Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? Janet Dell is President and COO of Freeman, where she leads all Freeman business operations across the globe. Focus on the Why. Let’s say you own a car dealership and sales for compact cars are declining.

COO 129

COO Supply Chain Globalization Learning-by-Doing 129

Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently. we ended with personal 2 week achievement plans based upon the Nine Windows coaching…Creating over 30 ideas in this companies Solutions Bank. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in?

Innovation 143

Innovation TRIZ Workshop Team Building 143

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Financial technology won’t just take hold in banks and credit unions, either. If your company relies on business meetings and brainstorming sessions, expect to continue to host them via Zoom or another online video platform. Until then, consider what you can do to help your community fight off COVID-19.

Supply Chain 81

Supply Chain Retail Pharmaceuticals Technology 81

Coaching Tip

APRIL 9, 2015

We text message friends while standing in line at the bank. Being busy with the day-to-day operations of the business is the most common excuse from executives for not having time to think and work on winning moves. We scan the Internet while talking on the phone, then get interrupted by call-waiting.

Market Segmentation 70

Market Segmentation Strategic Planning Brainstorming Executive Coaching 70

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries. Same for the operator.

Brainstorming 60

Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

” Be “flexible” and willing to brainstorm, says Edinger. “I needed to get a sense of the broader macroeconomic environment George was operating in,” he says. A few years ago, David was in a sales meeting with a big bank that wanted to cut its approval process for credit seekers to less than 10 seconds.

Skills 21

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Over a short two or three day period the team will brainstorm around the problem involved and bring together as much data and as many analytical frameworks as they can to both frame up the problem and outline potential solutions or at least pathways to solutions. All this came from just three days of group brainstorming.

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8