Transforming the IT Mindset - Interop 2016Intuit Inc.
Intuit SVP & CIO, Atticus Tysen talked about how to transform the IT mindset at Interop 2016. His presentation illustrates the key ways in which Intuit was able to shift mindsets not just in IT, but across the entire organization, in an effort to make IT more effective in delivering on Intuit's goals by staying laser focused on the customer.
Bill Loconzolo talks #bigdata at #StrataHadoop 2016Intuit Inc.
VP of Data Engineering & Analytics, Bill Loconzolo talks about building a scalable, secure data platform at the 2016 Strata Hadoop Conference. If you missed his presentation, check it out. http://intuit.me/22T5Beh
Things Expo: The Emergence of the Quantified Small BusinessIntuit Inc.
Sensors and effectors of IoT are solving problems in new ways, but small businesses have been slow to join the quantified world. They’ll need information from IoT using applications as varied as the businesses themselves. This presentation delivered at the Internet of Things Expo by Roger Meike covers how product-based small businesses can benefit from apps specifically designed to help them collect, analyze and use operational data to improve their productivity and efficiency. The quantified small business will not only be possible; it will be the norm.
Roger is a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Technology Innovation at Intuit Inc investigating intelligent systems, internet of things, wearables and cryptocurrency.
BA and Beyond 19 Sponsor spotlight - The Business Analysts - Why is agile mak...BA and Beyond
Doing strategy the way we always did simply doesn’t work in a constantly changing world; Companies will have to do strategy in a different, more agile way. The 3 following mind shifts are fundamental in embracing a more agile strategy.
- From solutions to … problems and opportunities
- From 1 vision of the future to … multiple visions of the future
- From rigid structures to … agile capabilities
BA and Beyond 19 - Adrian Reed - Don't bring me solutions Bring me problemsBA and Beyond
It sometimes feels like the business world is addicted to “solutions”. Projects are initiated to implement solutions, and teams are mobilised to deliver them. Yet, without a thorough understanding of the problem or opportunity that these ‘solutions’ are aiming to address, can we ever truly know whether we are successful? Throw in a complex stakeholder landscape where different stakeholders have very different perspectives on the problem situation and we have a perfect storm. It is easy to get in an iterative doom-loop where we keep iteratively altering the ‘solution’ but never actually meet the business need…
This can be avoided with robust pre-project problem analysis. In this presentation, you will hear a concise description of a select few practical techniques that can be used to explore and define problems early in the business change lifecycle. With a better understanding of problems, we are much more likely to be able to solve them.
During the presentation you will hear about techniques for:
- Exploring ‘messy’ problem situations
- Understanding different stakeholder perspectives
- Defining what ‘success’ looks like in the context of a problem solving situation
BA and Beyond 19 - Lynda Girvan - Keynote Agile analysisBA and Beyond
More and more organisations are adopting agile techniques and approaches. Agile adoption brings about changes to processes, approaches and roles, and some BAs can be left wondering where they fit into this new world. Lynda Girvan will discuss what it means to be an Agile BA and how as an Agile BA you can bring value to your organisation through having the right mindset and a comprehensive toolkit.
In her talk, Lynda will discuss:
- What is an Agile BA?
- Lean, system and service thinking
- Shortening the loop from requirement to delivery
- How Agile BAs add value and contribute to development teams
BA and Beyond 19 Andrej Guštin - Mirror mirror on the wall Who's the wisest o...BA and Beyond
Recently, machine learning algorithms surpass humans intelligence in many areas (go, chess, poker). Operational optimization (logistic, back-office) and customer behaviour predictions (marketing, sales) are some of the top priorities in companies to digitize their business.
But only a few can remember that it all started in Bletchley Park with the need to break the Enigma Code. Without business analysis techniques they probably wouldn’t have succeeded. BA approaches that were used back in the day are still valuable today.
We will present two real (banking sector) cases and their results to demonstrate analytical phases of designing, developing and using predictive analytics models that process customer data daily and recommend actions, based on predefined business rules and decision points in workflows. From Stakeholder Needs aligned with their Value we will show how to build smart predictive algorithms to determine the “next best action” and “preferred channel” in the Context of better CX.
Defined KPI’s measure VALUE daily and enable BA to monitor effectiveness and efficiency continuously, detect potential issues and take necessary corrective actions. In 5 months we increased the VALUE to 450% and needed 16 days to achieve ROI.
Key takeaways:
- Examples of different approaches we have taken to implement valuable predictive analytics solution, including what works and what doesn't
- How BAs can balance between external Customer eXperience view and internal stakeholders need to maximize the value of the project
- Large quantities of data exist, but the value is in analytics, not only the right algorithms that will work, but that they improve CX and add value.
