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Move the problem solvers closer to the problem to be solved
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Give them the keys and let them solve the problem. Photo by rawpixel on UnsplashProblem solvers are best suited to solving problems. They come up with solutions, they soundboard them off each other and then they converge on what seems like the most viable, feasible and desirable solution based on the information that they have.Problem solvers in the software world include but are not limited to:Software & DevOps EngineersUI/UX DesignersProduct ManagersData FolkGive them context and I’d bet — with a little savviness in the team and close collaboration — 99 times out of a 100, they’ll come up with a fantastic solution to the problem framed based on the context they have around the problem to be solved.And, the times they don’t come up with a fantastic solution, it’s likely that they’ve got 2 or (...)

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The adaptive cycle as a dynamic map for #resilience thinking
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The three aspects of resilience (persistence, adaptive capacity and transformability) describe important capacities of living systems: to resist collapse and maintain vital functions, to adapt to changing conditions (learn and self-organize) and in the case of Socio-Ecological Systems to apply foresight and anticipation to ‘design for positive emergence’ — to transform the system towards increased health and an improved capacity to respond wisely and creatively to disruptions and change.The theory of complex dynamic systems describes the periodic, rhythmic dance between order and chaos, between stability and transformation as a fundamental pattern of self-organization in complex (living) systems. As any system begins to mature, there is an accompanying increase in fixed and ordered patterns (...)

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#blockchain #marketing in 2018
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Blockchain Marketing in 2018Blocks, of course. Photo by Esther Jiao on UnsplashThroughout 2018, I tried to keep up with what was happening in blockchain marketing. In this article, I’m going to share some of the best articles I read throughout the year.While this topic is important to me, I realise that most marketers see blockchain as either a flight of fancy or an interesting but obscure niche. Either way, hopefully this helps a few people with a passing interest (or more) to find out what’s been going on over the last year.Blockchain marketing success storiesEvery marketer understands the power of a good case study. Unfortunately for blockchain marketing in 2018, there weren’t that many to point out.One area that gets a lot of attention in conversations about blockchain marketing is (...)

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What’s Next For #apple ?
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What’s Ahead for Apple in 2019?Back in 1985, Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple. The company would still benefit from a few years of continuing growth until it hit a roadblock and sales started to fall.By 1996 Apple brought in a new CEO which was supposed to turn it over. But by 1997 things didn’t get better until Apple recalled Steve Jobs after acquiring its company NeXT. Steve Jobs came back, and in a few years it turned Apple over and made it become a #tech giant again.The rest is history.Read the whole story: Revisiting The Apple-NeXT Deal And Why It MatteredOne of the biggest mistakes people make when looking at Apple #business #strategy is to look at it solely as it was a product company. That mistake happens because by time to time you see its revenue streams and something like that  (...)

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Your team knows what’s going to kill you.
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Do a Black Sky brainstorm now to find out and save your startup.This year I cofounded a health insurance company called Decent. We use blockchain to make #healthcare more affordable, transparent, and fair. As I told seed investors, “We’re tackling the most regulated industry in the country with the most overhyped technology in the world. What could go wrong?”These days I have some pretty good answers to that question.Half the time I spend worrying about my #startup is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half. I believe we’ll succeed, but there are so many ways we might fail. Will we build something no one wants? Struggle to scale? Get stomped by a competitor? We could spend years in deep, unspoken anxiety — and many startup teams do.But there’s a better way.Last week we did what I call a (...)

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#trading strategies: choosing the right one
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How to Choose Cryptocurrency Trading StrategiesCryptocurrency is a subject of interest to many people nowadays. If you approach it sensibly, you can get a substantial additional money, if not the primary income to your monthly budget. However, beginners make mistakes and trade incorrectly, which leads to a “drain” of capital in the first days of trading. n this article, I consider and define the use of effective global strategies for earnings as well as outline the main mistakes made by the newcomers and even professionals of the market.The briefing pointsThe main advantage of all the strategies described below is high profitability and minimal risks. It is essential to understand the impossibility of trading in cryptocurrency environment without any risk since there is always a chance of (...)

