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Why Activists Succeed – and Will Change Yahoo

Adam Hartung

It is not shy about seeking action at the Board level to change the direction of a company – by changing the CEO, seeking downsizings and reogranizations, changing dividend policy, seeking share buybacks, recommending asset sales, or changing other resource allocations. Yahoo was an internet advertising pioneer.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. Maybe it’s an agency partner that hasn’t been able to deliver on their promises, or an advertising campaign that hasn’t really seemed to work. That obviously meant quite a bit of trouble for most technology companies.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with David Armano

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Millennium Park for example is a great example of a space that’s changed the face of Chicago. Where work processes have become so involved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those processes.

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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. We had terrific discussions with Instagram celebrities about how they manage their cooperation with brands. Then a weird thing happened. Source: UX studio.

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Designing for Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. We had terrific discussions with Instagram celebrities about how they manage their cooperation with brands. Then a weird thing happened. Source: UX studio.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

You’ll see that with curiosity you can change the world no matter what daunting constraints try to rein you in. CEO Marissa Mayer offered the same opinion writing for Businessweek in 2006: Some of the most innovative ideas have come from marketing and advertising. Constraints can be inspiring. Think of beautiful Haiku.

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What UX Designers Need to Know about Conversion Rate Optimization

Boxes and Arrows

Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Users’ behaviors and habits change. If Google changes their algorithm, suddenly the traffic from organic search is different. 2008, December 16). Gualtieri, M. Halvorson, K.

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