Category Archives: Co-creation or User collaboration

Beta Culture

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

New Service Development and Agile Programming Several people have emailed me for a definition of Beta Culture as mentioned in the posting yesterday. [Please consider posting a comment: WordPress makes it easy and then everyone can see it.] Beta Culture … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Nokia Beta Labs

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

Open for one year…working toward co-creation and beta-culture Nokia Beta Labs is a virtual organization to support “Nokia R&D teams (hundreds or thousands of people) and the beloved user community (~100k people and counting) to shape the future together.” The … Continue reading →

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More ethnography — Nokia

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

NY Times article on ethnographic research by Nokia One of the readers of this blog, who is involved in ethnographic research, made an interesting comment on the last post — give it a read. He also suggested a NY Times … Continue reading →

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Should you hire an anthropologist?

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

Ethnography stands out in a survey The principals of the Product Development Group, owners of the Stage-Gate registration, published the lead article in Visions (a PDMA publication) this month. It was a survey of firms about their most used and … Continue reading →

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