Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'What makes an icon a valuable addition to the interface, rather than a mere decorative element? Intuitiveness, aesthetic value, memorability, intercultural perception? While an effective icon would combine many of those characteristics, I’d like to focus on one measure–speed of recognition, or how fast a specific icon can be discovered and identified.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
The cable network's digital game development studio spells out the goals, process, guidelines, and awards for its quarterly employee hackathon.
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CorporateIntel
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
One of the themes I explore in my forthcoming debut novel, This is Rage , is the notion of motivation. This is a subject I hold dear, and one I focus on a great deal in the executive coaching workshop I co-lead with John Vercelli. If all a mission statement is meant to do is fill a half page in your human resources handbook, it is probably not worth the time to write it down.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'Perhaps no one has done more for the cause of data-driven decision-making in the minds of the public than Nate Silver. His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. Data science is the hottest field to be in right now , and Silver is its poster child.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. Many UX professionals seem stymied by the challenge of effectively integrating UX within an Agile development framework –but there are others in our field who have encountered the same problems yet are finding effective solutions.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'A little background to start: I’ve had the honor of working as a designer-in-residence for General Assembly’s User Experience Design Immersive Pilot Program (UXDI) from June through July. Our team built, launched, and taught a UX course 5-days a week, 8-hours a day, for 8-weeks straight. It was quite the challenging, yet rewarding experience. However, learning from our approach, I found something about the way we bring people into the fold that we can stand to improve.
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Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The chipmaker's Director of Business Innovation explains how he uses experiments, hackathons, and networks of experts to help Intel map out areas of potential.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
We asked innovation executives about the innovation function at their organizations. Results cover topics like metrics, reporting to the board, and internal versus external focus.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
When a company launches an innovation program, what they’re trying to say is, “We are a creative organization that wants to foster creative stuff.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
Three years into the job, Naomi Fried reflects on the three initiatives that have moved the needle. Fried also discusses her annual innovation progress report.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
With Onehundred, father-and-son duo David and Calvin Laituri are trying to create a tight feedback loop between a product's designer, its buyer, and its manufacturer. Includes a short video.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
With Onehundred, father-and-son duo David and Calvin Laituri are trying to create a tight feedback loop between a product's designer, its buyer, and its manufacturer.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
If you want to achieve truly transformational innovation, you have to find leaders who are open to it, and willing to organize around it, says Saul Kaplan.
Innovation Leader
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
The State of Maryland's Chief Innovation Officer talks about catching criminals, reducing hospital admissions, and hackathons to help the environment.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
'Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. In fact, his boss raved about him. His manager gave him top ratings in his performance evaluations, space to do his work, and had never been controlling. He was, according to Chris, terribly, unswervingly nice. Picture perfect boss, right?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'We''re all just so "busy" these days. "Slammed" in fact. "Buried." Desperately "trying to keep our heads above water." While these common responses to "How are you?" seem like they''re lifted from the Worst Case Scenario Handbook , there seems to be a constant exchange, even a a one-upping, of just how much we have on our plates when we communicate about our work.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. As one of my executive MBA students recently told me, “I know that I have to carve out more time to think strategically about my business, but all my peers are executing to hilt and I don’t want to fall behind.”.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
'Managers routinely complain about their Gen Y employees as entitled, disloyal, and lazy — and as a result, conflicts arise. In a study in partnership with American Express for my new book , we found that while managers have a negative view of Gen Y, employees from this generation generally have a positive view of their managers. Employees feel that their managers have experience (59%), wisdom (41%) and are willing to mentor them (33%).
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Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'56% of purchases at a self-service gasoline pump in upstate New York ended in.00, well above what would be expected by chance, and an additional 7% ended in.01, likely reflecting failed attempts to stop the pump at whole-dollar amounts, says a team led by Michael Lynn of Cornell. The findings, along with data on tipping and a pay-what-you-want online scheme, show a pronounced consumer preference for round-number payment amounts, the researchers say.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
'In its 375 years, Harvard has only ever eliminated one entire academic program. If you had to guess, what program do you think that was and when was it killed off? The answer: Harvard eradicated its Geography Department in the 1940s, and many universities followed suit. The timing couldn’t have been worse, really. Shortly after the elimination of Geography here at Harvard, the discipline underwent a quantitative and computational revolution that eventually produced innovations like Google
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'The best teams, we tend to think, are like a band of brothers. They’ve been together for a long time. They know each other extremely well. And they are more successful as a result. It’s common sense, right? Well, it turns out that great teams — the most creative, the most innovative — are more temporary in nature that you’d think. Take Broadway. The best productions, researchers have found, are made up of rag-tag groups — a mix of old and new faces.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'Don’t look now, but all of a sudden the topic of compassionate management is becoming trendy. A growing number of business conferences are focusing in on the topic of compassion at work. There’s the International Working Group on Compassionate Organizations. There’s the Changing Culture in the Workplace Conference. Then there’s Wisdom 2.0 , dedicated to “exploring living with greater awareness, wisdom and compassion in the modern age.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'I had just finished a talk at a leading technology company when an engineer approached me. “I liked your ideas about personal branding, and I can see how they’d work,” he told me. “But most of them aren’t for me — I’m an introvert. Is there anything I can do?” What he didn’t realize is that (like an estimated one-third to one-half of the population ) I’m one, too.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
'Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. The question is: Is it just a passing media fad that will soon be a blip on the radar screen, or is it actually a real, fundamental economic force that''s reshaping the world? I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter. Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
'Business-school literature has long stressed the importance of taking risks and encouraging rapid failure. In the real world of quarterly numbers, though, embracing failure mostly remains a throwaway line in CEO speeches. At PBS Digital, we went beyond corporate lip service and demanded failure from each and every employee. The results? The transformation of a venerated but legacy brand into a digital leader.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'Creativity and innovation are hot topics these days, and they are being studied more frequently and intensely. Great observations have come of the attention, as Will Burns writes for Forbes : A coffee-shop study from the University of Illinois concluded that moderate levels of noise, as opposed to high or low levels, foster greater creativity. A study from the University of Stuttgart found that low levels of lighting enhance creativity.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'I recently gave a lunchtime “author’s talk” at Children’s Hospital in Boston and, although I thought the talk went well, somebody in the audience didn’t like it at all. On the evaluation form, the person in question wrote a single word in the comment box: CONFUSING. Thank you, whoever you are. While everybody else gave me good marks and said nice things, which I appreciated, my critic forced me into self-examination.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'Rafael Nadal, who just won the U.S. Open for the second time, is my hero. His athleticism is extraordinary. His focus is awe-inspiring. His skill is, clearly, second to none. His will is unremitting. It''s a joy to watch him in competition. Yet those are not the reasons he''s my hero. In fact, it wasn''t until after he was finished playing in this year''s final that he rose to role model in my book.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'Rising obesity. Human Trafficking. Re-skilling the workforce. A lack of quality education and safe water for the poor in the developing world. Whose job is it to solve these problems? For decades, the answer to that question has been simple: government. Until relatively recently, governments provided for the public good, while the private sector largely stuck with Milton Friedman’s admonition that the social responsibility of business was to increase its profits.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Like many parents, I am troubled by the growing fixation with careers. We seem to be putting young people on the career treadmill at an earlier and earlier age. Choosing extracurricular activities, summer jobs, and even preschool is increasingly undertaken with a calculating eye towards securing career success. I was therefore excited when I came across the New York Times article, “Why a Summer as a Chambermaid Can Be More Valuable Than an Internship.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
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