Based on empiricism and many case studies, the Kanban Maturity Model offers organizations pragmatic guidance about which of about 150 sub-practices within the Kanban method are aligned with their organizational maturity levels. It maps those practices to observable business outcomes using seven levels of maturity and aids evolution of processes. When it comes to evolution, Wardley Maps can show the state of evolution of components within a value stream in relation to a predefined anchor and helps with gaining situational awareness. In my talk I will show how Wardley Maps and the Kanban Maturity Model overlap and how you can use both in combination to assess how to choose appropriate methods and practices for the context you’re in.
Execution is one of the most overlooked elements of business. Strategy, finances, and market opportunities seem to get a lot more attention. In my own experience, getting an A+ on execution will beat out the other companies who have A+'s in the more traditional areas.
The reality is that technology is complicated. As testers, we are challenged with complicated problems that need solving. Andy Glover presents a hands-on workshop that describes a new way of looking at testing problems and ideas. Andy demonstrates how thinking with pictures can help testers discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve their ability to share their insights with others. Andy shows how to clarify a problem or sell an idea by visually breaking it down using a set of visualization tools including mind maps, work flows, and powerful but simple visuals to communicate complex messages. You don’t need to know how to draw to attend this workshop. Although we are naturally creative, sometimes it takes effort to develop those skills. Join Andy to learn how to apply visual solutions to our everyday software testing challenges.
Based on empiricism and many case studies, the Kanban Maturity Model offers organizations pragmatic guidance about which of about 150 sub-practices within the Kanban method are aligned with their organizational maturity levels. It maps those practices to observable business outcomes using seven levels of maturity and aids evolution of processes. When it comes to evolution, Wardley Maps can show the state of evolution of components within a value stream in relation to a predefined anchor and helps with gaining situational awareness. In my talk I will show how Wardley Maps and the Kanban Maturity Model overlap and how you can use both in combination to assess how to choose appropriate methods and practices for the context you’re in.
Execution is one of the most overlooked elements of business. Strategy, finances, and market opportunities seem to get a lot more attention. In my own experience, getting an A+ on execution will beat out the other companies who have A+'s in the more traditional areas.
The reality is that technology is complicated. As testers, we are challenged with complicated problems that need solving. Andy Glover presents a hands-on workshop that describes a new way of looking at testing problems and ideas. Andy demonstrates how thinking with pictures can help testers discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve their ability to share their insights with others. Andy shows how to clarify a problem or sell an idea by visually breaking it down using a set of visualization tools including mind maps, work flows, and powerful but simple visuals to communicate complex messages. You don’t need to know how to draw to attend this workshop. Although we are naturally creative, sometimes it takes effort to develop those skills. Join Andy to learn how to apply visual solutions to our everyday software testing challenges.
Would you use this? UX South Africa 2016Phil Barrett
if you're an innovator, "Would you use this" is a question you really want to answer. But you can't ask it in a usability test. Usability tests can evaluate comprehension and ease of use, but test respondents can't reliably predict their own future behaviour. If you base your strategic choices on experiments where you ask them to do that, you can cause serious damage to your company.
But using the JTBD change making forces, and the MAO model, you can start to explore the factors that influence people's actions systematically . You can find out *when* and *why* people will use your new product idea, which is enough to work out whether your product is on the right track.
Eating the big fish modern enterpreneurship - arise robyArise Roby
IT IS NOT WITH BIG FISH EATING SMALL FISH if you watch clearly who cannot gallop in terms of Creativity and Change according business scenario are out of the race.
Hurricane change 3 methods for preparing for disruptive change in businessMatthew Hawkins
Business transformation can be disruptively beautiful. It usually leaves a path of destruction on it's way to creating a better organization. The challenge is that it inflicts significant change on people. Are there ways to better prepare for it? Yes. We'll examine 3 things you can do to prepare for disruptive change in your business.
You never felt fully part of this world where you had to make a living. Somewhere along the way, you had your “Blue Marble” moment… seeing that the world is interconnected, sacred, beautiful. And it is under threat. This is the moment where you were called to service...
Until relatively recently our world was disconnected, stable, and slow to change. We saw linear innovation and commerce mostly resulting in well behaved and predictable outcomes. But all that has changed! Non-linearities introduced by networked technologies, people and organisations accelerated innovation, markets & change with emergent behaviours rapidly becoming the new norm. In turn, management, market & economic practices have seen adaptability adopted as a vital tool.
