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

IdeaScale

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. Where Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Meet.

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

BrainZooming

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. 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.

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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

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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4 Challenges Facing Embedded Services Organizations & How to Solve Them

Planview

A core part of this focus and commitment is serving ESOs as they work to streamline their product and customer strategy and adapt to meet the varying needs of their customers. Below we outline four critical challenges that ESOs are facing, and how to solve them: ESOs Must Serve Two Masters: Profits & Product Adoption.

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11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas to Stop Strategy Snoozefests!

BrainZooming

Do your organization’s strategic planning meetings turn into annual snoozefests ? That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. Then people start dozing off.

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Setting Industry Benchmarks Through Client Collaboration

Anaqua

Over the years, Anaqua has made it a priority to engage with customers and harness their valuable feedback to help create the market leading IPMS, as recognized by industry analyst Hyperion Research. Simply put, if it is not in our clients’ best interest, then it is not in our product roadmap. Our Clients Make an Impact.