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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. We tend to enter these states in environments with few interruptions, where our attention becomes focused by a challenge that we’re confident we can handle with our existing skills. Hours pass by in what seems like minutes.

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

The “herd behavior” of investors means that most people don’t move until some event happens, and then everyone moves at once carrying out the implications of a sea change in thinking about a company’s future. By July, 2015 we learned that the market cap of Amazon now exceeded that of Wal-Mart.

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How to Test the Viability of a Multi-sided Business Model

Leanstack

Determine your Minimum Success Criteria Your minimum success criteria is the smallest outcome that would deem the project a success for you X years from now. Myspace launched in 2003 and grew to 5 million users within a year. So at least then, we know that Zuckerburg’s minimum success criteria were at least $75m.

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ikeGPS – How To Invest in Trends To Escape Your Core and Grow Explosively

Adam Hartung

Are you in growth markets, creating new products with new technologies that meet unmet needs and have the potential to completely change your business? Sure technology is changing, but I don’t understand it, nor know how to use it. We live in a “culture of busy.” If they made something, who would buy it?

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

mjvinnovation

Because lately, there have been bank fans (can we call them fans?) From just this outcome, we can say that it is worth investing in UX. Even in the face of this reality, it still takes a good deal of convincing to make all the stakeholders of a company understand the impacts of UX projects. Is UX worth the investment?

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Six Myths about Open Innovation

Yet2

There are many resources available to companies starting out or building OI capabilities, including framing opportunities, lead generation, due diligence services and project management – outsourcing these tasks to experts saves the effort (and overhead) of full-time employees for the internal activities at the later stages of OI. No success?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.