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.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. As product managers or entrepreneurs, curiosity will ensure we always have a plan B. Good ideas often look bad.

Ideation 48

Ideation Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Technical Review 48

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. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Walmart, a brand often immersed in debates about poor employee treatment, is piloting new training for both front-line employees and in-store managers. Department managers are receiving training, greater authority, and latitude to manage their department teams. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Training 40

Training Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 40

Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

If they’ve just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on market research that doesn’t provide the answers you need, you also have the potential to make them look bad. The more brand-focused questions are things a visual or industrial designer will particularly want to know, though the answers can prove useful to the whole team.

Marketing 43

Marketing Guidelines Underperforming Technical Team Design 43

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. Also, it’s fun as heck!

Video 57

Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Design 57

Strategyn

JULY 12, 2016

Companies receive thousands of inputs from their customers every single day. They come from dozens of sources, including social media, the service desk, the sales team, customer advisory boards, and formal qualitative and quantitative research. Companies are not lacking customer insights. Why does it matter?

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Groups Product Strategy 44

Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

As always, there will be good and bad, but likely not the extreme cases so often discussed thus far. Similar tools are being developed for video, audio, 3D, and other technical fields. The application of new technological developments does not happen overnight. There is a mix of hype on both the positive and negative sides.

Artificial Inteligence 145

Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145