- Approaches to ensure that algorithms and procedures used within project are "good enough"
BA and Beyond 20 - Antonio Gonzalez Sanchis - Add some RICE to your organisationBA and Beyond
Is your company always focused on one-time opportunities? Are you always unclear on what requirements to clarify next? Projects changing all the time? I've been there.
In April 2019 I joined an Artificial Intelligence company which was mainly driven by sales opportunities with no focus on long-term goals. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to define product requirements that made sense in the long-run and to write user stories that met teams' "definition of ready".
In this talk I want to share one technique that helped me aligning stakeholders towards priorities and being clear of what was coming next: RICE prioritization. I will share my struggles and successes on getting there.
Transforming the IT Mindset - Interop 2016Intuit Inc.
Intuit SVP & CIO, Atticus Tysen talked about how to transform the IT mindset at Interop 2016. His presentation illustrates the key ways in which Intuit was able to shift mindsets not just in IT, but across the entire organization, in an effort to make IT more effective in delivering on Intuit's goals by staying laser focused on the customer.
Bill Loconzolo talks #bigdata at #StrataHadoop 2016Intuit Inc.
VP of Data Engineering & Analytics, Bill Loconzolo talks about building a scalable, secure data platform at the 2016 Strata Hadoop Conference. If you missed his presentation, check it out. http://intuit.me/22T5Beh
Things Expo: The Emergence of the Quantified Small BusinessIntuit Inc.
Sensors and effectors of IoT are solving problems in new ways, but small businesses have been slow to join the quantified world. They’ll need information from IoT using applications as varied as the businesses themselves. This presentation delivered at the Internet of Things Expo by Roger Meike covers how product-based small businesses can benefit from apps specifically designed to help them collect, analyze and use operational data to improve their productivity and efficiency. The quantified small business will not only be possible; it will be the norm.
Roger is a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Technology Innovation at Intuit Inc investigating intelligent systems, internet of things, wearables and cryptocurrency.
BA and Beyond 19 Sponsor spotlight - The Business Analysts - Why is agile mak...BA and Beyond
Doing strategy the way we always did simply doesn’t work in a constantly changing world; Companies will have to do strategy in a different, more agile way. The 3 following mind shifts are fundamental in embracing a more agile strategy.
- From solutions to … problems and opportunities
- From 1 vision of the future to … multiple visions of the future
- From rigid structures to … agile capabilities
BA and Beyond 19 - Adrian Reed - Don't bring me solutions Bring me problemsBA and Beyond
It sometimes feels like the business world is addicted to “solutions”. Projects are initiated to implement solutions, and teams are mobilised to deliver them. Yet, without a thorough understanding of the problem or opportunity that these ‘solutions’ are aiming to address, can we ever truly know whether we are successful? Throw in a complex stakeholder landscape where different stakeholders have very different perspectives on the problem situation and we have a perfect storm. It is easy to get in an iterative doom-loop where we keep iteratively altering the ‘solution’ but never actually meet the business need…
This can be avoided with robust pre-project problem analysis. In this presentation, you will hear a concise description of a select few practical techniques that can be used to explore and define problems early in the business change lifecycle. With a better understanding of problems, we are much more likely to be able to solve them.
During the presentation you will hear about techniques for:
- Exploring ‘messy’ problem situations
- Understanding different stakeholder perspectives
- Defining what ‘success’ looks like in the context of a problem solving situation
BA and Beyond 19 - Lynda Girvan - Keynote Agile analysisBA and Beyond
More and more organisations are adopting agile techniques and approaches. Agile adoption brings about changes to processes, approaches and roles, and some BAs can be left wondering where they fit into this new world. Lynda Girvan will discuss what it means to be an Agile BA and how as an Agile BA you can bring value to your organisation through having the right mindset and a comprehensive toolkit.
In her talk, Lynda will discuss:
- What is an Agile BA?
- Lean, system and service thinking
- Shortening the loop from requirement to delivery
- How Agile BAs add value and contribute to development teams
BA and Beyond 19 Andrej Guštin - Mirror mirror on the wall Who's the wisest o...BA and Beyond
Recently, machine learning algorithms surpass humans intelligence in many areas (go, chess, poker). Operational optimization (logistic, back-office) and customer behaviour predictions (marketing, sales) are some of the top priorities in companies to digitize their business.
But only a few can remember that it all started in Bletchley Park with the need to break the Enigma Code. Without business analysis techniques they probably wouldn’t have succeeded. BA approaches that were used back in the day are still valuable today.
