The answer, of course, may vary. I hope I won’t surprise or disappoint anyone by pointing out that all I’m sharing here are my experiences and thoughts - there are no definite answers for such a question in a complex environment.

The Product Design Sprint (PDS) is a workshop that we have developed after years of experience and many scoping sessions and kick-off meetings with our clients. We based our workshops on Google Design Sprints (which are based on Sprints as defined in the Agile development cycle and use the Design Thinking methodology) to be sure we would use a battle-tested process that had worked for many teams around the world. The key benefit is that several months of work are condensed into a few days that bring tangible results.

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is one of the best solutions for a web-based ecommerce project. There are two quality open-source ecommerce platforms you can use with RoR – Solidus and Spree Commerce. Both will help you build customized, scalable, and performant products fast. However, there are some critical differences between the two. I'll discuss them in this article and will show you why, at Netguru, we tend to lean towards Solidus.

Driving actual innovation in a large enterprise, instead of doing innovation theatre, is hardly a trivial task. So, at Netguru, we’re talking to top experts from various industries to see how they are trying to solve the digital transformation dilemma.

The future of the banking industry? There will be a more dynamic and personalised way of understanding each individual customer based on data and insights. For instance, we will end up with people getting loans approved depending on the type and value of data they’re holding - says Anneli Bartholdy, Strategic Partner at Nordea.

New York’s tech ecosystem (Silicon Alley) currently ranks at number two in the country, only behind Silicon Valley. Silicon Alley’s dynamic growth since the mid-2000s has been made possible by NYC’s large capital stock and a developed financial market, efficient technical infrastructure, but also a developed system of startup accelerators.  Accelerators are one of the most useful types of time investment for early-stage startups. Within an accelerator, early-stage startups get funding, mentorship, and access to investors in their geography and around the world. New York is no stranger to accelerators, as they house some of the best ones on the east coast, growing and scaling startups every year.  Here is a list of the top ten accelerators in New York. If you’re interested in the startup scene, we recommend you keep an eye on these programs!

Is there a one-size-fits-all approach for successful digital transformation? Hardly. But there are some key ingredients that we keep hearing in interviews with C-level executives and managers. Among them: high risk acceptance, a high degree of autonomy, and empowered decision-making.

Journalists have a key role in the transfer of knowledge around the world. They need to report the news as accurately as they can—and shed light into the innovations of tomorrow that are being built today. Within this sector, tech journalists have the role of  finding the next big things in the technology arena and reporting on them so we all understand how they are contributing to the world's successes. 

Lessons learned do not account for much unless they are recorded, improved upon, and spread. Sharing knowledge is one of the pillars of our culture. We came to a point where we realized that we’d learned so much in recent years, we had outgrown the bandwidth of our usual publication channel – our blog.

Colour is one of the most powerful elements in visual storytelling. It influences advertisements, storytelling, illustrations, and all other aspects of visual communication. It’s a fact that the way we perceive colours, is based on our cultural code, society, knowledge, and the environment we grew up in. Colour itself is just an action and an interaction registered in our minds.