BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf). When you develop a plan from a collaborative, conversationally-driven strategy planning process , you see other tangible impacts. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

NASA used this product strategy approach when manufacturing a glove worn by astronauts on spacewalks. Though the collaborators came from very different industries, the same idea could be applied to multiple uses due to similarities in the approach.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. If you engage your audience early in the collaborative strategic planning process, you can make a legitimate claim to creating a collaborative vision. That means the range of collaboration opportunities narrows. It involves more constraints.

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Sopheon

APRIL 4, 2023

Product managers and project managers are two distinct roles. To launch new products successfully, they play a crucial role and must collaborate tightly. Product managers work closely with project managers to ensure that product development is aligned with the product strategy.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

At Anaqua, client-led innovation and product strategy have been part of our DNA since our founding. These priorities now get woven into our product strategy. Strengthen client collaboration with the AQX Law Firm Client Portal and dynamic Hyperview dashboards. Written by: Jayne Durden, VP of Law Firm Strategy.

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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.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Creating Strategic Impact mini-book.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. 4 Vital Characteristics of Collaborative Strategy Leaders.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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.

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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.

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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.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re increasingly incorporating online collaboration workshops ( which we call Zoomferences ) to do more of the work typically done through in-person visioning workshops. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop.

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BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

On Monday, I discussed the community collaboration process we facilitated for Carbondale, IL in September 2015. We’ve worked with Dave’s team on multiple community collaboration engagements related to broadband initiatives, economic development, and Smart Cities. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This approach allows for rapid prototyping and iteration, ensuring that AI integration is aligned with your overall product strategy and business goals. Through collaboration, you can ensure that AI is leveraged comprehensively to improve all aspects of product development.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2017

I delivered a keynote on the importance of collaborative internal branding during the SMC3 2017 Connections conference. The talk prompted several conversations about the distinctions between branding strategy and advertising. Subscribe to the free Brainzooming email updates.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short 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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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

The reduced risk and lower upfront investment that these technologies bring will encourage manufacturers of all kinds to take more innovative bets , leading to greater efficiency and a more dynamic product landscape. Trend #4: Greater Coopetition Collaboration with competitors, known as coopetition, will become more prevalent in 2024.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

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. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

One course that stands out as an example of bridging the academic divide between design and business is the Luxury Design and Strategy course in collaboration with Columbia Business School. The course provides ample opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration and project work that reflects real business challenges.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 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.

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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.”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

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.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

And by done well, we mean that the vision statement: Is developed broadly and collaboratively. Collaborating on a Vision Statement. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. 5 Questions for Creating a Collaborative Vision.

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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.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The key is being willing to collaborate and get outside of our comfort zone. Whether the customer is an individual consumer or an internal partner, your success depends on communicating what a product is and why someone should care. Embracing marketing is a powerful way designers can lead product strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

If you want to go deeper on a viable strategy to improve employee engagement, download our Results eBook. It highlights an approach for more collaborative strategy that provides employees with a real opportunity to contribute their ideas and be a part of actively contributing to your organization’s direction. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short 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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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. UX managers.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short 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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And if you would like to talk about how to quickly deploy a collaborative planning process to get you ready for success next year, contact us at info@brainzooming.com. We will arrange time to talk about how we can help you do more in less time with your strategy planning and implementation. Faster Strategy through Collaboration.

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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.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Contact us , and let’s customize a strategy process specific to your organization. 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

If you have a bunch of unimplemented strategies and tactics for this year that are still sound, simply use those for next year’s plan. Contact us , and let The Brainzooming Group facilitate your planning for next year using our collaborative and streamlined Brainzooming planning methodology.

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