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AI — The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
After sinking a generous amount of time into our AI “research” over our first week back, and experimenting with the new tools in our projects, our findings were absolutely staggering — to say the least.
A Diverse Perspective for a Thriving World: Our “Why”
About a year ago, a team of us started having active conversations about diversity within work teams. We realised it was a huge space, with many questions. So we set about learning more and answering as many of them as we could…
Why a Culture of Busyness is Killing your Growth and Three ways to Defeat it
Every business aspires to attract, develop and keep great people so that they can continue to grow, and enjoy doing it together. Then busyness comes along and ruins the party.
This is How You Succeed with a Remote Design Sprint
The Design Sprint is a great method when you want to test a new idea, solve a challenge or kick off an innovation project. But what do we do now that we can no longer gather in front of a whiteboard full of post-its? Does a design sprint work remotely?
The Key to Competitive Digital Services
The key to creating digital products and services your customers – and your business – love, is to work insight-driven. But what does that really mean and why is that? Doesn't doing user research just take time and cost money? Osynlig's Design Manager Jonas Englund clears up the question marks.
Digitisation?
Competitors release new digital services, growth slows down and the marketing department tells us that customers think the brand is stale. You know you should gear up the digitisation. But how? Here are five tips:
Scale UX in the Organisation
Some of the most successful companies all have one thing in common – they put the customer at the centre. How do you create the conditions for that in the organisation?
How to Choose the Right Agency for your Digital Investment
Collaboration with your chosen agency is a prerequisite for a successful project. Here we share our tips on what you as a client can think about when choosing a new agency partner.
The Value of UX Literacy
What is the value of UX design? Why should brands prioritise UX design and what’s the value for the end user? What do you think of when you look at the photo below?
Data is just Wind Unless it Directs your Product Design Sails
No one dreams of being on a vessel lost at sea tossed around by the tide and at the mercy of the wind for direction. Yet all too often we hear about those either “drowning” in user data, or even worse, trying to direct their product design team without a working compass (no data or metrics at all!).
Vision without Execution is Hallucination
It's not about falling in love with building the product. It's about falling in love with the process of building a great company. Make the shift from building a great product and idea to great execution.
Leaders as Explorers
Reframing what leadership means in the 21st Century has been a quest for us at Neu21 since our humble beginnings. What got leaders into their positions today, is unlikely to be what keeps them and their teams thriving into the future. Leadership requires a different approach - one that is less expert and more explorational.
Your Ideas don't Matter as Much as you Think they Do.
Ideas are abundant in companies. The problem that I have encountered time and again is the inability to effectively transform ideas into products and services that appeal to a captive market.
The Future of Work Starts with our Kids
My one ask is that you look at diversity through two lenses: that of working with people in the workforce today, and that of standing in the playground observing our future workforce or even, our future ‘human-force’.
KPI’s damage Culture
Traditional management practices today attempt to extract high performance by motivating individuals through key performance indicators (KPIs). Whilst at the same time, making it clear that should they underperform, a managerial figure will know about it. Little wonder why organisations spend such a large time investment on annual performance reviews. We believe that there’s another way…
From Strangers to Champions: The Remarkable Journey Fuelled by Human Connection
In a world where teams are constantly shifting, teams are needing to perform quickly without much time together. This Futsal team story has some lessons to provide you to help accelerate the process of achieving high performance in your team.
Blending High Tech and High Touch: Human Moments and the Evolution of Hybrid Work Cultures
How Human Moments at work bridge the gap between our instinctual needs for personal connection and the realities of hybrid work culture.
The Puzzle of Psychological Safety
When does psychological safety help and when does it hinder team performance?
Generative AI and the Potential of What is to Come
As generative AI increasingly permeates knowledge work, it is important to understand what it’s doing, how it can be used productively, as well as recognise its limitations.
Building a Company without Job Titles: The Opportunities and Pitfalls.
Should we be designing our org structure to satisfy egos, or to enable our people to thrive? We continue to experiment with the best way to depict who we are and how we’re different, without creating a polarity that prevents us from delivering great work. The pros and cons of deleting job titles.
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