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Boxes and Arrows
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The economics are different in selling consumer products than when developing software for enterprises—UX matters more for consumer products. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.
Boxes and Arrows
DECEMBER 23, 2014
In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.
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Stephen Shapiro
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Although I have published books as far back as 2001 (with an even earlier one from 1996 when I was at Accenture), I am always learning something new. Late last week I sent the beta version of the book to a dozen reviewers. We still have a couple more weeks for reviewers to provide feedback. This is book number 7.
Moves the Needle
AUGUST 14, 2018
When facing uncertainty, we need processes that allow us to optimize learning, not just execution. Instead of believing that we know what our customers need, as we attempt to serve them — why not seek to learn what they need through a variety of techniques that build customer empathy? Competition is now global.
Innovation 360 Group
JANUARY 28, 2020
1 spot in digital camera sales as recently as 2001. They thought customers were buying film, chemicals, inkjet cartridges, workflow software, and so on. In any case, the full story of Kodak has not been written yet and there is still much to learn from their attempt at coming back to life. They actually held the No.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.
Corporate Innovation
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. Are there lessons these newer VCs should be learning from CVCs with proven staying power? Two groups to learn from. and Europe. They invest globally.
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