So rapid has been the rate of progress; no country, no matter how big, has all the materials, facilities, people, and innovation skills to meet demand. Our future therefore relies on the globalisation of everything including AI, robotics, production and innovation including human intellect and skills.
Get Diversity Smart - The Importance of Embracing Diverse Mindsemmersons1
Neuro-inclusion is crucial for the future of business, but particularly for the creative industries. Here's what we learnt at a recent session designed to help the industry to better understand and embrace neurodiversity.
This is a presentation given to the WVU General Surgery Department on innovation, inventing, and entrepreneurship. My takes on the ideal bioentrepreneur and the basic steps to getting started.
As I have recently included some new content in my presentations and sessions, I would like to share these insights with you in the form of an updated presentation deck. Here, I focus on the the following views and messages:
- A general state of innovation and what you need to know about it these days
- What open innovation is and how it is relevant in the context of big companies and SME´s and startups
- What it takes to be successful with innovation today as an individual and as a team
When I give talks and sessions, I draw upon a comprehensive set of content which you can look further at www.innovationupgrade.com.
COMPISSUES08 - Credibility of TechnologyMichael Heron
A presentation introducing students to the concept of credibility as a cornerstone of captology. Non-technical, and suitable for use in a 'soft skills' module.
Would you use this? UX South Africa 2016Phil Barrett
if you're an innovator, "Would you use this" is a question you really want to answer. But you can't ask it in a usability test. Usability tests can evaluate comprehension and ease of use, but test respondents can't reliably predict their own future behaviour. If you base your strategic choices on experiments where you ask them to do that, you can cause serious damage to your company.
But using the JTBD change making forces, and the MAO model, you can start to explore the factors that influence people's actions systematically . You can find out *when* and *why* people will use your new product idea, which is enough to work out whether your product is on the right track.
Eating the big fish modern enterpreneurship - arise robyArise Roby
IT IS NOT WITH BIG FISH EATING SMALL FISH if you watch clearly who cannot gallop in terms of Creativity and Change according business scenario are out of the race.
Hurricane change 3 methods for preparing for disruptive change in businessMatthew Hawkins
Business transformation can be disruptively beautiful. It usually leaves a path of destruction on it's way to creating a better organization. The challenge is that it inflicts significant change on people. Are there ways to better prepare for it? Yes. We'll examine 3 things you can do to prepare for disruptive change in your business.
You never felt fully part of this world where you had to make a living. Somewhere along the way, you had your “Blue Marble” moment… seeing that the world is interconnected, sacred, beautiful. And it is under threat. This is the moment where you were called to service...
Until relatively recently our world was disconnected, stable, and slow to change. We saw linear innovation and commerce mostly resulting in well behaved and predictable outcomes. But all that has changed! Non-linearities introduced by networked technologies, people and organisations accelerated innovation, markets & change with emergent behaviours rapidly becoming the new norm. In turn, management, market & economic practices have seen adaptability adopted as a vital tool.
So rapid has been the rate of progress; no country, no matter how big, has all the materials, facilities, people, and innovation skills to meet demand. Our future therefore relies on the globalisation of everything including AI, robotics, production and innovation including human intellect and skills.
Get Diversity Smart - The Importance of Embracing Diverse Mindsemmersons1
Neuro-inclusion is crucial for the future of business, but particularly for the creative industries. Here's what we learnt at a recent session designed to help the industry to better understand and embrace neurodiversity.
This is a presentation given to the WVU General Surgery Department on innovation, inventing, and entrepreneurship. My takes on the ideal bioentrepreneur and the basic steps to getting started.
As I have recently included some new content in my presentations and sessions, I would like to share these insights with you in the form of an updated presentation deck. Here, I focus on the the following views and messages:
- A general state of innovation and what you need to know about it these days
- What open innovation is and how it is relevant in the context of big companies and SME´s and startups
- What it takes to be successful with innovation today as an individual and as a team
When I give talks and sessions, I draw upon a comprehensive set of content which you can look further at www.innovationupgrade.com.