We will present two real (banking sector) cases and their results to demonstrate analytical phases of designing, developing and using predictive analytics models that process customer data daily and recommend actions, based on predefined business rules and decision points in workflows. From Stakeholder Needs aligned with their Value we will show how to build smart predictive algorithms to determine the “next best action” and “preferred channel” in the Context of better CX.
Defined KPI’s measure VALUE daily and enable BA to monitor effectiveness and efficiency continuously, detect potential issues and take necessary corrective actions. In 5 months we increased the VALUE to 450% and needed 16 days to achieve ROI.
Key takeaways:
- Examples of different approaches we have taken to implement valuable predictive analytics solution, including what works and what doesn't
- How BAs can balance between external Customer eXperience view and internal stakeholders need to maximize the value of the project
- Large quantities of data exist, but the value is in analytics, not only the right algorithms that will work, but that they improve CX and add value.
- Approaches to ensure that algorithms and procedures used within project are "good enough"
BA and Beyond 20 - Antonio Gonzalez Sanchis - Add some RICE to your organisationBA and Beyond
Is your company always focused on one-time opportunities? Are you always unclear on what requirements to clarify next? Projects changing all the time? I've been there.
In April 2019 I joined an Artificial Intelligence company which was mainly driven by sales opportunities with no focus on long-term goals. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to define product requirements that made sense in the long-run and to write user stories that met teams' "definition of ready".
In this talk I want to share one technique that helped me aligning stakeholders towards priorities and being clear of what was coming next: RICE prioritization. I will share my struggles and successes on getting there.
Building Data Teams:data scientists, engineers, and product managers working together to create innovative data products by Anu Tewary Director Of Product Management at Intuit.
BA and Beyond 20 - Dennis Aarts and Bert Heymans - Model Driven EngineeringBA and Beyond
As business analysts we often hear the business complain about the IT department and their solutions. The IT department, for example, is often found to be unresponsive enough, whereas their solutions often don't capture the actual complexity of a problem. On the other hand, we hear the IT department complain about a continuously increasing workload. Using the capabilities of Model Driven Engineering, the realization of software using modeling tools alone, we enable both parties to focus on their own domain, decreasing the gap between them.
In this topic we will discuss how case management, business process management and decision management can be applied effectively in low code platforms to enable the business to define and maintain their business logic and how to enthuse the IT department about such platforms.
Dave Elliman - Applying Continuous Intelligence ThoughtWorks Live UK 2018Thoughtworks
Much has been made of the benefits that technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning can bring to the enterprise. But to be truly transformational, such tech can’t just bring a one-off improvement in decision making. They need to be able to adapt and change as the world around changes. In this presentation, Dave Elliman, the global head of technology at ThoughtWorks discusses how to choose the right data and Artificial Intelligence, to create complex business models that are capable of continuously learning. This presentation was made at ThoughtWorks Live UK on 3rd October 2018 in London.
Building an organization with collaborative innovation is essential to accelerate technology breakthroughs. Is your IT infrastructure ready for the cognitive era?
The world is changing quickly. Ubiquitous access to information has fundamentally changed the expectations of customers and business owners. As we get comfortable in having conversations with Amazon Alexa, Google Home or Apple’s Siri, we now want our business software to respond to our questions in an intelligent and human-like manner. In short, we are moving away from reports and dashboards to the next wave of technology that will help us focus on tasks that we are professionally trained for and also guide us in making the right and informed decisions.
Your ability is important, but it's your agility in business that will determine your ultimate success. #AgilityTrumpsAbility
Key points:
· Chunkification has fully blossomed. But chunks are not sustainable in the long run. Problems with chunkification:
o Customer have to pay more for all the chunks.
o Integration of chunks can often be expensive and complex. May have to re-configure each app to play well with the others.
o Single Sign-on hides the fact that you're switching to chunks, but has intermittent failures.
o Digital plumbing "leaks" continue to frustrate users and adds support costs.
o Customers want a "single throat to choke" for support
o With no revenue from chunks, the only way for software vendors to monetize is to build or buy the chunks.
o Big Bad Data - integrating data across multiple apps often creates copies of data that becomes out of date and/or inaccurate. When that data is aggregated into "Big Data" sets, the problems multiply and the quality of information is depleted.
· The Big Convergence: The pendulum is shifting back away from Chunkification towards integrated suites with single databases as opposed to APIs that transfer (and copy) data from system to system.
As of November 2016, adoption rates of cloud and mobile accounting solutions are going through the roof, but for many small businesses the cloud is still a scary place to store data and operate a business. A big part of the resistance is that today's internet lacks a "trust layer" to provide security, identity management, and data validation.
The next frontier in accounting technology will be filled with increased automation of transactional data, global commerce solutions based on digital currency and blockchain technology, and renewed focus on security and identity management.
