BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. If you need to go into the meeting or new situation and move things forward with less knowledge and experience than you prefer, here are ways you can fake it until you make it.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures.

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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. Want to learn more about collaborative strategic planning benefits?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The potential supporters in the later meeting were community organizations. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting. Without defined objectives and the proper timing, however, a big in-person meeting can be a huge waste for everyone. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable. Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 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

We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If this is something people struggle with in your organization, here are 48 creative appreciation ideas you can start using in meetings. Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

They saw it as too prescriptive, i.e., limiting participants to four strategic dimensions the CEO articulated based on meeting hundreds of employees across the organization. 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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

By leveraging digital technologies and fostering an environment of open communication, you can unlock the full potential of your virtual team and drive your organization towards greater innovation and productivity. It’s imperative to select suitable virtual team communication tools that meet the specific needs of your team.

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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. Then update personas as you do Customer Development and learn more about customers. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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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. The most effective experiments measure real behavior, while also delivering real value to the customer.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Roadmap Tools 80

Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent study by Oracle revealed that 82% of consumers would prefer an AI-powered assistant over a human being when performing tasks like scheduling meetings, buying tickets online and traveling abroad. AI will keep on improving in the field of Perception, Representation & Reasoning, Learning, Human-AI Interaction, and Societal Impact.

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