Month: April 2016
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ZigZag Inventions
'In 1875, Thomas Edison invented the electric pen. It was a motorized stylus that worked like a stencil: it could punch words through a stack of up to 100 pages. This was supposed to replace copying, which back then was really time […]
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Drink Before You’re Thirsty, Eat Before You’re Hungry
One of my (experienced) cycling friends once told me that on longer rides it was really important to be drinking or eating well before you get thirsty or hungry in order to keep yourself well-hydrated and you’re energy levels high. It was […]
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‘Dark MarTech’
I liked the phrase 'dark martech' (not least because, like 'dark social' it is suggestive of things that are in reality quite notable but less talked about) that Seth Ulinkski, an analyst at tech research business TBR, uses over on Scott Brinker's blog […]
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Building the Culture to Move Fast
I think it's very easy when we're trying to move fast as a business to over-focus on the process and under-focus on the environment that enables speed to happen. And here I'm really talking about the culture in which a team is […]
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Generative Design
Sometimes the whole people and technology debate can seem somewhat polarising, particularly when they're represented as mutually exclusive opposing forces when of-course the most interesting scenarios to work through are how one can augment the other. IA rather than AI. Intelligence Augmentation rather than […]
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Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners
After posting about the composition of multidisciplinary teams, (friend of ODF) Mike Baxter sent me a link to Simon Wardly’s post on Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners, which describies a unique combination of characteristics needed to bring products and services to life. The […]
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On MultiDisciplinary Teams
"To work through the whole business stack at high velocity and not explode, you need a cross-functional workflow delivered through truly multi-disciplinary teams." Tim Malbon One of the interesting aspects that Tim talked about in his post on the solution to Design […]
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We See What We Want To See
Speaking of biases, I loved this example from (Firestarters speaker) Tim Harford of our delusions of objectivity and how this shapes what we see: '“Have you ever noticed when you’re driving,” the comedian George Carlin commented, “that anybody driving slower than you […]
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Post of the Month – March 2016 – The Winner
Quite a close fought battle in this month's vote between Toby Barnes' view on designing everything as a service, Ramzi Yakob's post on the machine in the middle, and Gareth Kay's ode to small. But in the end it was Toby's piece […]
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Post of the Month – March 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: On Designing Everything as a Service by Toby Barnes In Praise of Small by Gareth Kay The Machine in the Middle: Are You Operating at the Pointy End of the Industry? […]