Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. Although I addressed why this was critical, I realized I never give readers specific tools on how to do this. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.”

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. Henry Ford (1913).

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

But critically, they also knew how to shape a vision of the future. An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

One of the most pressing concerns in medical innovation is how to address the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. Harvard Medical School just released the video above to showcase a recent experiment to map out how bacteria adapt and evolve to overcome antibiotics.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This case study is therefore useful for any researcher, designer, or product manager interested in creating a similar monitoring system for their eCommerce, website, app, or SaaS products (and potentially useful for non-digital contexts as well). The goals helped drive many decisions, including what data to collect and how to visualize it.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Sivan Leshem joined Qmarkets in 2011 as a project manager, before going on to manage the product delivery department during a period which would see Qmarkets grow into a leader within the idea management market. A key design criteria for everything we do, is to always keep the migration path of our existing customers in mind.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

– where levels are the highest in the world – the rate for engagement has been stuck at around 30% for nearly a decade, growing from 29% in 2011 to 31% in 2017. Project WOW is designed to bridge this disconnect. In Canada and the U.S. On top of this, it’s estimated that actively disengaged employees cost the U.S

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

– where levels are the highest in the world – the rate for engagement has been stuck at around 30% for nearly a decade, growing from 29% in 2011 to 31% in 2017. Project WOW is designed to bridge this disconnect. In Canada and the U.S. On top of this, it’s estimated that actively disengaged employees cost the U.S

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Many notable engineers, architects, designers, and other creators have discovered unique adaptations between a species and its environment, and applied these insights to drive innovation across a huge variety of inventions, products, services, and industries. Known as biomimicry, or biomimetics, the concept is simple.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Beyond just building a great software solution, I learned that to build a technology business, it’s critical to figure out how to navigate explosive growth and the need to scale.

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 29, 2022

As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. The popular press and innovation gurus alike often provide well-worn examples that muddy the waters on how to approach the innovation process. This book is comprised of forty tips designed to help you do just that. Introduction.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a way of problem solving that evolved out of applying the scientific method to the process of design. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 22, 2013

This article explains what conceptual models are and describes the value of developing a conceptual model of a software application before designing its user interface. A conceptual model of an application is the model of the application that the designers want users to understand. Conceptual Model: a Model for Users’ Mental Model.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In another post for this site, How to Avoid the Iceberg , I explore some of the themes of exponential innovation, which carries great relevance here, after all we may often sense we are in jeopardy only when the time to do anything about it is long passed. Observation 1 : Our innovation efforts can be great for PR.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Even when knowing which competences should be taught in order to increase entrepreneurial success in a complex and paradoxical-setting, one could wonder how to teach these competences, from a more didactical point of view. Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al.,

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Case in point, the Texas-based marketing firm Epsilon – which managed email communications for over 2,500 clients – suffered a breach in 2011 , resulting in 50 client databases being stolen. The post 4 Ways to Beat Innovation Management Anxiety- How to Get Past the Fear and Find Your Next Big Idea! appeared first on Qmarkets.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

By 2011, they had several established stores in the Washington DC area and were ready to expand. In 2011, customers were saying “Wow. How to exercise the necessary action options that will position the company in its preferred role(s) (i.e. The founders saw something that the executive leadership did not see or chose to ignore.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 29, 2016

When achieved it “ provides employees with opportunities for volition over what they do and how they go about it, encouraging employee initiative, and remaining open to new experiences. ” ( link ). It’s not hard to see how an Innovation Management program would help manifest an autonomy supporting environment.

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Innovation 360

MARCH 27, 2018

In addition each participant gets a unique individual 40 page report with their innovation capabilities visualized and recommendations how to take innovation to the next level. INNOVATION METRICS AT INNOV8RS, MADRID. Innovation Metrics by Magnus Penker. Join Magnus Penker, he will be speaking about Innovation Metrics. About innov8rs.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Collaborative engineering: a term mainly used in conventional manufacturing and production industry, with a focus on collaboration between two or more partners in the full process of design, engineering and manufacturing with multidisciplinary teams and supply chain integration. Route 10: Co-design. Route 6: Co-learning.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 15, 2014

In my experience as an interaction designer, I have come across many strategies and approaches to help increase the quality and consistency of my work, but none is more misunderstood or misused than that of the persona. Personas have been in use since the mid-1990s and since then have gained widespread awareness within the design community.

