By Ryan Vannin on May 12, 2012
A quick one on entrepreneurship and creativity.
Today, as the Economy spirals downward and competition becomes stronger, businesses are struggling to find new ways to emerge and succeed.
Experts and consultants are all claiming that, in addition to the usual development and sale of innovative and top-of-mind products, there’s the need for CEOs and management to orient their decisions focusing more on creativity. Paraphrasing, it means that the old strategic model is surpassed and it’s time to embrace ideas generation as the preferred way to make (and take) decisions. Focusing on alternatives means finding new and unexplored ways to deal with complexities, while developing a new mindset is the key factor to enter a new era of business management.
Continue reading “Is creativity the new entrepreneurship?”
Posted in General information | Tagged business, creativity, entrepreneurship, ideas, innovation, leadership, organization |
By Ryan Vannin on April 12, 2012
(or how to be ineffective on social media)
These are the slides of my keynote speech at USI EMBA on April the 12th, 2012.
Posted in Specials | Tagged customers, emba, engage, keynote, listen, presentation, profile, slides, social media |
By plastical on April 9, 2012
After we published our first responsive website, many people asked us how we did it and how we approached the whole design process.
We thought about it and decided to share our experience by telling you how we started, what were the main goals and what we did in each step.
A site is about your users and your valuable content.
A political party’s website is all about valuable content: articles, posts, opinions, public acts. It all revolves around written opinionated content in the same way as news websites do.
While rethinking the Popular Democratic Party‘s website, we focused on the great importance articles have. People entering the site are interested in reading the contents and our job, as designers, is to help them have the best experience possible.
The previous website was conceived as a web portal: with lots of sections and sub-sections. We thought that this approach, although well structured, was overwhelming.
Continue reading “Our first experience with Mobile First and Responsive Web Design”
Posted in News, Works | Tagged approach, augmented, breakpoints, design, first, indesign, mobile, photoshop, responsive, rwd, technique, web, web design |
By Ryan Vannin on March 18, 2012
One of the most difficult aspects of becoming an entrepreneur is how to build and grow your customers’ base.
But in reality no business is able to succeed if there isn’t a solid and existing network of connections, that’s not limited to clients only.
By that I mean people that are sharing the same interests and with whom you may have engaging discussions that range from business to non-business related topics, i.e.: holidays, pets, politics, economy, children…
Continue reading “Home Office Survival Kit – #14 Build your network”
Posted in News | Tagged #homeofficehero, business, creativity, entrepreneur, home office, how to, kit, network, smb, sme, social, survival, tips, tricks, tutorials |
By Ryan Vannin on January 16, 2012
Today I was in the mood for Infographics…
I’m not someone who’s into statistics, analytics and data in general, so I took +Guy Kawasaki’s pitch outline example (for startups) as a reference.
Nothing really factual or informative, really… Just experimenting.
Let me know what you think… And if you like it, feel free to share it!
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Posted in General information | Tagged business, creative, demo, design, forecast, graphic, infographic, pitch, startup, venture |
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