McKinsey report on digital trends

• The next stage: Six ways the digital consumer is changing
  McKinsey report on digital trends. To summarize; social, omnichannel, gamification. Worth a read if you have a chance.

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Incompetence & Twinstan's weekly roundup

Having just spent around 30 minutes trying to configure the Blog feed API in Diigo to revert back to a weekly feed I have decided to give up. Assuming it does not fix itself, I guess you will now have the pleasure of reading about the interesting links as I read them rather than once a week.

If it begins to feels like spam, I may switch off the feed altogether and shift to a new links tool (there are enough of them, after all!).

Let me know what you think.

Twinstan's interesting links roundup on Diigo (weekly)

• Frameworks Are The Future of Design

  This deck gives a food for thought on the way that web applications need to be conceived of from a "Web 2.0" perspective. The principles postulated seem to me to be solid. I am not so sure about the technical details (not my field ,-)), but I like the comparison of developers to the proverbial canary in the mine a lot.

• Deck on simple change management approach

  Simple, clear, average, but usable.

• DSDM Atern Handbook V2 / 1

  Somehow I managed to miss the fact that the latest version of DSDM (Dynamic systems development method) - aka Atern - is available entirely free of charge as a nifty handbook. I think this version is more complete and easier to apply than the previous versions (but I really have only ever tried out individual elements of the models and never wholesale, but might try it out for fun).

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• What's the Value Proposition of Your Ecommerce Company? | Practical eCommerce

  Good solid stuff...

• Business Analyst: a title that doesn’t reflect the profession

  A nice little blog entry arguing that the term Business Analyst is misleading - I couldn't agree more, though I do not like the term synthesis which they use to express another of the key activities - I would keep it simply and call it "design" (be that solution, customer experience, business model, business process , system or service design).

• Build. Measure. Learn. Lean Startup SXSW 2012

  Both the actual materials on lean management in the startup space (by Eric Ries, the current Mr Lean-Startup) and the site hosting the course (udemy.com) are worth checking out.

• Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report

  Recommended by Manuel Koelman of getContext in Cologne, this report, by Mary Meeker is well worth reading.

• Augmented Reality Data: The Webcam Social Shopper

  Interesting deck from Zugara showing that augmented reality for eCommerce is becoming a meaningful commercial proposition.

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• Gumroad has a cracking checkout process...

  ...just great.

• Collusion :: Add-ons for Firefox for tracking behavioural tracking

  This is a very nifty add-on for firefox that allows you to see graphically who is tracking you behaviour via cookies. Shocking and interesting at the same time.

• The Top 5 Mistakes in Requirements Practices and Documentation | BA Times

  Nice simple and accurate list.

• Hans Rosling: Religions and babies | Video on TED.com

  Hans Rosling is always thoughtful and entertaining.

• US Department of Defence - Command & Control research on the agile imperative

  Trust the US department of defence to have a sensible no nonsense view on agility. Refreshing.

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• 10 fingers • Everything You Need to Know About Design Probably...

  A colleague posted this link earlier today- I am inclined to agree with him that it is questionable in both premise and content, but an excellent selection of well designed sites and sources of tools / inspiration for user experience professionals.

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• business-architecture-map.jpg

  Solid mindmap of many elements of a business-architecture - good checklist.

• Business Processes: Better with Business Rules

  Cracking article - I have never understood why this simple point seems to represent such a difficulty for so many organisations. Separating process and policy (or rules) is vital to getting your business model understood - you otherwise end up with a hug complex process model that does not simplify anything...

• Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis

  Although in my opinion business architecture is more than a representation of the value streams, this is a good article on how architecture deliverables can have tangible value in operational analysis and design activities.

• Tali Sharot: The optimism bias | Video on TED.com

  Think positive? Here is some real food for thought...

• BA Times | The Top 10 Business Analysis Skills for 2012

  A good list of skills.. guess what visualisation in various forms, conceptual modelling, change management and asking "why" are all in there ;-).

• Präsentationen der Information Architecture 2012 | User Centered

  A great collection of presentations from the IA2012.

• Start your content strategy with an audit

  Great no-nonsense article on working out where you are with your online content and how to quickly identify what to do next. Worth reading if you are in the merchandizing or editing space.

• Bing Goes Social with New Resdesign

  Bing has doubled the number of searches it fulfills in the States (15% of market) in 2 years. I do like the social media integration in Bing, but still find that the results are not what I am looking for... have I been so conditioned by Google that I expect the results that they give me?!?

• Service As A SKU | TechCrunch

  The standardisation of services to be purchased online is well underway. Alex Rampell at Techcrunch is positioning this as the next big thing.. I am not sure about that, but certainly he has some interesting points to make about what an online platform needs to contain to make such an offering fly.

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