Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

AI Meets Design Thinking: Crafting a People-Centric Business Future Imagine this — a customer service agent can deeply empathize with a frustrated customer because an AI assistant analyzed the customer’s tone and background to provide insights ahead of time. The Renaissance of Empathy: Design Thinking Design Thinking emerged from this shift.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Blueprint for Bouncing Back: A Design Thinking Guide to Unemployment Life’s journey is peppered with unpredictable twists and turns. Incorporating Design Thinking into the Unemployment Phase Design Thinking isn’t just a buzzword for the corporate world; it can be a lifesaver during unemployment.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Lead Scoring in B2B Sales: Transforming the Process with Design Thinking Lead generation and qualification is a critical aspect of B2B sales success, but it’s also a time-consuming and complex process. Benefits of Using Design Thinking for Lead Scoring Using Design Thinking to score leads have several benefits.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Capturing Attention in the Digital Age: A Design Thinking Approach In the modern digital landscape, attention is the new currency, surpassing traditional commodities in value. Having explored the complex landscape of the attention economy, let’s now look into how Design Thinking serves as a strategic tool in navigating this environment.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 26, 2025

But the secret to Blos growth isnt just business strategyits culture, community, and care. From team camaraderie to personalized guest experiences, every bar is designed to deliver not just a service, but a feeling. Franchisees are selected not just for operational competence, but for cultural fit.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 6, 2023

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. This approach often results in cultural clashes and conflicts between the two organizations.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Beyond the Daily Grind: How Design Thinking Can Illuminate Your Life’s Purpose In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it’s easy to get caught up in the routine, to lose sight of what truly matters to us, and to wonder if there’s more to life than the daily grind. This is where the concept of “purpose” comes into play.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 24, 2025

In his work with Realized Worth, Chris helps organizations design employee volunteering experiences that do more than serve a causethey create space for reflection, humility, and cognitive dissonance. These qualitative shiftsgreater awareness, new perspectives, renewed commitmentare where culture begins to evolve. Volunteering.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 19, 2025

And how can business leaders create cultures that not only drive performance but also cultivate a deep sense of trust, belonging, and shared purpose? It demands a culture where employees, franchisees, and customers all feel valued, heard, and supported. Culture without accountability wont get anything done.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Tullio has spent decades integrating disruptive technologies with emotional intelligence, helping leaders navigate growth, innovation, and cultural transformation. Unlike many AI-driven marketing tools that prioritize automation over authenticity, aiCMO is designed to help businesses foster genuine, human-centered engagement.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

These programs give employees a platform to connect over shared values, creating a culture of unity and purpose. Sarah outlined her 70/30 rule as a framework for designing impactful initiatives. These shared experiences are invaluable for building empathy and strengthening organizational culture, Sarah noted.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

His platform was designed not just to disrupt the industry but to uplift the people within it. It helps them see the world from the perspective of their customers, employees, and even competitors, allowing for more holistic, people-centric decision-making.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

First, let’s unpack a Culture OF Innovation vs A Culture FOR Innovation. Innovation is not a monolithic entity that can be injected into an organisation’s cultural fabric. So, fostering a thriving culture for innovation within an organisation requires more than buzzwords and well-intentioned initiatives.

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MARCH 21, 2022

Elizabeth Baumel, software engineering lead at Unity, and Gracie Arenas Strittmatter, technical art director at EA Sports, discuss how women and those in other marginalized groups are advocating for themselves in the gaming industry. Elizabeth Baumel Software Engineering Lead, Unity. It gets boring.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 31, 2025

Culture, purpose, and an unwavering focus on people. Creating a Win-Win-Win Culture A key takeaway from the conversation was Brandons emphasis on what he calls the art of the win-win-win. With the right mindset, structure, and support, businesses can build cultures where people thrive, communities grow, and innovation flourishes.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , we sat down with Ardie Harrison, a trailblazer in building inclusive workplace cultures. Different organizations define and experience inclusion in unique ways based on their culture, industry, and workforce. But how do we move from intention to impact? Inclusion isnt one-size-fits-all.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When you have the processes and the culture in place to bring new developments to market quickly, you can naturally react to changes in the market much faster than the competition. Speed by design. The key is to design your processes with speed in mind from the get-go. In the software world, this is known as DevOps.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer, Planview Janaki Palaniappan, Partner, McKinsey & Company Dave West, product owner and CEO, Scrum.org Our virtual event featured 52 presentations in the following tracks: product operating model, investment and value realization, value stream flow, and organizational design and culture.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Intention is the New Empathy: The Next Evolution of DesignThinking After more than four years evangelizing Design Thinkingand serving as an advisor to the University of Californias Design Thinking ProgramIve seen firsthand how transformative this framework can be. Design Thinking asks: What do people need?

