“It’s been a busy year for ReadyTalk.”
The DART Innovation team at ReadyTalk has started on a three-week investigatory process modeled after Design Thinking:
I’m still in high school. One of my most visited websites is my school’s online report card portal. I worry about my GPA, my AP and PSAT/SAT/ACT scores, what college I’m going to get into, you know, high school things.
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…
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First, if you haven’t read the Sprint book, close this page and go read it. It’s worth it. You’ll thank me.
Then, go and read some reactions from the rest of my team about Monday and Tuesday. Or read about the whole week.
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…
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.
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…
