...Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days The book “Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days” by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz, published in March 2016, deals with the plan how to combine imagination, design-thinking, and a stop-clock to solve some of the most pressing challenges you’ll ever face. Jake Knapp, who created the Google Venture sprint process has run more than hundred sprints with startups. John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz were just as successful as Jake Knapp before they worked together at Google Ventures. John Zeratsky has designed mobile apps, medical reports, and a daily newspaper, among a lot of other things. Before joining Google Ventures, he was a design lead at YouTube and an early employee of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. Braden Kowitz founded the Google Ventures design team in 2009 and pioneered the role of “design partner” at a venture capital firm. These three partners at Google Ventures, published a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether for a start up or a large organization. Within five days, the plan moves from idea to prototype to decision, saving the company and their team countless hours and countless dollars. This book is a Do-it-yourself guide for running your very own sprint to meet your most urgent challenge. – But how does it...
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...A nationwide poll conducted by CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation displayed that 49% of Americans believe racism is “a big problem” in society today. Many teens are unaware of the social issues that are present worldwide. Although they are the future leaders and contributors to society, young people are shielded from topics such as racism, sexism, classism and other forms of discrimination because of the general belief that kids cannot handle the truth. However, the future of our society is in the hands of these adolescents who have grown accustomed to the past generations ignorant and passive approach to problem solving. They may not experience these issues directly, but it is vital that all people, especially teens, understand the severity of these frequent and unjustified situations that are common among minorities throughout the world so that changes can be made. Experiencing tension due to deeply rooted social issues, such as racism, is something many people deal with in daily life. For example, my uncles wedding was in Kentucky. The reception was held in a building with a complete African American staff, and considering my family was the only African American group not serving people, I was uncomfortable. If one is unaware of the...
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...Problems: When Derek was hired there was a lot of was worry that he would be underqualified and unexperienced. As well that he was only being hired because he was the owner’s son-in-law. These worries were reinforced when Derek was unable to accurately quote customers on the jobs that his department was supposed to do. As well Derek didn’t complete many invoices meaning some jobs where the work had been done were not being billed to the clients. When approached about these invoices Derek pawned his work off onto Janice when she offered to help. As well as invoices job slips were often not completed correctly, this meant jobs weren’t priced correctly and many materials listed were not the actual materials used on the job. This then forces Janice to put in extra effort to making sure the inventory was correct and avoid stock-outs. Derek then pawned off his work onto an underqualified untrained student employee. . Derek being unknowledgeable often refused to answer the phone or return calls and questions to his customers. This leave his employees getting yelled at when they go to do a job that he hasn’t ordered or quoted correctly. Or his co-workers having to deal with his angry customers who he never calls back. Another problem with Derek is that he seems to not care about work. When approached with problems he often doesn’t care or doesn’t deal with the problem. When Janice talked to Derek about the job slip problem, Derek said “is it really a big deal? A dollar here and there...
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...may appear in the Performing stage because the other team members were handling their part of the paper, the professor advised the team that they must deal with the problems within the group first. Christine skipped the Forming stage and based her opinion of her team mates on what she observed about them. Had she got to know them by meeting with them together or one on one, she could have gotten to see if her observation were accurate. It would have also given the team am insight on any outside issues that may affect the team. There was also no relationship with the entire team. Problem Identification The team was aware there was a problem with Mike’s participation (already identified as a clown based on Christine’s observation), but he was approached about his behavior and lack of contribution to the team. Christine may have been an organized hard working student, but she seems to lack skills in dealing with conflict. It became a big deal to Mike when he assumed that the team was meeting without him. Even after explaining the impromptu get together Mike still believed what his eyes saw and distanced himself again. Any of the team members could have reached out to Mike to get him to understand. There was clearly hostility within the team and it was coming from one source. This made it apparent that the problems were getting worse and the team’s project was at stake if nothing was to change about Mike’s behavior. Retrospective Evaluation The disconnection between the...
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...Letter B: This letter is about a young man that wants to help a young 17 year old girl that has a very un happy life and he would like to help her escape from her problems and start a new life but he doesn’t know whether to help her with her problems or to let her deal with her own problems. My advice: My advice is to let her deal with her own problems because they aren’t that big that’s a normal problem in ten girls they all fell like prisoners and at the end thy like having parents like that. And you’re going to end up in a real problem for trying to help her because at the end teen girls are like house cats scratching the door trying to get out and when you open it for them they get scared and go back running to their owners in this case parents. Letter: D This letter is about a mother who thinks that she’s doing everything right by dedicating her entire life to her husband and daughter mostly her daughter and she is upset because she feels that her daughter doesn’t appreciate everything she has done for her. My advice: My advice to you is to give her room to explore life let her go out just because you don’t let her have boyfriends doesn’t mean she is not going to have them she’s going to have theme in secret and that’s very bad because you won’t be able to help her when she has problem because she will be too scared to tell you and stop trying to be her friend you are her mother and that is so much more than a friend let her have friend to hang out with her at...
