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How “True Believers” Can Undermine Change

Digital Tonto

So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition. I first noticed this in the aftermath of the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. Having overcome a falsified election, we were so triumphant that we failed to see the gathering storm. That almost guarantees a failure to survive victory.

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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

To date, our energy system has been based mostly on fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) and as we extract these they are non-renewable, but these are the primary cause of the carbonization crisis we are all facing on planet earth. And you are finally taking out carbonization fully. The Characteristics of an Innovation Diffusion.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. Thankfully there is hope. The impact.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? How do we make money in this business? Thus, it should answer the question ´Who is the customer?´ Magretta, 2002).

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. In Part 1 of this two-part article, I’ll be discussing how emotions command attention. Attractive people can have the same effect.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Jeff Bezos cares if users know how to click the button that puts money in his pocket more than Larry Ellison cares about any button in Oracle software. The feedback loop is broken.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges.

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