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Yes, PPE can be reusable. AmorSui is making sure of it

By Doreen Lorenzo     June 27, 2022   Beau Wangtrakuldee, Ph.D., is a scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of AmorSui, a modern protective apparel company redesigning personal protective equipment (PPE) to empower women with greater function and protection in lab and medical settings. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant … Continue reading Yes, PPE can be reusable. AmorSui is making sure of it

Stuck Making a Big Decision At Your Agency? Consider Your Ideal Outcome vs. Minimum Acceptable Outcome

Karl Sakas January 7, 2022 Stuck on a decision? Consider your Ideal Outcome vs. your Minimum Acceptable Outcome. A client reached out asking for advice on a tough decision they needed to make—they’d tried working through it on their own, but they couldn’t make a decision. They told me about their dilemma and I immediately … Continue reading Stuck Making a Big Decision At Your Agency? Consider Your Ideal Outcome vs. Minimum Acceptable Outcome

What Capacity Check? — Making Your Scrum Work

Stefan Wolpers November 24, 2021 TL; DR: Ignoring the Capacity Check during Sprint Planning There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, the Developers are ignoring a capacity check during the Sprint Planning, and … Continue reading What Capacity Check? — Making Your Scrum Work

Maximizing Utilization, Ignoring Slack Time — Making Your Scrum Work

Stefan Wolpers November 5, 2021 TL; DR: Maximizing Utilization as a Relic from the Industrial Management Past There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if the focus of the organization is on … Continue reading Maximizing Utilization, Ignoring Slack Time — Making Your Scrum Work

Making AI work for workflow management

AI-powered collaborative work management enables marketing teams to keep up with competition and WFH challenges. Chris Wood on August 24, 2021 Wearable technology company Fitbit was using Jira for project management, and was looking to increase efficiency for future product cycles. After implementing the Wrike for Marketers solution, the marketing team reported slashing 400 hours … Continue reading Making AI work for workflow management

Making the Most of Personal Connections – Whether In-Person or Virtual

Lorelei Poch August 2, 2021 Last March, many organizations were fortunate to continue on with business from their employee’s home offices. The shift from in-person work to virtual was monumental for some areas of work, while some were happy to just ditch their commutes. And for those of us who were students during all of … Continue reading Making the Most of Personal Connections – Whether In-Person or Virtual

The Real Story on MarTech: 10 steps to making better vendor selection choices

Selecting better technology really means selecting better-fitting technology. Here’s how to do just that. Jarrod Gingras on July 22, 2021 Industry surveys over multiple decades have repeatedly shown that more than half of technology projects fail to meet their objectives — or just fail outright. My discussions with martech customers suggest their success rates are … Continue reading The Real Story on MarTech: 10 steps to making better vendor selection choices