BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next. Are you up for changing that? Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. 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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

While I didn’t start with a formal group of questions, here are seven strategic thinking questions that helped me quickly identify potential changes to the plan and settle on the best possibilities: Is there something that IS working that I can work with more? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What implementation steps are set, and which are still open to change? If you have questions about the best ways to broaden participation in the earliest stages, be sure to download our Results, mini-book. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Want More Help?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That is a huge change, and opens the door to some radically different future workshops. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. 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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

What do we need to change about the upcoming strategic planning process to make it more effective and efficient? Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of requiring people complete complex strategic planning templates unrelated to daily business, we use productive interactions to change the strategic planning process from completing complex forms into conversations, events, and experiences people engage in and learn from as they participate.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 2, 2015

When a brand strategy change is planned, what happens first? An earlier “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed this important brand strategy question about how changes are rolled out to the public. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With those changes, we turned the previous work into a platform to both describe the new initiative and help brainstorm ideas for what new, future programs they could introduce to support it. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. And further divided the list into current and future activities.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With those changes, we turned the previous work into a platform to both describe the new initiative and help brainstorm ideas for what new, future programs they could introduce to support it. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. And further divided the list into current and future activities.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. 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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

If the answers to the first two questions are “no” and “yes,” respectively, are you ready to formulate a plan to change your organization’s bad habits and realize more impact from creative thinking activities? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Working with five separate groups for an industrial manufacturer changing a major manufacturing process, we identified more than six hundred tactics for the multi-year initiative during a two-day in-person workshop. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If you are a leader (or even if you’re not a leader) where creativity in business is under appreciated, how about changing things for the better? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

They got to be a part of the steady execution of the company's slowly evolving product line, happy to help develop and launch the next version of the company's stayed and true products. But that day has long come and gone, and all that has changed now. Today's young marketers, designers, and engineers are very different.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself. Taking on the role of customer researcher also empowers a designer to shape the product strategy when it is the most undefined. This allows for quick changes.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. Before changing existing funding processes, try creating a small “slush” fund for digital innovation projects. Make These Techniques Work For You.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. Before changing existing funding processes, try creating a small “slush” fund for digital innovation projects. Make These Techniques Work For You.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As the architect Frank Duffy notes in his book Work and the City , Pepys tirelessly traversed London giving and taking orders and trading gossip, whether at the docks, at court, or in one of city’s fashionable new coffee houses. His greatest annoyance? Having “lost my labour” when one lord or another failed to appear for a meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Tapscott and Williams are the guys behind Wikinomics and Macrowikinomics (I'm still waiting for Wackywikinomics ), and their new book is a nice, brisk little read that tempers its cheerleading for openness with a some welcome grains of sober realism. They have few details about what is in the company's product pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

But, as my co-authors and I discuss this month in HBR , this flexibility is essential to emerging-market innovation and product strategy. You have to get a lot of things right to successfully bring a product as novel as the Nano to market. First, you have to conceive of something people will actually want.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

In writing the book Sales Growth , we've found that CEOs who put sales management at the heart of their agenda have captured astonishing growth — outstripping their peers by 50 to 80 percent in terms of revenue and profitability. CEOs generally don't want changes to how their sales force operates for fear of killing the golden goose.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

As Ellen Langer wrote in her book, Mindfulness , when individuals, teams and organizations continue to see today’s world through the lens of yesterday, they are likely to keep applying yesterday’s strategies when doing so is no longer effective. Our team’s design and/or organizational structure is outdated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

.” “I know what I should do to be more productive, but I just don’t do it.” Many have read articles and books — and have even been trained in productivity methods — but still find staying focused to be an uphill battle. ” I hear sentences like these repeatedly from coaching clients.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

This organizational model can work well in relatively stable business environments, where the pace of change is modest and where annual planning cycles suffice for managing strategic changes and course corrections. Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Does your relationship need to change? The first is that your former peer “can’t quite accept the new role, pretends that nothing will change, and continues to act like your friend,” which might sound OK for you but “is not good for the group.” Accept that things will change. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Tapscott and Williams are the guys behind Wikinomics and Macrowikinomics (I'm still waiting for Wackywikinomics ), and their new book is a nice, brisk little read that tempers its cheerleading for openness with a some welcome grains of sober realism. They have few details about what is in the company's product pipeline.

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Software Review Software Software Development Software Developers 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

.” “I know what I should do to be more productive, but I just don’t do it.” Many have read articles and books — and have even been trained in productivity methods — but still find staying focused to be an uphill battle. ” I hear sentences like these repeatedly from coaching clients.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to change our lives for the better. Consumer-led AI disruption in the enterprise The next wave of disruption is here and it’s going to change the way we work, interact with each other and do business. But jobs changed. Society as a whole changed.

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