Ingredient 6. Connect the Dots

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James Dyson created thousands of vacuum-cleaner prototypes before finding the perfect one.

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
— Albert Szent-Györgyi, physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

The Problem

Companies fail to realize the potential of putting the right technology, people, customer needs, and business goals together.

The Solution

Combine what makes sense to achieve success, and highlight the risks of not connecting the dots.

• Learn from the past. Create a knowledge-management tool to help your team find, reuse, and adapt insights from the past.[15] Different departments will also find it useful for locating design best practices and usability reports. Job done.
• Start small. Prove smaller ideas can be successful before attacking bigger assumptions and ideas. Whisk, for instance, is a mobile app that started as a simple ingredient-matching service and now has powerful semantic and linguistic analysis to improve recipe…