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Innovate your processes before innovating your products

Jeffrey Phillips

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe. First, there is no such thing as an average product development timeframe.

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Don’t just pay interns, help them build networks

Christensen Institute

To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. It’s invaluable to show the interns where his or her work fits within the larger effort of the company, [such as] how the case study created by a marketing intern aligns to a need within sales, or the competitive analysis is used by the product development team,” Moss said. “It

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities.

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How to market a new product to the new generation of first time leaders?

Be-novative

With that said, tailor-made feedback and future-proof assessments are vital when it comes to first-time managers. We help to turn your team from the most common denominator of “average” into superhero’. They are thirsty for relevant, human feedback to learn from. I know, that is a bold statement…but that’s our mission.

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Atelier Louis Zero: Spot, Play, Go,… Zero!

Innovation Excellence

After working in the tourism industry and language training in B2B, she took her nunchaku to shake up the world of innovation! She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. Training can also be fun and immersive !

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Atelier Louis Zero: Spot, Play, Go,… Zero!

Innovation Excellence

After working in the tourism industry and language training in B2B, she took her nunchaku to shake up the world of innovation! She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. Training can also be fun and immersive !

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Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage

Boxes and Arrows

In a context where many employees participate in multiple Wikis within the enterprise, training and user frustration can be reduced by using the same software for all the Wikis. A lot of knowledge at that level resides with the Professional Services team rather than the Product Development team.