From Future of Web Design San Francisco 2015. Presentation by Audrey An of Pantr.io and Alexa Roman of Carbon Five.
https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Test Driven Product Development Product Summit 2014David Bland
My Product Summit 2014 talk. Lean Startup is fundamentally changing how we approach modern product development. In this talk, David J Bland will speak to his experiences with advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on applying a test driven, lean startup approach to product development.
Introduction to Assumptions Mapping - Agile2016David Bland
Abstract:
LeanUX is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile. While teams are embracing experimentation, it is important that your teams don't waste all of their time running experiments on unimportant + known aspects of your product. Assumptions Mapping is a LeanUX exercise that gives you the power to facilitate a conversation with your team and enable them to focus on what matters. If you find yourself in an organization trying to adapt to conditions of extreme uncertainty, this workshop gives you actionable tools and advice that you can take back to your teams and apply right away.
Learning Outcomes:
How to use Assumptions Mapping to illustrate risk & focus your experimentation
How LeanUX is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile
What leadership and facilitation styles you'll need for LeanUX to thrive in your organization
How Your Corporation Can Organize for InnovationDavid Bland
Innovation, innovation, innovation.
It is all you hear in meetings and all you read in business books and magazines. The confusing aspect behind all of this hype is that we rarely put thought into how we design environments so that innovation can emerge.
In this free 45 minute webinar, David J Bland a Principal Advisor at Neo San Francisco, will guide you through how corporations are funding, measuring and organizing for disruptive innovation.
How should I fund innovation? The pros and cons of horizon planning and incremental funding.
How do I measure innovation? Hint, it is not ROI. We'll cover the ins and outs of innovation accounting.
How will the teams organize for innovation? What are the working agreements between the team and leadership? What ceremonies should we have?
You'll leave this session with actionable advice on how you, as a leader, can effectively organize so that innovation will emerge within your corporation.
Innovative Accounting will land you in prison, but Innovation Accounting will land you a product that matters. In this talk we'll dive into Pirate Metrics, Lean Analytics Phases and the Passionate User Model and emerge with a better understanding of how to apply Innovation Accounting to both increase retention and reduce friction in your product or service.
Slides from Alexa's July 29th workshop at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center on how to use customer stories not only to validate your product, but how to use these stories to build your audience.
Test Driven Product Development Product Summit 2014David Bland
My Product Summit 2014 talk. Lean Startup is fundamentally changing how we approach modern product development. In this talk, David J Bland will speak to his experiences with advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on applying a test driven, lean startup approach to product development.
Introduction to Assumptions Mapping - Agile2016David Bland
Abstract:
LeanUX is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile. While teams are embracing experimentation, it is important that your teams don't waste all of their time running experiments on unimportant + known aspects of your product. Assumptions Mapping is a LeanUX exercise that gives you the power to facilitate a conversation with your team and enable them to focus on what matters. If you find yourself in an organization trying to adapt to conditions of extreme uncertainty, this workshop gives you actionable tools and advice that you can take back to your teams and apply right away.
Learning Outcomes:
How to use Assumptions Mapping to illustrate risk & focus your experimentation
How LeanUX is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile
What leadership and facilitation styles you'll need for LeanUX to thrive in your organization
How Your Corporation Can Organize for InnovationDavid Bland
Innovation, innovation, innovation.
It is all you hear in meetings and all you read in business books and magazines. The confusing aspect behind all of this hype is that we rarely put thought into how we design environments so that innovation can emerge.
In this free 45 minute webinar, David J Bland a Principal Advisor at Neo San Francisco, will guide you through how corporations are funding, measuring and organizing for disruptive innovation.
How should I fund innovation? The pros and cons of horizon planning and incremental funding.
How do I measure innovation? Hint, it is not ROI. We'll cover the ins and outs of innovation accounting.
How will the teams organize for innovation? What are the working agreements between the team and leadership? What ceremonies should we have?
You'll leave this session with actionable advice on how you, as a leader, can effectively organize so that innovation will emerge within your corporation.
Innovative Accounting will land you in prison, but Innovation Accounting will land you a product that matters. In this talk we'll dive into Pirate Metrics, Lean Analytics Phases and the Passionate User Model and emerge with a better understanding of how to apply Innovation Accounting to both increase retention and reduce friction in your product or service.
Slides from Alexa's July 29th workshop at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center on how to use customer stories not only to validate your product, but how to use these stories to build your audience.
The design thinking transformation in businessCathy Wang
Presented at Webvisions Barcelona 2015 By Cathy Wang & Nuno Andrew
The definition of design is shifting from being a noun to a verb. We see it moving away from arts and craft into a methodology of delivering value. Adapting to this shift, designers and changemakers are forming a new way of design thinking.
