Ingredient 21. Know What Will Help You Succeed

101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems — by Eewei Chen (30 / 125)

👈 Part 2 Ingredients to Keep You Going | TOC | Put It into Context 👉

Don’t wait for success. Go find it instead.

“What’s missing isn’t the ideas…it’s the will to execute them.”
— Seth Godin, entrepreneur, author, and public speaker

The Problem

Teams aren’t ready when once-in-a-lifetime opportunities come their way.

The Solution

Identify what you need to have in place to help you tackle awesome opportunities that present themselves.

• Stay up-to-date. Remain abreast of the latest industry happenings, new exciting technologies, and interesting customer trends. Run competitor benchmarking to identify crucial areas you can improve to remain competitive. Strengthen your ideas and make them even more useful. Analyze what’s going on so you can select the best course of action.
• Team up. Conduct a heuristic review of your current offerings. Hire in the skills to provide unbiased recommendations you can act upon if you need to. I partner with subject-matter experts to deliver innovative world-class…