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. Mike Brown.

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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

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Related posts When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Formulating a sustainability strategy can be a challenging task. Implementing the strategy in an organization is even a bigger challenge. Engert & Baumgartner (2016) have added communication (internal and external) as a new factor relevant for a successful implementation of sustainability strategies. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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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. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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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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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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

All of Mintzberg’s types would now be grouped under ‘traditional structures’ Download High-Resolution Version. You can create a weighted variant that reveals the nuance in your strategy and company branding. Strategic Management Journal, 13(S1), 93–109. Figure 1: Typology for Innovative Organizations.

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Focused Momentum

JANUARY 21, 2019

In a strategy session, when the group comes right up to a big possibly radical decision and stops, I am known to say, “Come on, we all put our big girl and big boy pants on today.” I have a small painted dish that sits on my desk that says, “Put on Your Big Girl Underpants and MOVE ON.” It was a thoughtful gift from a client.

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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.

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Technical Review Innovation Policies Collaboration 53

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

MARCH 6, 2016

Last week I wrote in StrategyBlogs that bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy implementation is possible through a true dialogue with your stakeholders. Managing the increasing number of stakeholders, is of course a challenge for companies. Definitions.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Companies with a formal system in place are 75% more likely to define their innovation strategy as delivering a competitive advantage (21% vs. 12%), twice as likely to introduce a new business process or model (32% vs. 16%), and 35% more likely to say they are typically first to market with new products or services (50% vs. 38%).

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 13, 2016

Six different group segments were created from the study. In practice these different group segments talk differently about sustainability and also respond in a different way to messages regarding sustainability. Only in very general talks or high level strategies we talk about sustainability in general.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 17, 2016

Looking at the new 10 year strategy of Facebook it is important for innovators and innovation networks that there is a global platfrom that can help in finding the right partners (“who”) and to work in closed groups. Based on the strategy of Facebook Inc.,

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Companies with a formal system in place are 75% more likely to define their innovation strategy as delivering a competitive advantage (21% vs. 12%), twice as likely to introduce a new business process or model (32% vs. 16%), and 35% more likely to say they are typically first to market with new products or services (50% vs. 38%).

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

In the previous Strategy Blog the importance of education was discussed and I added a poll with the question: “Do you think decision makers educate themselves enough about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship?” ” The majority of the voters indicated that decision makers do not educate themselves enough.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 17, 2016

In line with the earlier Strategy Blogs this year this attitude is based on the underlying human and environmental values, and shows through leading by example. For ethical business leaders and managers it is important to guide the company in the right direction by fostering an innovative-sustainability-based attitude. Norbert Bol.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively. They design their strategy based on context.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Either way, businesses need to identify where they are going wrong because innovation as a business strategy is here to stay. Once a well-defined innovation strategy that aligns with business goals is in place, the next step will entail managing it effectively. They design their strategy based on context.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Without any formal authority or role in organizational strategy, Brian drove broad change across the company. Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization. What are the key actions of strategic leaders who drive innovation without formal authority?

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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.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Companies can better assess first the potential market resistance in general or in specific target groups. Companies should be aware that customers have this irrational behaviour, which can be enforced by the often active promotion by the company of the positive rational effects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

We all know the proactive career advancement strategies you should use. In the large population of high-potentials we've been tracking, Catalyst finds equal proportions of women and men using proactive strategies. Employing the prescribed proactive strategies didn't make as much of a difference to women's career advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

This approach doesn''t change the organizational structure but adds mechanisms (such as committees or gates) onto a business case process, to increase the coordination of big digital investments across groups such as engineering, operations, or product owners. Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit. Taking this approach (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Our research , appearing in Strategic Management Journal, shows that if people know how much they make relative to others, and if differences in pay can be clearly tied to how their performance stacks up against coworkers’, harmful effects of differences in compensation can be negated.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. As professors of Organizational Behavior and Strategic Management, we take a different – and perhaps more radical – stance.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 10, 2016

new product development) by an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. Matt Ridley – When Ideas Have Sex. Idea crowdsourcing is the act when a company outsources the generation of new ideas (e.g.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 23, 2025

Before diving into the training options for becoming a business strategy consultant, it is essential to understand what the role entails. A business strategy consultant provides expert advice to organizations to help them improve their performance, solve problems, and achieve their goals.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 23, 2025

If you’re considering a career shift into business strategy consulting, it’s important to prepare yourself thoroughly. This section will help guide you through assessing your current skills and understanding the role of a business strategy consultant.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 23, 2025

A business strategy consultant helps organizations achieve their goals by developing and implementing strategic plans. For guidance on making the career shift, visit how to become a business strategy consultant. This skill will enable you to develop sound strategies based on evidence.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 28, 2025

Your role will involve planning, implementing, and managing change initiatives to ensure minimal disruption and maximum efficiency. Change management consulting focuses on: Assessing the impact of changes on an organization. Developing strategies to address resistance and ensure employee buy-in.

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