Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. Some speeches have interactivity to keep people engaged, others are more like a show. Find ways to engage people. These are the lowest level of engagement.

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CMOE

MAY 7, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long. The answer was easy: Yes!

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Acuvate

JANUARY 20, 2019

To manage developing business needs, distributed teams, and a complex threat environment, we must embrace new digital technologies and maintain a collaborative modern digital workplace. So why are many organizations struggling to build a useful, engaging intranet environment? Read More: Top 8 Digital Workplace Trends for 2019.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Board members and executive teams can also have significant power. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Challenge: A giant problem in media (and in every industry, really) is that in many organizations, there’s not enough time and space created for employees to engage with customers on a consistent basis.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. What this suggests for you is that when working with a team, you don’t necessarily have to be ready to respond by saying ideas and concepts are good or bad. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Creating engagement with our employees ? What are WEAKNESSES relative to: Delivering the product attributes and performance most important to customer s? Need to get your strategy developed quickly?

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 9, 2009

Download them individually here, or get them all with the Boxes and Arrows “iTunes feed&# :[link]. Additionally, Nate identifies the key considerations when designing a mobile ethnographic study, indicating how technological developments in the future might be used to improve upon current methods. But do we love them?

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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. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 24, 2009

Download them individually here, or get them all with the Boxes and Arrows iTunes feed. In this presentation, Dominic La Cava , Senior Information Architect at Vanguard, and Kellie Rae Carter UX researcher at Comcast Interactive Media, demonstrate how one design team incorporated game techniques into a redesign project.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 10 Keys to Developing Collaborative Strategy. FREE Download: “Results!!! You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. In many companies, the list of items on the SWOT analysis does not change all that much from one year to the next.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Companies must engage these various groups and harness their collective genius, by making them part of an effective innovation strategy and exciting Innovation culture. Therefore it is crucial for these organizations to select an innovation management solution that does not represent a “weak-link” in their chain of cyber-defense.

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CMOE

APRIL 26, 2021

When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. We’ll see if they take the advice. Mike Brown.

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

To add to their cup of woes, they have “mundane” tasks—finding top quality hires, retaining them, ensuring there are no pains areas in employee engagement, staving off all kinds of legal hassles—which require them to be the go-to person while being innovative, proactive, and brimming with energy. Apparently, this is possible.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. 6 Types of Strategic Planning Process Activities. 5 Dangers of Cheaping out on Hiring a Facilitator. Mike Brown.

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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? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I am taking over an organization and want to engage our employees more directly in culture change and moving forward. We can bring you a multi-dimensional approach to involve all of your employees in sharing their perspectives and aspirations in a way that you can do something with the ideas AND meaningfully engage your people.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A peer was developing a “think piece” on the transportation industry’s and our company’s place role in its future. We have also never pitched a client on developing a thought leadership strategy or influencer marketing program. Help employees develop as leaders. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Walmart, a brand often immersed in debates about poor employee treatment, is piloting new training for both front-line employees and in-store managers. Department managers are receiving training, greater authority, and latitude to manage their department teams. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

Innovation solutions can also be particular to the innovation industry, which is tasked with partnering with companies to create a culture of innovation and help develop meaningful innovations. Download or print the infographic. What Are Innovation Solutions? Innovation Solutions Workflow Infographic. What are Innovation Solutions?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. As regular Brainzooming readers understand, we’re proponents for using structure (instead of blank pieces of paper) to make it easy for any employee to successfully contribute to developing strategy.

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Inceodia

JANUARY 27, 2019

At HP, we developed technologies using the “next bench” method of customer needs discovery. Asking the guy sitting next to me what he needed worked as long as I was developing products for other software engineers or just-out-of-college-20-somethings-living-in-the-US-pacific-northwest. Ready to Upgrade? The world is waiting!

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Strategos

MARCH 28, 2018

As you survey your company landscape, you may see that a variety of well-intentioned teams such as “Lean Startup,” “Design Thinking,” or “Crowdsourcing” are within pockets, preaching practices. Once “what” is specified, turn attention to developing an inventory of existing methods. Download a pdf of this article.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 25, 2020

Many problems with RPA stem from poor management of expectations. The best choice is to seek help from a specialized consultancy, which develops business cases, calculates the possible cost and ROI optimization, and measures the progress in relation to these goals, among other duties. Engage IT early and often. Set expectations.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What’s more, to develop real innovation, you need prototyping skills, problem analysis, and iterative work. Design Thinking is a problem solving and idea development strategy centered on human beings. Check out some tips to acculture your team around Design Thinking! Design Thinking applied to cultural transformation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Companies must engage these various groups and harness their collective intelligence , by making them part of an effective innovation strategy and exciting Innovation culture. Therefore it is crucial for these organizations to select an innovation management solution that does not represent a “weak-link” in their chain of cyber-defense.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 2, 2019

Corporate Innovation Groups (CIGs) are often on “offense” when it comes to new product development and technological innovation, particularly when it comes to engaging the market and mitigating market-facing risks. The team didn’t bring the SVP along with them… They could have found out ‘No.’ So it got killed.”.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

If you have a long-standing brand needing a boost to reach its previous heights, what are your options for bringing it back to the market in a way that attracts attention, engages existing and new audiences, and delivers improved business results? Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 12, 2009

Audio doesn’t function the same way as written text, so its execution is often poor. Your approach to creating audio should be similar to developing a large website. Usability Engineering for Audio Because audio differs, some of the established techniques used in web development cannot be applied audio.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Companies must engage these various groups and harness their collective genius, by making them part of an effective innovation strategy and exciting Innovation culture. Therefore it is crucial for these organizations to select an innovation management solution that does not represent a “weak-link” in their chain of cyber-defense.

Disruption 40

Disruption Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management 40

Leanstack

AUGUST 19, 2014

We need this number to justify the business model story — first to ourselves and then to our internal and external stakeholders (team, investors, budget gatekeepers, etc.). For instance, it’s common to see everyone in the company taking credit during a good quarter and pointing fingers during a bad quarter.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 20, 2011

They can be geniuses or morons, but if you don’t engage their intelligence, you can’t depend on their brain power. Call it concentration, or focus, we use more of our brain when engaged and need support when we are distracted. Start-ups often experience a shock when they emerge from the hothouse of heads-down development.

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