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Continuous #alignment of Product Management
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There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. Your product is a rocket, and if your targeting at launch is 1% off — you miss the moon by 4,000 miles! The thing is products, rockets and targeting don’t work that way. I have resorted to a cartoon to explain:In Products are Conversations I explained that great products come from conversations with customers and internal stakeholders. In this post, I’ll suggest how you can improve the Product Management process of Continuous Alignment with internal stakeholders towards envisioned outcomes.In some ways, Product Management used to be easier. You’d gain customer requirements, document them in a Product Requirements Document, throw the spec over the wall, accept a Technical Requirements Document that was in alignment. Then drive development down a (...)

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Latest Regional Cryptocurrencies Trends: ICOs through the lenses of the regional particularities
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Cryptocurrencies are commonly associated with international financial solutions. But while this is true of many blockchain projects, especially those from the earliest stage of this technology’s development, recent years have seen quite a few promising crypto enterprises emerge in other segments. Cryptocurrency mining has become its own lucrative industry. Other uses for blockchain technology have been found in the fields of #marketing, logistics and gaming, using smart contracts for reliable and transparent transactions and bypassing the expensive services of middlemen. Since such projects are more directly connected to the real economy, they also tend to be more localised, especially at their early stages. As a result, some interesting trends could be observed, with regards to what (...)

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The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on Things (https://...
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The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on Things | #akrasia #desire #selfcontrol #time #bias #gratification #intentions #procrastination #friction #strategy #cognition #addiction #inconsistancy #engagement

Best ways to Boost Customer Loyalty and Revenue using Packaging Inserts
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Originally published at www.xadapter.com on February 15, 2018.E-commerce focuses on a simple yet effective thumb-rule,”…it is easier and comparatively cheaper to retain your existing customer than to acquire a new one…“. For a very long time, online businesses have been focussing on improving their customer retention. It is considered the most effective way of creating brand awareness. Moreover, focusing on your existing and most probably satisfied customers, you are actually spending zero money on #marketing. Hence, customer loyalty must be among the top priorities when it comes to online businesses. Keeping that in mind, in today’s article we will be discussing some of the best ways to help online business owners boost their customer loyalty starting from the moment the customers open (...)

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Lean #strategy for Web 3.0
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I recently came across this new McKinsey report which measures the “strategic value” of #blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.I didn’t hate it. The report adequately explained blockchain, debunked a few common myths, and presented a not-unproductive framework for blockchain use cases. As a former consultant at Bain, I dig these sort of reports.But then I got to the 2x2 matrix — a classic consulting tool typically used to help companies navigate a sea of strategic opportunities. The matrix grades both industries and industry-specific use cases by scoring the potential impact of blockchain as well as the feasibility of realizing that potential. While such a tool is easy on the eyes, I suspect that it is far from accurate.McKinsey prioritization framework for blockchain‘Legacy’ (...)

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Just How Bad Is The Pressure To Move Fast For #youtube Creators? Here’s Watchmojo’s Unity.
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Just How Bad Is The Pressure To Move Fast For YouTube Creators?Here’s Watchmojo’s Unity.WatchMojo was entering its expansion-stage and we knew that there was a huge market growth opportunity in front of us, if we could just execute on it quickly, avoid common pitfalls and things falling through the cracks. From previous years we had battle scars. Our VPs had already realized that things were very different at scale and managing video production through spreadsheets and best-in-breed productivity tools were not operating smoothly and had apparent problems.“We need to become a well-coordinated execution machine with multiple global partners” Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, CEO of WatchMojoNot fucking up the expansion of our product lineWe had to rethink our approach to creating videos in order to (...)

#strategy #youtube-creators #social-media #product-management

Boring Meetings ? Your Problem Is Something Else
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Photo by davide ragusaYes, you all hate long, senseless and tedious meetings that are not going anywhere. There are also well defined rules to not have those meetings.Set a purpose and goal, have an agenda, assign a moderator, make summaries, be free to leave the meeting if you are not needed and you don’t need anything from it…These meeting rules are good, but they are nothing else than consequences of people needing to reshape what most of the time is not well organized.I do believe the problem is bigger than only boring meetings. It is all about the structure of communication between the business units.Your problems are not the meetings. Your problem is the whole system that makes the meetings boring.In a previous article I was proposing a new model based to reduce unnecessary (...)