As designer, not only are we crafting products / services, but we are also learning to see a much bigger system with a deep connection to business factors. How can we influence businesses with design thinking in order to build a solid business platform that delivers meaningful products / services.
Systems thinking is an approach to problem solving. Businesses are an intricate ecosystem, from how the organisation is structured, to people, to commercial planning, to processes. As designers, we practice systems thinking everyday. How do we use this knowledge to craft a business? This, is business design.
In this session, we want to explore what business design means. How to use what we know, as designers, to build stronger businesses? As we continue to adapt design methodologies and systems thinking to a business context, what other manifestations that will evolve? How can design thinking be leveraged in even the most straight-laced silos of a business such as Human Resources and Finance? How do we give design thinking the space it needs in the face of traditional business practice? And most importantly, how do we use our existing design thinking knowledge, to design businesses?
The design thinking transformation in businessNuno Oliveira
Presented at Webvisions Barcelona 2015 (IED) with Cathy Wang.
The definition of design is shifting from being a noun to a verb. We see it moving away from arts and craft into a methodology of delivering value. Adapting to this shift, designers and changemakers are forming a new way of design thinking.
As designer, not only are we crafting products / services, but we are also learning to see a much bigger system with a deep connection to business factors. How can we influence businesses with design thinking in order to build a solid business platform that delivers meaningful products / services.
Systems thinking is an approach to problem solving. Businesses are an intricate ecosystem, from how the organisation is structured, to people, to commercial planning, to processes. As designers, we practice systems thinking everyday. How do we use this knowledge to craft a business? This, is business design.
In this session, we want to explore what business design means. How to use what we know, as designers, to build stronger businesses? As we continue to adapt design methodologies and systems thinking to a business context, what other manifestations that will evolve? How can design thinking be leveraged in even the most straight-laced silos of a business such as Human Resources and Finance? How do we give design thinking the space it needs in the face of traditional business practice? And most importantly, how do we use our existing design thinking knowledge, to design businesses?
Is there such a thing as having too much influence? This talk argues that yes there is. From an ethical standpoint, we should examine *when* we influence as carefully as how. This talk sets ethical context, analyses some common categories of influence, and presents tools that may help decide whether to change course for ethical reasons.
The early stages of the product development lifecycle heavily influence the success and direction of any product. Unfortunately, these stages tend to be fuzzy, political, and silo-ed. The goal of the INDUSTRY Working Sessions is to apply the Design Studio methodology to arrive at solid design solutions through a collaborative, pragmatic process of illumination, sketching, presentation, critique, and iteration.
Connecting the Dots Between Leadership Development and Social ImpactMark Horoszowski
MovingWorlds.org CEO Mark Horoszowski shares best practices in connecting corporate social impact initiatives to leadership development, along with frameworks for building the business case at your own company.
Co Creative Innovation at ISPIM Innovation ConferenceInSites on Stage
Co-Creative Innovation by Tom De Ruyck (Managing Partner at InSites Consulting), presented at the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Budapest on June 15, 2015.
How to increase the social impact you makeDale Lane
Speakers notes at http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=3685
Machine Learning for Kids puts IBM’s AI technologies in the hands of children so they can learn about AI by playing, experimenting and making with them. It was created as a volunteer activity, initially for Dale’s own use, but this was incrementally scaled - with a variety of approaches used to enable and encourage use by both IBM locations and schools around the world.
This presentation describes some of the lessons learned doing this. It describes how you could increase the impact of the volunteer work that you do and ways to turn something that you do in a single local school into something that can be used around the world.
Kate Morris (Distilled) - Developing Real Business ContentMarketing Festival
Don't miss the next year of Marketing Festival Brno - http://www.marketingfestival.cz
You can also buy a video of this presentation at marketingfestival.cz
These are the slides from the content marketing workshop Rebekah and I (Ahrefs) conducted for TiECon 2019 in Chandigarh, India.
The objective of the workshop was to give attendees an action plan on how to drive more organic traffic to their site, even if they were not familiar with search engine optimization (SEO).
Creating brand stories that connect, excite, and move audiences through the sales funnel is not easy! Effective storytelling attracts and connects people to your brand and provides a tangible outcome to the bottom line but only if done properly. In this deck learn how to create and promote epic brand stories. Learn about brand archetypes, the science behind storytelling, personas, and how successful companies and brands work to make the customer the center of the story.
Teresa Torres - An introduction to modern product discovery - Productized16Productized
The world of product management is changing quickly. In the past five years alone, we’ve seen the rise of The Lean Startup, design thinking, the Jobs-to-be-done framework, design sprints, OKRs, and much more. It can be hard for product teams to keep up. In this talk, you’ll learn a simple framework for how to make sense of all of these trends. You’ll learn how to mix and match methods in a way that leads to a coherent strategy that leads to better products.
