BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking.

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Planview

AUGUST 18, 2023

Effective strategic portfolio management (SPM) can increase revenue, market share, and speed of innovation – especially when paired with the right SPM software. Strategic portfolio management is designed to drive today’s complex, cross-functional initiatives. Companies use PPM to manage project and work delivery on a functional scale.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The NEW sign to point out the new stop sign is a wonderful reminder of something that is easy to overlook in a change management strategy. 6 Questions to Highlight the New from Change Management Strategy. How do you identify opportunities to ensure your change management strategy and support for high performance align ?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Is your organization able to maintain an effective strategy under uncertainty? Strategic portfolio management (SPM) can give your organization the much-needed agility and up-to-date data to pivot when priorities and strategy shift. How else can you become a more adaptable organization that drives strategy under uncertainty?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy.

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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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Planview

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll also see how combining Value Stream Management (VSM) with generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help spot and reduce waste, making your workflow more efficient for today’s fast-paced and competitive environment. In this article, we’ll uncover six key sources of waste that may be slowing down your organization.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’m delivering a workshop at the Social Media Strategies Summit in San Francisco today. It will cover creating a sustainable, social-first content marketing strategy. One workshop attendee, Angelo Harms, Digital Marketing Manager at the Curaçao Tourist Board, has seen me present workshops multiple times at SMSSummits.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

What is the insight I’m not seeing that could make our content marketing strategy make sense?” ” An attendee at the 2018 Social Media Strategies Summit conference in San Francisco made that comment. She’s beating herself up for her inability to find an amazing branding strategy insight.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

One way to deal with a common innovation strategy barrier – fear of change and new ideas – is to disguise new ideas as your team develops and implements them. Innovation Strategy in Disguise. As an innovation leader, pursuing an innovation strategy in disguise requires a different perspective. Yes, you got that right.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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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

MARCH 13, 2017

He told me how difficult it is for the organization to consider an innovation strategy. 2 Ways to Take a Fresh Look at Outside-In Innovation Strategy. They could also take the outside-in innovation strategy approach we wrote about recently: look at other testing situations ripe for speeding up and solve those. The reason why?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. Planning a Strategy in the Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 7, 2017

A similar phenomenon applies to brand strategy. While success can breed success, it can also lead to blindness about the importance of trying to disrupt your brand strategy before something else comes along to topple your brand. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy. 104 Possibilities to Disrupt Your Brand Strategy.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Request your ebook copy here. Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared. Here's what they shared. In the book, we’ve captured and summarized insights and takeaways from the 80+ online and in-person sessions we’ve hosted from September 2022 to August 2023. It's free, but great value.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? But, hey, it’s an innovation strategy! As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. They know innovation strategies come and go.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

If that’s the case, your task is to start turning the vision statement into strategy to drive and align activities consistent with it. 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy. Here are five ideas The Brainzooming Group uses to help clients when turning a vision statement into strategy. Organizational structure.

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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

MARCH 28, 2016

We are big fans of strategy statements incorporating simple language an organization uses to talk about its daily business activities. Strategy statements should not be filled with complex jargon that most people cannot understand or with generic language that could apply to ANY business. Think about that for a minute.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. Rather than starting by pushing your management team all the way out to a wildly reimagined future, start with where you are now. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. It is a topic relevant to any senior executive immersed in business strategy. How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you’re developing an innovation strategy initiative inside your company, is your primary focus on bringing executives together in a creative way to imagine new ideas? But convening executives for a creativity session is the right step ONLY AFTER you’ve done a lot of decidedly non-sexy innovation strategy work.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Successfully going from strategy to implementation, however, is critical to business success. Creating a strong, innovative plan is only part of the strategy equation. Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly. Change Management.

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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. We will introduce a new Brainzooming Fake Book soon that includes the exercises we will cover in the branding strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Learning to Play Music Pleasing to Another’s Ears.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 23, 2018

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for nearly two hundred members of a prominent, long-established brand’s marketing organization. The innovation strategy workshop covered a variety of topics related to disruptive innovation. Yes, they likely know what and how they could employ disruptive innovation.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reading responses about the strategic planning challenges faced by executives downloading our eBooks suggests a variety of strong blog topics. 13 Strategic Planning Process Questions When Strategy Planning Isn’t Working. Leadership sponsoring strategy planning. Looking for Ideas to Make a Developing Strategy More Fun?

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