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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. There’s no reason to limit due diligence to the context of an acquisition. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy.

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DevOps: why the methodology is so important for IT?

mjvinnovation

It is from this material that we get much of the information that we bring in this article. Smaller batches of work are easier to understand, commit, test, and review, as well as know when they are completed. Traditionally, DevOps is understood as a way to break down the barriers between development and operations teams.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Reading books and articles: There are many books and articles available on design thinking that can provide an introduction to the concept and its key principles. This can foster a positive work culture and improve communication and coordination within the team.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. Let’s review two of critical success factors toy manufacturers are embracing that are of value, if your brand also wants to speed up its innovation pace.

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Agile vs Waterfall: what are the differences?

mjvinnovation

And that is precisely what we propose in this article. In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. Requirements are usually reviewed and approved by the customer before the project can be started.

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Remote Transformation: Working remotely requires cultural change

mjvinnovation

This is what we will explore in this article, as well as the “turnkey moment” that home offices are promoting in companies of all sizes and segments. According to the Harvard Business Review, only 30% of companies train their employees to interact with digital tools. To overcome it, we must be agile, collaborative, and remote.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles, and create task lists.