COMPISSUES08 - Credibility of TechnologyMichael Heron
A presentation introducing students to the concept of credibility as a cornerstone of captology. Non-technical, and suitable for use in a 'soft skills' module.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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PROF. ARMAND LEROI Professor of Evolutionary Developmental
Biology at Imperial College London
Who Drives Fashion? The New Science of Cultural Evolution
Evolutionary modelling shows that our culture experiences
changes very similar to the process of genetic evolution.
Artists, marketeers and consumers all exert forces to varying
degrees.
Did you know? Musical evolution can be replicated with
software called DarwinTunes and statistical analysis reveals
revolutions in pop music occurred in 1964, 1981 and 1991,
but they were caused by very different forces.
Call to action! Business needs to sharpen its data skills in
order to reveal the evolutionary patterns in our cultural
fashions. Will Rock’n’Roll ever die? I don’t know – but perhaps
we can find out why it’s so hard to kill.
Article: Evolution of music by public choice
Book: How Music Works, David Bryne
Website: www.armandmarieleroi.com
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DR. GEORGE COOPER Author of Money Blood & Revolution and
The Origin of Financial Crises
Captain Kirk and the ‘Science’ of Economics
Economics is in scientific crisis, as defined by Thomas Kuhn, the
discipline is divided into multiple, incompatible schools of
thought. As such people have become tribal, following one school
of thought and ignoring the arguments of the others.
Did you know? Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous
consumption”, now known as the economics of bling. Signalling
theory explains why people buy luxury goods and behaviour
departs from the neoclassical assumptions.
Call to action! We should understand people as competitors,
driven to increase their relative social position, rather than as
optimisers guided purely by maximising value.Book: Money Blood & Revolution
Website: www.georgecooper.org
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DR. DAN LOCKTON Senior Associate at Helen Hamlyn Centre for
Design, Royal College of Art
Designing with people in behaviour change
Many approaches to behaviour change largely model humans as
defective—bad at making decisions and in need of intervention. Yet
most people, surprisingly, actually manage to get by. More often,
design lets them down and produces barriers to behaviour.
Did you know? Dan has produced a ‘Design with Intent’ toolkit,
available at danlockton.co.uk, it takes insights from multiple
disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, behavioural economics and
gamification.
Call to action! We need to frame behaviour change as being about
helping people solve their problems better, rather than seeing people
as ‘the problem’ in the first place. Design should be about ‘paving
the cowpath’, making it easy for people to do what they want to do
and are already doing.
Interview: InDecision Blog
Website: www.danlockton.com
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DAVID BODANIS Futurist, speaker and popular science author
Why the Ten Commandments Work So Well
The Ten Commandments have proven to be enduring rules for
living because they lie in a ‘sweet spot’ of human experience that
makes them possible to adhere to, they apply across all different
cultures and they are guidelines but not prescriptive.
Did you know? The tablets upon which the Ten Commandments
were written would actually have been very tiny; some records say
there were only eight commandments, others twelve; and it is
likely that Moses did not even have a beard.
Call to action! People respond better to more general guidelines
than to harsh and detailed laws and they seek reassurance and
security above all else. This is what makes the Ten
Commandments so effective.
Book: The Ten Commandments
Biography: Wikipedia
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JEZ GROOM Chief Choice Architect at #ogilvychange
A Little More Intervention
It’s thought that 95% of decisions are made sub-consciously, we
mistakenly apply a similar imbalance to behaviour change; 95%
conversation and 5% intervention. Let’s redress it.
Did you know? #ogilvychange trained News UK call centre agents
with nudge techniques, they applied these to over 4,000 hours of
calls and found their success rate improved 210%, with a t-test
delivering a P value of 0.0002 there’s a probability of just 1 in
5000 this happened by chance.
Call to action! We need more inventions to validate and drive the
theories to a better place. Intellectual rigour is the tool of our
trade, it’s crucial to show the world what’s really possible.
Website: OgilvyChange.com
Slideshare: #OC Case Studies
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ROBERT TESZKA PhD Candidate at Goldsmiths,
Member of the Magic Circle
Now You See It, Now You Don't:
Cognitive Psychology and Magic
Magicians have the uncanny ability to manipulate how people
perceive the world. The study of attention and awareness reveals
the efficiencies in the human brain. If we can understand why
something fails, you can understand how it works.
Did you know? Magicians are perceptual experts. The best magic
tricks actually work for 99% of people, even when they know how
it’s done. Advertising doesn’t come close to this success rate.
