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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

BrainZooming

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Creating engagement with our employees ?

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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. The best designers take advantage of the opportunity to engage in a strategic discussion. Design itself is a product. Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.”

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

BrainZooming

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope!

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Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

BrainZooming

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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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

BrainZooming

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. 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. – Mike Brown.

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Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea

Taivara

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. I often get derailed by the obstacles and can jump to the conclusion that something new is a bad idea. Genuine interest.

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Stop Building Products No One Wants: How to Experiment Your Way to Success

Moves the Needle

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.