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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

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. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Company Executives are increasingly compelled to report profit in percentage terms so naturally they promote and reward the behaviours that increase margins. Consequently organisations have a strong incentive to shed their cost intensive or lower margin operations so they can concentrate on business units that have higher margin returns.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

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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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

One of the most common questions I get asked when talking to companies about their issues with innovation is “how do we prevent someone stealing our ideas? Should we get them all patented?” And then use those patents to sue other companies who are actually working in that space! What patents are supposed to do.

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