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Jul 13, 2016

Sprint Day Two — Tuesday

I really liked the opening to Matt’s piece about Monday, so I’ll continue the theme. As a loud Cuban kid from Miami, I grew up in a stereotypically loud Cuban family. It was not an uncommon aspect of my childhood to be yelling at the person I’m speaking to, merely to hear our…

Daniel Behr in disruption at readytalk

Jul 13, 2016

Sprint Day Five- The Interviewer

With all of our ideation and prototyping out of the way, what was next for our team? We had gathered insights from experts on day one. For the majority of the next three days, we cloistered ourselves into a 7th floor conference room. Our team ran through hundreds of…

Jul 12, 2016

Design Sprints: Helping Everyone Develop Customer Empathy and Insights

When ReadyTalk established its new dedicated innovation team in April 2016, we knew we wanted to try new approaches to product design and development. When the Google Ventures Sprint book came out, the…

Jun 29, 2016

ReadyTalk Adopts Design Thinking for Innovation

Jun 2, 2016

Diving into the Jobs-to-be-Done Framework

If you ask Andrea, she’ll be the first to tell you — she loves processes and frameworks. By nature, I’m far more skeptical of this kind of stuff. So when Andrea introduced me to Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD), I was ready to do what I usually do in these cases —…

Matt Weaver in disruption at readytalk

Jul 12, 2016

Sprint Day One

It was the third day of the conference when Jill and I sat at the bar in this little Cuban restaurant. After our second pitcher of mojitos, Jill pulled out a Sharpie and quickly sketched on a bar napkin. That was it. That was where our big idea came from.

Apr 13, 2016

Bots versus Zapier/IFTTT — The Automation Thrilla from Manila

In case you haven’t heard yet, the Bots are here, and they’re coming to a smartphone near you.

Jul 15, 2016

The Goldilocks Effect: Crafting a design challenge that’s just right

As we continue to integrate design challenges into our innovation process here at ReadyTalk, it’s become obvious that the biggest challenge is in selecting the right challenge!

Jul 19, 2016

Lacking ‘Inspiration’: Challenges with Design Thinking

The DART Innovation team at ReadyTalk has started on a three-week investigatory process modeled after Design Thinking:

May 25, 2016

ReadyTalk goes to Startup Weekend

Last weekend, ReadyTalk sent three employees to Denver Startup Weekend. The theme of the weekend was The Internet of Things — that ethereal term that masks the reality of our soon-to-be Smart House future.