Teresa is a product coach helping teams adopt user-centered, hypothesis-driven product development practices, and is the creator of Product Talk. She works with companies of all sizes on integrating user research, experimentation, and the right analytics into the product development process resulting in better product decisions.
Effective zero-volume keyword research and why it’s importantMark Williams-Cook
In this talk, Mark will explain why Google’s algorithm changes mean zero-volume searches are more important now than they ever have been and why ignoring zero-volume search terms leads to poor strategic decisions. For those new to the topic, he will also give actionable advice about tools and methodologies to integrate zero-volume into your workflow.
We’ve all heard (and lived) the words: Agile Development. Lean Startup. Design Thinking. As product makers, most of our time is spent stuck in the trenches of designing, building and shipping products to market. We rarely have time to take a step back and think about the theory behind our best practices. This talk takes an accessible deep dive into the science of innovation, evolutionary biology and complex systems, answering:
Why are there so many different power sockets in the world?
What’s a fitness landscape and how do I get off my local maximum?
Is there any truth behind the 80/20 rule?
What do the Wright Brothers have to do with Instagram?
The design thinking transformation in businessCathy Wang
Presented at Webvisions Barcelona 2015 By Cathy Wang & Nuno Andrew
The definition of design is shifting from being a noun to a verb. We see it moving away from arts and craft into a methodology of delivering value. Adapting to this shift, designers and changemakers are forming a new way of design thinking.
As designer, not only are we crafting products / services, but we are also learning to see a much bigger system with a deep connection to business factors. How can we influence businesses with design thinking in order to build a solid business platform that delivers meaningful products / services.
Systems thinking is an approach to problem solving. Businesses are an intricate ecosystem, from how the organisation is structured, to people, to commercial planning, to processes. As designers, we practice systems thinking everyday. How do we use this knowledge to craft a business? This, is business design.
In this session, we want to explore what business design means. How to use what we know, as designers, to build stronger businesses? As we continue to adapt design methodologies and systems thinking to a business context, what other manifestations that will evolve? How can design thinking be leveraged in even the most straight-laced silos of a business such as Human Resources and Finance? How do we give design thinking the space it needs in the face of traditional business practice? And most importantly, how do we use our existing design thinking knowledge, to design businesses?
The design thinking transformation in businessNuno Oliveira
Presented at Webvisions Barcelona 2015 (IED) with Cathy Wang.
The definition of design is shifting from being a noun to a verb. We see it moving away from arts and craft into a methodology of delivering value. Adapting to this shift, designers and changemakers are forming a new way of design thinking.
As designer, not only are we crafting products / services, but we are also learning to see a much bigger system with a deep connection to business factors. How can we influence businesses with design thinking in order to build a solid business platform that delivers meaningful products / services.
Systems thinking is an approach to problem solving. Businesses are an intricate ecosystem, from how the organisation is structured, to people, to commercial planning, to processes. As designers, we practice systems thinking everyday. How do we use this knowledge to craft a business? This, is business design.
In this session, we want to explore what business design means. How to use what we know, as designers, to build stronger businesses? As we continue to adapt design methodologies and systems thinking to a business context, what other manifestations that will evolve? How can design thinking be leveraged in even the most straight-laced silos of a business such as Human Resources and Finance? How do we give design thinking the space it needs in the face of traditional business practice? And most importantly, how do we use our existing design thinking knowledge, to design businesses?
Is there such a thing as having too much influence? This talk argues that yes there is. From an ethical standpoint, we should examine *when* we influence as carefully as how. This talk sets ethical context, analyses some common categories of influence, and presents tools that may help decide whether to change course for ethical reasons.
The early stages of the product development lifecycle heavily influence the success and direction of any product. Unfortunately, these stages tend to be fuzzy, political, and silo-ed. The goal of the INDUSTRY Working Sessions is to apply the Design Studio methodology to arrive at solid design solutions through a collaborative, pragmatic process of illumination, sketching, presentation, critique, and iteration.
Connecting the Dots Between Leadership Development and Social ImpactMark Horoszowski
MovingWorlds.org CEO Mark Horoszowski shares best practices in connecting corporate social impact initiatives to leadership development, along with frameworks for building the business case at your own company.
Co Creative Innovation at ISPIM Innovation ConferenceInSites on Stage
Co-Creative Innovation by Tom De Ruyck (Managing Partner at InSites Consulting), presented at the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Budapest on June 15, 2015.
How to increase the social impact you makeDale Lane
Speakers notes at http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=3685
Machine Learning for Kids puts IBM’s AI technologies in the hands of children so they can learn about AI by playing, experimenting and making with them. It was created as a volunteer activity, initially for Dale’s own use, but this was incrementally scaled - with a variety of approaches used to enable and encourage use by both IBM locations and schools around the world.
