BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. 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. – Mike Brown.

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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.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Know Your Company First and foremost, Rose believes innovators need to deeply understand the nature of their company and design the innovation process accordingly. As such, our number one priority is to design innovation around these constraints”, she says. In other words, what is the best way to bring the business along?

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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?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. 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. Our Clients Make an Impact. Client needs are ever-changing, which should be reflected in the evolution of their IP solution.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One reveals an important lesson as you develop employee engagement strategies. 3 Vital Employee Engagement Strategies for Winning Ideas. The obvious lesson relative to employee engagement strategies is simple: Listen to, consider, and act on smart ideas from team members. What’s Your Next Play to Call?

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2017

The talk prompted several conversations about the distinctions between branding strategy and advertising. I surprised several attendees by discussing branding strategy as a fundamental element of business strategy for any organization. 3 Big Differences between Branding Strategy and Advertising. Enjoy this resource?

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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

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. – 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. While we perform a tremendous amount of what we do online via our Zoomference online collaboration platform , engaging people directly always pushes what we do into new areas.

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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. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

“Design the box first” is a classic design exercise to use constraints to discover the unique value proposition. Engaging with potential customers, right from the beginning, and learning what they want is an essential skill. Why this matters to designers. Designers have a unique skill set.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the time of this writing, a search for UX design jobs on job finder Glassdoor reveals almost 20,000 open positions in the United States alone. Onward Search provides a useful overview of the UX design job market in infographic format. If we go by the stats, the market for UX designers could not be hotter.

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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. If no one cares, and cares deeply, about our product and the problem it solves – there’s a small chance they will ever take action to use it. Kevin Dwinnell.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI and powerful scenario-analysis capabilities will be crucial for assessing strategies against opportunity costs, product trade-offs, and the overall inherent risks of an R&D portfolio. These efforts should be crucial elements of any strategy aimed at driving long-term success and profitability.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

Process involves day-to-day workplace routines that reinforce or strip away employee engagement. The CEO pulls together a half-dozen of the best minds in the company to conduct an honest post-mortem of why the company’s strategy is failing. You certainly can fix engagement. Fix engagement and morale fixes itself.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In order to be successful, product managers need to use whatever tools and tactics they have at their disposal to understand and engage with their target customers to gather information about what features to build and when. A coach is someone who is proficient at designing good experiments.

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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. Basic design. High-functioning teams use personas in every customer-facing decision: feature design, usability, landing pages, content, advertising campaigns, etc.

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