In this session, Doug Sleeter will open your mind to the compelling technologies that will drive solutions in the future. As Doug says, your ability is important, but it's your agility in business that will determine your ultimate success. #AgilityTrumpsAbility
Defeating online fraud and abuse – Continuous Intelligence in actionThoughtworks
Dr Gerald Hartig, Principal Data Scientist at Arkose Labs discusses Continuous Intelligence approaches and how they can be applied to protect some of the world’s largest web properties.
Information is the key to success for any firm nowadays. However, the information gathered is a mixture of vital and useless data. Visit Divensi.com to get the best Big Data analytics for business in Seattle, Washington.
Intuit QuickBooks Future of Small Business ReportIntuit Inc.
October 2016 - Projections show that the number of U.S. small businesses will grow from 30 million in 2016 to over 42 million in 2026. Read on to learn five trends that will give small businesses a competitive edge over the next decade.
Building Data Teams:data scientists, engineers, and product managers working together to create innovative data products by Anu Tewary Director Of Product Management at Intuit.
BA and Beyond 20 - Dennis Aarts and Bert Heymans - Model Driven EngineeringBA and Beyond
As business analysts we often hear the business complain about the IT department and their solutions. The IT department, for example, is often found to be unresponsive enough, whereas their solutions often don't capture the actual complexity of a problem. On the other hand, we hear the IT department complain about a continuously increasing workload. Using the capabilities of Model Driven Engineering, the realization of software using modeling tools alone, we enable both parties to focus on their own domain, decreasing the gap between them.
In this topic we will discuss how case management, business process management and decision management can be applied effectively in low code platforms to enable the business to define and maintain their business logic and how to enthuse the IT department about such platforms.
Dave Elliman - Applying Continuous Intelligence ThoughtWorks Live UK 2018Thoughtworks
Much has been made of the benefits that technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning can bring to the enterprise. But to be truly transformational, such tech can’t just bring a one-off improvement in decision making. They need to be able to adapt and change as the world around changes. In this presentation, Dave Elliman, the global head of technology at ThoughtWorks discusses how to choose the right data and Artificial Intelligence, to create complex business models that are capable of continuously learning. This presentation was made at ThoughtWorks Live UK on 3rd October 2018 in London.
Building an organization with collaborative innovation is essential to accelerate technology breakthroughs. Is your IT infrastructure ready for the cognitive era?
The world is changing quickly. Ubiquitous access to information has fundamentally changed the expectations of customers and business owners. As we get comfortable in having conversations with Amazon Alexa, Google Home or Apple’s Siri, we now want our business software to respond to our questions in an intelligent and human-like manner. In short, we are moving away from reports and dashboards to the next wave of technology that will help us focus on tasks that we are professionally trained for and also guide us in making the right and informed decisions.
Your ability is important, but it's your agility in business that will determine your ultimate success. #AgilityTrumpsAbility
Key points:
· Chunkification has fully blossomed. But chunks are not sustainable in the long run. Problems with chunkification:
o Customer have to pay more for all the chunks.
o Integration of chunks can often be expensive and complex. May have to re-configure each app to play well with the others.
o Single Sign-on hides the fact that you're switching to chunks, but has intermittent failures.
o Digital plumbing "leaks" continue to frustrate users and adds support costs.
o Customers want a "single throat to choke" for support
o With no revenue from chunks, the only way for software vendors to monetize is to build or buy the chunks.
o Big Bad Data - integrating data across multiple apps often creates copies of data that becomes out of date and/or inaccurate. When that data is aggregated into "Big Data" sets, the problems multiply and the quality of information is depleted.
· The Big Convergence: The pendulum is shifting back away from Chunkification towards integrated suites with single databases as opposed to APIs that transfer (and copy) data from system to system.
As of November 2016, adoption rates of cloud and mobile accounting solutions are going through the roof, but for many small businesses the cloud is still a scary place to store data and operate a business. A big part of the resistance is that today's internet lacks a "trust layer" to provide security, identity management, and data validation.
The next frontier in accounting technology will be filled with increased automation of transactional data, global commerce solutions based on digital currency and blockchain technology, and renewed focus on security and identity management.
In this session, Doug Sleeter will open your mind to the compelling technologies that will drive solutions in the future. As Doug says, your ability is important, but it's your agility in business that will determine your ultimate success. #AgilityTrumpsAbility
Defeating online fraud and abuse – Continuous Intelligence in actionThoughtworks
Dr Gerald Hartig, Principal Data Scientist at Arkose Labs discusses Continuous Intelligence approaches and how they can be applied to protect some of the world’s largest web properties.
