Posts by Edward Hadley
About Edward Hadley
Ed Hadley is Senior Director, Content and Product Marketing at Mendix, where he is responsible for helping IT leaders understand—and realize—the benefits of low-code app development. He writes regularly about a variety of IT-related topics, including digital transformation, bimodal IT, design thinking, agile development, and user experience. Prior to Mendix, Ed held marketing and communications roles with Neolane (acquired by Adobe), Netage Solutions, and PAN Communications. Follow him on Twitter @edhadley.
Posts by Edward Hadley
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Many IT leaders believe that adopting a single development methodology is the way to go, but which one is the right choice? Read on for a closer explanation of design thinking vs. Agile vs. Lean. -
Prototyping is one of the core principles of the design thinking process and is an important step in involving the business and enabling them to give feedback. Many believe that prototypes serve a temporary purpose and are ultimately meant to be replaced by something better. But what if you didn't need to throw away your prototype? -
If you lack in-house UX resources and your developers don’t possess UI/UX skills themselves, how can you possibly enable your development teams to build engaging user experiences at scale? Discover how to leverage Atlas’ out-of-the-box design language. -
How can IT leaders prevent IT project failures and ensure their teams build applications that fully realize the expected benefits? One approach that has seen a recent surge in popularity is design thinking. Read the full blog to learn how to leverage the design thinking process to ensure successful application outcomes. -
Many IT leaders lack a deeper understanding of design thinking principles and how they impact their IT organization and the business value they create. Learn more about one potentially misunderstood and underestimated principle, empathy. -
A user-centric approach to app design and development is crucial to combating app fatigue and realizing apps’ intended business value. But the focus on UX begs the question: as an enterprise IT leader, exactly how many UX professionals does my team need to deliver great experiences consistently and at scale? -
This blog post provides a perspective on both the pros and cons of responsive app design, and provides a solution for how to augment responsive app design with device-specific experiences for the best multi-channel UX. -
To ensure app adoption and success, your development teams must focus on great UX, not just look and feel. Here are three recommendations to ensure your enterprise app users don’t suffer from app fatigue, putting your business initiatives at risk. -
Discover what Progress Software's acquisition means for mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS) and the broader development platforms market. -
As enterprises build for competitive advantage, demand for apps is growing faster than IT capacity to deliver. High productivity tools promise to help. -
Discover how one Insurtech is putting software at the core of its business to deliver a more personalized product and customer experience.
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To become a digital insurer, IT leaders must focus on helping their organizations tackle three key priorities with unprecedented speed.
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See how Solomon Group quickly built an IoT solution that helps its clients improve the festival experience and differentiate its services in the process. -
Discover Disney's secret to merging the physical and digital worlds, and ideas for creating your own digical experiences. -
Implementing bimodal IT? Avoid these seven common mistakes to ensure you focus on the right outcomes and drive your digital innovation initiatives forward.
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The fifth in a five-part series looking at how specific industries are tackling Digital Mastery, this post explores the insurance industry.
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The third post in a five-part series looking at how specific industries are tackling Digital Mastery. Here, we explore the manufacturing industry.
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How can telecommunications companies make the leap from fashionistas to digital masters? By retooling the inside to realize gains on the outside.
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This post illustrates the urgent need for digitization in healthcare and paints a picture of what the digital future might look like.
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In this MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recap, we share how the CIO role is evolving to better lead digital transformation, including enabling business users.
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The race is on to bring innovative new insurance products to market. The latest example is John Hancock, which is offering policyholders discounts for wearing Fitbit wristbands.
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This week, Capital One acquired money management app Level Money. Why? Read this post for the Simple answer. Hint: it's reinventing itself as a software company.
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Companies are just waking up to the realities of aggregate spend reporting. This Q&A explores the challenges created by the Sunshine Act and the portal Alere developed with the Mendix App Platform to streamline that process. -
Non-profit organizations of all sizes clearly make the world a better place. The challenge most of them face is that the amount of resources they can call upon are almost by definition limited.
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Mendix congratulates its customer LV= Insurance for winning big last night at the FStech Awards in London. Specifically, LV= brought home awards in the three categories: Best Use of IT in Insurance, IT Team of the Year and Overall Winner. -
This post summarizes three recent Mendix customer wins: pension fund provider AZL, energy company NLE and newspaper publisher The Boston Globe.
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Mendix partner CAPE Groep won the FD Golden Gazelle Award for the second straight year. We caught up with CAPE Groep’s CEO to learn more about the company, its growth, and how partnering with Mendix has contributed to its success.
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Investing in an enterprise app platform is an important decision for CIOs.
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Today, we announced a partnership Triumph Consultancy Services, which works with biopharma, CRO, and medical device companies to enhance the quality, experience, and value of clinical trials.
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It’s always great to hear about the many different ways our customers are accelerating their business with the help of Mendix. This week our partner FICO talked about an interesting joint customer story: Cred-System is implementing an account origination solution with FICO and Mendix.
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This week, Mendix was fortunate to be recognized by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and multi-time member of Forbes’ list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In a column in Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, Ms.