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management. Benefits This approach leads to increased engagement and motivation.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. Nurture a culture of healthy questioning, risk-taking and continuous learning. Use design thinking approaches to empathize with customers and question assumptions. Foster a culture of trust and horizontal collaboration.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves understanding the needs and perspectives of users, prototyping, and testing potential solutions, and iterating until the best solution is found. . How to Emphasize Employee-Centered Design.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. Foster a culture of accountability: Foster a culture of accountability. Setting clear expectations and holding individuals and teams accountable will help you build a culture of high performance and drive better results.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Consulting and Professional Services Firms This includes companies that provide planning, design, and implementation services for smart cities. Software engineering services companies that can provide these solutions will have a significant opportunity to grow. The leading players are Arup, McKinsey, KPMG, PwC, and EY.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This model, as Kirkpatrick explained, is not only about removing layers of bureaucracy but about fostering a culture of autonomy and mutual respect. The Role of Transparency in Building Trust Transparency is a cornerstone of the self-management model, and Kirkpatrick emphasized its importance in creating a culture of trust and accountability.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By understanding the emotional and psychological needs of employees, organizations can build cultures that inspire rather than coerce. This creates a culture of trust and collaboration, rather than fear and compliance. When employees’ needs for meaning, belonging, and impact are met, they will naturally be more engaged and motivated.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 3, 2024

Empathy Over Fear: Why Support-and-Thrive Cultures Outperform andEndure Theres a stark difference between companies that operate under a perform or die philosophy and those that embrace a support and thrive culture. Burnout isnt a minor side effectits a culture killer. But heres the reality: humans arent machines.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 29, 2025

io, a platform designed to unify operations, sync calendars, and automate repetitive tasks, giving employees more time to focus on what truly matters: the guest experience. Empathy inAction Flavio emphasized the role of empathy in designing technology for hospitality. His solution? He explained how Rooms101.io

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 10, 2023

Leveraging Design Thinking for IT-Business Alignment in Prioritizing Mission-Critical Needs In the 21st-century business world, the role of IT has transitioned from a support function to a strategic driver of business success. The Power of Design Thinking Design Thinking provides a beacon of hope to bridge this IT-business gap.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs. Design Thinking: The 6th Leadership Skill Human-Centric Problem Solving: Design Thinking is a solution-focused, human-centered approach to solving problems.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership The contemporary leadership environment requires a meticulous balance between quantitative evaluations and genuine human connection. With Design Thinking as the tool, a new paradigm is set to emerge, merging metrics-driven and empathy-driven leadership.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 13, 2023

Sales and marketing teams have a unique responsibility as they are often the front line of a company, representing not only the products and services but also the company’s values and culture. This means creating a culture that values diversity and fosters inclusion by ensuring that everyone feels valued and respected.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Cultivating High-Performance Teams Building a high-performance culture isnt for the faint of heart. Reflection : Are you creating a culture where honest conversations about weaknesses are encouraged? Bren acknowledged that while many aspire to be part of such environments, not everyone thrives in them.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 29, 2024

Design Thinking: The Smart Way to Fail, Learn, andInnovate The Cost of Learning the Hard Way Some of the greatest lessons in business dont come from textbooks or executive seminars but from real-world experimentation. The Power of Structured Experimentation Design Thinking is more than a processits a mindset shift.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Cross-Cultural Leadership: Navigating the Global Tapestry In an increasingly interconnected world, the ability to lead across diverse cultural landscapes is not just an asset; it’s a necessity. This blog explores the intricacies of cross-cultural leadership and offers strategies for leaders to effectively navigate this complex terrain.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 22, 2022

Gain Better User Adoption the Design Thinking Way. Companies should always consider the design of user adoption as a primary part of their entire product life cycle. What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking assists organizations in creating value for people. Multiple methodologies move forward the Design Thinking process.

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