Sat.Feb 01, 2014 - Fri.Feb 07, 2014

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Guerrilla Usability at Conferences

Boxes and Arrows

'Does your company have display booths at trade shows and conferences? Typically, these are marketing-dominated efforts, but if you make the case to travel, working the booth can be used for user research. Here’s how I’ve done it. Positioning and justification. At times it can be a hard internal sell to justify the costs and diversions to take your one- or two-person show on the road, all the while piggybacking off of another department’s efforts.

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GM on the Skills You Need to Manage Disruptive Innovation

Innovation Leader

General Motors R&D executive Clay Phillips talks about how the automaker is retooling research and development in the wake of bankruptcy.

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Why Big Corps Can’t ‘Act like Startups’

Innovation Leader

Just act more like a startup! Break the rules!