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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company. A command-and-control culture slows down decision-making processes, making it harder for a company to respond to changes in the market promptly.

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Creating the Persuasive Pattern card deck

Boxes and Arrows

Starting in 2010, the collection has now grown large and mature. Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Reading up on scores of articles of somewhat complicated psychological concepts was an incomprehensible task for most team members.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

2010 IA Summit theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. Richard Dalton and Rob Weening discuss two solutions they’ve developed at Vanguard to address this question. Sometimes it’s poor methods, poor team members, or the market. account: iTunes Del.icio.us

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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Bad experience. Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. For designers in internal teams, you may have access to managers, product owners and other executives who could benefit from alignment diagrams at a strategic level. None of it seemed coordinated.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. As we saw in 2019 , the business landscape is sufficiently volatile and disruptive even when the market is relatively stable.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot. I thought a lot about what I saw and heard that day.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’.