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5 reasons why rapid prototyping works for creative projects

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 2, 2010

The open source community has a phrase for the principle of rapid prototyping: “Release early, release often.” The theory is sound: Don’t wait until a project is perfect to share it. Instead, keep producing work so more people can experience it, react to it, find bugs, and improve it.

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Inside the culture of Wikipedia: Q&A with the author of “Good Faith Collaboration”

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 1, 2010

Wikipedia is among the world’s most widely recognized examples of mass collaboration. Most people also know Wikipedia is open for anyone to contribute. But what does open mean? What are the rules? Who writes them? And how do they solve inevitable disputes over content?

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Change By Design–How to put design thinking to work

4 Comments Posted by on November 17, 2009

Design is too powerful to be used by designers alone. This is the essential idea behind the theory of design thinking–applying the principles and techniques of design to help organizations innovate, solve problems, and create positive change. Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO, should know. His new book, Change By Design, is about how [...]

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Reflections on the Coach K Leadership Conference

2 Comments Posted by on October 22, 2009

This week I had the pleasure of attending the Coach K Leadership Conference at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The theme of the conference was leading in times of uncertainty. I won’t try to summarize points from all of the presenters–mostly because that’s already been done, and done well: Just go to the Twitter stream [...]

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