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Category: Business strategy
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Navigating Change Series: Five things for leaders to keep in mind as they support remote teams
It has been a whirlwind month since Clockworkers began working remotely. It’s hard to describe how much the world has changed in recent weeks. All of our patterns of behavior and expectations of “normal” have had to make innumerable shifts to keep up with the latest news, reality, and recommendations from government and health officials. […]
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Navigating Change Series: Helping dispersed teams do their best
Our first installment of the Navigating Change Series is focused on a timely topic for most businesses today: how leaders can support and get the best from their people now that teams are dispersed. All change is disruptive — you know this. But you can do things to minimize the productivity “dips” that come with this disruption. […]
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Creating inclusive naming conventions in technology
For years I’ve subscribed to standard naming conventions in software development, like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, until now. We’re rethinking the language we use for software development Naming is a big part of software development. We use it to organize and understand a codebase and to identify how objects communicate with one another. This means any […]
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Changing how we think about cybersecurity: Creating the attacker’s dilemma
I was at a conference recently at which Tim Crothers delivered the keynote. Tim has worked as a breach investigator for the better part of his career. He joined Target after their 2013 breach and currently leads their cyber security team. I got to hear him flip an information security paradigm on its head. “The defender’s […]
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Technology isn’t forever, but your digital partnership can be
(featured image: Me wearing Google Glass, a much-hyped but now defunct technology.) Last year, we made the decision to discontinue the Active Media Manager (AMM), our proprietary CMS that we have been developing for over 15 years. By February 2019, we will be terminating the platform altogether. A number of clients are currently using the […]
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Quick research & planning tasks to tackle during your downtime
As we know, business never stops, so the documents and reports we use to direct and track that business should be living documents. Yet often, we focus on immediate tasks at hand rather than our guiding documentation. The time between Thanksgiving and the new year seems to be either a mad scramble or an eerily […]
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Businesses, it’s our turn to make a difference
This isn’t political. Really. I know that, at this moment in time, it’s hard for people on both sides of the aisle to set aside blame and emotions and frustration. But commerce, in one form or another, is universal — we all need it, we all want it, and we all participate in it. The […]
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How to make (and keep) digital accessibility a priority
For some businesses, accessibility is a requirement, for some it’s not, but one thing has been made strikingly clear in recent years: digital accessibility standards are best practices for everyone. They are really human standards. And yet they are often ignored or overlooked once digital projects get going because in most cases there isn’t a […]
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The secret to getting a better product faster: user testing
More than ever, it’s essential that the interfaces of digital experiences are easy for people to use. It’s estimated that you only have a few seconds to hook your users. If they find your website or app confusing or unclear, something better is a just click away. The best way to identify usability issues with […]
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Digital partnership trends
The digital industry is always evolving, so how we work with businesses is also constantly changing. It is pretty hard these days to think or talk about “digital” and think it only means a website or an app. It’s everything now. Digital solutions are the way back-end operational systems integrate to powerful front-end customer experiences; they create seamless transitions between online interactions and […]