Hard Yards recently taught its first in-person class in two years. See how instructor Doug Rosenberg handled teaching our Design Thinking class away from Zoom, as well as how he overcame some unexpected obstacles.
Virtual vs. In-Person Agile Training: The Tale of the Blue Tape
2021 Wrapped in Words
In 2021, we focused on aligning our marketing strategy with the products and services we believe are most important to digital transformation and product development today. We created a word cloud (in the shape of a boat - of course) based on all our social media posts for the year to see if our actions and words were aligned.
Designing a Competitive Innovation Portfolio
In our Hard Yards Enterprise Portfolio Management course, we introduce the cohort to the concept of deliberately allocating resources for innovation while simultaneously managing expenses for operations, maintenance, and system infrastructure. The attached research briefing, published by the MIT Center for Information Systems Research on July 20, 2017, emphasizes that overall innovation spend is less important than allocating funds in an innovation portfolio according to the organization's desired business outcomes.