Grand Unified Theory of Service Design, Systems Design, and Organization Design

Jeff Sussna is an internationally-recognized systems thinker and IT expert, combining engineering expertise with an ability to bridge business, creative, and technical perspectives. He is Founder and Principal of Ingineering.IT, and will be speaking and leading a workshop at this year’s Managing Experience Conference in San Francisco, March 29–30. I sat down with Jeff to […]

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Managing Designers

Are there common personality traits among designers that should shape the way they’re managed? Design managers naturally think about what they need from their team, but Bob Baxley, a design executive in Silicon Valley, believes it’s more interesting to consider what designers need from their manager in order to thrive. Baxley is a keynote speaker at this year’s Managing […]

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Five Definitive Rules For Vetting Your First Business Partner

Looking for a partner starts with being honest with yourself about where you see your venture heading.

Plenty of companies are born when one person with one set of skills has one idea. But entrepreneurship doesn’t often stay a solo affair forever. At some point, you may want to bring in a partner to help you with the parts of your business that don’t play to your strengths.

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IBM Watson can guess what’s in your photos with scary accuracy

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IBM announced that its Watson AI is getting image recognition capabilities earlier in the year, but this site that lets you feed in your own photos to see what it thinks is in them is both impressive and scary. The visual recognition demo lets you give Watson an image URL or upload a photo and it’ll come back in a few seconds with what it thinks it sees. In my tests I fed Watson a few random photos I had on hand and the accuracy was quite surprising. It could figure out what was in landscape shots, animals (down to the breed)…

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