IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2017

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. They launched a full internal multi-channel marketing strategy. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness. But how did they do it?

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It may be an old and tired story, but it still illustrates an important point about engagement and the willingness (or unwillingness) of employees to go all in with a new business initiative. The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Acuvate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In today’s competitive business world employee engagement is an essential element in creating a positive work culture and a productive workforce. Organizations with engaged employees perform better than those without by whopping 202%. This is the reason employee engagement gets top precedence in the workplace strategy.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to engage with the disruptive forces reshaping virtually every industry by turning radically disruptive signals into strategy, and strategy into action. This will require entirely new levels of innovation throughout every enterprise and unique ability to continually engage all stakeholders.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. In these cases, a critical question arises: How do you open branding strategy development to other partner organizations to create a seamless implementation process?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. NASA used this product strategy approach when manufacturing a glove worn by astronauts on spacewalks. Better employee engagement is one benefit of open innovation. This expertise may take different forms. percent of U.S.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Off the top of my head, I suggested the following strategy to strengthen the consistency of their customer experience strategy.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

With an ever-increasing growth in the composition of millennials in the workforce, understanding their needs and applying strategies for their retention has become quite a challenge. One of the biggest reasons concerning millennials’ attrition is their lack of engagement in the workplace. Millennials want to be actively learning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team.

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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

While there’s more to come in the months ahead, here are highlights of a couple of innovation strategy presentations this week to very different groups. Innovation Strategy in Your Organization – An Innovative Workplace Culture. Meaningfully engaging employees when inviting them to share ideas. – Mike Brown.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 22, 2024

If you go to the “ Explore My Insights and Thinking ” tag shown above, you will see there are two files you can download that provide all of these posts in a PDF format. Real-world examples of successful ecosystem implementations would enhance its practical relevance.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

During this year’s presentations, I’ll be covering both brand strategy (Thursday) and social-first stories (Friday). 9 Areas to Tune-Up Your Brand Strategy for Peak Performance. Blog Topic Ideas – Social Media Content Strategy for a Large B2B Company . Listening to & Learning from Customers.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Every click is trackable, leading for rich detail in the attendee journey: how long there were there, what they looked at, what was downloaded, polling responses, etc. More engagement opportunities are becoming available including immersive 3D-like environments (Allseated’s exVo and others). How can this be achieved?

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IdeaScale

JULY 17, 2019

A strong innovation strategy depends on solid critical thinking skills. Critical thinking encompasses self-direction, self-discipline, self-correction, communication, and problem-solving – all of which are necessary ingredients in a successful innovation strategy. We also have to learn to avoid assuming that we’re right.

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Planview

JANUARY 10, 2022

Connecting PSA to the broader enterprise starts with plugging professional services into the corporate strategy. Engaging customers, while increasing system connectivity starts with our dedication to connect services. Want to learn more about our TSW event? Click here to learn more about this initiative.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Looking forward to 2022, we see live events making a strong comeback, but we will continue to put energy and creativity into making virtual element of hybrid events more meaningful, engaging and valuable. This approach serves to expand the main event experience to a wider audience and drives ongoing engagement with event content. .

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Yet2

APRIL 11, 2022

They serve different purposes, but you might be surprised to learn they’re also complementary: ~80% of our portal clients also hire yet2 for proactive technology scouting work. ” OI Portals are just one tool our client’s use as part of their Open Innovation strategies. Contact us to learn more.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, Amway won the Innovation Management award for best innovation engagement strategy. Our focus on this collaboration has led us not only into a new era in engagement with our business owners, but also a new era in global advancements in digital solutions, social responsibility and product development.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long. The answer was easy: Yes!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 19, 2017

Other than dropping price, in what ways can you adapt your branding strategy to boost the benefits and reduce the costs (be they financial or non-financial) of having your company as a provider? That’s not a new branding strategy question, but it came to mind once again while heading to my car after morning mass yesterday.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2019

Learn what’s new in our webinar.?. No matter what methods your innovation strategy involves, we’re talking about how our new features and updates will help you build a stronger, more innovative company September 4th in our online webinar. We use the Zoom platform, and we recommend that you download it from Zoom.us.

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IdeaScale

MAY 31, 2017

And although they have great engagement stories and interesting policy-level impacts as part of their programs, what sets the Department of Labor apart is that they are true masters of process. The post The Magic of Process: Department of Labor appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

I have focused for many years, teaching, advising and building the-critical-value-propositions-of-the-three-horizon-methodology ( 3H- pdf download). It requires us to reflect and possibly make the change, then we can move forward to meet the new challenges within this emerging vision of the possible futures. Agility Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. FREE Download: “Results!!! Just Start!

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Here’s what they learned. Keeping people engaged meant responding to every idea by asking a general question to stimulate discussion.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We were discussing our approach for developing a specific business strategy. After completing their strategic plan a few months earlier, we’re now fleshing out a successful implementation strategy for an initiative they spelled out in the plan. Designing Strategic Planning with Your Implementation Strategy in Mind.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The outcome from human centered innovation is increased learning about the customers you serve and how you can solve the problems they are facing. The Human Centered Innovation Learning Loop is an exploration into discovering customer problems and potential solutions, with knowledge as the desired outcome. An Agile Business Strategy.

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Peer Insight

DECEMBER 14, 2018

An energy company wanted to understand what users valued in an app and how to sustain their engagement with it over time. SAY: Users said they valued being able to monitor and understand their energy use, but couldn’t answer whether it was compelling enough for continued engagement. Drop me a line at jclayton@peerinsight.com.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One problem with innovation strategy in nonprofits is that since they are not for profit, they don’t necessarily push themselves to “compete” by improving their business models or offering innovative products and services. Here’s how nonprofits can build an innovation strategy that carries them from strength to strength.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Great branding strategy examples abound. If your organization specializes in one particular area, your branding strategy discussions should include the question: “If our customers can think it, can we make it?” 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

Many organizations are in the early stages of executing new strategies for this year. That is when you discover whether you have a solid, implementable plan or something that (maybe) looks good on paper, but doesn’t work well when you try to execute the strategy. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Helping Teams Execute Strategy.

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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.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. All the Strategy Roles You Need.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 8, 2016

What a strong first day at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York. The kickoff presentation on the first day was from Kodi Foster, Vice President – Data Strategy at Viacom. Five Things Your Content Marketing Strategy Should Deliver. His five-points form a strong checklist with which to assess your content marketing strategy.

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