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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Design itself is a product. Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo.

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Stop Building Products No One Wants: How to Experiment Your Way to Success

Moves the Needle

When it comes to the development and commercialization of new products , no one holds more accountability for the product’s ultimate success than the Product Manager. Product Manager” isn’t exactly a title that fits neatly into a box.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

BrainZooming

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. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Need to get your strategy developed quickly?

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

BrainZooming

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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How Should Customer “Needs” Be Defined?

Strategyn

They come from dozens of sources, including social media, the service desk, the sales team, customer advisory boards, and formal qualitative and quantitative research. Finally, the sales team’s success depends on its ability to show customers that the company’s products meet their needs. Why does it matter? Pretty slim!

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Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

BrainZooming

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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The Innovation Challenge

Leanstack

Meet Bob and Josh. Off to the Races Bob and Josh hire a team and spend the next several months tracking progress against the execution of their plan. Since revenue is typically non-existent during this venture period, they settle for measuring progress by ensuring they build their products on schedule and within budget.