Cloud computing powers most of the digital services you use today. Listen to this podcast episode to learn what it is and why it matters.
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Companies like Deep Mind fascinate investors and innovators, but what is a deep tech company really and how does it differ from other types of tech firms? Listen to this episode to find out.
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Some problems that annoy you daily could be solved by AI, but most business teams don't know that because they’ve never discussed them with a technologist. Listen to this episode with Dr Catherine Breslin, a machine learning scientist with a PhD from Cambridge, to learn how to make the most of the AI revolution.
Dr Breslin was one of the first people to work on Amazon Alexa and today leaders Kingfisher Labs, a consulting company.
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When an app has too many features and pop ups, most users get confused and frustrated. This is feature creep: when the product’s core functionality becomes hidden in too many options and things to do.
Feature creep happens when a team is determined to stay productive, but loses sight of its strategy. Sometimes stopping is better for the product than doing more.
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You've probably heard about network effects, but they aren't the only thing you need. Learning effects build the ultimate moat against your competition.
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Facebook disrupted the media market forever. The Apple App Store created the app economy, valued at $6.3 trillion today. What makes platforms like these SO successful?
In this episode, you will learn the core concepts behind platform businesses, so you can identify platforms in the making or build them yourself.
This is the beginning of a mini-series on platform fundamentals at Tech for Non-Techies.
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The terms coding and programming are ubiquitous, yet many non-technical professionals do not know what they mean in practice. Why are there different coding languages? What do developers actually do?
This is what you'll learn in this episode.
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”Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer — that the designers are told, 'Make it look good! ' That's not what design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works,” - Steve Jobs
In this episode, you''ll hear from Sarah Doody, a UX designer who has worked for the likes of Vice Media and Dow Jones. Today Sarah runs Career Strategy Lab, a school for UX designers.
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If you have an idea for a new product in a traditional business, you will probably have to work on an extensive plan before you do anything else.
This is not how it works in tech companies. When the likes of Airbnb and Slack bring new apps or features to market, they use the Sprint Method. It is a methodology developed by Google Ventures to bring new ideas to life and test them quickly and cheaply.
Learn how this works in this podcast.
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Agile is now a ubiquitous management term, but few people understand what it means in practice.
For some products, agile is THE BEST system, for others, it is THE WORST.
Listen to this week’s episode to find out what it is, how it works in practice, when to use it and when to avoid it.
You’ll hear how WhatsApp used this methodology to release its first product, and learn how to use it yourself.
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