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How Consulting Will Likely Change Because of the Pandemic

Leapfrogging

Consulting is labor intensive, revenue is almost entirely based on billable hours, and most knowledge in the form of tools and templates have become commodities due to SlideShare and other platforms. How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example?

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How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

You can invite everyone to participate in those reviews or you can restrict those reviews to particular groups. You can even automate the software so that when an idea reaches that goal it automatically moves to the next stage for review or team-building, etc. Don’t use voting.

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Taking the Lead: A Comprehensive Approach to Virtual Team Project Management

Leapfrogging

For more insights into building cohesive virtual teams, explore our collection of virtual team building activities. Some of the common obstacles faced in managing virtual teams include: Communication barriers due to lack of face-to-face interaction. Features that support your team’s specific needs.

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Taking the Lead: A Comprehensive Approach to Virtual Team Project Management

Leapfrogging

For more insights into building cohesive virtual teams, explore our collection of virtual team building activities. Some of the common obstacles faced in managing virtual teams include: Communication barriers due to lack of face-to-face interaction. Features that support your team’s specific needs.

Project 100
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How Consulting Will Likely Change Because of the Pandemic

Leapfrogging

Consulting is labor intensive, revenue is almost entirely based on billable hours, and most knowledge in the form of tools and templates have become commodities due to SlideShare and other platforms. How do you digitize a robust, collaborative business strategy process for an executive team, for example?

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Are Design Patterns an Anti-pattern?

Boxes and Arrows

But each pattern is essentially a mini design project with extreme documentation and design reviews. Developers operate under time pressures and need a spec to code to. Directing them to look at a pattern library means that they have to find, parse, code, and review the pattern, in addition to the wireframe.

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no longer necessarily about developing software, but about developing innovation.