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Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Yet what this forum was a bringing me back to was the Fourth Industrial Revolution , it helps deliver a far sharper focus on its impact, potential, and scope beyond just manufacturing.Now, this was the major ‘bright spot’ of future potential. The whole success of this fourth industrial revolution is about running on knowledge.

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3 Reasons Healthcare Needs Idea Management

IdeaScale

It’s hard enough to keep up in a complex industry like healthcare. Clearly the healthcare industry has long been a competitive vertical (on numerous fronts: from patient services to technology and edge disciplines), and its complexity makes it harder to disrupt than others, but there is no denying that the challenges have accelerated.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Still, its need is to be far more fluid, adaptive and agile in what it processes and manages, especially in today’s challenging world, adapting to today’s challenges and working towards the future. It should have a specific “bedrock” or foundation of needed stages or steps. The balance and creative tension.

Design 130
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Overcoming the Barriers to Innovation in Healthcare

IdeaScale

Of all the industries poised to improve with innovation, none are more promising than healthcare. Innovation shouldn’t be the realm of the elite – don’t be trapped by your own department or even your own industry: look everywhere for new ideas. Innovation is an agile process. In fact, you must.

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Conditions for innovation to succeed

Jeffrey Phillips

I think this is so important that I wrote an entire white paper and personality analysis called the Unusual Suspects. Idea Development and validation - you need a really good, agile and rapid MVP development process to bring an MVP to customers and prospects for testing. Want more innovation?

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Moving from Project to Product: A Five-Stage Journey

Planview

A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation. Instead of searching around the company for someone who understands the product, the entire product team has expertise and is ready to tackle issues, which allows for incredible agility and flexibility.

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

This case study shows how the ComputerWeekly user experience team integrated with an agile development group. At this point the development team maintained the site with an agile process. Persona driven taxonomy As we knew our user base were industry experts, we also knew their vocabulary was related to specific areas of their markets.