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 722, 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 Atlantic
We Need a New Science of Progress
8 min · · Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better. · Shared by 641, including Jason Crawford, Ward Plunet, John Hagel, Bill Johnston, Balaji, Martina Pugliese, tylercowen, Tim O'Reilly, Howard Getson, Nir Eyal, Nathan Baschez 📧, Mark Kaigwa, vitalik.eth, sircharlsxavier, Nico Luchsinger, Max Roser, Yvette Dubel, Patrick Collison, Thomas Pleil, Andreas Staub
Fast Company
How To Brainstorm Like A Googler
5 min · · This is the deceptively simple, three-step process Google uses to come up with its most innovative ideas. · Shared by 617, including Anita Zielina, Katja Evertz, Brent Summers, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Dominik Grolimund, Gabriele, Stephanie A Kowalski, Muhammad Althaf, Klaus Eck, Joan Carbonell, Courtney Bolton ★, Jörg Linder, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Matti Heubner, Lord Travis Wright, Greg Meyer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Stowe Boyd, Eric Sinclair, Scott Williams
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 516, 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
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
Why Design Thinking Works
16+ min · · It addresses the biases and behaviors that hamper innovation. · Shared by 408, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Carlo Badini, Roney Lacerda, Ines Bieler, Tom Connor, Mark Kaigwa, Bilal Aslam, Evan (he/him), Jacob Jarnvall, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Gabriele, Leonardo Sumulong, Konrad Weber, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Christian P. Stobbe, Oliver Ewinger, MrChad 🔮, Oscar MacDonald, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Niklaus Gerber
Stratechery
Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
10 min · · Facebook gave one of the worst keynotes in a long time: there was no vision, just the adoption of Snap’s. It’s the inevitable outcome of a monopoly. · Shared by 299, including Diogo Mónica, Wouter Stierhout, ThomNagy, Thomas Euler, hiten.eth, Casey Smith, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Christopher Allen, Erica Berger, Thomas Power, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Johannes Lenz, Rand Fishkin, Mathew Ingram, Gianfranco Palumbo, Ben Tossell, Carl Morris, Matt Navarra
Nieman Lab
The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
19+ min · · It's an astonishing look inside the cultural change still needed in the shift to digital — even in one of the world's greatest newsrooms. Read it. · Shared by 244, including Jon Thompson, Andreas Bossard, Mathew Ingram, Serge K. Keller ❦, Stephan Woodtli, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, David Butler, Aje Arruti Ⓥ💚, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Dr Joana Casaca Lemos, Jose Paul Martin, designshard, Dominik Grolimund, Vincenzo Tremonte, Anthony Hamelle, Chris Messina, ThomNagy, Stephanie A Kowalski, Scott Williams, Daniel Jörg
The Verge
Intel made smart glasses that look normal
15+ min · · Smart glasses that won’t make you look like a Google Glasshole. · Shared by 224, including Glenn Oberholzer, Dominik Grolimund, Tobias Kopka, Hans Bickhofe, Vincenzo Tremonte, Scott Williams, 梁原 立寛, Christian Fauteux, Rodrigo Prior, Bryan Onel, Aki Fukai ✏️ @fukai@mastodon.social, Kim Dik, Herbert Bay, Christophe Jean, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦
Daring Fireball
Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple
4 min · · I don’t worry that Apple is in trouble because Jony Ive is leaving; I worry that Apple is in trouble because he’s not being replaced. · Shared by 136, including Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, zeldman, arabist, OM, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Adam Tinworth, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, #MuskOut (not parody), Niklaus Gerber, Brian Solis, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Gui Schmitt, Federico Viticci, Max Niederhofer, massimo mantellini, Jonas Bandi
InVision
Scrap the user persona. Replace it with the storyboard.
11+ min · · Designing empathically at scale is one of the most vexing problems of the design process. It’s time to get creative. · Shared by 134, including Davy De Pauw, Oliver Raduner, Lara Burriesci, Massimiliano Aroffo, Aldo Gnocchi, bouiboui, Gianluca Diegoli, designshard, Niklaus Gerber, Gerrit Eicker, Bernhard Huessy, Gabriele, Bill Johnston
The Guardian
Facial recognition is now rampant. The implications for our freedom are chilling
5 min · · This new technology is being secretly used on streets and in shopping centres across Britain, making potential suspects of us all · Shared by 111, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Tris Hussey, Gerrit Eicker, Tauno, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Evan Selinger, Ines Bieler, ahg, Matthias Lampe, Ste Davies, Azeem Azhar, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
Scott Brinker
Want to innovate like Amazon? Here’s their formula
8 min · · You can't escape Amazon in the digital economy. Now a trillion-dollar company, they have disrupted diverse sectors from retail to software development with a deftness and drive that's admirable and… · Shared by 111, including Sachin Rekhi, Jeff Barr ☁️ (@ 🏠 ) 💉, rudolph regter, Jacob Jarnvall, Katja Evertz, Bill Johnston, chuckhemann, Bernhard Huessy, Jelan Ong, Gerrit Eicker
Harvard Business Review
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
6 min · · Setting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. · Shared by 80, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Clemens, Yvette Dubel, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Johannes Dornisch, Damir Kusar, Katja Evertz, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Bernard Marr, Tillmann Allmer, rudolph regter, Jonathan Kogan, Michael Grupe
UX Collective
What is Design Thinking and why is it important?
8 min · · Why Design Thinking is critical to UX · Shared by 75, including Tom Connor, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Massimiliano Aroffo, Jacob du Toit, Nick Floro, Niklaus Gerber