Thirty years ago I had the pleasure of teaching Kelly Franznick about product planning when he was a Masters Student at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech. Over the years our careers intertwined and we enjoyed the reciprocal learning of two #entrepreneurs. Since our early learning, Kelly became a master of user experience (#UX) …
In January 2017, Eric Robinson and I attended a senior executive meeting of FTI Consulting where the keynote speaker was Heidi Gardner, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School She described how her research on Smart Collaboration could be used by professional services companies to exponentially increase their revenues organically. Professor Gardner shared that her research …
“…we are effectively trying to get the human to function more like a computer.” ~Karim Butt, A Human-Centered Approach to Building a Next-Gen Operating System for Work Full disclosure: In this latest chapter I’ve found myself hard at work as the right-brain in a left-brain software start-up company (more on that in future posts). As …
Ever look up at your screens and realize how many tabs you have open? How many is too many to keep track of? Every open tab represents a potential distraction to your current task. Studies show that it may take an average of 23 minutes to resume a task following a same or different context …
