Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Is design just a service, or can designers* lead?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Once upon a time, in the heyday of the Industrial Age, a young marketing, design, or engineering student would graduate from college and go to work for a large corporation, slowly melding into the steady, rhythmic din of bureaucratically-managed, organizationally-structured execution work in product development.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

“Design the box first” is a classic design exercise to use constraints to discover the unique value proposition. Engaging with potential customers, right from the beginning, and learning what they want is an essential skill. Why this matters to designers. Designers have a unique skill set. The process.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

.” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

We design collaborative strategy planning for each client with a clear understanding of the overall goal. Additionally, our design process takes into account what will make collaborative strategy planning participants most efficient and effective. Want to learn more about collaborative strategic planning benefits?

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s easy to wait for new products to be perfected and design an elaborate launch before you start to collect feedback from customers. However, gaining feedback from your customers early in your product’s development stages will limit the waste in going down unproductive paths. They would say, ‘No.’

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In my experience, when product development is managed with an Agile development approach, user experience professionals are expected to find a way to work within the Agile framework to succeed. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning. Switching among so many ways we facilitate community collaboration and learning for organizations keeps us at the top of our game. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. Not sharing all the upfront homework in long presentations (which are almost always NOT FUN), but instead designing the entire strategic planning workshop to reflect the homework’s findings.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

It was only after pulling into the parking lot at Kris and Kate’s Ice Cream Treats on the return trip that something even more incredible than the building’s design jumped out: the best brand promise ever. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the time of this writing, a search for UX design jobs on job finder Glassdoor reveals almost 20,000 open positions in the United States alone. Onward Search provides a useful overview of the UX design job market in infographic format. If we go by the stats, the market for UX designers could not be hotter.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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CMOE

MARCH 6, 2023

To be good leaders, managers must continuously foster a learning approach in themselves and their team members. Research shows that organizations that offer a learning culture, which can help build strategic skills, knowledge, and competencies, are 92% more likely to create original products and services.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The coaching staff had done the work of designing and naming plays so suggesting a possibility was easy and quick. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These processes help even the largest companies better understand current product portfolios and identify any gaps teams need to bridge to optimize business success and nurture continuous growth. The Anatomy of Customer-Centric Product Portfolio Management Framework. How connected should the business’ portfolio products be?

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

Trend #3: More Innovative Products with Reduced Concept Development Time and Cost Innovation is poised to accelerate in 2024, fueled by technological advancements such as 3D printing, AI, AR, and VR.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Experimentation: How to Setup and Execute A Good Experiment Experimentation is an important part of the product management process. Structured experiments are used to expose any weak points in the product strategy and identify knowledge gaps that need to be filled with evidence gathered from customer insights.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Ever been in a product strategy meeting and unable to answer this simple question: So who is our customer? Basic design. High-functioning teams use personas in every customer-facing decision: feature design, usability, landing pages, content, advertising campaigns, etc. So… just who is our customer anyway? Skip fancy.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

The CEO pulls together a half-dozen of the best minds in the company to conduct an honest post-mortem of why the company’s strategy is failing. Good process takes a lifetime to learn. Too many leaders’ lives are filled with morale problems because they haven’t learned how to steer past them.

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