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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Here are some key benefits: Increased Productivity : Teams that collaborate effectively often see a significant boost in productivity, as streamlined communication minimizes downtime and maximizes efficiency. Innovation : Diverse perspectives are the fuel for innovation.

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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.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

The Innovation Generation Has Arrived. They enter the workforce with an entirely different mindset and a whole new hunger⃜ a real hunger for innovation. At the bare minimum, these young men and women want to see innovation happening all around them, and more often than not they want to be right in the middle of it!

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation teams often find themselves in a catch-22. Different Stuctures, Yet The Same Need For Support Panera has adopted a distributed approach to innovation. Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. How to deal with this tension?

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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

APRIL 20, 2016

As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. ” Makes sense.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There is a mutual commitment to learning from the business collaboration. Beyond learning more from the collaboration’s outcomes, it should provide an opportunity to learn about each other and our brand. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. The collaboration will yield mutual benefits.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Trend Timing — The Innovator's Secret Weapon. Many successful innovations succeed because they correctly address emerging trends. Such events can include the introduction of an innovative new product or service that preempts public knowledge of the need – cases in point are iTunes and the Nest Learning Thermostat.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). All the Strategy Roles You Need. via Shutterstock. Enjoy this article?

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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? Both must find value in your solution to engage. You can use the same tool bring speed and efficiency to your corporate innovation team. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic 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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills: 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas. Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Mike Brown.

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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. Friday’s priority involved finalizing a new product innovation workshop we’re developing in collaboration with a market research company for one of its clients.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of including too few or too many people in strategic planning and not thinking about how to help them participate successfully, we specifically match peoples’ perspectives, expertise, and interests so they can most efficiently and effectively share innovative ideas. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

The first wave of the internet was built on the back of consumer-led innovation. AI will keep on improving in the field of Perception, Representation & Reasoning, Learning, Human-AI Interaction, and Societal Impact. This will help us to improve customer engagement and automate customer service interactions. But jobs changed.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. Let me ask a few questions: Does your organization have all the diversity it needs to uncover creativity and innovative strategies?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas. Whatever the hesitancy to innovate has been, unfreezing a team involves identifying and launching the steps (even the small steps) to make progress. Don’t Let Fear of Change Block Innovative Business Ideas.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

We talk about a lot of things: leadership talent, product quality, business model. We talk about creativity and innovation, passion for excellence, dedication to the customer experience. Process involves day-to-day workplace routines that reinforce or strip away employee engagement. Good process takes a lifetime to learn.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

When you have solid planning (maybe even over-planning), good strategic thinking questions to identify ways to adapt, and an appreciation for flexibility, unexpected events become a wonderful opportunity for learning and developing. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Originating from an Edward De Bono technique we learned from Chuck Dymer , the PMIRQ asks five open-ended questions on what worked (Plus), didn’t work (Minus), was surprising (Interesting), should be done next time (Recommendation), and didn’t get fully addressed (Question). Fresh Ideas and Learning. Learned a lot”. Networking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger 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.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In order to be successful, product managers need to use whatever tools and tactics they have at their disposal to understand and engage with their target customers to gather information about what features to build and when. Fortunately, there are steps that can be taken to avoid winding up in the aforementioned situation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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. Do you see something here that could help develop or shape your strategy and project planning implementation? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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. – Mike Brown.

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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. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Have a strong grounding in business, creative, innovation, and strategic principles. 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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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.

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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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Note: If you want to learn more about the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief system and get in on this great publication for an incredibly low monthly rate, please visit the Armada website.). 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

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. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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