BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It’s true, our clients are stewards of Anaqua’s strategic product development, helping to inform our long-term investments, determine our product roadmap priorities, and validate our highest-impact features and functions. Experience Connectivity: We strive to make your platform experience as seamless as possible.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

You can use individual conversations, online surveys, online collaborations, and review previous documentation. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. 5 Ways to Start Implementing Faster and Better!

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures. But does that mean that designers should just make pictures and leave the strategy to others? The best designers transcend the gap between strategy and execution. Designers have the magical ability to visualize the future.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2016

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence shared, via their “Inside the Executive Suite” feature , a number of ideas to improve the effectiveness of rolling out your strategic planning document for the upcoming year. Making an Impact with this Year’s Strategic Planning Document. Don’t be ridiculous.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

How does this product fit into the overall product strategy? How do you expect to differentiate this product? Using a few key words, how do you want people to see your brand (both the company brand and the product brand)? Other product team members. Marketing stakeholders. All parts of the chapter.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

What’s the minimal amount of plan documentation we need to do to align everyone toward the company priorities? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of requiring people complete complex strategic planning templates unrelated to daily business, we use productive interactions to change the strategic planning process from completing complex forms into conversations, events, and experiences people engage in and learn from as they participate. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

That does not mean everyone determines and forms strategy. Instead of simply knowing something is working or not, strategic frontline employees can provide valuable feedback on early warning signs when strategy that appears fantastic in the boardroom is not working in the field. Documenting the Knowledge of Tenured Workers.

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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. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The challenge with using the big list of ideas they had created was they simply documented the list in the order in which each idea was identified. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The challenge with using the big list of ideas they had created was they simply documented the list in the order in which each idea was identified. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement Tools 40

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? Corporate innovation leaders are understandably concerned about creating documents with perceived biases. So… just who is our customer anyway? It isn’t easy to answer because real-world solutions are complex.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress. Their practices included presenting information about their roles to teams, inviting teams to observe user research sessions, and sharing documents to track progress on usability issues. Product owners.

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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. Whether or not you are the idea owner, working through the following steps will help document essential information. Kevin Dwinnell.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

How does this product fit into the overall product strategy? If the product is part of a bigger suite of related offerings, you need to know what role it plays in that greater plan. This is one of many opportunities to help improve communication between groups.

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