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Successful Digital Product Innovation
by Mark VanDriel | insights | February 10th, 2023
The right champion pays dividends
Over the last few years, I have witnessed many organizations invest in understanding their business, users, and customers prior to building their digital products. They start at the highest level, in what we call the innovation phase, drafting a concept from...
Recognition at SDG
At SDG, recognition and showing appreciation for each other has always been a natural part of our culture. To give proper kudos when they are due, we have a number of different recognition programs that are designed to show appreciation to employees that go above and...
Successful Digital Product Innovation
Building software to bolster the digital capabilities of your business is a costly and time-consuming adventure. Often the digital products that are created during this process fail to return the desired business outcomes, fall short of user (and customer) needs, and...
Getting comfortable with iteration
There is a constant debate happening between the new way of thinking about development, typically agile methodologies, and the old ways of thinking, typically the beautifully named but oft-disparaged "waterfall." The thing is: this debate isn't happening much in a...
Blockchain 101: Real-World Uses
You might know bitcoin as a preferred payment system for ransomware or a volatile investment but like every technology there are two side to the coin. With one side being the potential to impact financial and social systems… in a good way!
How to be sure your product can go the extra mile
SDG consultant, discusses the parallels between digital product launches and going out for a jog.
The Product Mindset: Promises, Promises
Product Consultant, Jason Scherschligt discusses how to make and keep high-integrity commitments with key business partners while allowing time and space for product discovery and delivery.
Your “product” driver has arrived
Being assigned as a Product Owner feels a little bit like being handed the keys to a brand new car only to watch your driving instructor get in after you and immediately ask if you remember how to activate the defroster. The excitement and adrenaline you feel knowing...
Meet Ben Fischer: SDG’s Talent Sourcer!
What do you do at SDG? I connect and build relationships with professionals throughout the Twin Cities that could be potential fits for SDG! Why did you pick the type of role you have? I like connecting with professionals throughout the Twin Cities and having the...
Get to Know Ashley Sime: SDG’s Technical Recruiter
Get to know Ashley SIme: SDG’s Technical Recruiter!
Meet Cassandra Jastram: SDG’s newest recruiter
"I love that I get to help people find a career they are passionate about!" What do you like most about your job? I love that I get to help people find a career they are passionate about. You spend so much of your time working that I want to find people a job that...
From Atoms to Pixels: Digital Product and Manufacturing
This is the fifth in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. At first glance, software companies and manufacturing companies seem diametrically opposed: pixels vs atoms, machine learning vs. machines,...