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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

Ibbaka is a consulting and technology development company focused on helping companies bring innovations to market and to help them to scale. SF : The one that we are investing in quite heavily right now is one for design thinking. We also manage the design thinking group on LinkedIn, which has about 174,000 members.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design. When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely.

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How Vanguard, Verizon, and Spotify Apply a Product Operating Model at Scale

Planview

Each company achieved significant business improvements: Vanguard increased its technology change rate five-fold while reducing major incidents by 75%. Agile Methodology Reinforcement: Vanguard had used agile since 2006 but lacked proper CI/CD pipelines. Spotify maintained consistent product success for over a decade.

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Idealize the Answer

Destination Innovation

In the book, Idealized Design [i] , Russell Ackoff, Magidson and Addison describe how Bell labs did just such a thing with the telephone. The only constraint was that their designs be technologically feasible – i.e. no science fiction. i] Idealized Design, Ackoff, Magidson and Addison, Wharton School Publishing 2006.

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What UX Designers Need to Know about Conversion Rate Optimization

Boxes and Arrows

The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Can you help me with that?”.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs. By 2012, Ford reported a $5.7

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#1,749 – DNA Origami

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The website Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News explains: “By using a technique known as DNA origami to fold DNA into a virus-like structure, MIT researchers have designed HIV-like particles coated with HIV antigens in precise patterns, which may eventually be used as an HIV vaccine.

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