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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

Yet2

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. 2009, stating: “the vast majority of real-life entrepreneurs around the world aren’t innovators.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

Understanding how push and pull strategies differ provides a clue as to why this happens and how to solve the water problem once and for all. So, until a different strategy is employed, water stakeholders will continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on water projects that don’t solve the water problem.

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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Diversity and inclusion are good ideas on many levels, but they can also drive your innovation strategy. Leaving aside the embarrassment, Nikon cut itself off from over a billion customers, all thanks to a simple lack of diversity in the product design concept. Many voices lead to stronger teams.?.

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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

Value-based care has been the strategy of choice for health care’s new entrants over the past decade-plus. Not eager to be left behind, and given government incentives to provide this type of care, many incumbents have attempted to implement similar strategies—usually with limited success. But is the hype warranted?

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What UX Designers Need to Know about Conversion Rate Optimization

Boxes and Arrows

The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” 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. Strategy first.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

model, a user-friendly take on using existing frameworks for designing emotional experiences. Designing relationships. Sternberg, 1988), diagram: (van Gorp, 2009). Design goals, types of reactions & triune brain. Design Goals. Design goals, types of reactions, and forms of love. Forms of Love.

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean). Designer, The Play-To-Win Canvas.

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