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Audience Mind-Meld: Real-Time Data Makes It Possible

Strategy Driven

There is a way to find out what audiences are thinking in real time: Audience response technology. Polling technology can allow presenters to embed questions directly into a PowerPoint presentation and enable audiences to respond using keypads or smartphones. About the Author. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. All rights reserved.

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The One GRAND Leadership Illusion That Sinks Organizations & Performance

The Empowered Buisness

We need more knowledge or technology to beat our competition. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. Our company did not grow because of the economy.

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Do you want to push your solution? Or implement creative, collaborative change?

Strategy Driven

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants.

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How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path

Strategy Driven

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants. All rights reserved.

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Ford's Impressive Sustainability Strategy

Harvard Business Review

In the last couple of years, every auto giant has launched alternative vehicles, which they've been touting aggressively at the current Detroit Auto Show (see my newsletter on the different strategies the big companies are pursuing). The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

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How to Get Health Care Innovations to Take Off

Harvard Business Review

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? That gave hundreds of leaders, physicians, nurses, and other frontline staffers a chance to try out the technology and hear Jenny’s story.

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Making the Most of Webinars

Harvard Business Review

Webinars ranked between list-servs from professional associations and magazines and newsletters from professional associations. As evidenced by CCIP's research, webinars seem to work less well when they deal with topics around which there is no consensus, or that require enormous customization to be relevant to all audience members.