http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog MISI Company - Experience Design Blog Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in June, I was a guest VIP blogger at the World Innovation Forum here in NYC. As you might intuit, the theme of the conference was innovation, or rather the lack of innovation within many companies today. While there were many ideas and reasons why a company should innovate, ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/measurement-outcome-design/ I couldn’t wait to get back to the office today after a morning of very exciting conversations at the Museum.  Below is a quick recap: Do You Need a Moose?  Yes – you all ready that correctly.  During our community intercepts a week ago, one of our participants offered the museum ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/morris-museum-update-2/ Hello everyone, I wanted to give you all a quick update on how things are going on the Morris Museum SEA project. First off – thank you to the many people that completed our online survey!  Your insights have gone a long way to helping us understand what people expect ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/morrismuseumupdate/ Consider the following language from one company’s leadership regarding the fundamental principles to which they believe the company must adhere to achieve their business goals: We must act in the customer’s best interest, not once in a while, but consistently. This means offering outstanding products and services and being helpful, courteous ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/mission-vs-experience/ The definition of functional requirements for a website or a business application is a critical phase in the development process. Aligning those requirements with the needs of your target audience is a prerequisite to launching a tool that will be quickly adopted and meet business expectations for ROI. Prototyping is an ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/5-tips-for-prototyping/ Surveys show that 2 out of every 3 IT projects fail. Many are even cancelled before completion. Common reasons projects fail range from budget overruns to failure to deliver ROI to no change control system. The list can go on and on....  According to a PMI Survey, one of the ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/applying-an-audience-centered-approach-to-ensure-project-success/ [caption id="attachment_294" align="alignleft" width="216" caption="The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ"][/caption] MISI Company is very excited to launch this blog series covering our work with the Morris Museum & Bickford Theater located in Morristown, New Jersey.  The project  is focused on delivering an end-to-end Strategic Experience Alignment (SEA) engagement in hopes of helping ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/join-our-sea-project-team/ Your organization is considering a major organizational initiative – perhaps you’re moving your IT systems to the cloud or establishing several new workflow process changes or merging two disparate organizations. You have carefully based your decision on key operational objectives, such as competitiveness, cost savings, enhanced system performance, productivity gains, ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/employee-driven-change-management/ Seven (7) tips to help you ensure your business and customers are getting demonstrably valuable designs from your agency No doubt you are aware of programs that were elegant, motivating experiences for their target audiences and returned compelling business results. The question is how can you ensure that the work your ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/what-does-good-look-like/ So I’m a little late jumping onto the New Year prediction band wagon.  And maybe I cheated a little because my prediction is actually based on what’s already happened in the first couple of weeks of the year. Nevertheless, you heard it here first – 2010 is the Year of ... http://www.misicompany.com/xdblog/index.php/must-see-xd/