Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 11, 2019

Finally, I'll address some thoughts on how to fix it. You won't need suggestion boxes or crowdsourcing to find good ideas - your executives and teams will suggest good ideas because they understand the strategy and know how to create and implement good ideas. Second, define some innovation methods, processes and tools.

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2022

A core part of this focus and commitment is serving ESOs as they work to streamline their product and customer strategy and adapt to meet the varying needs of their customers. Below we outline four critical challenges that ESOs are facing, and how to solve them: ESOs Must Serve Two Masters: Profits & Product Adoption.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A product strategy needs to include innovation and investing in new technologies.

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LEAN Project Report Case Study 65

Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

These tools not only provide product teams with an immersive experience, they also help to uncover the key assumptions around customer behavior that can then be validated or invalidated by using experimentation. Experimentation: How to Setup and Execute A Good Experiment Experimentation is an important part of the product management process.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

How would you like to be involved in the rest of the project, and what’s the best way to reach you? Who are your customers and users today, and how do you want that to be different in five years? How does this product fit into the overall product strategy? How do you expect to differentiate this product?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises. You can try these nine ideas for how to involve team in group strategy exercises: Place people in roles that accentuate their strengths and best characteristics. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help: Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them. Understand the nature of disagreements or contrarian points of view, especially how accurate, deeply held, and unchanging they are.

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Collaboration Meeting eBook Strategic Thinking 77

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

Educates the organization on how to imagine and implement strategically. Are you up for discussing how this could benefit your organization? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Strategic Management Strategy 73

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. via Shutterstock.

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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

Here’s a preview of a few of their article topics: How to Come Up with a Company Name 5 Ways to Save Up for Your Next Real Estate Purchase Three Tips on How to Juggle Being a Great Mom and Business Owner 16. Business Strategy Hub Business Strategy Hub is a site dedicated to competitive, organizational, and product strategy articles.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Instead, you start asking questions about HOW to implement the direction, what might have been MISSED, and what things are CRITICAL FOR SUCCESS. There are other questions you can ask, but once the strategy recommendation is complete, you don’t want to waste time opening doors to non-productive strategy options.

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Collaboration Engagement Strategic Thinking Leadership 59

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Some informants raised concerns about product owners or developers thinking of design only in very tactical terms and not recognizing the value that UX brings to the product ideation process. A few of the respondents were generally unhappy with the Agile approach to development and expressed nostalgia for waterfall development.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

It’s a course for innovation project managers, consultants, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs who want to have more productive strategy, idea generation, and innovation action plans. One very different aspect of this training is the time spent on exploring how to do Concept Blending.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Ideation 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

We create these types of radically different (and beneficial) business meetings for clients , in large part, by bringing together the right people in the right settings with the right structure to allow them to be productive and successful participants. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Meeting Collaboration Tips Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. Strategy Implication: Remove the tedious aspects of strategy planning, replacing them with efficient alternative approaches.

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Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking Strategy 65

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How to deal with this tension? How to get internal stakeholders to understand what’s happening outside? How to overcome this hurdle and ensure support? How To Bring The Business Along? Again, innovators should teach and remind leaders how to measure the success of innovation. Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 13, 2017

He also goes on to share some of the mines that organisations would need to be careful of when engaged in this approach and shares how to do so.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Dilbert and Screwing Up How to Request Employee Ideas. How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members – 8 Fatal Blows. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you need new ideas about how to approach strategic opportunities and challenges, a collaborative workshop to imagine a variety of possibilities can be very productive. If the gaps pertain to unknown facts and information, brainstorming won’t be productive. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Just Start! Mike Brown.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

The CEO announces Fridays will be half days, the company will be publishing a weekly newsletter celebrating its best employees, and all VPs and above will be taking classes in how to write better reviews and talk nicely to their teams. Everyone is told he or she is appreciated and reminded to work smarter, not harder.

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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. Stay informed about the latest AI advancements and be ready to adjust your strategies as needed.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Just Start! 8 Ways to Start Now and Quit Waiting. Creating Strategic Impact with Small, Possible Steps.

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Change Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

. “Internal politics” 3 Strategies for Navigating a Political Environment. “Stickler to the old ways of doing things (and) not willing to get out of the comfort zone” How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Need to get your strategy developed quickly? 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.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Analysis Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Collaboration eBook Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Engagement Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Frequently, when I write a story along the lines of how to fake it until you make it some folks will say you should never fake it. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Collaboration 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year. Afterward, we used a Zoomference to introduce strategies to its top-performing sales people. They provided input on the biggest impact ideas and how to enrich other strategies through additional creative thinking exercises.

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