The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

(This is the first in a series of two articles about innovation in China, where we share the insights gained from the research trip we made to China with some of BMI Lab’s clients in August 2017). Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. It is quite long, so we’ve broken it into several sections. The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. Sometimes sales and marketing are lumped together in an organization, but most large companies split the two functions.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 15, 2009

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. See the Slideshare “IA Summit 2009&# :[link] page for up-to-the-minute lists of available presentations. – Karl Fast Do we have the conceptual tools necessary for designing with next-generation technologies? Of course it is.

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 28, 2019

Or you could chalk it up to market conditions (or anything else for that matter). If there’s one thing that’s clear from current trends in technology, the devices we use today aren’t the ones that we will be using tomorrow. Designers, researchers, and engineers all collaborate on critical issues and do so proactively.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. It is quite long, so we’ve broken it into several sections. The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We appreciate the analog nature of these tools, because teams gather around the boards and discuss, brainstorm and share. How do we articulate what our beliefs are about how the business is going to function, once it matures from idea to the real world? There are tons of tools and frameworks, why a new one?

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

Here’s a look at top companies who took customized innovation routes to pull themselves back from the brink of failure: APPLE. It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. These were big companies.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

A large, multinational company with several different business divisions, globally dispersed R&D and marketing operations, and a moderately hierarchical but highly matrixed reporting structure has a financial imperative to meet growth and profitability expectations. Stanley McChrystal Ret. Networks, Communities, and Groups.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Groups Tools 63

Boxes and Arrows

JULY 2, 2013

Back in Part 1 , we looked at how the emotions expressed by people and products communicate personality traits over time. We also learned that customers are attracted to things that have an aesthetic personality that’s similar to their own, 1 but they prefer products that take on a complementary role during interaction.

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Design 80

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Who is ploughing away, when most of my peers are advancing begrudgingly towards retirement, at creating a global start-up that everyone said wouldn’t work. million business start-ups between 2007 and 2014, & found the average age of people who founded a business and went on to hire at least one employee was 42 years old.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This happened to me recently with my credit card: the card issuer and the bank backing it seemed to disagree who was responsible for my problem. Here’s where I believe IAs and UX designers can use our skills to make a difference. We have the ability to understand and to map out both business processes and the user experience.

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The market for impact investing is exploding: growing 50 times in five years from USD nine billion in 2013 to USD 502 billion in 2018 , which is a hundred times more than investments in Virtual Reality (VR, AR). Soon, the main driver for innovation will no longer be the technology, the market, or unmet customer needs.

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LEAN Innovation Technology Marketing 52

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

What appeared to be yet another mp3 player in the market had a solid business model behind it in the form of itunes. An innovative business model has the potential to radically disrupt a market and give your business the competitive edge. This small segment of other services, including itunes, App store, Apple pay, etc., generated $8.5

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