Sometimes you need inspiration to craft great OKRs. Gtmhub gives you easy-to-follow OKR examples for different roles and teams.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: using the objective key results method (OKR) is a great way to align everyone in a company. Or so they say - I've never been part of an org that leverages them to its full extent. So this is a great reference to learn by example - like a view source on an HTML web page ;-)
A stage-gate process implements strategic meetings across the product development lifecycle. 8 areas for succeeding in using stage-gate for innovation.
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WHY IT MATTERS: 8 best practice from the world of VCs and startups to help teams innovate.
AI Québec is a tech-enabled coffee-table book featuring the champions of Québec, the well-established and the disruptors alike. Its 300+ pages feature stories by the companies who are shaping the Québec of today and tomorrow and include exclusive Thought Leader pieces by the province’s most recognizable advocates. With AR video canvases on most features, images on the book’s pages come to life when scanned with the free Global Village Publishing app.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: an essential reference for all AI solutions in the province of Quebec.
The Digital Health 150 is CB Insights' annual ranking of the 150 most promising digital health startups in the world.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: one key industry where digital transformation can have the most profound impact should be healthcare. This list from CBinsight highlights one crucial aspect: lots of innovation on "health" (research, diagnostics, ...), but little innovation on "care". Nevertheless a useful reference to see where innovation should come from in the coming years.
A l’approche des fêtes de fin d’année, il est d’autant plus important de les soutenir pour les accompagner dans cette période transitoire. Pour y voir plus clair, voici un listing non exhaustif d’initiatives à privilégier pour participer au soutien de l’économie locale française.
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WHY IT MATTERS: every country, state, region is faced with similar problem: keeping local stores alive during covid shutdown - and then later on in the face of eCommerce popularity. This article provides a non exhaustive list of French startups that focus on helping local retailers.
Where the Business Model Canvas tries to provide a complete model which encapsulates many types of business, the Lean Canvas focuses more on customer problems and solutions. Hence the Lean Canvas is more applicable for startups.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: a short review of canvas to help guide digital transformation and innovation. Crafted for startups but I believe it applies to larger existing organizations as well.
In this section, dive into one of the 55 Business Model Patterns, each providing a practical template to help you build new business models from scratch and supercharge your existing business models. A short description is provided, capturing the key concept and underlying mechanisms of the respective business model pattern, as well as exemplary firms applying the pattern.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: amazing reference of business models to help explore possibilities in your innovation plans.
A practical, expert-reviewed Guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: hiring technical resources is difficult because of the impact that bad hires have on organizations. Looking forward to read this guide and see what it contains as I believe we are in dire needed of some standards and benchmarks...
We are in the midst of an open source renaissance. But how do you turn an open source project into a business? a16z's Peter Levine and Jennifer Li cover the complete go-to-market from community management to enterprise sales.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: as a software engineer in the 1980s, open source was considered a research project. Now it has become real business and this post details why and how you should go about building a real company with your software code open sourced. With ML/AI growing, the value lies more in the data than the code, so the open source may still have some growth ahead.
Must-do's in order for your hires to reach their full potential you need to put a structure in place that encourages and nurtures their growth, both technically and as managers and leaders.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: managing millenials and genZ is like herding cats sometimes. Moreover, when they are technology engineers in a high demand marketplace, they need certain things in their work environment. I find the suggested practices very sound, especially the career path illustrated here.
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WHY IT MATTERS: using the objective key results method (OKR) is a great way to align everyone in a company. Or so they say - I've never been part of an org that leverages them to its full extent. So this is a great reference to learn by example - like a view source on an HTML web page ;-)