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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. So, you need to review and fine-tune the existing innovation strategy to match the new priorities.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. An Innovation Leader.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. An Innovation Leader.

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Clicking Fast and Slow

Boxes and Arrows

Through social psychology and cognitive science, we now know a great deal about our own frailties in the way that we seek, use, and understand information and data. In online reviews, much work is going on to detect and remove spammers and gamers and provide better quality heuristic cues. Screen grab showing an Amazon review.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). It merely drew them from existing data generated by millions of resources around the world. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products.