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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

This dichotomy delivered by the financial pressure is unfortunately pushing many leaders and top managers towards suboptimal decisions that tend to focus more on survival and not enough on investing in the future. For example, Delta Air Lines, one of the leading airlines, managed to get back to their leading position even after bankruptcy.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Leadership Insights 1. Then, put on your leadership hat. Now, how about these? A good idea or two will suffice.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Leadership Insights. Then, put on your leadership hat. Now, how about these? They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Leadership Insights 1. Then, put on your leadership hat. Now, how about these? A good idea or two will suffice.

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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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