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The Power of Customer Obsession in Designing Exceptional Cus...
In today’s competitive market, creating exceptional customer experiences has become a key differentiator for businesses. However, designing great experiences is not just abou...
3-Mar-2023

Building a digital-first, employee experience strategy
Employee experience has become a crucial element of success in today’s business landscape. It refers to employees’ feelings, attitudes, and perceptions about their work...
9-Jan-2023

Is this the end for UX designers?
With Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools such as Dall-e 2 and Midjourney now able to generate unique artwork and design; is this the end for UX Desig...
6-Jan-2023

Video is the key to improving your business communication
We all know the face of business has changed beyond recognition over the past few years. It has, in fact, given us an opportunity to do things differently. It’s now about people fi...
27-Dec-2022

Interview with a robot
I have been intrigued by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The recent release of ChatGPT, a new chat tool by OpenAI appears to have taken are a...
21-Dec-2022

What if you managed your data function like a product?
Summary It’s a common war cry of the IT department, “We are business lead!”, but are we, and if not, how can we be better? Too often, this is a hollow aspiration, and we only ask “...
28-Oct-2022

Importance of data literacy in the modern enterprise
What are data? Data are measurable values that, when contextualized, can be considered information. As knowledge is developed through the interpretation of information, then data c...
11-Oct-2022

Databricks Delta Sharing
If you have been paying attention to your data circles or attended the Data + AI Summit 2022, you might have heard that Delta Sharing is about to be released into the production of...
23-Aug-2022

Tools and Technology for a Successful Digital-First Employee...
In this short post, we look at some technology that can help with creating better Employee Experiences. Many tools and technology options are available to support a digital-first e...
3-Feb-2022

10 tips on how to deliver an engaging remote workshop
As the glorious year that was 2020 nears an end, I thought it was an opportune time to share some tips on what I have learned over the last 12 or so months of running co-design wor...
9-Oct-2021

Before a PPM
We originally wrote this article back in 2019. Given some recent conversations, we thought it may be interesting to do an update. It became even more interesting to see how little ...
9-Aug-2021

Business analytics, a waste of money
Are we spending our Business Intelligence and Analytics Budget where it matters most? The gap between the haves and have-nots only seems to be widening. While a lot of progress has...
1-Jun-2021

3 things to know – Project for the Web
If you have started looking at Project for the Web as Microsoft’s latest Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Toolset and have found yourself confused, you are not alone! We ...
5-May-2021

5 steps to confident workshop facilitation
Know your audience: Get to know about your workshop participants as much as you can. Be open with the limitation of your expertise in theirs. Remember that you are there to facilit...
3-May-2021

Learning how to learn
In our work at Exco Partners, learning is always an important component that we consider in the solutions we deliver. Learning helps to ensures the change is accepted and important...
29-Apr-2021

CX Designers and BAs, there is so much to learn from each ot...
My daughter applied for a credit card a month back. It was all online, including “chatting” with someone to guide her through some of the more complicated areas. With...
16-Feb-2021

Returning to the Office
With the further easing of restrictions in Victoria the speculation and conversation that started with the directive to work from home has shifted to questions about how will we kn...
28-Oct-2020

An insight driven organisation
An insight driven organisation will stand a far greater chance of maintaining their cashflow, keeping touch with customer base and keep a close eye on the operational metrics that ...
6-Oct-2020

Can we please stop manual project reporting
There is little point arguing the rapid rate of change of project management practices in recent years. Yet, project reporting remains un-change and often antiquated. Time to chang...
6-Aug-2020

Designing for Transformational Change
For an organisation to be able to deliver transformational change, thorough careful consideration and preparation are needed in the design of the change program itself. Simply pick...
22-Apr-2020