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Digital Culture In Organizations Shaping Behavior

  • Employee Experience, Enterprise Products, Project Management, Strategy, Team Dynamics, Technology

Embrace the digital revolution and unlock the potential of your workforce.

Article by Kamales Lardi
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Digital Culture In Organizations Shaping Behavior
  • The article explains why companies that prioritize digital culture during transformation initiatives report:
    • sustained strong or breakthrough performance;
    • empowering employees;
    • attracting talent;
    • preparing leadership to manage digitally-savvy employees.
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The Leadership Leverage Points In A Design And Innovation System

  • Design, Personal and Professional Development, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior

The insights on how leadership can make or break innovation and design projects.

Article by Rich Nadworny
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The Leadership Leverage Points In A Design And Innovation System
  • According to the author, ,weaknesses in the design thinking process can often be traced back to leadership’s failure to support the project.
  • Leaders can maximize their impact on innovation and design by creating a compelling story, being clear about the consequences of not buying in, and implementing ongoing assessments to amplify successful practices.
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Stop Doing Digital Transformation

  • Project Management, Strategy, Technology for the Common Good, UX Magazine

Start using service design for organisational change.

Article by Jessica Sherratt
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Stop Doing Digital Transformation
  • According to the author, there are many ways digital transformation can go wrong – ignoring the human layer, money and time disbalance, and using digitisation only.
  • The author believes that organizations should prioritize a more human-centered and experimental approach to change-making if they are to transition successfully.
  • The article covers the main concepts of successful digital transformation:
    • service design;
    • human-centered solutions;
    • lean approach.
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Influencing UX Stakeholder Values: 6 Ways to Convey the Significance of User Research

  • Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Interviews, Product design, Project Management, Research Methods and Techniques

Has UX research ever been the priority for your stakeholders? If not, here are some ways to convey its significance.

Article by Sofya Savkina
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Influencing UX Stakeholder Values: 6 Ways to Convey the Significance of User Research
  • When stakeholders have insights around user needs, goals and behaviors, the team can make evidence-based decisions.
  • One of the most common pain points are having to communicate and prove the value of UX and user research to leadership.
  • One author shares some ideas to overcome this:
    1. Understand the “why” behind the push-back
    2. Speak your stakeholders’ language
    3. Don’t fight the battle alone
    4. Find and use tools made by the government, for the government
    5. Identify quick wins to show the value of UX faster
    6. Get better value for stakeholders out of the user research
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How to Train and Develop the 12 Competencies of UX Design

  • Business UX Leaders, Business Value and ROI, Employee Experience, Employment and Hiring, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior

Foundational UX skills that will help your team delve deeper into UX design

Article by Ward Andrews
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How to Train and Develop the 12 Competencies of UX Design
  • There are 12 core competencies that a UX design team should master. These skills differentiate human designers from any existing robot.
  • Looking for a purpose and asking “why” in addition to “how” and “what” is a good starting point to deliver the right solution that solves users’ problems.
  • It is equally important to validate designs, review user flows, refine UX writing skills, and, most importantly, become genuine advocates for users experience.

Read the article to get practical advice on how to develop these 12 core competencies of a UX team.

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User Journey Mapping for Complex Enterprise Systems

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Enterprise Products, Project Management, Strategy

At its most basic, journey mapping is a compilation of user goals and actions into a timeline. Here we show insightful details that add value to the design process.

Article by Bansi Mehta
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User Journey Mapping for Complex Enterprise Systems

Journey maps are meant to demonstrate the holistic user experience. Here are 5 ways that using journey maps can help with organizing complex enterprise systems:

  1. Drive the organization’s outlook from inside-out to outside-in
  2. Create a common vision that is followed across the company
  3. Enable departments to own responsibility of key touchpoints
  4. Target specific areas of improvement
  5. Help make sense of problem areas in work processes

Read the full article for more some journey map examples and more information on how they can help simplify complex systems.

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