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#vision - #strategy - #tactics. Get in the fast lane
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” But if you want to be on the road to success, you have to have a strong vision, develop a strategy which will take you there and act on it.Vision, strategy, tactics. I don’t like these three words. But yet again, I decided to write about them. Executives and managers like to use them a lot. But before they start communicating their vision, they have to think about it really really deep. In most cases, the same executives and managers have a lot of pressing issues which leaves very little time to turn their vision into a statement. Almost every urgent thing is not that important and important thing is not that urgent. Despite that fact, we tend to tackle the urgent, less important, like drowning yourself in the ocean (...)

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11 ways to help you source remote IT projects
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I have been working mostly online for more than 6 years. Recently a friend of a friend asked for my advice on how to expand globally his company and offer remote IT services. This is what we discussed.1. Create a portfolio website.List all the products and/or services that you can provide and present your expertise. It is very important to have a web presence as everyone can look you up online. Make sure you translate your website to the languages of the countries you are targeting and that you are monitoring the traffic (Google analytics). There are many ways to create a website and many tools that can help you with this task. I have used wix.com and I was very satisfied and in the past I have bought a template, developed it and used it.2. Create Social accounts for your companyPublish (...)

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Strategic and financial cleverness behind an outsourced cloud-based IT infrastructure
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Aging IT infrastructures are a thorn in the eye for decision-makers with future-oriented thinking. The more modern they are, the more they are considerably a competitive advantage. Today’s global market is characterized by SMEs that often have to compete with larger and financially better-positioned organizations. Decision-makers of SMEs must therefore apply a strategic and innovative approach to technology. For this reason, IT infrastructures must be tailored perfectly to #business requirements. In addition, flexibility is a key element since business never stands still, especially in today’s world, which is increasingly dominated by digitization, Big Data, IoT and generally #innovation. The latter is undoubtedly an opportunity to achieve a unique selling point feature that ensures (...)

#cloud-computing #finance #strategy

What’s Your OpenSource Strategy? Here Are 10 Answers… (▻https://blog...
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What’s Your OpenSource Strategy? Here Are 10 Answers… | #guide #mozilla #strategy #opensource

Opportunity Flow
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Increase The Number Of Moments That Can Change Your TrajectoryWhat is it?Opportunity flow is to you and me what deal flow is to a VC firm. It is the sum of things like conversations about research breakthroughs a grad student friend had, the inside access to a job opportunity, and an old coworker pitching you to join her startup as a cofounder. (Although I’ll mostly be discussing in the context of paid work, it could be used vocationally or in personal relationship.)Opportunity flow is the sum of moments that could alter the trajectory of your life. And like any sort of deal flow, depending on your investment hypothesis, you could consistently get opportunities to incrementally alter that trajectory or infrequently get the option to radically change. Most people land somewhere in (...)

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How to convert leads.
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Photo by Ian Schneider on UnsplashIn the field of #marketing they have a saying,“You either convert a lead or die trying”If they can be converted simply by persuasion, are they ever going to remain your loyal customer anyway?Is there really a need to persuade leads to convert them?Aren’t we being too intrusive when we think it through?Are we going to let them breathe?All these questions can help you realize your mistakes regarding marketing #strategy. Your services can create a stunning show for itself, why do you need people for endlessly persuading leads to convert them?Here are the changes you need in your strategy:•Target the reason of the switch.There may be many different reasons or logics for switching from previous service provider, but mostly it’s the designing flaws and pricing. By working (...)

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La vraie histoire du #Financement de Le Pen
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Marine Le Pen lors de sa visite à Moscou, le 24 mars 2017. © Site Internet du Kremlin Les financements russes de #Marine_Le_Pen se sont organisés autour d’un conseiller de #Vladimir_Poutine, Alexandre Babakov. L’intermédiaire du #FN, l’eurodéputé Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, est visé par une enquête en #France. Des emails démontrent une ingérence politique de deux lobbyistes russes.

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