BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2017

It’s avoidable if you do the right types of planning for planning and then eagerly, actively, and honestly engage all the appropriate parts of your organization in contributing to the strategies you develop. Strategic Planning – How many strategic plans do we need? Four Must-Know Ways to Read a Strategy Document.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 15, 2024

Here are specific examples of how these technologies can be applied: Strategic Planning and Decision Making AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data to identify trends, opportunities, and threats. Improve Financial Management AI platforms analyze financial data in real-time, offering insights for cost reduction and revenue optimization.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy. Accounting and finance act as if they control the business and are integral to generating revenue and profit.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2016

We are big fans of strategy statements incorporating simple language an organization uses to talk about its daily business activities. Strategy statements should not be filled with complex jargon that most people cannot understand or with generic language that could apply to ANY business. Think about that for a minute.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 27, 2019

Interpersonal competence : the ability to motivate, enable, and facilitate collaborative and participatory sustainability activities and research. Personal knowledge transfer and collaborative behavior encouraged within the project-teams is indispensable. In general, Lambrechts et al.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

Many organizations are in the early stages of executing new strategies for this year. That is when you discover whether you have a solid, implementable plan or something that (maybe) looks good on paper, but doesn’t work well when you try to execute the strategy. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Helping Teams Execute Strategy.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration. There are conditions that influence collaboration and therefore a successful outcome.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. 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

JUNE 1, 2017

Related posts Making a Decision – 7 Situations Begging for Quick Decisions Fast Forward Your Strategy Implementation Process: Free eBook 15 Ways Whoever Is Going to Disrupt Your Market Isn’t Like You Strategic Planning – 7 Questions for Avoiding Strategic Management Failures Project Management Techniques – 5 Final Report Success Tips.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Do you dread strategy meetings ? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? Every executive dreads strategic planning. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There are hierarchical, competitive and collaborative strategies. To find innovative solutions for the more complex and unruly problems it is generally accepted that multi-actor collaboration is superior to both hierarchy and competitive strategies. Collaborative innovation in the public sector: the argument.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It is time for strategic planning across organizations. To make it a little easier to track down ideas for how you can approach developing strategy this year, here are nineteen Brainzooming articles filled with 113 techniques and ideas for improving your organization’s strategic planning process. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This is where a structured innovation portfolio management process becomes invaluable. Through a systematic approach, innovation portfolio management helps businesses prioritize high-impact ideas, effectively allocate resources, and strategically manage risk, ensuring that innovation efforts contribute meaningfully to long-term success.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Look at how many strategies and tactics you actually implemented this year, and use that as the threshold for how deeply detailed your plan for next year should be. 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. Mike Brown.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In our two decades of collaboration with diverse organizations, we’ve observed shared characteristics that distinguish highly successful innovators from those contending with these obstacles. At the heart of the Future-Fit mindset is a commitment to collaboration that extends beyond the boundaries of the organization.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy. Keep reading for the code!

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Amir Atarodian is currently PhD scholar in Management science at University of Naples, Federico II and University of Naples, Parthenope in Naples, Italy. His major professional specializations are innovation management, Business development, Business strategic planning (Strategy development and implementation) and Open business models.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 19, 2022

As we discussed in the previous blog , a key element to learning is the strategy that participants in the supply chain pursue. In the previous blog there was a poll question about the strategy. More collaborative strategies, such as contributive strategies and pro-active strategies, are less usual as the poll indicates.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? What are the types of enterprise innovation management solutions?

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

2016) presented three models on supply chain sustainability: Reactive strategy Results are achieved through the implementation of sustainability codes of conduct with a focal company using assessment to measure the results. How would you characterize the strategy towards supply chain sustainability in your practice? Gosling et al.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 2, 2017

Last year the number of rearders of Strategy Blogs increased enourmously to 22,634 followers today. If I have to formulate a motto for 2017, it would be “working smarter and greener” Olaisen & Revang (2017) give a great insight how collaborative knowledge sharing can lead to more innovation and sustainability.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Achieving collaboration with diverse stakeholders—The role of strategic ambiguity in CSR communication. Ambiguity can be useful to create common ground on sensitive topics or it can help in finding consensus on controversial topics or allows flexibility in crisis situations. Norbert Bol. Literature. Scandelius, C., & Cohen, G.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 22, 2017

Although there were many topics discussed at the World Economic Forum that relate to the topics that are used in Strategy Blogs, I would like to share two interesting discussions about innovation, which are: Maintaining innovation and the Strategic Update: The Future of Innovation.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 1, 2017

Last year the number of rearders of Strategy Blogs increased enourmously to 22,634 followers today. If I have to formulate a motto for 2017, it would be “working smarter and greener” Olaisen & Revang (2017) give a great insight how collaborative knowledge sharing can lead to more innovation and sustainability.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although the enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? What are the types of enterprise innovation management solutions?

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Additionally, utilizing dedicated software for idea management can streamline the collection and assessment of ideas, making it easier to identify those with the greatest potential. By strategically managing ideation, businesses can ensure that the best ideas are not only recognized but also developed and implemented effectively.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In the recent blog Innovation through collaboration some important conditions were presented how people with different expertise can work together to develop innovative ideas, such as being open to innovative work, respecting others and willing to learn. Strategy & Leadership , 43 (5), 24-31. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 11, 2018

In this Strategy Blog I follow up on the topic of gamification. Based on their research Malshe & Friend (2018), created six supplier strategies to deal with these specific situations (see figure). In this blog I shall not go into detail about the six supplier strategies related to co-creation (please read the article).

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Norbert Bol

MAY 16, 2016

Understanding the social dynamics in online communities is useful as they are becoming part of company strategies towards innovation. Spending more time in the community contributes to being ahead in the market but also in becoming an opinion leader who is more confident to share innovation-related knowledge.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Research shows that companies using so called interorganizational collaboration or co-creation in their innovation process excel in firm innovativeness. If you are in any way involved in interorganizational collaboration or co-creation to innovate, I found that it is most important to look at myself first. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

The coming Strategy Blogs shall be focused more on sustainability-oriented innovations. These adjustments are: Take more time to be aware of situations without immediate judgements. Be more aware of the ecological, social and ethical issues involved. Be more creative to keep what is good and improve where possible or needed.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 5, 2016

Theories of Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Business Strategy. When it comes to co-creation or innovation, it is the result of the interaction between people that are transferring their knowledge and are learning. Norbert Bol. Literature. M., & Asnawi, N. Procedia Economics and Finance 37 ( 2016 ) 545 – 553.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 14, 2019

Last week I wrote about the “ green finance gap “, where investments in green technology suffer from a lack of financial resources and less attractive risk-return expectations compared to other investments.

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