Leapfrogging
APRIL 19, 2024
For further guidance on managing your virtual team, delve into virtual team management and virtual team project management to ensure your team’s communication remains clear and effective, ultimately driving virtual team productivity. Recognize and reward creative thinking to motivate others to contribute.
BrainZooming
MARCH 9, 2016
The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. Incorporate a bigness and boldness into the language you use to describe the strategy in order to stretch the organization.
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Boxes and Arrows
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. Not sharing all the upfront homework in long presentations (which are almost always NOT FUN), but instead designing the entire strategic planning workshop to reflect the homework’s findings.
BrainZooming
JUNE 29, 2017
Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.
Boxes and Arrows
APRIL 13, 2017
“Design the box first” is a classic design exercise to use constraints to discover the unique value proposition. Why this matters to designers. Designers have a unique skill set. Taking on the role of customer researcher also empowers a designer to shape the product strategy when it is the most undefined.
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