Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

What is a UX designer? Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. But it seemed that they really wanted a visual designer who could prototype. Sounds great!

Design Thinking 102

Design Thinking Design Case Study Brainstorming 102

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.).

Leadership 15

Leadership Development Team Review Case Study Training 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Peter Cappelli reviews the evidence to conclude that there are not major shortages of workers with basic reading and math skills or of workers with engineering and technical training; if anything, too many workers may be overeducated. Consider, for example, graphic designers. Then came the Internet and demand grew for web designers.

Technical Review 11

Technical Review Software Review Design Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

everyone met to review the prior day, and what they would do that day. everyone met again to review what they''d done. The water heater that resulted was a new design, with better performance: 20% fewer parts and 50% less labor. The development team was extremely cohesive. At 7:45 a.m. Then at 4:15 p.m.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review LEAN Training Culture 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. What went wrong?

Underperforming Technical Team 9

Underperforming Technical Team Management Project Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

In 1990 they gained a second Michelin Star, and in 1994, they became the first high-end restaurant to invest in a development team and a lab. Unlike test kitchens of large chains or FMCG products, the team would work in R&D during the winter and then resume restaurant operations during the summer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Culture 8