Is this the ultimate test on usability?
Apple have been innovative in their great customer experience with their touch screen gesture controls in their iPhone and iPad products. Is this video showing the ultimate form of usability (UX) – a...
View ArticleQuotes from Taiichi Ohno
Taiichi Ohno I came across a great article by Masaaki Imai on Gemba Panta Rei celebrating Taiichi Ohno’s 100th Birthday which contained some of his brilliant quotes on management and thought I will...
View ArticleInnovation through customer collaboration and feedback
Nordstrom is one of USA’s leading fashion specialty retailers and is a Fortune 500 company (2011 – ranked 254). When I think of a fashion retail company, innovation isn’t the first thing that comes to...
View ArticleAgile, Walt Disney Creativity Strategy and Ritual Dissent
Recently a colleague and I were facilitating an agile project initiation workshop. To help the team to come up with ideas and formulate solutions for the problem they were trying to solve we used a...
View ArticleLAST Conference 2012 Notes
Last week I attended the LAST Conference (Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking) held at Swinburne University. The LAST Conference is a big departure from the Agile Australia 2012 conference I attended...
View ArticlePassed the PMI-ACP Exam
Yesterday I passed the PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam with Proficient results. Woo Hoo!! I took a very very light weight approach to my preparation. I am currently very time poor...
View ArticleKaizen Camp Australia 2013 event reflection
Kaizen Camp was held in Melbourne this week, 20-21 May 2013. Kaizen Camp is an unconference held in the style of Lean Coffee with 8 sessions, 60 attendees and over 50 topics discussed. It was the...
View ArticleInnovation: 4 Part Recipe for Sustaining an Innovation Pipeline
In today’s era, organisations especially large enterprises are often challenged with shrinking revenues from existing products and services. Furthermore technological breakthroughs and incremental...
View ArticleSpotify breaks the rules when Scaling their Agile Engineering Culture
“One of the big success factors at Spotify is the Agile Engineering Culture.” – Henrik Kniberg Spotify started as a Scrum company in 2008 but the standard Scrum practices were getting in the way as...
View ArticleDigital disruption starts with disrupting your business model
Recently I was posed the question “how can we shape organisations to be successful in an environment of digital disruption?” The convergence of technologies, such as cloud, social, mobile and...
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