BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Great branding strategy examples abound. It was only after pulling into the parking lot at Kris and Kate’s Ice Cream Treats on the return trip that something even more incredible than the building’s design jumped out: the best brand promise ever. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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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 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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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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Taivara

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Product Hunt Columbus is proudly sponsored by: Assisting startups and small businesses, advising on both legal and practical operations issues. Helping companies compete in a rapidly changing digital world through everything from Software Design & Development, New Product Strategy, and Corporate Innovation.

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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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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. Designing an implementation plan with the main objectives in the short term and who will execute them.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In November 2020, Hyperion Research awarded Anaqua the Highly Innovative designation for its Customer Driven Roadmap and Persona Driven User Interface. We remain focused and are working with clients now to define requirements and product strategy for the next 18 months, which will be revealed in our upcoming blog post on AQX.

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

A core part of this focus and commitment is serving ESOs as they work to streamline their product and customer strategy and adapt to meet the varying needs of their customers. 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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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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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

An organization’s success depends on a business strategy that establishes the organization’s mission and what decisions or actions must be taken to achieve it. Every individual in the organization, from front-line worker to Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for implementing the strategy and ensuring the organization’s success.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. One reason is they are now able to facilitate their own strategy and ideation sessions, that can save a lot of money. Register through CRC here. 773-251-8567.

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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. In fact, it may be relatively rare. A democracy. A free for all.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

So, do an audit on your strategy – if you can’t answer these 4 questions, meet with senior leaders to determine the answers: Why does this innovation team exist? After months of being stalled, one corporate innovator in a major CPG firm revisited some core questions about their strategy and pivoted to a new decision-making framework.

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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. What is this product going to be? Who is this product for? When is the version we’re designing going to be released? How does this product fit into the overall product strategy? Many thanks to Ms.

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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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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In my experience, when product development is managed with an Agile development approach, user experience professionals are expected to find a way to work within the Agile framework to succeed. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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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

APRIL 20, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

Modern technologies increase our ability to easily develop and deploy new products and features. As we partner with our clients in defining our direction and product strategy, agile development enables us to complete these important strategic investment initiatives in a timely manner. New Technologies.

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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. 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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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. He didn’t require him to diagram the suggested play.

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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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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

Wargaming – Wargaming seeks a robust, flexible strategies that enable your product to anticipate and outmaneuver competitive, or other, threats that can have devastating consequences. 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.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

One essential part of this adaptation strategy is building a strong product portfolio ; this requires a unified approach to aligning portfolio objectives with the overall business strategy, not just within a single team or function. This four-part model consists of the following: Strategy Orientation Balance Investment.

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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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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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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Experimentation: How to Setup and Execute A Good Experiment Experimentation is an important part of the product management process. Structured experiments are used to expose any weak points in the product strategy and identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled with evidence gathered from customer insights.

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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? Basic design. High-functioning teams use personas in every customer-facing decision: feature design, usability, landing pages, content, advertising campaigns, etc. So… just who is our customer anyway? Skip fancy.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

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 fix engagement through authentic vision, brilliant product design, and a rallying cry around consistent execution. You certainly can fix engagement.

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