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Weak Ties, Well-Being and Work Today

Ed Batista

On a larger scale, most of my clients hold in-person events for functional teams and in some case the entire company. But almost all of them get together in-person on a consistent basis, often for several days a month or even one or two weeks per quarter. 11] Ibid. [12] Photo by AJ Cann.

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Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014

Harvard Business Review

The third trend is the rise of user experience–UX–beyond screens, as consumers remake physical settings like offices and homes so they adapt to our behavior. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables. Stitch these together and you see a distinct, welcome trend away from screens and toward the real world.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012. We didn’t have enough people to respond, and we couldn’t scale up fast enough.

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How to Use Stretch Assignments to Support Social Good

Harvard Business Review

While she had ownership of a specific part of an important website, the sheer scale of the site and the size of her team meant that Deana never had the chance to manage the design and implementation of a full website from start to finish, nor to lead a team in that process.

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Should You Compete with Amazon or Sell on Amazon?

Harvard Business Review

adults shopped online at least monthly, with 1/3 of adults shopping online every week, up from 24% in 2014 (Mintel). To scale on Amazon, Quidsi capitalized on selection breadth and uniqueness, and created effective and predictive pricing algorithms to beat their competitors. In 2015, 2/3 of U.S.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. They want to understand what the user is trying to do at work, not simply how they interact with an existing application. Rich Products , a $3.3

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3 Ways AI Is Getting More Emotional

Harvard Business Review

And can you credibly justify the inclusion of emotional clues for the betterment of the user experience? Has the user given you explicit permission to analyze their emotions? When smart speakers entered the American living room in 2014, we started to get used to hearing computers refer to themselves as “I.”