Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

The Balance of Power There are a wide variety of uses for Wikis and a level of interest in using them that’s matched by an extensive range of Wiki software. The example on which these reflections are based is a project within the software company CorVu [1] to improve the technical knowledge base related to the products we sell.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Creates a culture of experimentation: Design thinking encourages the team to prototype and test their ideas. This can help teams to break down the problem into manageable parts and generate creative solutions.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

A software bug caused it to be withdrawn. 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. You don’t hear that one too often.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

It is an arduous journey, inherently risky.But innovation partners, consultants, and innovation management software offer much promise in this space. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. Innovation management software.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

That is, individuals and teams may receive impressively large and ostensibly "performance-based" bonuses if they hit their numbers. However, they typically need not worry about forfeiture if, upon review, those numbers require restatement, revision or repair. Developing better software would have paid less.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Teams can be highly effective even when members have never met in person. In fact, virtual teams can actually outperform traditional co-located groups. Often times, for instance, a team leader will be unaware of a problem until it's festered and become a major crisis. Communicate less — but in the right ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. That’s how it is with practices that don’t quite fit another cultural context. You and Your Team Series. Managing Across Cultures. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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Culture Collaboration Software Developers Software Development 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This design pathology repeats itself virtually every day around the world by otherwise diligent and sincere innovators. They've proven remarkably successful for software developers and customer-centric industrial designers alike. They transformed design team morale and purpose in remarkably short time spans.

Design 15

Design Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. The bulk of this agile canon will teach your individual teams to deliver higher-quality code, faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many software development teams hold mini-debriefs every morning to review yesterday’s progress and today’s goals—and longer debriefs every month or two to understand larger project wins and challenges. Review four key questions. Review your results, and ensure the group is aligned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Basically, he thought that those individuals “symbolized” their teams. Want to instantly transform how an awards events impacts teamwork conversation and culture? For every “above and beyond” award given to a dedicated individual, there better be a comparable honor given to a team that delivered.

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Development Team Review Collaboration Culture Software Development 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

The recognition of UX's importance seems to be slowly sinking into corporate culture the way "brand" did a decade ago. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency. But that was a foreign idea not so long ago.

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Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Our organizational culture wasn't optimal to say the least. Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A few miles away, at its Silicon Valley campus, is AppHaus , one of five such campsites worldwide, where SAP engineers work with local customers and startups to explore consumer software. ” The role of community managers in fostering this culture can’t be overstated. Who uses them? And what do they look like?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services. When software is ubiquitous, agile needs to be likewise. Agile Adoption Goes beyond IT and Development to Other Organizations in the Business. They are 4.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Processes, organizational cultures, and resources emerge inside companies, creating pressure that runs opposite to the pursuit of innovation. Quite possibly, if the company had allowed its business development team the same innovation infrastructure and autonomy it gave its technology team.

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Company Innovation Product Development Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Online security often focuses on technical details — software, hardware, vulnerabilities, and the like. By researching the cultural and physical contexts in which people use your products, you can define better, more precise goals for those products. But effective security is driven as much by people as it is by technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. The strategic/ cultural question here is "What kind of innovators do you want your suppliers to be?" But there's no avoiding the cultural fact that these organizations are prepared to invest in making their suppliers more innovative.

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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. Both strategies, however, create cultural incompatibility within the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks. Instead, it led to more collaborative ways of developing hypotheses, better results, and greater confidence. I was ready to start testing agile approaches with my teams. Develop team agility. Our culture would kill it.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Processes, organizational cultures, and resources emerge inside companies, creating pressure that runs opposite to the pursuit of innovation. Quite possibly, if the company had allowed its business development team the same innovation infrastructure and autonomy it gave its technology team.

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Company Innovation Product Development Technology 8

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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