This presentation describes some of the lessons learned doing this. It describes how you could increase the impact of the volunteer work that you do and ways to turn something that you do in a single local school into something that can be used around the world.
Kate Morris (Distilled) - Developing Real Business ContentMarketing Festival
Don't miss the next year of Marketing Festival Brno - http://www.marketingfestival.cz
You can also buy a video of this presentation at marketingfestival.cz
These are the slides from the content marketing workshop Rebekah and I (Ahrefs) conducted for TiECon 2019 in Chandigarh, India.
The objective of the workshop was to give attendees an action plan on how to drive more organic traffic to their site, even if they were not familiar with search engine optimization (SEO).
Creating brand stories that connect, excite, and move audiences through the sales funnel is not easy! Effective storytelling attracts and connects people to your brand and provides a tangible outcome to the bottom line but only if done properly. In this deck learn how to create and promote epic brand stories. Learn about brand archetypes, the science behind storytelling, personas, and how successful companies and brands work to make the customer the center of the story.
Teresa Torres - An introduction to modern product discovery - Productized16Productized
The world of product management is changing quickly. In the past five years alone, we’ve seen the rise of The Lean Startup, design thinking, the Jobs-to-be-done framework, design sprints, OKRs, and much more. It can be hard for product teams to keep up. In this talk, you’ll learn a simple framework for how to make sense of all of these trends. You’ll learn how to mix and match methods in a way that leads to a coherent strategy that leads to better products.
Teresa is a product coach helping teams adopt user-centered, hypothesis-driven product development practices, and is the creator of Product Talk. She works with companies of all sizes on integrating user research, experimentation, and the right analytics into the product development process resulting in better product decisions.
Effective zero-volume keyword research and why it’s importantMark Williams-Cook
In this talk, Mark will explain why Google’s algorithm changes mean zero-volume searches are more important now than they ever have been and why ignoring zero-volume search terms leads to poor strategic decisions. For those new to the topic, he will also give actionable advice about tools and methodologies to integrate zero-volume into your workflow.
We’ve all heard (and lived) the words: Agile Development. Lean Startup. Design Thinking. As product makers, most of our time is spent stuck in the trenches of designing, building and shipping products to market. We rarely have time to take a step back and think about the theory behind our best practices. This talk takes an accessible deep dive into the science of innovation, evolutionary biology and complex systems, answering:
Why are there so many different power sockets in the world?
What’s a fitness landscape and how do I get off my local maximum?
Is there any truth behind the 80/20 rule?
What do the Wright Brothers have to do with Instagram?
Startup and Growth companies that have unique and compelling product ideas still need to find a strategic pathway towards building that vision into a final product. Designing and building features is just part of the puzzle and fast iterations are only helpful if you are gaining real and useful learning from those releases. Data strategy ensures that each product feature released is backed by data to measure its impact and effectiveness.
Yasmine Molavi’s lightning talk on design process from Kluge’s Evenings at the Loft in Los Angeles. A checklist list of Things you can and should do before you get to visual design. You can view descriptions of each slide at http://blog.carbonfive.com/the-power-of-process/
Sean Durham and Alexa Roman's talk from Smashing Conference Whistler 2014 Jam Session. Ways we use play at Carbon Five to drive product definition, motivate the team, connect with our community and build capabilities.
Lightning Talk for Ada Lovelace Day 2013Carbon Five
Carbon Five Tech Lead, Courtney Hemphill, joined a host of women speaking on their inspirations and journeys in science, technology, engineering, and math to celebrate Ada Lovelace day at Thoughtworks in SF. This talk focused on how Ada's uniquely creative and analytical upbringing allowed her to see future potential in technology and how early exposure to computers and puzzles inspired a balanced transition from design to development in Courtney's career.
Flowcon - Mixing Lean UX & Agile DevelopmentCarbon Five
Mixing Lean UX and Agile Development - How to minimize risk, maximize flexibility, and create a loved product. Updated and enhanced for Flowcon November 1st, 2013!
More print-your-own recipe cards inspired by Conversation, Cadence & Culture: recipes to inspire collaborative teams. Workshop presented at Lean UX NYC http://leanuxnyc.co/nyc/.
Print two sided on 8x5"x11" card stock. Cut in four pieces. Produces two sets of six cards. Keep one, share one with a friend!Print two sided on 8x5"x11" card stock. Cut in four pieces. Produces two sets of six cards. Keep one, share one with a friend!
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Specific ServPoints should be tailored for restaurants in all food service segments. Your ServPoints should be the centerpiece of brand delivery training (guest service) and align with your brand position and marketing initiatives, especially in high-labor-cost conditions.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design