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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. It’s a common cause of slow adoption speed, poor customer experience, retention/renewal difficulty (aka “churn”), and undelivered customer outcomes. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Magazine by Jessica Stillman. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation. The article I reference is in Inc. Get in touch!

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Charities – the sleeping giants of innovation

Wazoku

I’ve recently been exploring the charity sector, to gauge interest in crowdsourcing ideas from their employees, partners or customers, as I was aware of several “innovation teams” being setup or already existing within many of the major charities. My first stage of research was Google (of course). A passionate purpose.

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How to Make Sure You’re Heard in a Difficult Conversation

Mills-Scofield

Of course you should avoid name-calling and finger-pointing. Don’t say things like “I feel so bad about saying this” or “This is really hard for me to do,” because it takes the focus away from the problem and toward your own neediness. There are some basic rules you can follow to keep from pushing your counterpart’s buttons.

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

Audio doesn’t function the same way as written text, so its execution is often poor. Your approach to creating audio should be similar to developing a large website. Usability Engineering for Audio Because audio differs, some of the established techniques used in web development cannot be applied audio.

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Fast Company’s Brainstorming Fail

Gregg Fraley

To be fair, Fast Company isn’t a scholarly magazine and the target is probably not seasoned innovation or problem solving professionals. It drives me a bit mad to see a headline that says “ It’s not that people working together are never good, it’s just that the technique that Osborn developed was lousy.”

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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. However, if you know the principle you can facilitate yourself or a team using stimulus and scaffolding.

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