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Drive Quality Improvement with Standard Work Software

Kainexus

In today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment, organizations must find innovative ways to improve quality, reduce waste, and get products to market quickly and efficiently. One of the most popular techniques is Standard work.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

Waterfall was first developed in the manufacturing and construction industries in the 1970’s, but it gained broader traction in the emerging IT field of the late 20th century. Responding to change over following a plan. Core Elements of Waterfall. Core Elements of Agile. About the Author.

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3 Types of Business Transformation for Surviving Rapid Change

Planview

How can businesses stay relevant, prepare for future change, and survive in our rapidly changing world? With as much change as we’ve seen in recent years, it’s not enough for organizations to piecemeal new processes and ideas. Lasting and impactful change comes from a total transformation, a necessity for modern businesses.

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Content Strategy — in 3D!

Boxes and Arrows

The church had met a design challenge by constructing a narrative in an environment that advanced its messaging goals and met the goals of its audience. The Eameses were essentially changing the information architecture of museum exhibits, telling a story about the world of numbers and math as a pathway of discovery.

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Persona Grata

Boxes and Arrows

How personas were developed. Before I define what a persona is, it helps to know how the construct of a persona came to be. Personas were informally developed by Alan Cooper in the early 1980s as a way to empathize with and internalize the mindset of people who would eventually use the software he was designing.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

Agile prefers to work out how to build something as we go, rather than do a waterfall style deep dive into specification and then finding out we can’t build parts of the spec for some reason e.g. a misjudgment of feasibility, misjudgment of time to build, or changing requirements. Why do people rave about it?

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Answering 3 Key Automotive Industry 4.0 Questions

Planview

Technology-related issues that weren’t a concern just five or ten years ago are now top of mind as customer demands and a rapidly changing industry push automakers and OEMs in new directions. Those changes bring incredible growth and innovation opportunities but can also be a source of uncertainty and turmoil.