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Why User Experience Always Has to Come First

Harvard Business Review

Actions speak louder than mission statements. Entire KPI dashboards have apparently been built around receptivity/abandonment behaviors. If a UX feels more like “User Exploitation” than “User Experience,” business becomes ripe for disruption. So these UX themes transcend digital advertising trends.

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

Mission The mission statement is your statement of purpose. The mission statement does not describe the methods you use to accomplish your vision; it describes why you exist to accomplish the vision. The vision statement should be succinct and clear; everyone should know where you’re going.

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How I Got My Team To Fail More

Harvard Business Review

The KPIs also helped ensure our failures were disciplined failures, not the result of sloppiness. We originally envisioned the metric as a formal KPI in each staffer’s annual performance review. We went radical by re-casting our team’s mission statement into two words: Reinvent PBS.

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