There is a lot of talk about AI taking jobs away and automating what us humans do. AI isn’t the first threat to taking away jobs. In the end, the machines find a useful existence and us humans learn new ways of working with new tools and find additional opportunity […]
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I had the pleasure of talking at the UACon 2024 Winter Talk Conference. It’s a virtual conference but a bit different. Things we pre-recoded but you had to watch/participate on the day that that talk was given. Derek Lane puts this conference together and it’s a lot of work even […]
Establishing shared understanding in service of innovative product development. If you are in product management and wish that discovery would take much less time – this paper is for you. Throughout many fields of work, we find numerous examples of visual models and representations that facilitate early discovery of what […]
This talk was based on a white paper I wrote when at Turnberry Solutions. We need to really think about two key things: Efficiency and Effectiveness For so long the world has been focusing on efficiency within a team building a software product. Sure – this can be a good […]
trans·par·en·cy /tran(t)ˈsperənsē/ noun Does transparency scare the living $#*! out of you? When you are forced onto these glass floors at extreme heights, it’s darn scary. Imagine you are new to a team. Let’s say you’re even new to a career. With both of those conditions, you know you want […]
Using Zero Distance and Product Tools to Innovate in Healthcare – A Case Study Presented by: Creg Schumann, Nathan Koering, & Jim Christy – Turnberry Solutions & Optum Behavioral Health This panel presentation will describe how a group was put together to explore in “dark space” to find solutionswhere none […]
So often, people’s very best intentions to make a tool work better for us inadvertently make the tool work against us. Our schemes for the perfect tool configuration frequently miss what we think is a rare case but is actually an all-too-common occurrence for a few – if not many – teams. It’s at […]
How do you approach innovation? This talk was a case study and some ideas that can help when innovating. During this engagement I ran across some of the best innovation and creativity conversations and writing I have found to date. I’d suggest you look at what Emergent Futures Lab is […]
When Books Were All We Had Back in the later 1980’s and the 1990’s I think I invested a ton of money buying new books on all the latest tech topics. Databases, programming languages, methodologies, all the things. I spent a lot of money. I needed a book! And thankfully, […]
It was September, 2020 – the middle (at least of this writing) the global pandemic. My partner was at a loss for most of the pandemic as bike race after bike race cancelled. However, the Lotaja race was on. We drove a long way from Minnesota to Logan Utah where […]