Everyone’s enthusiastic when it comes to developing new products. From ideation to commercialization, every team member has ideas to make things happen. However, as good as the excitement is, it nearly always leads to teams having too many elements to consider, leaving you unsure where to even begin.You start wondering which features will be effective …
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Overview of Strategy Maps & How to Use Them
Planning for the future of your company is a great way to guarantee its success, especially as your business expands and changes to meet the demands of clients and customers—and with a strategy map, it’s easier than ever. One of the numerous tools that you might use in the process of planning is called a …
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Guide to Affinity Diagrams: What They Are & How to Make Them
Team leaders and managers are right when they say that brainstorming is the starting point when trying to unearth solutions to complex challenges. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t brainstorm correctly—or avoid brainstorming altogether due to past failures. In either case, it amounts to the same thing: they miss out on the advantages of a …
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How to Make a Mind Map in 6 Steps
Not familiar yet with the mind mapping technique? This comprehensive and extensive mind-mapping starter kit will be perfect for you. This post encompasses everything, from what mind mapping is to the benefits of creating one. Additionally, it will highlight six critical steps of creating a powerful mind map. Let’s dive into it, beginning from the …
Pros and Cons List: How to Effectively Put One Together
Have you ever engaged in a heated discussion with somebody who simply refused to see things from your perspective? They’re so confident in their own rightness that they fail to examine any evidence to the contrary. Frustrating, right? That’s because it’s often difficult to decide among available options. The world we live in is filled …
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Opportunity Solution Tree Overview
In business, opportunity means the potential for gain. In other words, it’s when something positive happens and you can take advantage of it to make or save money. It could be anything from a new market opening up to a cost going down. The opportunities in your business are everywhere; you just have to know …
Ultimate Guide to the Rose, Bud, Thorn Exercise
In life, things are rarely straightforward. Our challenges often come in the form of a dilemma, forcing us to choose between two options that are almost equally unfavorable. As such, it’s no wonder that many people experience a crisis in finding a purpose in their life; they struggle to figure out what their unique contribution …
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Effective Team Weekly Meetings: Putting Together a Weekly Meeting Agenda
Sometimes, working in a team can be quite challenging. While your entire team may be working toward a common objective, everyone is doing so not only from different perspectives, but from different locations as well. All this makes team meetings (and a weekly meeting agenda) a crucial and necessary part of the work week. Weekly …
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How to Make a Fishbone Diagram
All businesses, no matter the industry, have to face some unexpected challenges to get a project from start to finish. Whether it’s product design, brainstorming, or just general problem-solving, identifying the cause of the issue at hand is essential to avoid future occurrences. However, it’s not always easy to pin down the particular source of …
Eisenhower Matrix Explained
How do you organize things when you have a lot to do in a single day? Most people start with a to-do list. But how do you delegate your tasks and activities based on what’s important? That’s where the Eisenhower Matrix comes in. Prioritizing your tasks effectively makes sure you get things done and complete …