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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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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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How best to use innovation to fight corruption: 2 Case Studies

Idea to Value

Some initiatives like the Whistleblowing Helpline in South Africa and TRIMS app in Nigeria (to map transport blockades asking for bribes) are already having an effect, and using technology with a centralised database allows people to quickly report and track offenses. Case Study 1: Afghanistan Police being paid to their mobile phone.

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Clicking Fast and Slow

Boxes and Arrows

Work with ecommerce ratings and reviews have noted the “bandwagon” effect, where any item with a large number of reviews tends to be preferred, often when there is little knowledge of where the positive reviews come from. Screen grab showing an Amazon review. CHI New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2009. Who is Authoritative?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. MIT Sloan Management Review, (4), 47–55. MIT Sloan Management Review, 48(2), 22–28. 2) and has been widely studied (i.e.

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

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. So, you need to review and fine-tune the existing innovation strategy to match the new priorities.

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