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3 Questions You Need to Ask Before Creating an Innovation Roadmap

Leapfrogging

In January 1996, two Stanford PhD students started working on a research project that would change the world. They nicknamed their project BackRub, because it checked backlinks of websites to determine their importance. Consider if the overall aim is to improve technologies, products, processes, markets etc.

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10 Reasons to Invest in Your Employees (and How It Can Pay Off)

CMOE

A company invests its money and resources into advertising, research and development, social media, partnerships, technology, security, and much more. Plus, once you’ve established a culture of employee development, you’ll also start to attract new talent to your business. Poor Communication Costs Money.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. Google reportedly lets its employees use 20 percent of their time to develop new ideas. The objective of each tip is to get you and your team thinking.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. In an Agile system, you could adjust cost, scope, and schedule to impact development positively. Have you heard of the “Prakash Lab”?

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IA Summit 09 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Portable Research: Observing Users on the Go – Nate Bolt As technology becomes increasingly portable, mobile, and ubiquitous, new challenges to traditional ethnographic user research arise. Yet UX designers don’t always seek to understand the advertising business model so they can maximize revenue.

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Apple’s Debacle – Why Growth is All That Matters

Adam Hartung

But what was really important was Facebook’s story about its future: Facebook is now a “must buy” for advertisers. There are multiple unmonetized new markets that Facebook is just developing – Instagram, WhatsApp, FB Messenger and Oculus. So, despite bad earnings news, Amazon continued to sell its growth story.

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User Research With Small Business Owners: Best Practices and Considerations

Boxes and Arrows

It generally takes more time to recruit for research projects with small businesses than what’s typical for consumer studies. Existing user research participant pools tend to be light on small business representation, meaning recruiting for your project may have to start completely from scratch. This isn’t a bad thing.

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