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Why generalists will become more valuable

Jeffrey Phillips

As we leave the COVID lockdown and the economy picks up steam again, I think many businesses will recognize a need for more generalists on their team. Not just an engineer, not just an electrical engineer, but a hardware specialist electrical engineer. A bank can learn from a tool and die shop.

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#1,826 – Proteus

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Fast Company explains how this amazing breakthrough came to be: “‘The inspiration came from nature, from biological structures,’ says Stefan Szyniszewski, an engineering professor at the U.K.’s But it’s possible that bike locks could be one of the first products to come to market.”

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Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development

Steve Blank

Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Any founding CEO can tell you three numbers they live and breathe by: the amount of cash left in the bank.

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5 Things to stop doing to enable enterprise innovation

Moves the Needle

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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5 Things to Stop Doing to Enable Enterprise Innovation

Moves the Needle

We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, if you’re a corporate executive or part of a product or innovation team, here are some key habits that you should stop doing if you want to innovate in the enterprise.

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UX and UI: understand the differences and the application in projects

mjvinnovation

In this movement, two disciplines emerged to act as engines of change and facilitate this process: UX and UI. knowledge, considered complementary, easily integrated into teams, and used together in business strategies, there is confusion surrounding the non-specialized public’s minds regarding experience, interaction, and usability.

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How to run experiments without compliance wanting to kill you

Moves the Needle

Chris was a Senior Product Manager at LexisNexis before founding his own firm and helped offer a firsthand account of fostering healthy collaboration between legal, product and innovation teams at LexisNexis when it comes to rapid experimentation. Innovation requires that people work differently, and different is bad. They shouldn’t.