Call to action! Understand your audience’s attention, because
where they look is not necessarily where they’re paying attention.
Eye tracking of magic tricks shows gaze is more complex.Website: Goldsmiths
Twitter: @RobTeszka
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PAUL CRAVEN Behavioural Coach, Salomon Partners
The Magic of Behavioural Economics
System 1 thinking is fast, it’s a stunningly efficient way of making
decisions. However, magic reveals the peculiarities and pitfalls
we all experience, they’re very predictable and often cannot be
overcome even when we understand the trick being played.
Did you know? Pick pocketing signs actually raise the instances
of pickpocketing. They give the criminals the pointers they need
because people react by checking (and showing) where their
valuables are located.
Call to action! Always challenge your assumptions, the world is
more complicated than your mind gives credit.
Website: Speaking engagements
Twitter: @mag11c
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ED GARDINER The Behavioural Design Lab, Warwick Business
School
A recipe for making good ideas happen
Understanding how we tick is half the challenge, applying
these insights in the real world is the real issue. We can
now turn cutting edge science into real world products
and interventions.
Did you know? The Design Council have created a ‘double
diamond’ to create behaviour changing interventions.
They use experiments not to show what does and doesn’t
work, but to improve their ideas.
Call to action! We need to help people help themselves,
this is the path to make lasting change. Behavioural
science is a catalyst for making good ideas happen.
Website: behaviouraldesignlab.org
Article: Changing behaviour by design
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KELLY PETERS CEO & Managing Partner at Beworks, Toronto
Corporate Sedition: Challenging the Status Quo
The tools we have to understand people just aren’t good enough.
Issues of self-presentation and preservation continue to limit our
understanding.
Did you know? A car insurance company tested the effect of applicants
signing the policy at the start rather than the end of the document.
Prof Nena Mazar tested this on 30,000 policies and found that signing
at the start increased annual mileage estimations by 10%. People were
nudged towards greater honesty.
Call to action! Scientists don’t need to be business leaders but
business leaders need to be scientific. It’s time to retire the old
marketing adage that says ‘for every dollar spent, 50% is wasted; we just
don’t know which half’ with scientifically-grounded innovation and
experimentation.
Website: Beworks.ca
Twitter: @KellyBEworks
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Cdr. STEVE TATHAM Ph.D. RN (rtd.) Senior Associate Complexas
Behavioural Conflict – Why Understanding People and their
Motivations will prove decisive in future conflict
Despite a long and enduring presence, the British forces didn’t
understand the people of Afghanistan. More often than not,
the local people do behave completely rationally, just not
viewed from a Western perspective.
Did you know? The British Forces changed their lexicon; from
suppress/destroy/isolate to reassure/influence/build.
Branded billboards advocating attitudinal change were found
to be ineffective.
Call to action! Far too much attention is given to informational
and attitude communications. The world at large, just as the
British Forces, need to recognise that behaviours form
attitudes. Not the other way around.
Website: behaviouralconflict.com
Article: Book review
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DR. JULES GODDARD Fellow of London Business School
The Fatal Bias: Why Overall Cost Leadership is a Losing
Strategy
Too many executives spend too much time seeking cost
efficiencies at the expense of their real job which is to
develop unique customer strategies.
Did you know? A wide-ranging study by Deloitte was
unable to find a single company that attributed cost-
leadership as the source of their success.
Research shows that pursuing ‘best practise’ is a losing
trajectory, achieving ‘unique practice’ is the competitive
advantage.
Call to action! The art of strategy is to stay one step ahead
of the need to be efficient.
Article: The Fatal Bias
Book: Uncommon Sense,
Common Nonsense
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RORY SUTHERLAND Vice-Chairman of the Ogilvy Group UK
Pier Review
Nudgestock 2 is a departure from the norm; built to push the
boundaries of academia and bring together divergent interests
under one roof (at the seaside).
Did you know? The invention of stripy toothpaste (red, white,
blue) reveals the intricacies of social cognition; we need
understand the world through a series of mental shortcuts
(heuristics). In this case, blue meaning fresh is more convincing
than white meaning everything.
Call to action! We all know a lot individually, but could know a
lot more collectively so continue to share and question what
you see everyday. Dare to be trivial.
Let’s make Deal to behavioural science what Palermo is to
organised crime.
Website: OgilvyChange.com
Twitter: @rorysutherland
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