Product strategy
Discovery is not a formality
The phase most often compressed to two weeks is the one that determines whether the following nine months are worth anything.
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Insights
Positions we have argued for often enough to write down.
Five pieces rather than fifty. Each one is something we say to clients regularly, set out properly so we can point at it instead of repeating ourselves.
Design systems
What a design system owes the people who use it
Most design systems are built for the organisation that publishes them. The ones that survive are built for the teams that have to adopt them.
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Platform modernisation
Replatforming without rewriting the business
The big-bang replatform is still the default proposal, and it is still the reason so many of them are remembered as a bad year.
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Where AI actually belongs in a service organisation
The useful applications are unglamorous, internal, and mostly invisible to customers. The visible ones are where the reputational risk sits.
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Buying technology you will still want in five years
Procurement optimises for the features you can see today. The decisions that hurt are the ones about what you cannot see: the cost of change, and the cost of leaving.
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