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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Agenda Design Creating a well-thought-out agenda is essential for your offsite.

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1 Definition of Innovation & 4 Strategies to Achieve It

BrainZooming

Yet, customers probably aren’t thinking much about using your product, let alone ways to improve it. 4 Strategies this Definition of Innovation Suggests. Looking at actual customer behaviors should suggest new opportunities and/or missing components in your product offerings. You may get lucky.

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Creating Roadmaps for Success: How to Design and Run a Strategic Planning Offsite

Leapfrogging

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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Innovation Strategy – Pat McGauley and a New Beer in Town

BrainZooming

What’s the story on the innovation strategy for beer? Former Vice President of Innovation at Anheuser-Busch, Pat McGauley , shared stories of his past twelve years creating the company’s innovation team. Pat’s innovation team was responsible for product and packaging innovation.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. Beyond these possibilities, what else can your brand explore to expand its repertoire of market listening strategies? Directly Observing Customers.

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

Attracting the most skilled talent has already become a strategic focus for future-forward companies. Low-skilled, repetitive labor is being automated, while skills like innovation and creativity are more and more in demand. Productive innovative thinking is not inspired or sporadic.