Information is the key to success for any firm nowadays. However, the information gathered is a mixture of vital and useless data. Visit Divensi.com to get the best Big Data analytics for business in Seattle, Washington.
Intuit QuickBooks Future of Small Business ReportIntuit Inc.
October 2016 - Projections show that the number of U.S. small businesses will grow from 30 million in 2016 to over 42 million in 2026. Read on to learn five trends that will give small businesses a competitive edge over the next decade.
Ideas to Execution: (Mis)using Code for PrototypesIntuit Inc.
Heather Daggett discusses the fastest & most effective ways to (mis)use code for prototypes, from initial ideation to refinement & execution at the Grace Hopper Conference 2016.
Dispatches From the New Economy: The On-Demand WorkforceIntuit Inc.
In 2015, Intuit kicked-off a research project in partnership with Emergent Research and eleven on-demand economy and online talent marketplace companies to gain a deep and objective understanding of the motivations, aspirations and pain points of individuals choosing on-demand jobs. In this latest study, new findings reveal that the on-demand economy has taken on a key role in improving the financial stability of people looking for flexible opportunities to supplement income.
Intuit offers developers an unmatched opportunity to build useful apps for 1.5M global QuickBooks customers. We want developers to know what problems to solve for.
We offer customers best-in-class apps to help run their business so they can focus on doing what they love.These global insights from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia look at app
adoption in these key markets, how small businesses are using apps and the value they are seeing in their app integrations.
Furthermore, it explores trigger points for small businesses not using apps and what the key drivers are in encouraging them to use apps for their business.
Dispatches From The New Economy: The On-Demand Economy And The Future Of WorkIntuit Inc.
From delivery, transportation and household errands, to professional services and consulting, the on-demand economy is changing the way people consume goods and services. It is also changing the way people work. Intuit and Emergent Research forecast that the number of people working on-demand jobs will grow from 3.2 million Americans to 7.6 million by 2020. This is a once in a generation opportunity to empower the future of work and a new face of entrepreneurship.
Dispatches from the New Economy: The On-Demand Workforce provides a detailed analysis of the demographics, motivations and challenges of workers pursuing on-demand jobs. The data comes from a study from Intuit and Emergent Research that examined people working via eleven on-demand economy and online talent marketplace companies. Study participants included: Deliv, Field Nation, HourlyNerd, MBO Partners, OnForce, Uber, Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), Visually, Wonolo, and Work Market.
Methodology
A total of 4,622 workers who find work opportunities via the platforms provided by the participating partner companies completed an online survey between September 11 and October 1, 2015. The results were weighted to reflect the proportion of workers in each of the following segments: Drivers/Delivery, Online Talent Marketplaces and Field Service/Onsite Talent. The weights were developed using earlier survey work that sized the on-demand economy. The largest weighted share of on-demand worker respondents from any single company is 16%, with most partner companies providing less than 10% of the respondents.
Dispatches From The New Economy: The Five Faces Of The On-Demand EconomyIntuit Inc.
From people determined to be their own boss, to those embracing the flexibility to do something they love, to workers finding a replacement for a traditional job – people working in the on-demand economy are just about as diverse as the labor market itself. A new report from Intuit Inc. and Emergent Research shows that there are a broad range of motivations – and differing levels of satisfaction – among five distinct groups of on-demand workers:
The Business Builders – primarily driven by the desire to be their own boss. They represent 22 percent of on-demand workers.
The Career Freelancers – happily building a career through independent work. They represent 20 percent of on-demand workers.
The Side Giggers – looking to find financial stability by supplementing existing income. They represent 26 percent of on-demand workers.
The Passionistas – looking for the flexibility to do something they love. They represent 18 percent of on-demand workers.
The Substituters – replacing a traditional job that is no longer available. They represent 14 percent of on-demand workers.
Methodology
A total of 4,622 workers who find work opportunities via the platforms provided by the participating partner companies completed an online survey between September 11 and October 1, 2015. The results were weighted to reflect the proportion of workers in each of the following segments: Drivers/Delivery, Online Talent Marketplaces and Field Service/Onsite Talent. The weights were developed using earlier survey work that sized the on-demand economy. The largest weighted share of on-demand worker respondents from any single company is 16%, with most partner companies providing less than 10% of the respondents.
Learn about why the small business market is the next best thing for developers.
See update from 2016 at: https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Bgk1gGQHNFIjIq
‘Small Business Success in the Cloud,’ describes the impact of cloud technology as it is progressively adapted by more and more small businesses – moving from an initial focus on efficiency gains, to the emergence of new models of business, through broad-based saturation across business and society.
