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• Seth's Blog: We can handle information density

  More links and lists, not less? I am not sure.

• Have you tested your strategy lately? - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Strategic Thinking

  Some simple, tough questions for any organisation! Does your strategy actually differentiate? Does it guide decisions? If not, is that OK? Tough questions.

• 3 Ecommerce Personalization Strategies | Practical eCommerce

  Short, but to the point.. personalisation doesn't mean crowdsourcing alone!

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• Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX

  Good set of principle worth revisiting.

• 100 User Experience Design & Evaluation Methods for Your Toolkit | Johnny Holland

  Nuff said.

• The Achilles’ Heel of Agile » Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog

  Having spent several years working with colleagues to build up an agile-driven eBusiness unit, I am quite familiar with the challenge of shared services and resources in a self-organising environment; the shared resources get overstretched and the "self-organising" teams begin to stop self-organising. Getting the balance right between providing a service and ensuring as much end-to-end ownership of a project as possible within a team is a real challenge. This short article gives a little food for thought on the parallel to the economic concept of common goods. I like this comparison because it immediately begs the question about the possibility of a tax to right the natural tendency to misuse common goods (at least it does if you have done an Economics 101 course!). I think this approach has real merit.

• Designing for User Experience | Visual.ly

  Not sure how often the user experience design process can be rehashed on visual.ly, but this one is not bad ;-)...

• Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 | Video on TED.com

  At last someone with a "balanced" view giving a possible positive direction for the atheist movements.

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• The Week That Killed SOPA: A Timeline

  I suspect I had not fully understood the potential impact of SOPA, since the voracity of the backlash (and especially Wikipedia going offline for a day) were quite unexpected to me. On balance, probably a good thing that the act is tabled.

• The 10 Hidden Costs of Daily Deals

  This is an interesting response to the increasing enthusiasm of companies in the eCommerce space to introduce daily deals and coupon schemes. It is not as easy as it looks!

• The Psychology of Color | Visual.ly

  Having been involved in lighting work in student theatre many years ago (and been completely dreadful at it), I am always amazed at the impact of colour. This is a nice visualisation of the impact of colour.

• Getting Three Fs in Gamification | Gamification Blog

  Fun, friends and feebback? Sounds good.

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• The Marketing Measurement Checklist | Visual.ly

  I was talking with an colleague today about exactly this topic - empowered product managers might stand a chance, but this survey shows that that is sadly not the norm.

• Predicting Panda

  I had heard about Google Panda a while back, but have not really looked into the impact for SEO. This is a nice easy "management" summary - will certainly keep eCommerce site optimizers on their toes!

• E-commerce in 2012: the experts' view | Econsultancy

  No overwhelming surprises here, but a nice summary of some ecommerce trends for the year...

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Agile extension for BABOK is now available

Though I have been somewhat critical of the BABOK thus far (perhaps a little unfairly, given the fact that there has been clearly a huge amount of thinking gone into it and it is at this point the best reference we as a business analysis community have!), I was pleased to note that the agile extension has just been published for public review. In my view it is a bit lacking in its description of techniques for facilitating refinement (i.e. lots of different kinds of visualisations and the like), but on the whole it is a great start.

Twinstan's interesting links roundup on Diigo (weekly)

• HM Government best management practice

  The HM Government best management practice website has a bunch of interesting pod- and vodcasts on programme and project management for beginners.

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• The Cult of Done Manifesto

  OK, the number of manifestos is getting a little silly, but there is one statement here I really like; "Accept everything is a draft").

• User experience treasure map

  I stumbled across Peter Morvilles' user experience treasure map in a disappointing presentation on cross-channel design. This is an excellent summary of the user experience lifecycle deliverables and his take on how they fit together (into a treasure map).

• 30+ iPad Apps For Designers, Developers And Creative Types | SpyreStudios

  I still love my iPad. This is a great selection of sketch and design apps.

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