There is a world of techniques, methods and process that generate ideas (creativity) and convert those ideas into reality (innovation). They are “tools in a tool box” with each having its strength and weakness for solving a variety of problems. Mycoted provides a wiki of creative and innovative techniques that breaks these down into five … Read more
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) center around the business perspective. It asks the question “what is the minimum product I have to build to figure out whether I have a business?” You might do that from testing signups on landing pages or putting up price points and collecting payment information to helps assess the true … Read more
Good designs convey information that the target audience can quickly understand. But how do you know if your designs are working? How do you know that your target audience can quickly understand your solution? There is only one way I know of – ask them! Show them – walk them through the design and see … Read more
In Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company, Kevin Cope, puts People at the center of his 5 Key Drivers: “People make the decisions, supply the financial resources, buy the products, provide the labor and services, and otherwise create and contribute everything else about a business. They drive cash, … Read more
In order to be a top brand, companies need to build a Design Thinking culture that supports world-class innovation. Many organizations are focused on operational efficiency that does not have room for the design-thinking’s explorative and iterative process where mistakes must be made for innovation to occur. According to a recent article in HBR, How … Read more
You all know my evangelism for iterative prototyping… Well, you can imagine my joy when I saw this month’s Harvard Business Review dedicated to “The Evolution of Design Thinking” and a great article by Tim Brown and Rodger Martin on “How to use design thinking to make great things actually happen.” According to the article, … Read more