we outline four critical challenges that ESOs are facing, and how to solve them: ESOs Must Serve Two Masters: Profits & Product Adoption.

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Taivara

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Not only was it a great turnout, but the companies presenting were one-of-a-kind. Both products were made right here in Columbus and both were able to come out and present at Product Hunt Columbus. Three companies overall joined us at the event. At Taivara, we help companies of all sizes build innovative technology.

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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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Wazoku

JUNE 22, 2017

The real test is when the product is launched but this preliminary research gives a hint. Feedback reaction: making necessary changes to product, strategy and business plan according to results from the meaningful feedback. If the team shares common beliefs and understands company`s goals and core values, success is likely.

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Strategyn

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Market segmentation is a method that companies use to target unique offerings to groups of customers that will value them. Knowing if and why segments of customers have different unmet needs is the key to an effective market and product strategy. What meaningful differences exist in a market? Why does all this matter?

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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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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. Once you’ve acquired a small (less than 100!)

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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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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

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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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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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Product concepts are the lifeblood of your company. Flowing through your company’s system, like blood through the veins of a human body, new product concepts are the future of your company’s health and the source of its growth. Too many.

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Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

All companies, high-tech or not, need to constantly innovate and push themselves in order to maintain a competitive advantage in an age where product features and capabilities are no longer enough to differentiate a company and create lasting value. New Technologies.

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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

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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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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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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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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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

How does this product fit into the overall product strategy? How do you expect to differentiate this product? Using a few key words, how do you want people to see your brand (both the company brand and the product brand)? Who are the biggest competitors and what worries you about them?

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

If you look at global innovation spending in terms of where companies are headquartered, it’s not obvious that much has changed over the years: It always looks like North America is number one, Europe is number two, and Asia is number three. Most of this spending is being conducted by companies from Europe and the U.S. ,

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New Markets Advisors

JUNE 9, 2020

A big part of my job is helping companies build or improve their innovation capabilities. Sometimes this means starting with a clean slate… Continue reading on New Markets Insights ».

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

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

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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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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. Whether the customer is an individual consumer or an internal partner, your success depends on communicating what a product is and why someone should care. Designers need to refresh their powers, or lose them.

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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

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. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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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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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.

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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

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.

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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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