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!

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Groups Product Strategy 44

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Are you up for changing that?

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. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Entrepreneurship 40

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

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

While I’m sure it was a completely sincere gesture, I think pursuing a thought leadership strategy isn’t something a brand or an individual shouldn’t do. My personal antipathy toward thought leadership strategy stems from a moment during corporate life. Employee Leader Strategy. Help employees develop as leaders.

Leadership 40

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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

Leanstack

MAY 21, 2015

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. They are both fired.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation LEAN Data 52

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.

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Ideation Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Technical Review 48

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

If the answers to the first two questions are “no” and “yes,” respectively, are you ready to formulate a plan to change your organization’s bad habits and realize more impact from creative thinking activities? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

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. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Training 40

Training Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 40

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

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. As regular Brainzooming readers understand, we’re proponents for using structure (instead of blank pieces of paper) to make it easy for any employee to successfully contribute to developing strategy.

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

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