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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. Another possible origin he remembers is from the president of Kal Kan Pet Food, who was said to eat a can of his dog food at shareholders’ meetings.

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

Idea to Value

But did you know that it is one of the best examples of a project going over time and budget? Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned. Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. There are also countless examples of people who say they work best under pressure, using the deadlines as a motivation to get their best work done.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. We do that in several ways: .

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. I was not sure who Forrester was and why they were researching a category called Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

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[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). We can't do all that innovation ourselves – it's not possible. Check out how the idea generation and project roadmaps here.).

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

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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?