You can tell much about a person from their values, and here are a few of mine that are important to me professionally as well as personally.
Collaboration |
Multidisciplinary teams working together to solve problems in real time |
The age of disciplines not talking to one another has to end. |
| Holistic, systems thinking |
Willingness to look at the entire
lifecycle of what you're building, from beginning to after it's finished |
If you don't know how your product or service ends, how can you truly understand how to begin it? |
| Innovation |
Willingness to create or revise new roles, processes, tasks or tools if the old ones don't work as well as they could
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Innovation is how people and companies grow and improve. |
| Leadership |
Willingness to take a stand on an important issue (such as advocating for end users), even if politically sensitive |
Every movement has leaders and followers - and leaders have their place. |
| Openmindedness |
Willingness to be open to insights from multiple disciplines
Willingness to try something new - even if it means occasionally failing - to learn. |
The only binary that exists is binary code - everything else besides 1's and 0' must be open to change if it wants to survive. |
| Proactivity |
Weekly product meetings and
dedicated project management and client services staff |
Because the design process can be managed to the benefit of everyone - both client and consultant alike |
