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Elevate Your Strategy: Leading Executive Team Offsites for Business Success

Leapfrogging

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

This does not mean copying what “innovative companies” like Netflix are doing (much of their famous HR Culture document would simply not work in many other companies), but instead seeing what impact their own processes are having, and how they can enable and encourage more innovative behaviours, from people at all levels of the company.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? What’s your role with respect to this product? It’s interesting to see what aspects of the product or service each person emphasizes.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Integrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Process – Fred Beecher Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software. And that’s a shame.