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Winning Ideas and Beyond: 4 Steps to Effective Product Concept Development Workshops

Planview

Are you utilizing concept development workshops as part of your ideation processes? Imagine if the Xerox team sat down to brainstorm the technology’s use cases and concluded that it would be foolish not to turn the technology into a consumer good. Brainstorm a desired improvement and reverse engineer it. De-risk and validate.

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The Importance of Management in 7 Skills | CMOE

CMOE

Is there a personal issue sapping their energy? Are you or other team members doing something that drains their energy? Search for multiple resolutions: Rather than just trying to change the person, brainstorm alternative solutions. Do they have a skill that isn’t being utilized? How do they describe themselves?

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20 Strategic Planning Models to Consider

ClearPoint Strategy

Then you’ll identify which parts of operations are working well and which are not, brainstorming ideas from the successful aspects on how to address problems. The research should cover opportunities, threats, competitive advantages, and other points to spur strategic brainstorming.

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Should We Leave Our Emotions out of Negotiation?

CM Partners

Instead, what we’re finding is that emotions are integral to our decision-making capacity – and they can even help us achieve better outcomes, if properly utilized. Emotional suppression requires brain energy, which decreases your cognitive power for coming up with strategies and solutions to a negotiation problem.

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56 Strategic Objective Examples for Your Company to Copy

ClearPoint Strategy

Use this list of objectives to brainstorm what’s most important for your industry and your specific strategy, then build a set of objectives that best represent your organization. Does the city-planning portion of the budget need more focus than public utilities? But how do you know which objectives are right for your organization?

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3 Paths to Innovation-Driven Growth During Economic Uncertainty

Blue Canyon Partners

In the next three sections, we discuss how to begin brainstorming ideas in each innovation track. In the underground utility locating market, that problem was speed. In the past, utility locating was a slow and costly process for services providers due to the prevalence of poor markings and inaccurate maps.

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3 Paths to Innovation-Driven Growth During Economic Uncertainty

Blue Canyon Partners

In the next three sections, we discuss how to begin brainstorming ideas in each innovation track. In the underground utility locating market, that problem was speed. In the past, utility locating was a slow and costly process for services providers due to the prevalence of poor markings and inaccurate maps.