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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Bias showed itself as I came up through the multifamily industry and then in technology with investors, peers, competitors, and prospective customers.

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. Why not start by using design thinking to start solving those problems? As we’ve discussed in a previous blog post, design thinking is a six-phase process that puts people in focus.

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Bypass the Naysayers

Destination Innovation

It was originally designed to store and play music. Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. We invested $100 million developing the technology and building a factory before the first CD player was put on the market. Sony and Philips developed the Compact Disc (CD) which they launched in 1982.

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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched. What if I (as a manager) don’t know as much about the new technology in the new innovation and it makes me look (and feel) inferior?

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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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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How Steve Jobs predicted what would cause Apple to lose its innovative edge

Idea to Value

Apple has long been seen as one of the world’s most innovative companies, but since the passing away of Steve Jobs in 2011 it has found it much more difficult to continue innovating. This can also happen in technology companies which have developed a monopoly, as Jobs cites happened with Xerox and IBM in the 1980s.