BrainZooming

JANUARY 17, 2018

We’ve written about the importance of signaling collaboration strategy preferences when you and team members are working remotely. Talking with someone who is struggling with identifying the best ways to signal the appropriate collaboration strategy approash, we hit on a variation on the Sergio Zyman decision levels.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A product strategy needs to include innovation and investing in new technologies. It extends from how organizations develop products to their planning, prioritization, and financial alignment processes, as shown in the image below. This case study shows how banks can adapt to meet modern customer needs.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

Do your organization’s strategic planning meetings turn into annual snoozefests ? That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. Then people start dozing off. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

By leveraging digital technologies and fostering an environment of open communication, you can unlock the full potential of your virtual team and drive your organization towards greater innovation and productivity. Here, you’ll discover key strategies to enhance virtual team collaboration.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. 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.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There is a mutual contribution from both parties toward the strategy and ideas. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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helloFUTURE

JULY 6, 2020

How… The post To Meet Your Goals, Burn Your Ships appeared first on hellofuture. Stop Giving Yourself a Route Away from Your Goals Back during Greco-Roman times, a famous leader was landing a fleet of warships with thousands of men to seize land from the enemy.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Enhanced Productivity Leverage specialized online collaboration tools that streamline workflows and minimize time wasted on unnecessary meetings. These solutions help bridge the communication gap that often arises in virtual settings, allowing for more personal and engaging meetings.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Enhanced Productivity Leverage specialized online collaboration tools that streamline workflows and minimize time wasted on unnecessary meetings. These solutions help bridge the communication gap that often arises in virtual settings, allowing for more personal and engaging meetings.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. At a certain point, clients stop listening to the strategy—they just want to get to the pictures. But does that mean that designers should just make pictures and leave the strategy to others?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Due to conflicting schedules across multiple teams, some UX professionals were often unable to attend all scrum meetings, but one called out the value of attending scrum meetings at least once a week. Regular check-ins with product owners are also helpful in knowing priorities.” Product owners. Timing is difficult.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The potential supporters in the later meeting were community organizations. The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. Download Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. – Mike Brown.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It’s true, our clients are stewards of Anaqua’s strategic product development, helping to inform our long-term investments, determine our product roadmap priorities, and validate our highest-impact features and functions. Simply put, if it is not in our clients’ best interest, then it is not in our product roadmap.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope!

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2022

One essential part of this adaptation strategy is building a strong product portfolio ; this requires a unified approach to aligning portfolio objectives with the overall business strategy, not just within a single team or function. This four-part model consists of the following: Strategy Orientation Balance Investment.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? Mike Brown.

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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. If you need to go into the meeting or new situation and move things forward with less knowledge and experience than you prefer, here are ways you can fake it until you make it.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting. Without defined objectives and the proper timing, however, a big in-person meeting can be a huge waste for everyone. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Ever been in a product strategy meeting and unable to answer this simple question: So who is our customer? The risk isn’t just an uncomfortable meeting with HR: personas based on demographic biases can misrepresent the needs of real customers. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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helloFUTURE

JULY 31, 2022

Will you have the infrastructure to support their demand for just-in-time and place delivery of products and services, which will be their expectation? In other words, will you be able to meet their expectation?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

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. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. In fact, it may be relatively rare. A democracy. A free for all.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

So, do an audit on your strategy – if you can’t answer these 4 questions, meet with senior leaders to determine the answers: Why does this innovation team exist? set of customers, collect their feedback to inform your product strategy and positioning. Who is responsible for its success or failure?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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. They saw it as too prescriptive, i.e., limiting participants to four strategic dimensions the CEO articulated based on meeting hundreds of employees across the organization. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Planview

AUGUST 23, 2022

The tricky part is that this must all occur regularly and simultaneously — from innovation prioritization to planning, execution, and in-market analysis — to ensure accelerated investments meet market demand. Automakers and OEM companies can also use that data to defend or negate an automotive company’s R&D strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If this is something people struggle with in your organization, here are 48 creative appreciation ideas you can start using in meetings. An idea aligning with the company strategy. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Speakers from outside Moody’s are often invited to the annual managing directors meeting or other flagship events to educate leaders about innovation and disruption. Testing out new ideas on a small scale in sandbox environments can be an extremely effective strategy to build leaders’ confidence around innovation.

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Strategyn

JULY 12, 2016

Finally, the sales team’s success depends on its ability to show customers that the company’s products meet their needs. The R&D department makes technology investments based on its understanding of customer needs. Company success depends on understanding the customer’s needs.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Experimentation: How to Setup and Execute A Good Experiment Experimentation is an important part of the product management process. Structured experiments are used to expose any weak points in the product strategy and identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled with evidence gathered from customer insights.

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Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

Modern technologies increase our ability to easily develop and deploy new products and features. As we partner with our clients in defining our direction and product strategy, agile development enables us to complete these important strategic investment initiatives in a timely manner. New Technologies.

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Leanstack

MAY 21, 2015

Even at later stages, relying solely on aggregate revenue and profitability can mask uncovering the right growth strategies. Meet Bob and Josh. It became increasingly difficult for Mary to justify the return on investment to her stakeholders, and she, too, found herself spinning the numbers in board meetings.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Wargaming – Wargaming seeks a robust, flexible strategies that enable your product to anticipate and outmaneuver competitive, or other, threats that can have devastating consequences. If volume requires it, meet weekly. And get yourself ready to really test the value proposition of your new product idea.

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