Gizmodo
Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today
4 min read · From 2019 · Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in…
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Moz
How We Grew Blog Traffic by 650% in Two Years — Organically
5 min read · From 2019 · Content marketing isn't easy when your industry's topics are dry. Here are the eight tactics one digital marketer used to triple blog growth for an e-commerce and manufacturing company in two years.
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Harvard Business Review
Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development
5 min read · From 2019 · Retaining knowledge is just as important as learning it.
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The Conversation
Most innovation originates from customers, not companies
3 min read · From 2019 · Our understanding of where new and exciting ideas come from in the business world is backwards.
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Gartner
5 Trends Appear on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
3 min read · From 2019 · The Gartner Hype Cycle highlights the 29 emerging technologies CIOs should experiment with over the next year.
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Ars Technica
Unix at 50—it starts with a mainframe, a gator, and three dedicated researchers
4 min read · From 2019 · Today, Unix powers iOS and Android—here's how it grew from passion project into legend.
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Mind the Product
How to Master Innovation (without the) Labs
7 min read · From 2019 · Despite up to 96% of all innovation projects failing to make any return on investment and 97% of large businesses believing digital innovation to be critical to their future success, how do…
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Entrepreneur
Design Thinking is to Innovation what Six Sigma is to Quality
5 min read · From 2019 · The Americans dubbed some of these practices under the rubric of Six Signa, and the likes of Motorola, General Electric, and Allied Signals, amongst others, exported the methods to rest of the world
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tjcx.me
Consume less, create more
6 min read · From 2019 · Modern technology makes us consumers instead of creators Like most people, I like to sit on the bus, stare out at the zombies drooling over their phones, and feel smugly superior. I see their bored,…
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medium.com
When, which … Design Thinking, Lean, Design Sprint, Agile?
4 min read · From 2017 · 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…
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Y Combinator
A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
7 min read · From 2016 · Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Business Insider
9 visionary predictions tech execs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs made before 2000 that came true
4 min read · From 2019 · Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos all made predictions before the turn of millennium that are still coming true today.
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Gizmodo
How the Invention of Spreadsheet Software Unleashed Wall Street on the World
~12 min read · From 2019 · In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and anti-austerity…
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Harvard Business Review
6 Questions to Ask Before Launching a Moon Shot Project
5 min read · From 2019 · It helps to have a charismatic sponsor.
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The Spectator
How Google’s tunnel vision cost us all
4 min read · From 2019 · As a member of the marketing team for Google’s once-hyped Google+ social network (remember that?) I can recall only one…
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Forbes
Why Agile Often Fails: No Agreed Metrics
8 min read · From 2019 · Don’t retrofit metrics: agree metrics in advance and then act on them!
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