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...Study Tips Check out WLU's Study Skills Program - resources and workshops are offered on a variety of topics, including Time Management & Procrastination and Preparing for Midterms. If you have difficulties in handling more personal issues, such as anxiety or gaining self-confidence, or even more serious issues, you may want to contact Counselling Services. The following is a collection of tips for studying mathematics. These have been gathered from a number of sources (texts, websites, personal experience) over a number of years. General: * Keys to success include desire and discipline. You must want success and you must discipline yourself to do what it takes to get success. * Keys to success include motivation and time management (rewording of the above). * Everything that you learn increases your value. * If you need help, get it! Find out what resources are available to you. * Math is cummulative - what you learn today will be used tomorrow. * Take responsibility for your education. * No two students will learn in the same way. Discover what it takes for you to learn math. * Don't expect to understand every new topic the first time you see it. Learning mathematics takes time, patience and repetition. "All mathematics is easy, once you understand it." * You must practice speaking a foreign language regularly in order to become fluent in it. Mathematics is like a language - you must practice it regularly...
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...in the occasional "I see" and make every outward appearance of actually being attentive. The really good ones can also paraphrase or even repeat verbatim what is that you have to say. I am not referring to the person who is seeking to listen and to paraphrase before carrying on themselves; rather, I am thinking about the person who has become highly skilled at what I call "malicious listening." The malicious listener has mastered the art of listening with a not-so-hidden motive. This person listens to prove you wrong and uses your own words to make their case. They can quote you ("you said . . . .") and quickly follow with a retort, rejoinder, or snide comment about how wrong you are. Indeed, they are skillful at "reloading." The only problem with this kind of listening is that very little actual listening actually takes place. Surely you have had the experience of someone who can repeat back what you said and completely miss the message. They can be incredibly adept at using your words against you. They...
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...an organization is thinking of implementing a New It Initiative they must ensure that they are well organized and fully understand the length and time a project may take. According to Cook “ Project failure occurs when a project is significantly over budget, takes must longer than estimated timeline, or has to be terminated because of so many problems have occurred that proceeding is no longer judged to be viable.” With Memorial Health System failed implementation of a CPOE system they had many problems including an over budgeted project, Lack of belief in project, Insufficient leadership support, Failure to respect uncertainty, Failure to anticipate short-term disruptions, and initiative undernourishment. In this paper we will discuss all six of these problems along with give possible solutions to each of them. Failure to respect uncertainty: When the system was finally implemented it was had a lot of bugs in the system. They implemented the system at all of facilities. Because of this as well as a few other issues such as lack of training the system was taken offline and they continued with the old system. The solution to this problem would have been to implement the system in one location instead of the entire hospital. This place can be used as the test facility in which you can do two things. One you can work all the bugs out and the other would be to use it as a training facility where you can send employees to get training on a system that is up and running. This will...
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...SUMMARY Recently there is something wrong with the performance of our company and I think what we should do is to upgrade the office furnitures. Because more and more of our employees claimed about the poor working condition. We can reduce the surgery fee and the sick days from the employees after the upgrade. Therefore, we can increase our productivities a lot. THE PROBLEM 1 Increase health problem- More of our employees are having health problems because of the uncomfortable furnitures. 2 Sick days increase-Because of their health problem, employees asked for the extra vacation day. 3 Surgery fee increased- Three employees had to have carpal tunnel surgery, and another had back surgery 4 Insurance fee increase- The insurance carrier was threatening to raise its premiums. 4 Productivities reduce- The day-to-day productivity of the office reduced THE REASON The problem came up from last year. If we don’t care about the problem, it will cost us a lot. For example , we already have three employees need to do carpal tunnel surgery . Cost of surgery and rehabilitation is in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 (data from :http://www.mycarpaltunnel.com/surgery-release-carpal-tunnel.shtml).And we have one employee need to have back surgery. According to the data from www.ehow.com. This procedure costs an average of $12,000to$15,000. So far the maximum cost is approximately $45000. And if we ignore that, the number of employees who need surgery would double in the next...
