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. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person.

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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. These weeks require shifting among groups of widely different sizes, community situations, and objectives.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s easy to wait for new products to be perfected and design an elaborate launch before you start to collect feedback from customers. However, gaining feedback from your customers early in your product’s development stages will limit the waste in going down unproductive paths. They would say, ‘No.’ There might be 43 of them.

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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

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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. We design collaborative strategy planning for each client with a clear understanding of the overall goal. Additionally, our design process takes into account what will make collaborative strategy planning participants most efficient and effective.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I reminded them (in case no one ever had) that they had a HUGE brand role no matter how narrow everyone thinks they are as a group. A description of a job role isn’t identical to the description of how an individual or group can contribute to solid, dynamic, and innovative strategic thinking. The Strategic Thinking Lesson?

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Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

With the additions of IdeaPoint, AcclaimIP, PatentRiver, Beacon Innovation Group, Lecorpio, and launch of AQX, we’re leading the IPM space with a fresh new set of product and technology perspectives that embrace big data, analytics, advanced search, and new technology frameworks that continue to enrich our ecosystem. New Technologies.

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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 tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Marketing stakeholders (such as marketing executives and most product managers) are usually responsible for promoting the company’s brand, identifying new market opportunities and products that could address them, or both.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Also, group performance gets worse as group size increases, so keep your group to 6 – 10 people. The Sweet Spot for New Product Ideas. 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. Want help validating your idea?

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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. . Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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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. . Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

The blog provides business resources broken down into six categories: Articles: The latest articles that cover a wide range of topics, including management, people and culture, engineering, design, and PR and marketing Collections: Articles that are organized into topical sections (e.g.,

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