The report is the first in a new ‘Dispatches from the New Economy’ research series, a comprehensive research project exploring the ways economic, technology and social shifts will shape the future of small business success. The series builds on a ten year partnership between Emergent Research and Intuit tracking trends in small business.
At Grace Hopper Conference 2016, Komal Bhatia discusses traditional vs. modern web development, the tools and frameworks needed and how to choose the right ones for you.
Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of WorkThumbtack, Inc.
Thumbtack's newest economic report describes how skilled professionals are using new platforms to find new work and build their business – and their lives. Called “Beyond the Gig Economy: How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of Work,” this report explores how technology enables buyers and sellers of services to connect, moving the conversation beyond a one dimensional discussion of the so-called gig economy.
The Future Of Work & The Work Of The FutureArturo Pelayo
What Happens When Robots And Machines Learn On Their Own?
This slide deck is an introduction to exponential technologies for an audience of designers and developers of workforce training materials.
The Blended Learning And Technologies Forum (BLAT Forum) is a quarterly event in Auckland, New Zealand that welcomes practitioners, designers and developers of blended learning instructional deliverables across different industries of the New Zealand economy.
Building or redesigning an intranet in 2016? Most intranet managers have an idea of where they want to go, but few have a formalized strategy and roadmap.
Your strategy is a plan about how to take action.
This presentation from intranet expert Steve Bynghall gives you a highly practical framework to derive and articulate your intranet strategy. Whether you’re part of a team with a new intranet project or the business owner of a stale and stagnant intranet, you'll find this presentation valuable..
Highlights:
What is an intranet strategy and why do you need one?
The importance of being objective: the discovery phase
Research sources: data inputs, stakeholder analysis, other sources
Formalizing the strategy and action plan
Communicating and socializing the strategy
Apple's next press event happens on Monday, March 21 at the company's campus in Cupertino, California.
We've already talked about what to expect, in our PPT but to recap: Apple is expected to announce a new 4-inch iPhone that combines the size of the iPhone 5S with features from the iPhone 6 and 6S. It will also supposedly be upgrading the 9.7-inch iPad, giving it updated internals, a Smart Connector, and Apple Pencil support imported from the iPad Pro. The Apple Watch may get some love in the form of new band colors and combinations, but rumors say not to expect a full hardware refresh just yet.
We suddenly live in a strange and wonderful nexus of digital and physical. Touchscreens let us hold information in our hands, and we touch, stretch, crumple, drag, and flick data itself. Our sensor-packed phones even reach beyond the screen to interact directly with the world around us. While these digital interfaces are becoming physical, the physical world is becoming digital, too. Objects, places, and even our bodies are lighting up with with sensors and connectivity. We’re not just clicking links anymore; we’re creating physical interfaces to digital systems. This requires new perspective and technique for web and product designers. The good news: it’s all within your reach. With a rich trove of examples, Designing for Touch author Josh Clark explores the practical, meaningful design opportunities for the web’s newly physical interfaces.
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
How can a digital marketing consultant help your business? In this resource we'll count the ways. 24 additional marketing resources are bundled for free.
What makes a strong Intuit innovation culture Michael Kalika
This presentation is about Intuit innovation culture that includes topics like Intuit innovation journey, customer obsession, design thinking, learning from failures and autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Ever asked why great engineers prefer working for certain companies? Or why certain companies are more admired than others? In this lecture I will share few ingredients of the strong engineering culture and why technologists prefer working for one company than for another.
This presentation is about Intuit innovation culture that includes topics like Intuit innovation journey, customer obsession, design thinking, learning from failures and autonomy, mastery and purpose.
You'll learn:
- How to create a consistent design language across product lines
- When and where to allow for exceptions to the design language
- How to create the infrastructure to support coherent design
Full-Stack User Experiences: A Marriage of Design & Technology (Dawn Ressel a...Rosenfeld Media
Dawn Ressel: "Full-Stack User Experiences: A Marriage of Design & Technology"
Enterprise UX 2016 • June 8, 2016 • San Antonio, TX, USA
http://2016.enterpriseux.net
Have you ever asked yourself how can you leverage open source for selling your products or services, attracting talent and innovating? In the first part of this lecture I’ll give a historical context about how open source has transformed the Software industry and changed the way we develop, collaborate, communicate, organize and think about business values. In the second part I will talk about open source opportunities, challenges and what it means to successfully plan and implement an open source project from the practical side. I will also share my own Open Source management experience at Intuit.
