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The Personality of a Business: More Than Just a Brand Image

Tullio Siragusa

The Shift: In 2014, Airbnb introduced a new logo, website, and mobile interfaces, but, more importantly, a refreshed brand message. Design Thinking: Sculpting Business Personality A business’s personality is like an iceberg. They unveiled the “Bélo,” which they described as the “universal symbol of belonging.”

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

More information in Weiblen (2014) and Chesbrough (2010) when he describes these companies as merchants. This approach could also have been placed underneath the funnel: co-design usually happens with both partners and customers and is meant to have a more human-centered design approach in your R&D-funnel. Weiblen, 2014 ).

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How a 50-Person Self-Managed Company Can Outperform a 150-Person Traditional Company

Tullio Siragusa

Key Findings from the Comparison Matrix Efficiency Gains: Self-management enables teams to operate at a 30%+ higher capacity without adding headcount. More Agile, Less Bureaucratic: Each pod operates cross-functionally, reducing layers of management approvals and inefficiencies. Source: Laloux, F. Reinventing Organizations.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

IBM: Applying a Hybrid Design-Thinking Approach. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.