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Cognitive Dissonance: Why it is so hard to accept two contradictory thoughts

Idea to Value

A control group of students simply engaged in the tasks without being asked to speak to another student. A 2014 fMRI study and a 2009 fMRI study found that dissonance was associated with increased neural activation in brain regions including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), anterior insula, inferior frontal gyrus, and precuneus.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Because this project centered on the makers of Second Life, Linden Lab in San Francisco, to a certain extent the familiar form of face-to-face ethnographic participant observation and interviewing was possible.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As a designer for a prominent open source community project, what have you found to be the keys to success in working with open source developers, specifically on the usability and experience fronts?

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The Monitor Institute wrote a report released in 2009 on impact investing and it provides an excellent overview of what needs to happen. One that Healthcare solutions might need to travel, so all become highly engaged. The key is it does need to generate shared value for all and that is going to be a hard road to travel.

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% of all operating expenses, making R&D an irreplaceable core competency for the company. What were the Innovation Challenges Facing Amer Sports?

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise.

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UX Researcher: A User’s Manual

Boxes and Arrows

Initiating new projects in an effort to constantly expand their interests and skills. According to Forrester (2009, pg. When meeting with project staff from a recent client, don’t assume your researcher isn’t engaged if she is quiet. Discovering usability issues through user testing. Navigating relevant literature.