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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. Here are some small ideas that can help develop in people a feeling that they are important to the organization by embracing their own strengths: 1. Let people do self-assessments and choose tasks based on their unique strengths.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. Here are some small ideas that can help develop in people a feeling that they are important to the organization by embracing their own strengths: 1. Let people do self-assessments and choose tasks based on their unique strengths.

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3 Key Tips for Creating a Culture of Innovation through Learning and Development

CMOE

Staying at the forefront of this innovative environment is a key factor in retaining your organization’s competitive edge. In a similar report from findcourses.co.uk , 42% of respondents reported professional development as their most valued employee perk, and L&D is a key factor in encouraging employee retention.

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Don’t just pay interns, help them build networks

Christensen Institute

For example, Old Navy’s This Way ONward program seeks to place 16 to 24-year-olds facing barriers to employment in engaging first jobs that will serve as foundations for successful careers. To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. This piece was originally published in Harvard Business Review here.

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Innovate your processes before innovating your products

Jeffrey Phillips

For the last 20-30 years most organizations have spent a tremendous amount of effort and training to hone their product development processes, eliminate waste, restructure priorities, implement Stage-Gate and then test other philosophies like Agile. We worked with several clients on this issue, and almost always came to the same conclusions.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and perform other usability assessments you think are appropriate.