BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. You can, however, vary your reaction based on whether you perceive an idea to be good or bad.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

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! Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 40

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. Intrapreneurs need their space in more ways than one.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Entrepreneurship 40

Strategyn

JULY 12, 2016

They come from dozens of sources, including social media, the service desk, the sales team, customer advisory boards, and formal qualitative and quantitative research. These insights provide strategic direction to marketing, development, and R&D. Companies are not lacking customer insights. Why does it matter? Pretty slim!

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Groups Product Strategy 44

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. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Meeting 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. Let me ask a few questions: Does your organization have all the diversity it needs to uncover creativity and innovative strategies?

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

Leanstack

MAY 21, 2015

Even at later stages, relying solely on aggregate revenue and profitability can mask uncovering the right growth strategies. Off to the Races Bob and Josh hire a team and spend the next several months tracking progress against the execution of their plan. All they need is a larger team and ten times more money.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation LEAN Data 52

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. That does not mean everyone determines and forms strategy.

Training 40

Training Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 40

Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. As product managers or entrepreneurs, curiosity will ensure we always have a plan B. Good ideas often look bad.

Ideation 48

Ideation Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Technical Review 48

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. But making fifty top executives “guess” and articulate what the CEO already thinks (which is very common) is a recipe for wasted time and a frustrating strategy meeting.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Many products fail because they don’t solve a need their customers have or because the customer doesn’t know they themselves have a need for the product. Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Also, it’s fun as heck!

Video 57

Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Design 57

Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

If they’ve just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on market research that doesn’t provide the answers you need, you also have the potential to make them look bad. The more brand-focused questions are things a visual or industrial designer will particularly want to know, though the answers can prove useful to the whole team.

Marketing 43

Marketing Guidelines Underperforming Technical Team Design 43

Acuvate

JANUARY 31, 2023

As always, there will be good and bad, but likely not the extreme cases so often discussed thus far. Similar tools are being developed for video, audio, 3D, and other technical fields. The application of new technological developments does not happen overnight. There is a mix of hype on both the positive and negative sides.

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Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Generative AI 145