BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 17, 2018

Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach Creative Thinking – Who are the best collaborators? Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Invite Productive Strategy Input.

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking 76

helloFUTURE

JULY 31, 2022

Will you have the infrastructure to support their demand for just-in-time and place delivery of products and services, which will be their expectation? In other words, will you be able to meet their expectation?

Trends 52

Trends Product Strategy Strategy Strategy 52

Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It’s true, our clients are stewards of Anaqua’s strategic product development, helping to inform our long-term investments, determine our product roadmap priorities, and validate our highest-impact features and functions. Simply put, if it is not in our clients’ best interest, then it is not in our product roadmap.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. 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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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking 92

Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

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

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Speakers from outside Moody’s are often invited to the annual managing directors meeting or other flagship events to educate leaders about innovation and disruption. Over time, this will foster a culture of innovation across the company. There’s a bit of a learning curve, and you might need some extra support.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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. This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. Adding Deeper Dimensions to a SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

Download Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook! If you can make it to the Brand Strategy Conference, I’d love to meet you and have you attend the workshop.

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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. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo. Embracing marketing is a powerful way designers can lead product strategy. Defeating “designer kryptonite”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

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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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Due to conflicting schedules across multiple teams, some UX professionals were often unable to attend all scrum meetings, but one called out the value of attending scrum meetings at least once a week. Regular check-ins with product owners are also helpful in knowing priorities.” Timing is difficult. UX managers.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. 10 Signs of a Strategy Planning Meeting Nightmare. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategy Planning Fun. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement. 4 Steps to Plan for Unplanned Events.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Guidelines Strategy 40

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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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

So, do an audit on your strategy – if you can’t answer these 4 questions, meet with senior leaders to determine the answers: Why does this innovation team exist? set of customers, collect their feedback to inform your product strategy and positioning. Who is responsible for its success or failure?

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Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

Modern technologies increase our ability to easily develop and deploy new products and features. As we partner with our clients in defining our direction and product strategy, agile development enables us to complete these important strategic investment initiatives in a timely manner. New Technologies.

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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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration eBook Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Having enough food and drinks throughout the day to help stay energized.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

If volume requires it, meet weekly. And get yourself ready to really test the value proposition of your new product idea. Practice Leader, Product Strategy & Commercialization. Time to market, how fast can the work get done. Probability of success. WATCHOUTS : This is not meant to be a massive undertaking.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To meet buyer needs and ensure products resonate with audiences, organizations must assess how well their product capabilities map to the required portfolio capabilities. With that knowledge, they can take the most informed corrective actions to meet the customer’s top needs. This principle gets you to ask, “where.”

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Planview

AUGUST 23, 2022

The tricky part is that this must all occur regularly and simultaneously — from innovation prioritization to planning, execution, and in-market analysis — to ensure accelerated investments meet market demand. The goal is for the software developers and mechanical engineers to speak the same production language and use the same processes.

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Industry Software Review Software Developers Software Development 52

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? The risk isn’t just an uncomfortable meeting with HR: personas based on demographic biases can misrepresent the needs of real customers. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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Innovation Guidelines Design Tools 61

Strategyn

JULY 12, 2016

Finally, the sales team’s success depends on its ability to show customers that the company’s products meet their needs. The R&D department makes technology investments based on its understanding of customer needs. Company success depends on understanding the customer’s needs.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Groups Product Strategy 44

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Experimentation: How to Setup and Execute A Good Experiment Experimentation is an important part of the product management process. Structured experiments are used to expose any weak points in the product strategy and identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled with evidence gathered from customer insights.

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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 is infiltrating all aspects of our lives, and it has the potential to make our lives easier: not just at work but also at home.

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