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Pivot or Persevere: Using Design Research to Guide Strategic Pivots

design research strategic pivots

Discover how design research guides strategic decisions to pivot or persevere, helping you adapt to evolving customer needs and market shifts.

Design Thinking Team
December 23, 2025

Jill Hazelbaker Takes On Corporate Affairs Leadership Role At OpenAI

Business

Jill Hazelbaker Takes On Corporate Affairs Leadership Role At OpenAI

OpenAI appointed Jill Hazelbaker as chief corporate affairs officer, but has not…

Design Thinking Team
November 3, 2026

GPT-6 Astra Edited Another Model. Was It A Repair Or An Upgrade?

AI operations

GPT-6 Astra Edited Another Model. Was It A Repair Or An Upgrade?

A reported GPT-6 Astra weight edit raised Qwen3.5-0.8B’s MATH-500 score, but reduced…

Design Thinking Team
November 3, 2026

What StateBench Reveals About Language Models And Long-Document State Tracking

AI operations

What StateBench Reveals About Language Models And Long-Document State Tracking

StateBench tests four levels of language-model state tracking. Its report says harder…

Design Thinking Team
November 3, 2026

Z.ai’s Legal AI Passes About 1 In 5 Tasks—Here’s Why It Still Ranks Near The Top

Legal Operations

Z.ai’s Legal AI Passes About 1 In 5 Tasks—Here’s Why It Still Ranks Near The Top

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal ranks seventh of 81 models on Vals AI’s leaderboard, but…

Design Thinking Team
November 3, 2026