Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Consider a “speed dating” exercise.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Being a leading instigator for market disruption ? We can help!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It could be too early or too late in the market window, or it could simply have the wrong pricing or distribution. I'm actually more interested in the 90+% of ideas that never make it to product development. Failure - the good, the bad and the ugly Let's first admit that some failure is necessary.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. They also share fundamentals behind the model: Scan – Be on the lookout for new market patterns, emerging customer preferences, unfamiliar competitors, and pattern-breakers changing your industry.

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CMOE

JULY 31, 2019

Sheraton’s EQ program for its employees helped grow its market share by 24%. However, because the focus tends to be on individual performance, the EQ of teams as a whole can easily be overlooked. First, the average EQ of employees on a team affects that team’s performance. Absolutely.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. There is a sense of understanding market trends and competitive actions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups. Plan If You Can.

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Anaqua

MARCH 3, 2022

Enabling a company to enjoy sustained market differentiation, higher market valuation, and expanded opportunities for growth, investment, partnership, and M&As. Detailed competitive landscape reports are typically developed every quarter for major competitors, with annual updates for others.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2018

Product development cycle times are now longer than shelf lives. You simply cannot crank enough efficiency in the development, launch and marketing phases to win back enough revenue to account for a poorly constructed exploration phase. While this series of blog posts may seem like a thought exercise, this shift is happening.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

She’s led her team in bringing AI to the market throughout this turbulent year. A data governance framework develops trust between you and your customers. So, if you don’t have really good input on your data, you’ll actually have really, really bad outputs.” Invest in educating your teams about AI.

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CMOE

JULY 31, 2019

Sheraton’s EQ program for its employees helped grow its market share by 24%. However, because the focus tends to be on individual performance, the EQ of teams as a whole can easily be overlooked. First, the average EQ of employees on a team affects that team’s performance. Absolutely.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 9, 2020

Corporate innovation teams are taught in their organizations, and in the media and classes, to act like entrepreneurs navigating risk in a new venture or idea. The missing piece of the innovation puzzle : helping leadership teams learn to act like VCs. 3 Ways Successful Leadership Teams Channel this Inner VC.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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. In most cases, a product manager is someone who works cross-functionally with development, marketing, and customer support in order to map out use cases for new products.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

They'll become products and services when the product or service development process in their organization provides resources for the new ideas, and spend time developing, validating, testing the new products and finally launching them. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. 3 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Spot Emerging Competitors. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. That’s wasted time, too.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

But no sooner had business begun to slowly recover from the pandemic than the job market began to experience an unprecedented evolution: the Great Resignation. Create some sort of “wellness zone” in your workplace where workers can engage in group exercises, take naps, or even practice yoga. million people walked off their jobs.

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MSSBTI

APRIL 9, 2019

Operating in a Global Economy is not for the weak. This type of fitness, being ready to take on your markets, can be organized into five focal areas that I wish my COO knew (and told me!) Don’t make the mistake of becoming immersed in “operations” and leave competition to Sales and Marketing. Organizations need to be fit.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development. If you have an immediate problem to solve, we’ve found that bringing a cross-functional team together to tackle the problem head-on yields positive results fast. This step is typically easier if you’ve developed a solution for a problem. Let's build together.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. That happiness, however, is short-lived when upon closer inspection, I find them blank, not up to date, or a list of problems invented to justify the solution the team is already committed to building.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. That happiness, however, is short-lived when upon closer inspection, I find them blank, not up to date, or a list of problems invented to justify the solution the team is already committed to building.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Reading up on scores of articles of somewhat complicated psychological concepts was an incomprehensible task for most team members. Validating the market. Announcing the project.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. Post Covid-19, leaders need to develop innovation as a key organizational muscle. By the time a crisis arrives, it is too late to start exercising. Open Strategy.

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Acuvate

JULY 26, 2019

The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. Reduce costs that might incur due to bad data. Analysis of poor quality data results in ineffective decisions. Institute regulations on how data is to be used. Protect data.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

APRIL 20, 2020

There is, however, one mask on the market that I wouldn’t mind wearing: The ATMOBLUE. The N95 mask isn’t great, and Leandro Rolon and his team set out on a mission to make it better. Calling it the ATMOBLUE, Leandro and his team developed an entirely new category of wearables that could actively purify the air of 99.9%

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Qmarkets

APRIL 14, 2022

Innovation is the process of taking an idea and developing it further. When you’re trying to come up with new ideas, you can use brainstorming techniques such as mind mapping, free association, and ideation exercises to help you generate a broad range of ideas. Product innovation is the development of new products.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team. Speculation about strengths and weaknesses the organization faces. Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? Facts about the current situation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What are basic brand strategy moves to quickly take an older brand into today’s market? We raised the question yesterday of how brands rekindle, dust off, improve, innovate upon, and reintroduce themselves to the market. Example – A cereal or candy brand marketing itself as a brand you remember from childhood).

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

My friend explained that over a period of years, her bosses shot down every dynamic possibility she proposed as a creative marketing idea. If no one ever says your ideas are too bold, that is also bad. Does your CPR vary by client or team? She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all.

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Peer Insight

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The problem is, it’s often too late to act by the time others’ innovation has crept into your market share. As McKinsey points out , most companies rely on output metrics such as R&D as a percentage of revenue, time to market, number of patents produced, or ratio of new products to sales. . They’re output focused. .

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 10 Bad Reasons to Change Strategy. 16 Employee Idea Killers Your Management Team Could Be Committing. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot. I thought a lot about what I saw and heard that day.

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