Stephen Shapiro

MARCH 11, 2021

The premise of this lens is that you should not design your solutions with a one-size-fit-all strategy. Download the lenses from Invisible Solutions. Learn more about the “Best Practices are Stupid” book where you can read my “Making the Impossible Possible” technique.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

We were listening in on an internal innovation strategy call conducted by one of our clients. The key question was, “Where’s the beef with this innovation strategy?”. They seemed ready to jump through hoops to justify the innovation strategy to the CEO. 3 Questions When the Innovation Strategy ROI Doesn’t Satisfy the Boss.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a brand new year, which means it’s time for a brand new annual innovation strategy for your organization. Perhaps you’ve been working on your annual strategy since before we entered this new year, or perhaps you just now have the bandwidth to really confront it. The post How do you Create an Annual Innovation Strategy?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a brand new year, which means it’s time for a brand new annual innovation strategy for your organization. Perhaps you’ve been working on your annual strategy since before we entered this new year, or perhaps you just now have the bandwidth to really confront it. The post How do you Create an Annual Innovation Strategy?

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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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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

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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BrainZooming

APRIL 3, 2018

Two junior team members in chief of staff / program manager roles asked how to best align with senior leaders to successfully share a strategy across an organization. The Way to Successfully Share a Strategy. Facilitate objectivity when judging the effectiveness and success of early strategy implementation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

While the conference featured stronger keynotes, these innovation strategy-focused quotes and action items from Beth Comstock resonated with me. “Strategy is a story, well-told.” ” One Thought: Strategy shouldn’t be complex, jargon-filled, and nonsensical to anyone beyond the top executives.

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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. Innovation Strategy across a Community – Forward to the Future.

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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. To learn which challenges that can be solved using crowdsourcing, download the full list. . Learn more about our Climate Action Sweepstakes here!

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Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 10, 2023

Let’s walk down memory lane: The music industry faced significant disruption with the emergence of Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing application enabling illegal downloads, causing a decline in CD sales. iTunes challenged this convention by offering legal digital downloads of individual songs, eliminating the need to buy entire albums.

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The Inovo Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The tight integration of Strategy, R&D and Innovation – and other related growth functions – is critical for an effective Growth Transformation system. A growth transformation system is one in which corporate strategy, R&D and innovation all work together and in harmony to drive transformation excellence.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. They thought they needed a new growth strategy. Read more about Ecosystem Scanning by downloading The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact. Narrative Shaping.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Innovation strategy in a highly regulated industry presents specific challenges.?. This is where innovation strategy gets dicey, but don’t let it discourage you. The challenge is that many innovation strategies encourage sharing all ideas — no matter how outlandish — in the brainstorming and exploratory stages.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Beth Warren SVP Marketing and Retail Strategy, Creative Realities, Board Member, Digital Signage Federation. Brick-and-mortar retailers can learn by watching the nuances of digital-first brands and simulating it with new AI layers that can trigger content based on who is in front of the digital signage screen.

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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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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. In the early 1990s, Starbucks relied heavily on Oldenburg’s third-place philosophy for its customer experience strategy. That is, people learn by observing and practicing hands-on, receiving constant feedback from their customers.

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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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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. It will be about the attendee experience and measurements on adult learning. A major advantage virtual trade shows have is very precise analytics.

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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. Download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper to learn more today!

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” (available for download from Tuesday 7 Feb 2023), the outlook shows that there are potentially major problems ahead for innovation teams. How innovation teams collaborate Finally, the last big learning from the report is about how innovation teams collaborate.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 11, 2019

So we dug out some trade promotion strategies that have proven their worth when it comes to skyrocketing your sales. Trade promotion strategies that increase sales. Some of the things that your trade promotion strategy should cover for in-store displays include: Signs, banners and posters. Focus on the in-store display.

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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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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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BrainZooming

JULY 23, 2018

Today, Monday, July 23, we’re launching the new Brainzooming book, Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders. This companion e-book shares creative leadership strategies that build on the principles of Idea Magnets and offers fun approaches for recharging your own creative energy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. We see great leaders among our clients successfully taking steps that meaningfully involve employees in shaping strategy and implementation.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 29, 2021

There are strategies for dealing with it. In this episode, I’m sharing some of those strategies with you. The truth is, even though anyone can learn the skill of creativity, everyone also encounters impediments to this skill. Tune in to hear some of the things I’ve learned about overcoming your fear of creativity.

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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

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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BrainZooming

MAY 10, 2017

Chatting with a mid-career professional who is at the height of job frustration, she placed a career strategy challenge on the table: “A résumé is supposed to have metrics, but I have no real metrics I can own for my contributions at my day job. I know this isn’t an isolated career strategy challenge. Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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