Future-Proof Your Team: The Art of Continuous Innovation and Adaptability. — To get content like this in your inbox, check out my Substack. “Don’t let the fear of change paralyze you; let it energize you.” The rate of change continues to increase, and embracing innovation and adaptability is critical to one’s job security. In “The Fifth Discipline” by Peter Senge, he…

Be helpful, simplify, and enable success. — In May 2019 I attended Gartner’s Marketing Symposium/Xpo in San Diego, California. Before we get started, a quick copyright statement about the images used in this post. ©2019 Gartner, Inc and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner Inc. and its affiliates. Attending a Marketing…

A guide to implementing design transformation — One of my life principles is: Always understand the ‘why’. Friedrich Nietzsche succinctly said: He who has a why to live can bear any how. Design thinking is a method and set of frameworks that facilitates solving problems from first principles*. …

To Crafting A Message — 1. “State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. ​​​​​​ 2. “Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe. 3. “Rephrase the idea, bearing…

Product Team Experience Design Framework — Assumptions Team of 5–8 people Experience designers Interface designer Researcher Data & analytics team Product manager Sales/Marketing manager 2. Also have access to real people we’re solving for 3. Assuming we have a healthy timeline, if we want to get more scrappy several parts of the following process can be shortened…

Chip and Dan Heath — Principle #1: Simplicity Finding the essential core of your idea.Master of exclusion. It’s not about being short. It’s not sound bytes. It’s about finding proverbs. The golden rule – a one sentence statement so profound that someone could spend a life time learning it. Principle #2: Unexpectedness How do we…

Investor — It’s more important to do big things well than small things perfectly

John Thackara — Power Law 1: Don’t think “new product” — think social value. Power Law 2: Think social value before “tech”. Power Law 3: Enable human agency. Design people into situations, not out of them. Power Law 4: Use, not own. Possession is old paradigm. Power Law 5: Think P2P, not point-to-mass. Power Law 6: Don’t think faster, think closer. Power Law 7: Don’t start from zero. Re-mix what’s already out there.

Researcher — “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.”