Monthly Archives: July 2011
Recommending Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
Found at Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility.
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate tosocial business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world.
The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with how they are organizing around digital strategy in general. In this context I’m referring primarily to Web strategy — including the various aspects of a business it touches — since that’s almost entirely where digital is headed as a whole. One of the aspects that stands out the most when I’ve worked with companies recently is that most traditional businesses often have a dramatically lower level of maturity around digital delivery of their capabilities than native Web firms. This despite it being almost twenty years since the Web arrived. It’s clear there is significant impedance between the way digital business works and the way many companies still operate.
Updating Digital Strategy For Social Business and Mobile
The long-term ramifications of the Web continue to be felt by most organizations, particularly since the evolution of the Internet has not only picked up pace, it’s now profoundly situated in the way society and culture works today. Businesses do increasingly feel the need to catch up and reconcile themselves with these broad changes. Conscious attempts at this include formulating a comprehensive view of what digital strategy means today and this is what we’ll explore in some detail here.
Though recent global trends such as social media and next-generation mobile have
Read all at Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility.
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- Connecting with Gen Y (business-strategy-innovation.com)
- Learning about the Social Business trend: Three IBM White Papers – HorizonWatching (horizonwatching.typepad.com)
- The Social Business Stack: The Elements (dachisgroup.com)
- Adoption strategies for Social Software (headshift.com)
- What Enterprise Social Business Software Should We Use? – chieftech’s blog (chieftech.com.au)
In case u missed Zephyr Blog » Design thinking
Found at Zephyr Blog » Design thinking.
A recent post on the Fast Company Design site has got us worried.
www.fastcodesign.com/can-innovation-really-be-reduced-to-a-process
Have we missed the debate on the application of Design Thinking to business or was it a US concept that didn’t travel over here until one of its biggest proponents decided to move on to another proposition? (Creative Intelligence, in case you’re wondering: www.fastcodesign.com/design-thinking-is-a-failed-experiment-so-whats-next)
Read all at Zephyr Blog » Design thinking.
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- Indeed, a design thinking tool kit for operational managers (serve4impact.com)
- Tim Brown’s “We’re Spent” ” Design Thinking IDEO (serve4impact.com)
Design Thinking Method Cards (Beta 1.0)
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- The New Game Of Strategy (business-strategy-innovation.com)
- 10 ways to think like a designer (innovationtools.com)
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- A review of Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (innovationtools.com)
The Best Strategy For Big Innovation: Knowing Your Limits | Co. Design
The Best Strategy For Big Innovation: Knowing Your Limits | Co. Design.
Before we announce the death of Design Thinking, we ought to at least agree on what it meant — or rather, what it means, since, although maligned, the practice is alive and well and continues to help churn out innovative solutions to intractable problems for the few organizations that get it right.
Read all atThe Best Strategy For Big Innovation: Knowing Your Limits | Co. Design.
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Recommended: Community management is like
Recommended: Community management is like cholesterol – Summary :we’re still fare from being done with discuss… http://ow.ly/1dYmHE
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Are your customers becoming digital junkies? – McKinsey Quarterly – Marketing & Sales – Digital Marketing
New McKinsey research highlights a dramatic increase in the intensity with which people use digital devices and platforms. Nearly 50 percent of US online consumers are now advanced users of smartphones, social networks, and other emerging tools—up from 32 percent in 2008.
We have been tracking consumers’ digital habits through a series of surveys covering more than 100,000 respondents across North America, Europe, and Asia.1
Read all at Are your customers becoming digital junkies? – McKinsey Quarterly – Marketing & Sales – Digital Marketing.
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