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Role Of Design Thinking In Financial Services.
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Jul 141 min read
Human Led Creativity Will Possibly Become More Important In Gen-AI Era.
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Jul 141 min read
How organisations can overcome silos to implement a holistic, human-centric product development process?
Organizations can overcome silos and implement a holistic, human-centric product development process by integrating multi-disciplinary perspectives early and adopting the principles of Design Thinking. Strategies for Overcoming Organisational Silos Early Cross-Functional Collaboration: Avoid developing products in isolation by incorporating inputs from marketing, sales, and finance teams during the earliest stages of development. Integrated Communication: Foster a culture whe
10th Boulevard Labs
Jul 92 min read
What Is Design Thinking & How Is It Related To Double-Diamond Design Process and Human-Centered Design?
The primary objective of this article is to develop a fundamental understanding of Design Thinking and how it is applied by practitioners in real world problem solving and solutions development. Design thinking is a methodical approach of surfacing the right problem statements and developing solutions to those problem statements. (VM) The practitioner focused, innovation management view of Design Thinking was popularised by Stanford Design School (Mark Parry, Griffin W. Cottl
10th Boulevard Labs
Jul 95 min read
Commercial Office Real Estate Value Engineering.
Commercial real estate is a type of asset that can give multifold results on an investment or can prove to be a real disaster in your portfolio. Traditionally, the yield on commercial real estate used to come purely from rentals, but today's dynamic economy call for placing multichannel strategy to engineer greater marginal value from a single piece of real estate by opening and managing multiple possible channels and alternative uses of same square footage. We will try to br
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Jun 143 min read
Understand Cost Of Capital And Discounting Rate In Company Valuations.
There comes a time in any company, when it requires large sums of money to manage its operations, scale its operations or may fund its research and development of new products and services. If this sum of money, also known as capital, is not available from the revenue and profits that the company generates, it is funded into a company from outside. This outsider can be a person or another business entity such as a bank or another financial corporation or another company. Thes
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May 294 min read
Fundamental Understanding Financial Statements Is A Default For Founders & Innovators.
When you are running a business, there are some fundamental questions you have to keep asking yourself at certain frequencies. Some questions are required to be asked on daily basis, some on weekly basis, some on monthly basis, some every quarter, some every. year. The frequency of questions is secondary to the essence, context, and depth of questions. If you are in the business of selling goods, you may want to monitor how many units of those goods are you selling. What are
10th Boulevard Labs
May 224 min read
Understand Time Value Of Money To Be Able To Get To Right Valuation.
Money is a collective trust based concept that humans have created for their convenience. There was a time and we used to exchange one thing for another (called a barter) but to be able to exchange things without moving them physically from one place to another, we decided upon creating a medium of exchange of value called money. The value of money in hand can change over time. The reason for that is that we live in a finite near enclosed system called planet earth where the
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May 152 min read
Why Every Founder Should Understand Corporate Finance And How Should They Go About It?
Corporate Finance becomes one of the key areas of attention as a business scales and capital is raised for operations and expansions. When someone starts a business, they usually start with a concept and then eventually convert it into a business model. In every business model, the transactions of goods and services is facilitated by the concept of money. The concept of money is a system we humans have developed in order to make our lives easier in terms of exchanging value i
10th Boulevard Labs
May 83 min read
First Principles Understanding Of Concept Of Money.
Money is an elusive concept. We tend to believe that we understand the overall concept of money. But do we? As touched upon by Mr. Yuval Noah Harari in his book 'Sapiens', money is a 'trust based system'. More that being a technical evolution, it was a mental revolution. It is probably a mental model that helps enable various transactions between people in their immediate environment as well as across the world. At 10th Boulevard , we are trying to make the system of money mo
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May 14 min read
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