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Six Things Great Innovators Do Differently

Innovation Excellence

That was just as true a hundred years ago when Henry Ford perfected the assembly line as it is today, when modern day giants like Elon Musk bring cutting edge technology to market. Take a look at any successful enterprise and you’ll find innovation at its core. Innovation, as I’ve written before, is how people.

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Changing Lanes

Boxes and Arrows

In my own career, I’ve been an illustrator, graphic designer, art director, multimedia developer, web designer, web developer, ad operations trafficker, and more. I’ve managed designers, developers, and non-technical folks. My own experience. Lesson: Habits are hard to change.

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To Hire Great Coders, Offer Learning Not Just Money

Harvard Business Review

From data scientists to web developers to designers, firms are locked in competition for technical talent. When it comes to attracting technical talent, salary isn’t all that matters. One such non-monetary feature could be the technology used by their current employer. Corporate Culture for a Digital World.

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How the Philippines Became Tech Startups’ New Source for Talent

Harvard Business Review

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. Technology start-ups are the Philippines’ latest customers, and more are flocking to the country’s beach-laden shores each year.

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. We also had an interest in fostering the right kind of company culture.

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10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Millennials are turning to Facebook and Twitter, while GenZ, or the iGeneration, is skeptical of brands and places more value on peer-to-peer reviews–even from strangers. When we wrote about the Amazon Fire phone launch for Harvard Business Review in June 2014 , Amazon missed the mark in disrupting the smartphone market.

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What Could Amazon’s Approach to Health Care Look Like?

Harvard Business Review

The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf. So where is the link to health care? Data analytics.