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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company.

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Creating the Persuasive Pattern card deck

Boxes and Arrows

One of our finest tasks as designers is to filter the abundance of choice into easily digestible bits. This requires an endeavor into product psychology and the art of designing with purpose and intent. Stakeholders in design. All design has at least two stakeholders. Otherwise it is not design, but art.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. In our projects at etventure we run through this learning cycle every day.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. How to design a winning business model. Atomic habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. Learn more about business model innovation? Harvard Business Review.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

2010 IA Summit theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. The good news is that despite the complexity involved in understanding human relationships, we can study offline and online communication and create design principles to support what we find. Sometimes it’s poor methods, poor team members, or the market.

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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Bad experience. Here’s where I believe IAs and UX designers can use our skills to make a difference. This shows the chronological flow of steps for attending a live event, in this case a panel on service design. Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2].

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). Whereas causation is more oriented at a managerial, Kirznerian, perspective on entrepreneurship, effectuation is oriented at a more experimenting, Schumpeterian, perspective on entrepreneurship (De Jong & Marsili, 2010).