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ITONICS

APRIL 26, 2018

Based on prior research covering frameworks for the technical design of smart services and the value proposition canvas, we present the Smart Service Canvas that offers a holistic instrument to describe, discuss, and develop smart services. Service design thinking methods are useful tools to design a service from a customer’s point of view.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

The most notably is her 2011 bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. It points out how to sort things at once into categories; the steps are clear. The principles of Agile software development are on how to cultivate an agile mindset.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 22, 2018

Many notable engineers, architects, designers, and other creators have discovered unique adaptations between a species and its environment, and applied these insights to drive innovation across a huge variety of inventions, products, services, and industries. Known as biomimicry, or biomimetics, the concept is simple.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 22, 2013

On the web, user interface design may work to either exacerbate or counteract these biases. This article will give a brief overview of the science then look at possible ways that design and implementation can be employed to support better judgements. Fast and slow cognitive systems: How we think.

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New Markets Advisors

JUNE 7, 2018

classic images of designers fussing over dresses or celebrity-status models defined fashion. Yet Mr. Porter, an online luxury clothing retailer founded in 2011, successfully challenged this notion, innovating around the long-standing model to generate great success and inspire change for menswear.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 10, 2017

How can boundaries lead to illimitable thinking? In their book A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business , Morgan and Barden, say. “By Whoever thought you could sit in your living room and test drive a Mitsubishi 2011 Outlander Sport? It sounds like a paradox.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 17, 2019

In 2011, Google set the moment for online decision making as Zero Moment of The Truth (ZMOT). 2 million hours of “how-to” content were watched in the first half of 2015 in Brazil. In this context, Design Thinking is a powerful tool for companies seeking to keep an aligned speech with the potential customer.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 8, 2022

Yet, as colleges are examining how to serve working adult learners better, policy-oriented researchers and advocates are raising awareness of the all-too-common problem of “lost credits.” We tracked these students’ educational activities from their matriculation in the 2011-2012 school year through the end of 2018.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking, we demonstrated how to build teams in a way that facilitates sharing and communication to allow both groups and individuals to grow. How to Be More Mindful at Work. How to Prevent Burnout and Improve Productivity. Kahneman, D.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 26, 2016

For example, here is a patent granted to a person in 2002 for his description of “ How to swing on a swing “ Now, I’m no rocket surgeon, but I’m pretty sure I was swinging on a swing before 2002! But the biggest change to the system came in 2011, with the America Invents Act.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 6, 2017

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. Unlike Moneyball , which had the surface covering of a baseball story, The Founder is actually about how innovation happens. All this done 40 years before Design Thinking!

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Our different observations confirm some of the generally known design principles, such as users’ deep-rooted dislike of homogenous blocks of text. Learning how to read and gaining experience in this activity shapes our perception since early childhood. 1997), How Users Read on the Web, Retrieved 15 June, 2013, from [link].

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Econic

MARCH 30, 2022

How to unlock it…is the question I have devoted my life's work to. In 2011, I read absolutely everything I could on the science of mind, how we make decisions, how we form habits, how we summon the courage and do what we need to do to achieve great things in life. I tried everything. So I stepped up my game.

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The Inovo Group

JULY 24, 2018

These fundamental characteristics are manifested in a bewildering array of different platform designs and functions. But despite this wide variation, it is possible to create a framework that establishes a common lens through which one can analyze and assess any platform, no matter how unique. 1] Baldwin, C. and Woodard, C.J;

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ITONICS

JULY 30, 2018

Lacking the necessary resources, being permanently overwhelmed by too much information and in addition, constantly feeling the pressure to focus on operating and performing, many of them do not know how to confront and tackle this topic in the right way. How do you break it all down to a practical level?

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The Inovo Group

MARCH 8, 2018

There are four primary dimensions of uncertainty: Organization, Demand, Design and System (ODDS). In 2011, after more than 20 years of research, Harry Klee, a professor in the Horticulture Sciences Department at the University of Florida, developed the “perfect” tomato. Uncertainty makes companies very uncomfortable.

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