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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

This is what I refer to as “legacy thinking.” As you probably know, legacy technology refers to old forms of technology that are simply no longer optimal. A more serious example occurred last year when the British bank Tesco shut down online banking after 40,000 accounts were compromised. Legacy Thinking Defined.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house. The term is not new.

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Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design

Boxes and Arrows

As I transitioned from academia to industry, I discovered that while mobile UX was discussed, it wasn’t discussed from the same broad frame of reference that I was used to within the confines of a research-based institution. Most banks offer both tele-banking and online account access. Other interfaces are not.

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Photos for interaction

Boxes and Arrows

When developing user interfaces, designers increasingly use custom graphical elements. In the near future, this development will become even more relevant. It requires a strong collaboration with the disciplines of interaction design, software development, and product management.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if you owned your own bank? Think at Transferwise borderless bank account: it can be opened online everywhere in the world, accepts payments in every currency and charges none or very small fees regardless of the currency or your location.

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Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide

Gregg Fraley

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. The colloquial usage of the term usually refers to music or video. Meanwhile I hope you find this guide useful.

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