Financial services 2.0 Innovation, Disruption, Automation and TrustBob Bonomo
Redefinition of the traditional financial services landscape, driven by innovative technologies such as Blockchain, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
During this presentation, you will discover:
• How to fill this gap with innovative cloud-based accelerator services
• How to quickly deploy new digital capabilities to support business objectives
• How companies are winning through in-store customer experience
Lean Innovation in Insurance with Cognizant Digital FoundryVMware Tanzu
SpringOne Platform 2016
Speakers: Rag Ramanathan; Senior Director, Cognizant & Satish Venkatesan; Senior Director, Cognizant
Insurers are increasingly leveraging digital technologies to bring in significant changes to their business and operating models. Many strategic programs are currently underway within life, P&C and retirement service providers to embrace customer centricity, API-based distribution channels, loss control through real-time digital data and a lean operating model.
Join Cognizant’s session to learn how we bring together our industry expertise in Insurance and our Lean/Agile techniques, powered by vast experience with Spring and PCF, to innovate with our clients and create business value.
The first part of the session will cover Cognizant cloud-native digital business solutions and platforms (drone, IoT, innovation prototyping platforms etc.) that supports the business and next-gen IT transformations within insurers. Spring Framework, Cloud Foundry and container based technologies serves as architectural building blocks and delivery platforms.
While developing new applications using modern frameworks like Spring and Spring Boot already reduce the time to value for businesses, additional software components and tools further accelerate the time. The second part of this session will cover such tools as developer Blueprints, Microservices, and a single Portal for enabling these on multiple PaaS environments. These additional tools and software help our development teams accelerate value creation for clients by focusing on the business application rather than infrastructure and frameworks setup.
Solutioning Mindset, or R&D Outsourcing in Realities of Digital Transformatio...GlobalLogic Ukraine
This presentation provided ideas on how an export R&D company should change in the world of digital transformations.
It was delivered by Yuliya Dubova (AVP, GlobalLogic) at Kyiv Outsourcing Forum 2017.
Bringing experience into the enterprise mike maass lava_con_2014Mike Maass
This presentation showcases my team’s three-part UX strategy to revamp our corporate intranet site:
• Secure executive support up front by defining a compelling UX vision for each project, while also showing time and money lost to dealing with subpar internal services
• Put projects in the hands of UX professionals—product designers, editors, and engineers—not IT, HR and other internal service teams
• Use experience-first prototypes to secure stakeholder and employee support
Similar to Alex Balazs on Scalable Services at GlueCon 2016 (20)
State of Small Business – Growth and Success ReportIntuit Inc.
In an effort to better understand how small businesses approach growth and how those views impact their operations and planning, Intuit QuickBooks released the “State of Small Business – Growth and Success” report.
Check out the results to learn more!
Working for yourself shouldn’t mean the odds of success are stacked against you. QuickBooks is committed to small business success with a comprehensive set of business tools that do the hard work for you – leveraging the latest in AI and emerging technologies to create a platform that evens the odds for small business owners.
In an effort to better understand the behaviors, attitudes and cash flow challenges experienced by small businesses and self-employed professionals around the world, Intuit QuickBooks released the “The State of Small Business Cash Flow” Report.
Entrepreneurs and small business owners are on the front lines, navigating the realities of automation. And they have unique advantages. The very fact that they are small and nimble makes small businesses well suited to the realities of the 21st century economy. They are able to quickly adapt, take advantage of new opportunities, and to pivot to serve customer expectations in a rapidly changing world.
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Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
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Alex Balazs
May 25, 2016
Break Up the Monolith: How Intuit
is Disrupting a Decades-Old
Codebase with Scalable Services
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VP Fellow
Architect
TurboTax
16+ years at
Intuit
Alex Balazs
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If it makes money, why change?
Complacency = irrelevance
Change = risk
Innovator’s Dilemma
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Our Mission
To improve our customers’ financial lives so profoundly…
they can’t imagine going back to the old way
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World’s leading provider of financial solutions
for individuals and small businesses
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A complex system that works is invariably found
to have evolved from a simple system that
worked. A complex system designed from
scratch never works and cannot be patched up
to make it work. You have to start over,
beginning with a working simple system.
Gall’s Law
We cannot replace TurboTax by
creating another complex system
from scratch.
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Everything as a Service
Technology that empowers us and others to quickly create amazing,
frictionless experiences
Self-service, leveraging the
contribution of others, concept
to production in minutes
Customer-back, across
Intuit and third-party
experiences
Powerful, creating
durable advantage
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Intuit Confidential and Proprietary
• Build, test and release services and product experiences
independently.
• I can consume someone’s service without having to
convene a meeting.
Services Deliver Speed When …
Teams can work at
their own clock speed
Services are built for
others
• They have a standard contract.
• They are scalable and secure.
• They are discoverable & easy to use.
