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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

His experience spans multiple industries with experience in hardware, software and services in startups to Fortune 500 companies.Currently, Mike serves as Sopheon’s Chief Product Officer and leads the team in Product Management, Design, and Product Marketing and is responsible for Sopheon products throughout their entire lifecycle.

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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. 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. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. When I left the company three years later, more than 150 teams at that company were using Scrum for developing both infrastructure and product features.

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

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. In 2009, CoreValve was bought by Medtronic for $775 million. I highly recommend you watch it.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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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? Is Interaction Necessary?

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: theagileexecutive.com/2009/07/20/scrum-at-amazon-guest-post-by-alan-atlas/. Do Pivots Matter?