Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

For further guidance on managing your virtual team, delve into virtual team management and virtual team project management to ensure your team’s communication remains clear and effective, ultimately driving virtual team productivity.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Strategic Thinking 40

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

To further improve your team’s efficiency, consider implementing virtual team productivity strategies alongside these platforms. The post Revolutionize Your Virtual Teams: Top Online Collaboration Platforms first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Software Review Video Project 100

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creating strategic impact can boost your organization’s success!

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Examples Strategy Strategy Conference 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Getting as much homework and other stuff involving individual work done before the strategic planning workshop so everyone isn’t waiting around for one person to share information. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Creativity 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. knowing the decision maker) generate answers.

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Exercises Collaboration Strategy Strategy 65

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 26, 2017

Essentially this is intensive, hands-on workshop that trains people in innovation frameworks, and tools for strategy, ideation, research, and project management. Here’s a page with details. It’s next week Starting Wednesday February 1, continuing on Feb 2, finishing at noon on Feb.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Ideation 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. 10 Signs of a Strategy Planning Meeting Nightmare. 6 Guidelines for a Great Strategic Thinking Workshop. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategy Planning Fun. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. 4 Steps to Plan for Unplanned Events.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Guidelines Collaboration 40

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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Brainstorming Collaboration Exercises Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. I suspect someone asked a question at the workshop about who the audience considered as thought leaders.

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Leadership Strategy Strategy eBook 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 29, 2016

Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creating strategic impact can boost your success! If you cannot justify even one “Yes” to the three questions, it is likely not a strategic issue. – Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Strategy Strategy 40

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. The post Unleash Innovation: Mastering New Product Development Strategies first appeared on Innovation Keynote Speaking & Workshops.

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Product Development Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence 100

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

But for current and future clients, don’t be surprised if some form of it starts cropping up in your strategy planning workshops! – Mike Brown. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Creativity Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Innovation Crowdsourcing Survey Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

An alternative approach to generating new innovative ideas is to search for external ideas that have already been development – ideas which have evolved into technologies, products, strategies and even companies. This is what many large organizations do. Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

Innovation 40

Innovation Crowdsourcing Survey Idea Management 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself. Taking on the role of customer researcher also empowers a designer to shape the product strategy when it is the most undefined. Also, it’s fun as heck! ” Slide.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

Your thoughts, opinions, and views will change, but the diagram won’t, and so you’ve added a constraining boundary to the idea – and a tool for concretely visualizing how the product vision is changing. A visualization of a product strategy (or almost any strategy) is easily consumable, while a requirement document is not.

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Meeting Culture Product Development Course 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

For example, one consumer goods company we work with recently held a full-day strategy workshop with its local Russian team and partners to revamp their assumptions about the Russian customer, understand how demand and preferences are evolving, and figure out what this means for their strategy in terms of pricing, product portfolio, and channel.

Marketing 15

Marketing Strategy Strategy Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The partners were concerned about levels of staff productivity and performance relative to the competition. First up, I conducted a workshop, giving all staff the chance to address the issue and propose solutions. What could be the cause? I was called in to see if I could find out.

Software Review 15

Software Review Technical Review Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. A simple example is the all-hands meeting.

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Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Meeting Groups 13