Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Anaqua is taking us into the next generation of IP management with new levels of collaboration and productivity.” – Heidi Martinez, Chief IP Counsel and Associate General Counsel, Xerox Corporation. Simply put, if it is not in our clients’ best interest, then it is not in our product roadmap.

Collaboration 75

Collaboration Industry Software Review Roadmap 75

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Strategies for Seamless Communication In the digital age, virtual teams need to master the art of seamless communication to thrive.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Strategies for Seamless Communication In the digital age, virtual teams need to master the art of seamless communication to thrive.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

Meeting 40

Meeting Collaboration Tips Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any length of time, you know we’re huge proponents of collaborative strategic planning. Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration eBook Strategy Strategy 40

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By cycling through these phases, you can refine your product concepts to better meet user needs. This iterative process aligns with the lean startup methodology and agile product development practices, which emphasize flexibility and rapid iteration.

Product Development 100

Product Development Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence 100

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.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Respondents also reported creating successful relationships with their product teams by involving their scrum teams in the UX process–especially by collaborating on UX issues with technical staff. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product. Timing is difficult.

Agile 111

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 111

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. The key is being willing to collaborate and get outside of our comfort zone. Wrong.” – Bradford Shellhammer.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Roadmap Software Review Design 94

Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

At Planview PSA we continue to “Build the Future of Connected Services,” which enables professional service organizations to fully connect, plan, and collaborate, while they work across the entire services lifecycle and within the context of the enterprise in which they live.

How To 72

How To Engagement Project Competition 72

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!

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 40

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.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

To complement the in-person workshop content, The Brainzooming Group collaborated with Breanna Jacobs at GSMI, the Brand Strategy Conference producer, to publish a new free branding strategy eBook called, “Engaging Employees as an Internal Brand Team: 3 Actionable Strategies.”.

Engagement 40

Engagement eBook Strategy Strategy 40

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. Faster Strategy through Collaboration.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Analysis Underperforming Technical Team 40

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. Contact us , and let’s customize a strategy process specific to your organization.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Guidelines Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Creativity 40

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.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. 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. The idea of a leader collaboratively determining the direction organization should go is rare.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Product Strategy 40

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.”

Management 52

Management Agile Analysis Strategy 52

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. People who collaborated for the first time. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. Something ingenious.

Creativity 40

Creativity Collaboration Engagement Strategy 40

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.

Exercises 40

Exercises Groups Strategy Strategy 40

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here, different roles have ‘innovation’ in their job title, and the company is also very open to collaboration with others. 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.

Disruption 52

Disruption Project Roadmap Innovation Processes 52

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.

Industry 52

Industry Software Review Software Developers Software Development 52

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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Crowdsourcing Survey 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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Crowdsourcing Survey Idea Management 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

Eli presented her work to executives and product owners in a two hour meeting. As the meeting progressed, the lead product owner got more and more agitated, and eventually exclaimed, “I can’t control any of these issues!” Other meeting participants will do the same. ” and stormed out.

Meeting 14

Meeting Culture Product Development Course 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In the basic form of a structured debate, which can take place either during a regular team meeting or at an offsite, a team can randomly select members to two or more subteams, each of which is tasked with making specific arguments. Here’s what will replace it, and here’s what we need to do now to survive and thrive.

Exercises 14

Exercises Trends Course Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another.

Data 9

Data Big Data Product Strategy Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

Our research on B2B sales management found that in particular, a common problem is lack of alignment around product pricing and sales force compensation strategies. This both demotivates salespeople and inadvertently encourages them to sacrifice company profits to meet their own goals.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Resources 8

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. With access to an open AI assistant, AI will become a new partner in creativity and productivity.

Artificial Inteligence 145

Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145