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Innovation dies at the handover

Idea to Value

Everything was done to set up the project for success. And yet, when it was handed over to the operations team (or whoever else should implement it), everything fell apart. What many companies fail to realise is that you can give an innovation team all the resources they need or want.

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

But while the increasing number of companies adopting VSM has changed how teams build from project to product, a new innovative approach hits the spotlight: generative AI (genAI). Text-to-video technology takes this up a notch, where video and image data undergo training to generate AI videos at medium-to-high fidelity.

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Don’t just pay interns, help them build networks

Christensen Institute

Numerous studies on internship quality have highlighted that well-structured projects, along with feedback on said projects, are critical to intern satisfaction and productivity. To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. A colleague may offer episodic support on projects.

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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. They typically have few tools to help re-prioritize projects and almost always have the wrong skills available for the next project in the hopper.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

They don’t tell the team how to design, but they serve as virtual guardrails to prevent the project from careening off the road. These goals must be supported and refined by research: “The very point of design research, after all, is to determine what work the team should be doing in the first place.” Don’t isolate design.

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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.