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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

NASA used this product strategy approach when manufacturing a glove worn by astronauts on spacewalks. Better employee engagement is one benefit of open innovation. One way crowdsourcing can enhance innovation is through engagement across the entire organization. This expertise may take different forms. percent of U.S.

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Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do

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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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. One alternative to letting your employees know about a new direction in branding strategy after your customers is to view employees as an internal brand team. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy.

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5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

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.

Engagement

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4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, their goal is not just to effectively deliver engagements. They must also enable product adoption, in order to increase product expansion and renewal rates. As such, to be successful ESOs face the challenge of serving not one, but two masters: profits and product adoption. The Final Word.

How To

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Collaboration

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

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.” 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! via Shutterstock. Enjoy this article?

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7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf)

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Collaboration

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Innovation Strategy – Here, There, and Everywhere

BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

Meaningfully engaging employees when inviting them to share ideas. We’ve worked with Dave’s team on multiple community collaboration engagements related to broadband initiatives, economic development, and Smart Cities. 10 Employee Engagement Ideas to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas to Stop Strategy Snoozefests!

BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

Step one in the process is to download 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning ! This eBook has become a go-to guide for thousands of executives globally to explore fun strategic planning ideas.

Strategy

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9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now

BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Meeting

Meeting Collaboration Creative Thinking Tips

Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for strong ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Just Start! Mike Brown.

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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

When individuals download our free Results!!! mini-Book, we ask a question about the biggest strategy implementation opportunity or challenge the individual is facing in his or her organization. Someone downloaded Results!!! 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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5 Things Collaborative Strategic Planning Isn’t

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Additionally, our design process takes into account what will make collaborative strategy planning participants most efficient and effective. The net of these two approaches is that our client engagements are months shorter than typical strategic planning processes. Download our Results!!! FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Creative Thinking

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

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10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have questions about the best ways to broaden participation in the earliest stages, be sure to download our Results, mini-book. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

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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9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy

BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

So while these questions are about helping teams to execute strategy, they are as much about making sure you’re a strategic leader that is setting up your team and your organization to maximize success. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Branding Strategy – The Best Brand Promise EVER

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Strategy

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When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Brainstorming

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4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

Strategic Thinking

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Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Exercises

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9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking

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Internal Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Be Smarter than United Airlines

BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for senior executives to increase strategic collaboration, employee engagement, and grow revenues for their organizations.

Strategy

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

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. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Strategic Thinking

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Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The Brainzooming Group uses the second type of productive structure to create a lively, positive, and collaborative strategic planning process. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Exercises

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Creating engagement with our employees ? What are WEAKNESSES relative to: Delivering the product attributes and performance most important to customer s? Faster Strategy through Collaboration. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating lasting relationships with stakeholders ?

Strategic Thinking

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming

113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” The Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” highlights ten proven lessons leaders can use to develop collaborative strategy and results for next year. . – Mike Brown.

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12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process

BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

Seriously, we started in April, laying out how we’d approach everything so that by the time we engaged the rest of the organization in mid-summer we had everything ready to go. If you need help to speed up the process, actively involve more employees, or make planning more productive than it has been in the past, contact us.

Collaboration

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9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises

BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Not all of those will work in every situation, obviously, but this is a checklist we’d use to actively and successfully involve a team in group strategy exercises. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Exercises

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5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning this Year

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Analysis

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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.

Collaboration

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Strategic Thinking

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

Exercises

Exercises Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement

Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement Tools

Who Should Facilitate Strategic Planning? 10 Vital Characteristics

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Collaboration

Collaboration Groups Strategy Strategy

Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

Leadership

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4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

This is a starting point, however, to look around and see which current and emerging leaders are ready to step into new roles championing collaborative strategy. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Collaboration

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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf)

Innovation Strategy – Here, There, and Everywhere

7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas to Stop Strategy Snoozefests!

9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now

Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

5 Things Collaborative Strategic Planning Isn’t

Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy

Branding Strategy – The Best Brand Promise EVER

When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations

Internal Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Be Smarter than United Airlines

Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement

12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process

9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises

5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning this Year

Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

Who Should Facilitate Strategic Planning? 10 Vital Characteristics

Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders

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