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...
Apps and algorithms are like bathroom redesigns and subway station refurbishments. Over budget and over deadline.
Listen to this episode to learn why this happens and what to do about it.
Listen to 119. Why smart leaders expect the unexpected from software updates for more on this topic.
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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...
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.
Listen to this episode to hear five tips on...
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...
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...
There is plenty of hype about AI, but most organisations are still using old precesses to make decisions.
We are in the Between Times: "after AI's clear promise and before its transformational impact," as described in the book Power and Prediction: the disruptive...
Why do you keep checking your phone, even when you’re trying not to? It's because the apps on your phone use the Hook Model. described by Nir Eyal in his book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.
To learn how apps like Instagram, LinkedIn and Vivino keep us coming back to our...
To be digitally savvy, follow the 30% rule – this is the minimum threshold that gives us just enough digital literacy to thrive in the tech age, says Professor Paul Leonardi.
- “To have digital transformation in your company, you don’t need to know how to code, but you need to...
Software updates can have weird unintended consequences that the company doesn't even know about. Existing features that worked perfectly can stop working, leading to lost revenues and annoyed customers.
Listen to this episode to learn why this happens and how non-technical leaders...
Technology is a tool, not an end in itself. The quickest way to bridge the gap between tech and business teams is to relate business outcomes to technology.
Learning notes from this episode:
- In every company, you always have two sides: the people who make the product, and the people who ...
"Successful entrepreneurs don't have better ideas, they have a better process," says Eric Reis in The Lean Start-Up. To learn how to innovate with speed, listen to this week's episode.
Learning notes from this episode:
- “A start-up is a human institution designed to create a...
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