Part of the Process

This is  part of a series  about my side project  Bashfully , which aims to give graduates and other new entrants to careers a seasoned professional level way of expressing themselves through the super power of story telling. Following the core principles of being discoverable, personalised and guiding in approach. Photo by  Etienne Boulanger  on  Unsplash Following on from my post on  Building an onboarding process for a green field product  we have building the experience. One of the lessons I pulled out previously was about launching something to get feedback . Even if you don't feel ready. It's easy to know the theory, but hard to put yourself out there! I'm really glad that we did as it allowed some feedback and integration issues to be tested while we polished. Background  One approach that we have taken is to slowly refactor the experience as we add functionality into the edit screens. To start with we had a l...

Super short post to tell you about today's MIT Sloan Review hosted webinar "Five Strategies for Getting the Most From AI " based on the blog post of the same name  by Jacques Bughin. This shared the results of various surveys and research by McKinsey & Co. From this research, the highlights on developing a successful AI strategy are: you need to be digital based and native already, no leapfrogging straight from an analogy business don't try and do it on your own - they are not mature technologies yet, so use an ecosystem with startup partners and academia be bold - take the chance to reinvent your products The other theme running throughout was that when developing strategy you should think about growth as this lead to bigger profit gains than cost cutting. The advice was also to do it soon, from the companies survey there was a bigger boost from early adopters who innovated. Finally, it's about humans as much as technology. The top three reasons f...