Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

” Of course, someone more knowledgeable may notice the problem and fix it … but then again maybe they won’t. We needed to spread the load so that a broad range of developers, tech writers, professional service consultants and others could all contribute what time and knowledge they had to a shared goal.

Case Study 80

Case Study Study Technical Review Software Review 80

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Atelier Louis Zero is not a digital agency, it’s a strategic design workshop. Born at the end of the economic monarchy, Louis Zero is a strategic design workshop that designs impactful products, services and business models. Then, of course, we have our own “Spot, Play, Go” methodology.

Underperforming Technical Team 41

Underperforming Technical Team Design Training Project 41

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

If you want to keep your team jazzed about its work, start thinking like a video game designer. Managers may be unaware of how important progress is to human motivation, but it's one of the first secrets that every good video game designer learns. Of course, before you can mark progress, people have to actually make progress.

Video 16

Video Design Technical Review Development Team Review 16

CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Information compounds on our desktops, the team with analysis paralysis most often loses to the nimble risk takers—but all this means is that in product development , the role of Quality Assurance (QA) has never been more critical. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Designing projects as learning tools is a fairly straightforward process. Leaders and team members alike should feel a need — and enthusiasm — for tackling the challenge. .” Do it fast.

Project 15

Project Design Learning Underperforming Technical Team 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Poorly designed and/or cavalierly monitored incentives frequently lead to horrendous outcomes. The fundamental asymmetry, of course, is the presence of bonuses and an absence of clawbacks. That is, individuals and teams may receive impressively large and ostensibly "performance-based" bonuses if they hit their numbers.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2018

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

Development Team Review 14

Development Team Review Report Groups Meeting 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Few members of the team are harder hit by this reality than the user experience and design staff. Waterfall development lays the wrong foundation. In a waterfall development cycle, this phenomenon is all too common. The team defines, designs, develops, tests, finds a bunch of things wrong, and ships the product anyway.

Agile 16

Agile Software Development Software Developers Design 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

This includes communication within the core team, broadly in your organization, and with key stakeholders outside the organization, including your distribution channel partners, suppliers, journalists, investors and of course, existing and potential customers. Develop a brand audit tool and use it early in your process.

Innovation 17

Innovation Project Design Marketing 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

As I and my co-authors, Jeff Dyer and Nile Hatch, explain in "Competing Against Free," our article in the forthcoming June issue of the Harvard Business Review , internal structures can easily get in the way of running a successful free business model. Of course they can, but getting the right internal structures to facilitate this is tricky.

How To 16

How To Development Team Review Software Review Software 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

Unlike the reliable guidance you may have received from coaches and professors over the course of your college career, by now you may have found that mentoring in the workplace is a different story entirely. This isn't your resume; it's your dashboard of exciting projects or proud moments, notable wins or important milestones.

Development Team Review 17

Development Team Review Roadmap Project Learning 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

On admission, the team gathers the patient history, performs a physical assessment, determines an anticipated discharge date, and works backward from this date to build a coordinated plan of care. The physician leads the clinical assessment and planning process but as a team member/partner. Follow a methodology.

Collaboration 10

Collaboration Development Team Review LEAN Guidelines 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Over the past couple of years, we have collaborated with the leadership development team at Cargill, one of the world’s largest global agricultural processing and distribution companies, to apply these ideas in a program for high-potential managers called “Leading in a Complex World.” One experiment generated a 2.6%

Leadership 15

Leadership Development Team Review Case Study Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Of course, these are HR-related policies. What about processes that are more central to a company’s operations, such as product development, customer service, or materials purchasing? of your processes aren’t the result of intelligent design. Netflix did something similar with their formal travel and expense rules.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Policies Product Development Course 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results , when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Meeting Management Software Development Software Developers 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

This integration created a new team of direct reports for him. Over the course of the integration, he worked on creating the psychological safety for his team to discuss the challenges of working together and of the integration overall. They did pulse checks to assess their alignment and where there was work to do.

Change 15

Change Underperforming Technical Team Agile Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Clients often hire Open Innovation companies like ours when their research and development teams can''t get past — or maybe over is a better word — the way they have always looked, and where they have always looked for solutions. Any exercise in assessing traits raises the question of whether they can be strengthened.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review Innovation Open Innovation Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agile 8

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. None of these interpretations is wrong, of course, but they resulted in inconsistent implementations.

Culture 15

Culture Collaboration Software Development Software Developers 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

I watched videos and took certification courses. The best learning experiences, however, came from sitting with strong agile teams. Nearly every company I visited in my work as a consultant turned out to have agile teams running somewhere. I was ready to start testing agile approaches with my teams. Develop team agility.

Agile 15

Agile Software Engineering Course Learning 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The medical literature increasingly offers potential solutions to the inefficiencies that rob patients of physicians’ time and attention, including delegating lower-expertise tasks to non-physician team members, improving the design of the electronic health system, and greatly reducing the paperwork bureaucracy that adds little or no value.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Meeting Training System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built. What should it mean? Does Apple similarly invest in its suppliers?

LEAN 10

LEAN Innovation eBook Video 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline. This is done in specially designed rooms, where customer behavior can be observed without the customers becoming distracted.

Technology 9

Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Report Development Team Review Project Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

There are, of course, other needs as well. “New product development teams also use EVC to make sure that they don’t load up new products with unnecessary features and benefits that add variable costs but little value to the customer,” says Avery. I buy a Sam Adams beer to make me look upscale and intelligent.

Marketing 14

Marketing Examples Management Company 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

Of course, consistency and creativity aren’t mutually exclusive. 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. The projects range from developing new techniques and ingredients to designing final dishes and products.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Culture 8

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. A noticeable lack of focus prevented them from innovating as a company; their user-centered design DNA was disappearing.

Design 104

Design Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software 104

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 15, 2025

Delving into a career as an Organizational Development (OD) consultant can be a transformative experience. Its essential to understand the roles and responsibilities of an OD consultant and assess if this career path is the right fit for you. Are you comfortable with facilitating workshops and engaging with different teams?

Underperforming Technical Team 130

Underperforming Technical Team Case Study Development Team Review Conference 130

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 15, 2025

OD professionals work on various aspects such as organizational culture, leadership development, team dynamics, and change management. They utilize data-driven methods and frameworks to diagnose issues, develop strategies, and implement solutions that foster organizational growth and development.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Trends Conference 130