Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In this edition, we speak with Adora Nwodo , Software Engineer at Microsoft. Adora is a Software Engineer currently building Mixed Reality on the Cloud at Microsoft. Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise AN: I am a Software Engineer currently building Mixed Reality on the Cloud.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2018

He gained a first-class honours degree in physics at Oxford University and became a software engineer. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the internet, multi-font text objects, had all been designed already. As a schoolboy he was an avid trainspotter. I just had to put them together.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Redefining Conflict Resolution: The Design Thinking Way Business conflicts have been a staple challenge since the advent of commerce. Among the most promising approaches is Design Thinking, traditionally associated with product design and user experience but increasingly recognized for its potential in resolving disputes.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. One famous case is the dismissal of the digital camera concept by an engineer in the 1970s.

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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

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

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

JUNE 5, 2023

Orchestrating Design Thinking and AI for a People-Centric Business Future The tapestry of business evolution tells a remarkable story. Products were no longer simply created and sold; they were designed to meet customer needs and solve their problems. From the onset of marketing in the 1950s to today, we’ve seen clear transformations.

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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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Business and Tech

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

AUGUST 8, 2022

Turning Reverse Engineering of Business Goals into Strategies. A lot of learning can come from reverse-engineering many things. Tech Backstage interviewed Jason Jepson to learn more about reverse engineering. Reverse-Engineering. Reverse-engineering means dismantling an item to check its functioning system.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Well, statements like this at the very moment of acquisition, always are designed to catch our attention, I mean why else do we have a thriving M&A for businesses than not to claim the inherent sense of the takeover or merger is going to be paved with bold intentions? Personal agenda’s get pushed, IT viewpoints are far to narrow.

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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. In contrast, Design Thinking takes a collaborative and iterative approach that involves empathy, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

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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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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2016

Rolls-Royce uses sensors in its jet engines to monitor performance and to detect problems. It has turned its product into a service and charges by engine usage rather than outright purchase. Firms will have to hire software engineers to design and deliver service solutions based on usage data.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. Beware the Lure of Sophisticated Systems In an effort to match larger competitors, some startups integrate complex software systems and infrastructure too early. However, over-engineering can make simple processes tedious.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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. In essence, it means that the team works hard to automate as much of the work involved in all aspects of designing, building, testing, delivering, deploying, and monitoring the software.

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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. It involves five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You’d love to steal talent from marketing, engineering, and sales … but your colleagues would leave garbage on your desk. You want top designers, developers, content marketers, and product managers with 3-5 years of experience. For this you’ll need writers and designers. So you dig up old job descriptions and modify a few terms.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way. With some strategic Design Thinking methodologies, you can protect your business from falling apart and improve it so you can grow. What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking assists organizations in creating value for people.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Design Thinking for Startup Sales Success: A Step-by-Step Guide. By following these steps, you can create a successful sales environment that will help your start-up grow, but you can go deeper and truly differentiate yourself by applying Design Thinking to key steps to help your startup thrive.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Engineering and manufacturing are complex fields where there is an intersection of people and technologies. Earlier, companies had one system for procurement, and one system for engineering, and many excel spreadsheets between them. This is because manufacturing cannot be done alone or separately.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Design Thinking in Education: Shaping Creative Minds for the Future In a world characterized by rapid changes and complex challenges, the traditional education model, which primarily focuses on the dissemination of knowledge, is increasingly proving to be insufficient.

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Robin Yeman is an author and industry leader with more than 28 years of experience in systems and software engineering. Robin is the Executive Space Lead at Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, where she focuses on integrating cutting-edge technologies into government space programs.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Design Thinking: Sculpting Business Personality A business’s personality is like an iceberg. By integrating Design Thinking, businesses can ensure that their personality isn’t just authentic but also resonates powerfully with their audience. It’s these submerged elements that truly define a brand.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2016

Firms will have to hire software engineers to design and deliver service solutions based on usage data. In other words every company will have to become a service provider and a software company – or perish. Companies will need to think innovatively about customer needs.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

A spin-off is a form of Open Innovation in the sense that a company can ‘spin-off’ a newly developed technology to the public market for further exploitation by the involved engineers or startup team. Route 5: Co-engineering. Route 10: Co-design. It has become a main topic of research within design thinking.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

AI: A new, old way of designing experiences. We expanded our concepts to expert systems, knowledge engineering, neural networks, and so on. Human-centered computing is somewhat bringing all that together by combining intelligent systems, human-computer interaction, and contextual design.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 30, 2023

Vision and Strategy A great leader must have a clear and compelling vision for the future of their organization, and a well-designed strategy for achieving it. This emotional intelligence allows them to create a positive and energizing work environment, and to build trust and respect with their team members.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

As an ex-designer, I think the pioneering “form follows function” principle, first articulated by architect Louis Sullivan around 120 years ago, holds the key to unlocking an organisation’s full potential to drive innovation-led growth.

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