In my old school composition book, I just wrote the text for a cartoon. It’s the latest in a series of cartoons I’ve been drawing for Factor10x. A single character sits behind his laptop at his desk. His monologue goes like this: [Panel 1] “Innovation has helped me work faster! And, deliver more!” [Panel 2] …
This statistic from a McKinsey report crosses my screen several times every week: employees spend 1.8 hours every day searching for information. 19.8% of their time is spent looking for relevant stuff. What startles me about the ubiquity of this statistic is that it’s from 2012. In technology time, that’s an eon ago. I did …
Let’s face it, rabbits cannot produce rabbits as fast as business has produced communication routes. Of course, that’s not extravagance. The rapid proliferation of communication channels and differing types of channels is driven by necessity: single communication strategies can’t keep up with the meteoric rise and rapid pace of information. We Slack for immediacy, tweet …
At the beginning, to make the problem clear to me, Skip shared some numbers. A day in the life of an actual person, a project manager: 10 active clients representing 15 projects, 150 Slack channels to monitor and, my personal favorite impossibility: she facilitates 15 different calendars. Torrents of information swirling in separate information silos. …
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 …
