Innovation
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The Evolution of African Rural University
Co-Designed by Its Faculty, Students, and End-Customers (People the Grads Will Serve)
by Patricia SeyboldDiscover how 29 young Ugandan women helped shape a unique innovative educational institution. Learn how necessity led them to create a new profession. Find out how a university should measure its success. -
The History of Customer Scenario Design
Co-Designed and Evolved with Customers
by Ronni MarshakHear the story of how we co-designed our Customer Scenario Mapping methodology with our lead customers. -
Secret to Successful Customer Engagements
Beware of These Four Things that Will Doom Your Customer-Centric Initiatives
by Patricia SeyboldIf you want to involve customers in co-designing products, services, and/or customer-impacting business processes, you should know about, and avoid, these four common pitfalls. -
Zopa: Peer-to-Peer Lender Celebrates 10 Years
Spawned a Global Multibillion Industry; Still Going Strong
by Patricia SeyboldOver 50,000 British consumers have invested in providing loans to over 100,000 British consumers and small business owners via Zopa since 2005. Lenders have provided £770,000 of their money to their peers, in exchange for an average return of 5 percent. -
Co-Designing Health & Care with a Community
How a Prospective Provider in Boothbay Maine Is Gathering Customer Requirements
by Patricia SeyboldBoothbay Region Health Care is a start up non-profit chartered to provide primary healthcare for the residents and visitors in their region. They’re in the strategic planning stage of their project. Customer co-design is part of their planning process. -
Designing Solutions for Aging in Place
Part 1: Boothbay’s Awesome Seniors’ Initiative—First Year
by Patricia SeyboldHow do seniors design services that will enable them to thrive in their own homes? They look at what they need. They look at what they have. They experiment. -
Educating a Generation of Change-Makers
Meet Some Graduates of URDT’s Breakthrough Curriculum
by Catherine Namwezi, Godliver BusingeFor over 25 years, Uganda Rural Development and Training (URDT) has evolved and refined an educational curriculum that empowers people to become creators, leaders, and entrepreneurs. These young women are changing our world. -
Building an Innovation Culture
Learnings and Take-Aways from Patty’s Pioneers – Fall 2014 Meeting
by Patricia SeyboldFor over 20 years, Patty Seybold has gathered a group of “Pioneers” with amazing track records in creating new platforms, products, and businesses. Here are practices they have in common that you can adopt to achieve similar success. -
Ten Steps that May Save (or Improve) Your Life
Prepare Now to Engage as a Patient and/or Advocate for Someone You Love
by Patricia SeyboldLet Patients Help! by Dave deBronkart with Dr. Danny Sands is a valuable patient engagement handbook. This little book should be a key resource for you and your family. You’ll learn about important steps in taking charge of your own health. -
Do You See What I See?
Why Customer Service Reps Need to Be Able to Access What Customers Actually Saw
by Ronni MarshakWhen customers can see information within their account pages on your website that your support agents can’t see, how can they trust your CSRs to really help when there are problems? -
The Customer Revolution Is Coming Back!
Customers Are on the Cusp of Retaking Control Over the Big Things that Impact Their Lives
by Patricia SeyboldThe next customer revolution is upon us. We will regain control of things that matter most in our lives: our government, our financial well-being, our health, our jobs, our privacy, and our access to the Internet. -
Can a Contest Improve the “Production of Health”?
How Esther Dyson Is Using the Way to Wellville Challenge to Promote Collaborative Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldThe Way to Wellville is a community health innovation contest among five communities in the U.S. The towns will have five years to dramatically improve health outcomes by focusing on the determinants of health, rather than on the treatment of disease. -
Amazon Covers the “Last Mile”
Can the Etailer Improve on UPS, et al. to Create a Customer-Delighting Delivery Service?
by Ronni MarshakAmazon will deliver packages the “Last Mile.” How can they improve on what UPS, FedEx, and the USPS are doing to delight customers? -
Culture Nurtures Innovation at Luck Stone
How Values-Based Leadership Fosters Innovation in a 90-Year Old Company
by Patricia SeyboldLuck Stone is a 90-year-old rock quarrying business that has embraced values-based leadership. With a history of innovation when it comes to mining operations, now the family business is focusing on customer-inspired innovation. -
25 Years of Training Young Innovators
Your Next Hires? FIRST Inspires Young People to Invent and Innovate in Team Co-Opetition
by Patricia SeyboldFIRST is a nonprofit that offers a proven approach to team-based innovation. Its innovation framework has been refined over 25 years, with kids from 6 to 18, from 80 countries. Why not try it in your organization? -
Priorities for Microsoft’s New CEO
Focus on Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development & Customer Clouds
by Patricia SeyboldOpen Letter from Patty Seybold to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, about what Microsoft’s strategy should be to save Microsoft’s bacon. -
Why Chaos Is Important for Innovation
How an Organization, Group, or Individual Can Foster Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldThis book, The Chaos Imperative by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack, is a must read for anyone who wants to maximize his/her brain power. It will help you, and your team, create the conditions for innovation to occur. -
Robocalls: Annoying and Illegal
Avoid This Customer-Unfriendly Practice Except for Appointment Reminders
by Ronni MarshakSo, how annoying are those automated marketing calls that interrupt you at dinner time? And they aren’t only annoying, they’re illegal. Still robocalling, as it is called, is proliferating. What can you do about it? -
Customer Co-Design and Customer Scenario Mapping
A Philosophy for Customer-Centric Organizations and a Method for Instilling It
by Ronni MarshakCustomer-centric organizations should deliver on their mission by co-designing with customers. And the best method for realizing this goal is to work together to map out your customers’ important scenarios. -
Lumosity Harnesses 45 Million Brains
A Customer Ecosystem Focused on Improving Our Brains’ Performance
by Patricia SeyboldLumos Labs’ Lumosity is more than a set of brain-training games. It’s an ecosystem aligned around one customer-centric goal: helping people improve their brains’ performance.
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