Spotify Engineering
Spotify engineering culture (part 1)
13+ min · · Here's part 1 of short animated video describing our engineering culture (here's part 2). This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, and there's a lot of variation from squad to squad. So the stuff in the video isn't all true for all squads all the time, but it appears to be mostly true… · Shared by 470, including Bernhard Huessy, Andreas Spiegler, Axel, Ibrahim Nergiz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Eliska Hutnikova, Marco Unternaehrer, Matthias Lampe, Patrick Scheuerer, Michael Duergner, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, Pat Kua, Sacha Roger, Chris Messina, Lorenz König, David Luescher, Luzius Meisser, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ryan Boren, Dominik Grolimund
Buffer
People Don't Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves
8 min · · Understanding the features vs benefits phenomenon is one of the hardest things to do in product marketing. Here're some examples for features vs benefits products · Shared by 493, including Klaus Eck, Diego Paladino, Mark Kaigwa, Luzius Meisser, Bram Kanstein, Gianluca Diegoli, Kevan Lee 👋, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Leonid Bugaev, Tris Hussey, Thomas Pleil, Patrick Scheuerer, Sara Usinger, Greg Meyer, Moritz Meenen, PotHix, Thomas Power, Alex Barrera, Shawn Venasse, Dominik Grolimund
Harvard Business Review
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
20+ min · · Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain. · Shared by 466, including Joan Carbonell, Wilko S. Wolters, Manos Hatzimalonas, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Charlene Li (she/her), Marquise Stillwell, Klaus Eck, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, AI, Nicolas Babin, Prof. Sally Eaves, Shelly Kramer, Startupxplore, von Moerenburgh, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Kris Fannin, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Glenn Oberholzer, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Ron McIntyre
Harvard Business Review
Lean Strategy
16+ min · · By combining strategy and experimentation in such a fashion, all firms can greatly increase the odds of achieving lasting success. · Shared by 92, including Philipp Laurim, Jacob Jarnvall, Nichole, Mo Schuster, Jon Thompson, Christian P. Stobbe, Walid Ark, Patrick Scheuerer, Ibrahim Nergiz, Dominik Grolimund, Paul E Sevinç, Martin Kägi
Harvard Business Review
Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”
20+ min · · Is innovation inherently a hit-or-miss endeavor? Not if you understand why customers make the choices they do. · Shared by 723, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Jonathan Kogan, Aaron Orendorff, Nir Eyal, Kris Fannin, Bill Johnston, Glenn Oberholzer, Pete Skomoroch, Shreyas Doshi, Greg Meyer, Balaji, designshard, Christina, Scott Monty, Mark Kaigwa, Konrad Weber, Gabriele, Li Jin, Wilko S. Wolters, Klaus Eck
The Telegraph
Daniel H Pink: employees are faster and more creative when solving other people's problems
6 min · · Recent research reveals that people are more capable of mental novelty when thinking on behalf of others than for themselves. This has far-reaching practical implications at every level of business. · Shared by 224, including Rand Fishkin, Stephanie A Kowalski, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Esther Schindler, Matthias Lampe, Nils Hitze, Matthias Sala, Sara Usinger, Lucas Foster, Thomas Pleil, Yvette Dubel, Ron McIntyre, Liv 😷, Florian Hanke 🍎, Pat Kua, Ward Plunet, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Mark Kaigwa, Klaus Eck
MIT Technology Review
Mathematicians have discovered how the universal patterns behind innovation arise
10 min · · The work could lead to a new approach to the study of what is possible, and how it follows from what already exists. · Shared by 234, including William El Kaim, Travis Murdock, Thomas Power, Michelle Boisson, hiten.eth, Eliska Hutnikova, Hannes Gassert, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Pleil, Marcos, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Matthias Lampe, Charlie Oliver, Bryan Onel, Tom Howard ✈️ 🇺🇸 NYC BOS DC SF CHI FL, Stowe Boyd, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Florian Hanke 🍎, Matthias Sala
medium.com
When, which … Design Thinking, Lean, Design Sprint, Agile?
4 min · · A lot of people are — understandably so — very confused when it comes to innovation methodologies, frameworks, and techniques. Questions like: “When should we use Design Thinking?”, “What is the… · Shared by 517, including Matthias Lampe, Dominik Grolimund, Ron McIntyre, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Tris Hussey, Massimiliano Aroffo, Thomas Telandro, Marcus Kuhn, Bertrand Maltaverne, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, von Moerenburgh, Mark Kaigwa, Ines Bieler, Christian P. Stobbe, Mohamed Azazy, Jesse Burkunk, designshard, Andreas Heer, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Stephanie A Kowalski
Harvard Business Review
Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works
7 min · · Diversity and participation produce better ideas. · Shared by 224, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Abir Oreibi, Justin Cranshaw, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Gerald Soparkar, Yonatan Levy, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Thomas Telandro, Bill Johnston, Martin Kägi, Thomas Power, Teresa Torres, Azeem Azhar, Stephan Woodtli, Bernhard Huessy, Dominik Grolimund, Marcus Kuhn, Thomas Knüwer, Nico Lumma, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
Inc.
19 Podcasts Worth More Than an MBA
1 min · · These business podcasts can hone your business skills without forcing you to spend months in a B-school classroom. · Shared by 297, including Adrian🇨🇭, Philipp Laurim, LARRY ELKAN, John Jantsch, Hugo Corbucci, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Mario Clemente, Alligator.io 🐊, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Dominik Grolimund, Nick Floro, Mathias Böhm, Liv 😷, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁, Marco Unternaehrer, mark brophy, Dylan Jones, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Agustin
andrew chen
This is the Product Death Cycle. Why it happens, and how to break out of it
6 min · · The hardest part of any new product launch is the beginning, when it’s not quite working, and you’re iterating and molding the experience to fix it. It may be the hardest phase, but it’s also the most fun. The Product Death Cycle All of this was on my mind when I saw a great tweet from […] · Shared by 376, including Herbert Bay, Jacob Jarnvall, Sara Usinger, Moritz Meenen, Daniel Lawniczak, Martijn, Stephanie A Kowalski, Esther Schindler, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Adrian🇨🇭, Quim, Sérgio Vieira, hiten.eth, Philipp Laurim, Dominik Grolimund, Walid Ark, von Moerenburgh, Thomas Power, Brian Balfour, Greg Meyer