What can the Dead Sea Scrolls teach us about digital? Probably nothing, but…

Bill Ross·3 July 2018·Delivery

.....They may explain why many digital initiatives fail. In 1947, in the Judean Desert, in Qumran, an ancient settlement along the Dead Sea, a Bedouin shepherd found a collection of 3000 year-old documents commonly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unknown to many, these documents are comprised of not only Biblical… Read More...

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BHF Sprint in a Day: Agile Myth Busting

Phil Dearson·22 May 2018·Delivery

...Recently we’ve had the very great pleasure of designing a Sprint in a Day workshop with the team at the British Heart Foundation. There’s no shortage of jibber-jabber about “agile” in media and business circles, so we focused on designing something very practical in an attempt to… Read More...

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Lean UX: Create a Minimum Viable Product

Ripu Daman Singh·24 April 2018·Delivery

...Lean UX is all about cutting waste and minimizing work required in creating a product or service. That’s the reason a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is used heavily in its process. It is perhaps the fastest and cheapest way to find out whether a feature is worth investing in at… Read More...

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How to get full value from your transformation

Phil Darby·22 April 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Last month the Harvard Review published an article that highlighted the disillusionment of senior managers with the return they are getting on their transformation investment. The truth is most transformations fail to some degree and many simply fall short of expectations, but that’s to do with the way they… Read More...

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How a Product Sprint Took This Sports App from Idea to Build in Just Five Days

Richard Lucas·17 April 2018·Delivery

...This week, Discerning Digital MD Richard Lucas shares some of our most recent client insight into the value of a product sprint. Digital transformation needn’t be slow and difficult to implement; in fact it should be just the opposite. As the pressure to serve customers in the digital… Read More...

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Good Enough Won’t Win You The Race

Roland Rust·6 March 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Getting a new digital product off the ground is never easy. Digital change and transformation is hard to understand for a lot of people and every projects need advocates at every level of an organisation. “Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you’ll suck forever.” – Brian… Read More...

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Digital Transformation: Key Leadership Methods for Success

Mark Hewitt·30 January 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Digital transformation is the business, technology and process response to an empowered customer who demands an empathetic and emotional experience in context – the right information at the right time in the right channel and on the right device. According to Dell Technologies’ Digital Transformation Index (a study… Read More...

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Data at the heart of transformation

Sally Philip·20 December 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Data is still at the heart of the debate in how business should go about transforming. Equally I hear much Corporate intra-team discussion focusing on the need to understand customers better; - What do they want and need and do? What drives their buying decisions? What drives their behaviour -  how their expectations are derived and therefore delivered against. Read More...

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How Internet Companies Made Us Addicted to our Smartphones

Dana Damanhouri·30 October 2017·Enabling Technologies

...Smartphones and social networking companies have deliberately designed their platforms to be as addictive as possible. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings admits the aim of his company: Read More...

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Thinking about the Future: Digital Strategy

Nigel Tebbutt·17 July 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Technology Disruption through Digital Transformation is a high-impact catalyst for Economic Restructuring across global markets – generating enhanced business performance and accelerated sales revenue through novel and innovative Digital Business Operating Models. Digital Strategy – Problem / Opportunity Domain The key challenges for enterprises thinking… Read More...

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Agile Risk and Issue management & reporting

Craig Cockburn·1 December 2016·Delivery

...I have worked in many places as an agile coach, delivery manager and agile project manager where teams do the maintenance of the product backlog and product delivery effectively, but when it comes to the more "project management" activities there are sometimes tendencies to use more waterfall techniques that are less suitable to agile. Read More...

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How Did We Raise Our Series A Round? A Startup Founder's Perspective

Digital Transformation People·29 March 2016·People & Change

...Around this same time last year, two things happened: Read More...

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