Beware of the HiPPO in the room. When a HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion) is in play, your organization is most likely not relying on data to inform decision-making. In fact, I believe the HiPPO effect is one of the biggest barriers to more evidence-based and data-driven decision-making. With the quantity and quality of data available today, it is just poor business for organizations to ignore data in favor of making decisions solely based on what the HiPPO wants done...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/10/26/data-driven-decision-making-beware-of-the-hippo-effect/#1131f38280f9/
The following is a short extract from our book, Researching UX: Analytics, written by Luke Hay. It’s the ultimate guide to using analytics for improved user experience. SitePoint Premium members get access with their membership, or you can buy a copy in stores worldwide.
To understand why your users behave the way they do, you first need to get to know them. You may make assumptions about who those users are, but you should be constantly challenging those assumptions, or at least be backing them up with facts...
https://www.sitepoint.com/getting-to-know-your-users-with-analytics/
Agencies across the government are experimenting with design thinking. A key step in this process is getting user feedback on your ideas.
This feedback can often be messy and unstructured. But analytics and visualisations can help officials understand what users’ needs really are. This will allow them to rapidly prototype their ideas and create future iterations of products....
https://govinsider.asia/digital-gov/how-to-understand-user-feedback-with-data-analytics/
Solving the problem of capturing and analyzing "dark data" is the business problem of the century, especially for CMOs who are increasingly accountable for generating revenue and improving business outcomes.
What is dark data? It's the unstructured data that's all over social networks, and it's full of valuable insights you can put to work to generate revenue and improve the way your business operates. But it's highly likely you're not using it—yet.
https://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2017/32911/dark-data-on-social-media-insights-that-shed-light-on-your-business/
Over the last 15 years, I have led hundreds of workshops to equip managers and leaders at all levels with the skills to have more effective feedback conversations. In my experience working with these leaders, I find that most feedback conversations either don’t happen or don’t happen well . While the frameworks I share in these workshops provide a useful structure with which to prepare for and conduct even the most difficult conversation, they are only half of the equation in getting leaders to step up when it comes to giving improvement feedback. Most leaders won’t improve at giving feedback for the sole reason that they do not address the adaptive component required for their own behavior change — that is, they don’t tend to address the limiting mindsets, beliefs and assumptions that cause them to avoid having difficult feedback conversations in the first place.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccazucker/2017/05/01/why-most-people-wont-improve-at-giving-feedback/#235e2bf4fcc8/
The IoT (Internet of Things), the convergence of IT and OT, rapid application development, digital twin simulation models, cyber-physical systems, advanced robotics and cobots, additive manufacturing, autonomous production, consistent engineering across the entire value chain, thorough data collection and provisioning, horizontal and vertical integration, cloud computing, big data analytics, AR/VR and edge computing amidst a shift of intelligence towards the edge: these are some of the essential components of the fourth industrial revolution.
https://www.i-scoop.eu/industry-4-0/
To be an effective leader, you need to continuously evolve. So, you challenge your own assumptions to avoid blind spots. You stretch your thinking preferences to increase agility. And you invest in others to help them reach their full potential. As a successful leader, you do all of these things — and others — until you don’t.
For many leaders, there is often one specific challenge that stops their progression in its tracks. The most surprising thing? You probably already know what yours is. If you’ve ever said the words “I’ve gotten this feedback before,” chances are you’re playing with fire and undermining your own success by failing to address the issue.
https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Put-an-End-to-Your-Feedback-Loop?gko=0bb88/
E-mail marketers got another boost for deliverability recently when Yahoo Mail announced that Return Path will handle its feedback loops for managing spam complaints.
This helps you as a commercial e-mail sender, because a good portion of your mailing list likely goes to yahoo.com domains, even if you mail primarily B2B (define). Up to one quarter of a typical consumer list could be Yahoo-bound. Having this new feedback loop in place means you can manage and process spam complaints coming from Yahoo Mail users that you might not have gotten previously. Once your feedback loop request is accepted, you will receive e-mail that Yahoo recipients marked as spam at the e-mail address you specify. Remove those complaining addresses promptly from your database.
https://www.clickz.com/get-into-the-feedback-loop/72953/
Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You need input, constructive feedback and ideas from unexpected sources to help make your idea bulletproof. Yet sometimes the way we ask for feedback on an idea does us a disservice. When you put an idea in front of someone and ask them ‘what do you think?’, you are inviting them to find faults in your idea, not build it; and worst still, the feedback given is often at a general, unspecified level. Here are 5 ways to ask for productive, useful feedback to help strengthen your idea.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annabelacton/2017/10/30/the-right-ways-to-ask-for-feedback-on-your-idea/#7418b26bd1f3/
Facebook today introduced a good handful of new features for groups on Facebook, with a focus on helping admins better manage and grow their online communities, and helping members better connect with one another. The additions, inspired by user feedback, include support for welcome posts, badges, member profiles and other admin-level controls.
The company met this June with hundreds of Facebook group admins at its first-ever Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago. This allowed Facebook staff to hear directly from those who run online groups what sort of tools they need. One common activity that admins do is welcome new members to their Facebook group. But until today, this has been done manually by writing a post, then locating each new member and tagging them one-by-one in that post. A new “welcome posts” feature, however, lets admins write a welcome post that automatically tags new members, speeding up the process.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/26/facebook-rolls-out-new-tools-for-group-admins-plus-badges-and-profiles-for-members/