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... VII Appendix 7 1. Introduction- a The purpose of this survey is to gain a prospective view on what goes on inside a alcohol anonymous program and the benefits and experiences people gain from it. I also want to see how the community gets involved with people who have alcohol problems and the actions taken by the community to get help for these people. b The epidemiology of the program i surveyed is to study; the patterns that go on for people with alcohol related problems, the causes of these patterns and the problem itself, and the effects this problem has on the person and people related to that person. c. The intent of this survey is to collect all the necessary information need by someone with alcohol related problems therefore allowing them to access this information and receive help. II. About the organization: St Joseph's Gift Of Life Walk in or Phone St. Joseph's Chruch Rev. Jon Murry 208 South Main St. Attleboro Ma 508-226-1115 III. About the Program A.The program takes in people from the community with alcohol abuse problems to try and help cope with these...
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...Buenavista Plywood Corporation The Problem The problem confronting Mr. Antonio Garcia, the Plant Superintendent of Buenavista Plywood Corporation is how to deal with the absentee rates of the employees from Bohol such that the production of the plant will operate at capacity, with adequate workforce and the interests of the company and employees be served. Objectives More specifically, the problem resolves itself into the following objectives which Mr. Garcia has to achieve in the course of action he has to take: 1. To maintain a stable and reliable workforce; 2. To protect the company’s reputation by avoiding confrontation with formal union groups; 3. To address production problems and costs; 4. To meet the rated capacity of the plant; 5. To safeguard the long-run profitability and stability of Buenavista Plywood Corporation. Situational Analysis The Buenavista Plywood Corporation was organized in Cagayan de Oro City in 1950 by the Santiago Family. Don Jose Santiago, the present head of the family, was well qualified to carry the traditions of this prominent family. The Santiagos have been involved in politics in nearby Bohol, the ancestral home. They had been pioneering industrialists in the plywood business. Don Jose had been an early advocate of local processing of lumber as opposed to the shipping of log abroad. VISTAWOOD, the trademark chosen for their plywood, was one of the first export plywood production in the Philippines. Late in the...
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...to discuss the staff management problem Arthur Reed faces every summer. Arthur Reed, a supervisor at the Blue Grocery Stores, has an issue with hiring temporary workers in sufficient numbers to cover the sick and vacationing workers for the summer months. As warehouse supervisor in charge of two shifts on the shipping dock, Arthur usually manages to run the shifts smoothly every year except in the summer months. During the summer months, Arthur faces a shortage of staff when most of his senior staff call in sick or take vacation. Arthur runs into this problem every summer and does not look forward to the frustration of trying to hire sufficient temporary workers this summer. Although Arthur has earned the respect within the industry and has 20 years experience in the grocery industry, when it comes to dealing with staff shortage, Arthur does not know how to manage the problem. If Arthur knows he will faces this problem yearly, then why does he not plan ahead to avoid the frustration? Perhaps Arthur is not managing his staff as well as he can because he is lacking in supervisory skills; otherwise, he would not have run into this problem every summer. What are the problems? Staff management and on-call workers are the problems. In my opinion, Arthur is having a problem managing his senior staff because he is not communicating with them effectively regarding scheduling vacation and call-in sick days. The reason he keeps having the same problem every summer is that there are no...
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...there for learning but they want to network with other people within the class. They are looking to make connections in order to have more connections for a later date, maybe for a better job or for something they may need in their current company. The vacationer mindset person is there to get away from everything not to learn. They want to get away from the office and enjoy their time away. The prisoner feels as if they were forced to be there and they come in mostly with a closed mind about the training they are attending. Rosner also speaks about some problems that people have within their organizations and how some of these problems are misdiagnosed because the proper people are not in the proper positions with the proper training. Rosner quotes from Valerie Oberfie, a former vice president at Disney University that has done business consulting and training for corporations. She says that to avoid misdiagnosing a problem businesses should do their homework (Rosner, 2009)....
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...Title: Problems Encountered by Irregular BSMAR-E Students of University of Antique INTRODUCTION Time spent at college is fond memory and happy experience for most, college life is not without its rough patches and problems. While each person’s are unique to their current circumstances, I know that there are few problems that almost all college students deal with at least once during their time at school. Academic performance really means three things: this means the ability to study and remember facts, it also means being able to think in relation to facts and thirdly, further means being able to communicate one’s knowledge verbally or practically. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the society of university, students form their own interpersonal relations with their fellow students. They discuss commonalities and bond until they form sense of trust in each other. There are students who had given full load of subjects that a student in the specific year and semester. These students are called regular students. Every students in the block aims to pass every class, and some may even aim to pass with high marks, but not every student in the block can achieve this goal. Failure in a subjects or more require/s to repeat the course either in the summer or the following year. These students are called irregular students, but not all regular students became irregular students because they failed a subject or more. Some students became irregular because they are shifters from...
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