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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Design Thinking Approach: Think Twice Before Building Throwaway…
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?
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How Atlas UI Enables Consistent Use of UI Design Best Practices
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.
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How the Design Thinking Process Helps Prevent IT Project Failures
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.
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Beyond Innovation: Applying Design Thinking Methods Across Your App…
Beyond the obvious merits for innovation, we believe there’s value in applying design thinking methods across your entire portfolio of application development initiatives. Let’s explore the other use cases for applying design thinking methods.
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Design Thinking Principles: Empathy as a Path to Mutual Value
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.
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Design Thinking vs. Agile: Combine Problem Finding and Problem Solving…
While agile can provide a highly effective way of solving problems, it doesn’t guarantee that you’re solving the right problems in the first place. Learn how a number of enterprise IT organizations have begun leveraging agile in conjunction with design thinking to find the right problems to solve.
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Do IT Teams Need UX Professionals to Deliver Great User Experiences?
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?
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Is Responsive App Design a Panacea for Enterprise IT Leaders?
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.
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Why Every IT Leader Should Be Concerned with App Fatigue
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.
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Progress Software’s Acquisition of Kinvey Marks the End of…
Discover what Progress Software’s acquisition means for mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS) and the broader development platforms market.
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Low-Code Development Takes the Main Stage at Cloud Foundry Summit
Mendix hosted a keynote panel at the Cloud Foundry Summit with customers Georgetown University, Solomon Group, and MIT for a discussion on how low-code development enables them to take apps from ideas to production faster than traditional development.
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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit: EA Role Evolves to Enable…
A recap of the main themes of the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, including the emerging tech on EA agendas.
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5 Themes from Gartner’s App Strategies & Solutions Summit
As enterprises build for competitive advantage, demand for apps is growing faster than IT capacity to deliver. High productivity tools promise to help.
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Root Insurance Redefines Auto Insurance with Software & Analytics
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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Infographic: Building the Digital Insurer
To become a digital insurer, IT leaders must focus on helping their organizations tackle three key priorities with unprecedented speed.
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How Solomon Group Quickly Delivered a High-Value IoT Solution
See how Solomon Group quickly built an IoT solution that helps its clients improve the festival experience and differentiate its services in the process.
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How Disney Amplifies Experiences By Merging the Physical and Digital…
Discover Disney’s secret to merging the physical and digital worlds, and ideas for creating your own digical experiences.
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Algorithmic Business: What Showtime’s Billions Reveals about Digital…
“Everybody has access to the same information. We just know how to analyze it better.” So says Bobby Axelrod, hedge
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7 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Implementing Bimodal IT
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 Matchmaker’s Crucial Role in Identifying and Prioritizing Your…
In order to jump-start Mode 2, identify a Matchmaker: someone close to the business that can help identify & prioritize projects. Here are 4 possibilities.
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Insurance for a Digital Age
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 Dollars and Cents of Digital Transformation
The fourth in a five-part series looking at how specific industries are tackling Digital Mastery, this post explores the financial services industry.
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The Digital Value Chain
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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Is the Telecommunications Industry Embracing Digital Fast Enough?
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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The Digital Face of Tomorrow’s Healthcare
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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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Bimodal IT, Agile and Speed
The discussion focused on how leading organizations are accelerating the results of their digital transformation projects through bimodal IT strategies.
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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Blurring the Lines Between IT and Business
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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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: From Digitally Disrupted to Digital Master
At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium yesterday, the themes of digital disruption and digital transformation were front and center. According
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John Hancock First to Market with Tech-Fueled Insurance Product…
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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The Simple Truth Behind Capital One’s Acquisition of Level Money
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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Bringing Together Cloud Advancements to Power Modern Application…
The partnership with Mendix and Blue Box shows how the advancements of IaaS, PaaS and aPaaS come together, providing one of the fastest paths to delivering cloud-native applications.
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Aggregate Spend Reporting and Sunshine Act Compliance: Q&A with…
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.
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3 Reasons You Should Read Our Latest Case Study
We’ve published a new case study on AVEBE, a world leader in the production of potato starches used in food, paper, textiles, adhesives, and other applications. This post outlines three interesting angles that make the AVEBE story a must-read.
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Mendix World Hackathon: Building Innovative Apps That Help Give Back…
Non-profit organizations of all sizes clearly make the world a better place. The challenge most of them face is that
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Mendix Customer LV= Insurance is Big Winner at FSTech Awards
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.
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3 Great Customer Stories; 3 Great Mendix World Speakers
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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CIOs: Are You Ready for the Big Game? [eBook]
Football is like application development: the coach (CIO) implements a system (platform) and set of plays (methodology) to help his team march toward the goal (apps). This playbook is designed to help IT teams execute a winning app delivery strategy.
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Partner Spotlight: Q&A with Two-Time FD Golden Gazelle Winner CAPE…
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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The 5 Most Important Questions to Ask When Evaluating Enterprise App…
Investing in an enterprise app platform is an important decision for CIOs. After decades of plodding along with traditional programming
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In Pursuit of Intuitive Life Sciences Apps: Q&A with Triumph…
Today, we announced a partnership Triumph Consultancy Services, which works with biopharma, CRO, and medical device companies to enhance the
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The Consumer App Craze and Its Profound Impact on Business…
If there was any doubt that we live in an app world, just take a look at Gartner’s recent Mobile
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What Model-Driven Development Has In Common with Marketing Campaign…
I’m Ed Hadley, one of the newest members of the Mendix team. I spent the last two and a half
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Cred-System Fuels Fast-Paced Growth with FICO and the Mendix App…
It’s always great to hear about the many different ways our customers are accelerating their business with the help of
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Mendix Cited by European Commission VP as “Real Success” Story
This week, Mendix was fortunate to be recognized by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and multi-time member of