The new place to be heard - Social Media - Do I need it? What is the huge fuss?

Learn why you must be part of the new battlefield, Social Media. How it can help you to meet your personal goals and how it puts you in a better place in business. "From the very ancient ages, human beings behave the best as a tribe. Being a community saved people lives and made them superior compared to animals. One of the basic characteristics of a community is that it is feeding its members with common knowledge and interests, sharing expertise and experiences..."

The First Year of a Brand New Product

Posts in this blog are usually my voice telling you about my experience and knowledge. This time, I am offering the following post, not in my own voice, but in the voice of my "baby", the Hyper-Scale Manager application. You might think this is a strange approach, but today we have robots that can dance, and cars that can drive themselves! If software could talk, this is what IBM Hyper-Scale Manager would say: "I was born a year ago. Here is the moment of my birth: It wasn't an easy birth…

Consuming Storage today, in the Cloud & Reduction era

The world has changed. The demands are different than the ones we had 10 years ago. Everyone wants fast, with high quality, no compromises. Same in organizations, employees are demanding the same and the Storage IT team is requested to cover the growing demands in the highest quality of service. Another metric that was changed is the amount of data - it grew exponentially and made the IT lab bigger than ever with multiple types of storage systems - hardware based or software based, from

The "Almost There" Generation

Ye, lets admit, we are all sick. Sick of doing average.  We are trying to be a “blast”, perfectionists, but cannot do that in our world today. We need to bring results fast, “faster than light”, better than our competitors and still bring high quality product.

Educating organizations to believe/invest in Design and User Experience

Although the current era is the Design era, where all the big organizations are proudly moving to Design Thinking process and methodologies, the truth it that adopting it is not an easy task, where people are still working with the old processes, as their habits educated them for years. In order to change priorities and give Design a high priority matter in the organization, understanding how to do it and invest money on it we need to have a culture revolution. Let me share how I did it in IBM

Analytics are your vehicle to success

Can we really work with all our applications daily and invest in them as we would expect from ourselves? We need to be productive every day, but also to be social, read news, manage ourselves and our devices, etc. So how can we spend so much time around these applications?

How to improve communication between Development and Design?

In many organizations, where a design team is involved together with a development team on a roadmap of a product, we hear about miss-communication, lack of understanding of each other and different motivations and priorities between the teams that cause to a big gap in what the design team designed and how finally it was implemented. Additionally, it may cause to a frustration and to lack of trust between the teams as they are not exposed to the decisions, to the research and to limitations in

How to convince our managers to invest money in UX/Design?

How can we still convince that investing in Design and user experience is good for our product and at the end - will drive revenues in a way that will justify it big time?

How to drive forward an exhausted team?

When a long project is ended, if we look beyond the applauses, we can see an exhausted team that went through a lot of pressure, challenges and extraction.  How should it be managed?

Storage Administration in the Mobile and Design era

The first time I met a mobile application was in 2008. I said to myself, “This is revolutionary and cool!" Since then, I’ve used hundreds of mobile applications. Some of them games, other business applications, but with both, I never really understand the revolution.

How to build a stable and strong team?

Having a big attrition is harmful for a team and causing slowness and frustration and affecting the stability of the team. Here are 15 tips to help you maintain a healthy environment to minimize attrition and HR risks.

5 steps towards founding a successful Studio

A studio, like one Apple or Google have, is the dream of any Director of Design. So, how can each one of us do it in his environment, either small or big, accepting design or not, with enough budget or even with a small amount of money to invest in such? I did it 2 years ago in my workplace, founding a Studio from scratch, while no one in the company (200+ employees) even knew what is a Studio or what should be its missions. Step 1 - Studio leader Every team must have a great team leader that

How a User Study ended up with a successful product delivery

I had a user study, scheduled for 2 days with 10 customers, to test what we achieved in our product, 3 months before releasing it to our customers. It was the 4th one (and the last one for the first release) and it ended up with a better product! Read here how I did it.

Design Thinking: How to make your product much better using Research?

"We know better than our customers" - sound familiar? Well, most of development teams as well as design teams think that way and want to create the next big thing without really understand the user needs or the user pains in their current situation. Every concept/design must justify itself as solving a pain/loss in one of the customer use cases, using your product or the competitor product. In order to be sure you are doing it right, never feel that your design/concept solve anything, prove

My 2 cents on how to revolutionize - Part 3 - planning

This is part -3- of the series, concentrating on the Planning of your breakthrough idea