Dr Marilyn Sandor is the founder of GoodCheckUp, a telehealth app that gives you dental care whenever, wherever. But her success story came out of a crisis: when Covid struck, she had to shut down her dental clinic, thus losing her income and leaving her patients in the lurch.
Not one to sit still, Dr Sandor created a telehealth app to treat her patients remotely. Her patients loved it, and today GoodCheckUp helps dentists around the US treat patients and generate incomes.
Dr Sandor had to learn to speak tech, so she could be an effective leader and collaborate with her tech team. But, she spends most of her time thinking about the user, not the technology. This is why people want to use her product.
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Apps and algorithms are like bathroom redesigns and subway station refurbishments. Over budget and over deadline.
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Most products brought to market fail. Tech Entrepreneur Ash Maurya says this is "not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product."
Maurya is the author of Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that works, and creator of the Business Model Canvas.
Listen to this episode for three core lessons all innovators need to know to build businesses and products in a world of uncertainty.
The most important thing to remember is that businesses are living creatures that are co-created with their customers. This is the same of tech products: apps, sites and algorithms get released, then people use them, the product makers analyse behaviour and then make a better version.
This is why Maurya says (and I agree) that writing a business plan is a form of waste. It takes a long time to do and is usually an exercise in imagination.
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The metaverse hasn't yet gone mainstream, but it is already changing changing how we work and play.
For some companies, the metaverse is their digital transformation, which makes understanding it a key Digital Leadership skill today.
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If you are not a developer or a data scientist, you don’t know what you don’t know about tech. This is a very uncomfortable feeling, especially for high achievers, who were trained to believe that success meant knowing everything.
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What kind of doorbell do you use? A buzzer? A door knocker or a Ring smart doorbell system?
Right now, you can see all three inventions in use: one that has been around for millennia, and another that was created just 20 years ago.
This shows the wide gap between tech invention and its wide-scale adaption. While the Ring doorbell system is now well known, some people still prefer to use a door knocker – a system that was developed before Biblical times.
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Digital Transformation is going to continue being a huge force in business, but the way it’s being done is changing. People, not tech tools, are the new priority.
Listen to this episode to learn how to make the most of this opportunity.
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Despite the many press releases touting Silicon Valley's diversity efforts, the majority of funding from this innovation will still go to white males in 2023.
While this reality is not what many of us want, it is an opportunity for investors and innovators to capture overlooked user markets.
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The biggest gains and innovations will come from digital technologies in healthcare in 2023.
Big Tech firms have already entered healthcare, with Amazon buying One Medical and launching Amazon Clinic in 2022. But, healthcare tech innovation is happening across the board: from start-ups to hospital systems.
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