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Common Application Fabric
Native App Shell
UI View Management
Semantic UI Widget
Runtime
(Fuego)
Native UI Widget
Runtime
(Web, iOS, Android,
Win, Mac…)
CMS UI Widget
Runtime
(Web Templates)
Other UI Widget
Runtime
(Legacy, New …)
Common Client-side Utility Modules
Data Mgmt Security Logging Perf Profiling Beaconing
AppRuntimeManager
UI Widget Orchestration
Web Future PlatformsiOS Android Win Mac
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1. Everything as a Service
2. Attack the monolith – One pirate ship at a time
3. Build Common Application Fabric Once
Summary
Introduction (2 min.)
Its great to be here – thank you for having me
Briefly describe your role, background, number of years with Intuit
Technology’s case for change:
The business ecosystem in 2016 moves fast
Today we work in an industry where businesses constantly get disrupted; we need to be agile in order to stay competitive
Applications are moving from desktop to cloud
Big Data is changing technology experiences
Complex user experience
Innovator’s Dilemma: If it makes money, why change it?
With the technology environment today, you can’t rest on your laurels.
However, change is a risk. Innovators have to make a case for adapting.
Transition –
Before I get started, first a little about Intuit
Intuit is built around a single, core mission: improving financial lives so profoundly they can’t imagine going back to the old way.
By serving our customers, we have grown to become a premier innovative growth company
Intuit is the world’s leading provider of financial solutions for individuals and small businesses.
Intuit is the world’s leading provider of financial solutions for individuals and small businesses.
We serve 37M customers.
Revenue of $4.2B in FY2015.
Employ over 7,700 people around the world.
With offices in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, Singapore, France, Brazil, Australia and Israel.
TRANSITION TO TURBO TAX PRODUCT
HERE TO TALK ABOUT A PRODUCT YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF – TURBO TAX
BUT FIRST I WANT TO TAKE YOU BACK - BACK TO 1993
CLICK MOUSE FOR 1993 BANNER TO DISSAPEAR
PRESIDENT CLINTON WAS IN OFFICE –
SEINFELD, THE X FILES AND ROSEANNE RULED THE TELEVISION
PETE SAMPRAS WON WIMBELTON
JURRASIC PARK RULED AT THE BOX OFFICE
AND AMERICA FELL IN LOVE WITH BEANIE BABIES
OH, AND THIS WAS ALSO THE YEAR TT WAS FIRST MADE AVAILABLE
TurboTax
We’ve moving to the cloud - e.g. QBO 1 million + subscribers
TurboTax
Built on a 20 year old technology stack
Mobile, web, desktop - with high mobile usage
Advancing our technology was a necessity:
TurboTax has 3 generations:
1st generation – Digital tax forms
2nd generation - Interview-based tax filing questions
3rd generation - Personalized experiences
Advancing our technology was a necessity:
Ex: If you’re an 18 year old barista from NYC, do you collect CA railway requirement?
We need to build product of the future on a platform of the future
Easier said than done
We need to build product of the future on a platform of the future
Easier said than done
Solving tax is complex.
2 failed prior re-platforming experiences at Intuit, and we’re now on a multiyear journey
Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
Solving tax is complex.
2 failed prior re-platforming experiences at Intuit, and we’re now on a multiyear journey
Aaron Levie CEO and co-founder of Box… 100M terabytes in the cloud, successfully pivoted from consumer to enterprise by focusing on delighting end customers and providing control for IT.
Rick Dalzell was the CIO of Amazon from 1997-2007…
Andy Jassy at Amazon since 2003. Has led since the early days. Estimated to be $5B this year up from $3.1B last year. Moving faster than any of the competitors.
Existing technology limitations make it very difficult (and often impossible) for us to deliver high-quality, innovative, and responsive products at scale so we can build a durable advantage
Our objective is to lead a technology stack refresh that delivers breakthrough experiences and explosive growth by enabling our workforce to deliver the best work of their lives – and making tax prep obsolete.
Implementing Node: Don’t talk about the benefits, show it
The proof is in the code. We needed to prove Node.js would work, so we ran an experiment.
Intuit “Pirate Ship” example: We built the narrowest slice of tech stack and created a “pirate ship.”
By building an E2E experience in 2 months with PM, PD, UX, and engineers, we proved it would work.
Bridging the new technology to the old technology
Bag on the side vs. Bag in the middle
Example: ACA Intuit
ACA was a new topic for TY 14. We had to ask ourselves: Do we use old or new technology? We took a risk, and decided it would go on the new stack. It allowed us to prove we can build something better on the new stack.
End user example using ACA.
Recap (2 min.)
It’s difficult to create a complex platform from scratch. Start simple and it will evolve to complex.
Break up the monolith one service at a time with Node.js.
Over-communicate the burning platform to developers.