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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

It is designed to be used by any innovation team building new ventures, product categories, business models, businesses or anything else fundamentally new. Potential business models include: One-off sale of product, subscription, sell advertising, affiliates, licensing, patents etc.

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User Research With Small Business Owners: Best Practices and Considerations

Boxes and Arrows

When socializing your findings to a product team, building empathy for the participants and their challenges is key. Finance and banking (e.g., advertising, marketing, journalism, PR). Because of how frequent this scenario can be, we now always make sure to bring extra copies of NDAs. Reporting tip #1: Provide context.

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Employee Incentives That Actually Work

The Human Factor

If your team knows that you’re paying attention to their hard work and appreciate it. You can bring in some fun extracurricular activities into the office to encourage team-building and to break up the monotony of the workday. Find ways to acknowledge the things your team achieves outside of the office.