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Is Design Thinking dead?

Idea to Value

A few weeks ago, I saw an article in Fast Company about the layoffs at IDEO , one of the world’s most respected Design Thinking firms. In fact, IDEO was one of the pioneers of Design Thinking back in the late 1970s, but the process of using Design Thinking as part of innovation work really exploded in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Why Infrastructure Projects Require High-Quality Management

Business and Tech

Rutledge, CAE, president and CEO of the Construction Management Association of America, about the value trained and educated program and construction managers bring to projects, and how hiring the right pros can help improve U.S. PM/CM professionals use industry-standard practices to manage projects or programs successfully.

Project 130
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How to Run a Virtual Design Thinking Project with Remote Teams

InnovationTraining.org

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. McKinsey & Company research shows that “Design-led organizations realize 10% more revenue than ones that aren’t.”

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

Project 250
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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Dashboard design can mean the difference between users excitedly embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand.

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The Opportunities at the Intersection of AI, Sustainability, and Project Management

Harvard Business Review

There are unprecedented opportunities at the intersection of AI, project management, and sustainability. Unfortunately, without proper execution, projects to implement AI come with complexities, costs and a carbon footprint that undermine sustainability goals.

Project 136
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The future interplays between design thinking, technology and AI

Paul Hobcraft

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? Operating sustainably is not only good for the environment but also good for business.

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The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications

What are best practices when designing the UI and UX of embedded dashboards, reports, and analytics? What should product managers keep in mind when adding an analytics project to their roadmap? Embedding analytics in software presents some unique opportunities—and poses unique challenges—to software teams.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development!

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics is designed to answer any and all questions you have about the topic. But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company.

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11 Ways to Make a Short Remote Design Thinking Project a Success

You can achieve a huge amount in a short period of time with a virtual design thinking project. While some teams want to come together for several weeks or months to tackle a challenge, others want to run short, sharp projects to find a quick solution.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design. This is a panel discussion you won't want to miss! May 5, 2021 at 9:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm EDT, 5:30 pm GMT.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.