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Scaling Your UX Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Some companies believe that outsourcing to design firms is becoming less attractive as the value of UX as a core business asset increases. This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.