Judging by the number of recent articles and the amount of media hype, ChatGPT is a hot topic. ChatGPT uses machine learning methods to generate texts in a conversational way and can also write code – but is it actually a useful tool for developers? We’ll take a...
March 24 2023
Times of change are also times of huge opportunity. You have an ambitious vision to increase your revenue potential, and an era of economic uncertainty doesn't have to change that. Elevate your customer experience (CX) with a headless e-commerce software platform. ...
March 13 2023
When it comes to ecommerce development, there are a lot of factors to consider and many steps to take to achieve a worthy final product. It’s important to both personalize components to reflect your brand while also ensuring that the consumer can easily navigate the...
February 27 2023
A design system is not only design kits or code used to build modern digital solutions – it’s the flow of interactions and the organization of the people creating digital experiences. In addition to reusable assets and patterns that are used to streamline the process...
February 27 2023
For a long time, the focus on carbon emissions has been on physical products such as clothes, electronics and food. Recently however, increasing attention has been given to the carbon footprint of digital production. And with good reason – information and...
February 16 2023
In today’s world, nearly everything is digital – both in business and private life. Sometimes you don’t even realize how things work behind the scenes as processes are automated and ‘just happen’ without any visible sign during the process.
February 10 2023
We live in a world of constant change – meaning what was relevant just a year ago might become irrelevant today. Your business needs to be able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. One part of that ability is related to your technical architecture and how well...
February 10 2023
At first glance, digital natives and their disruptive start-ups may seem to have little in common with SAP, since start-ups usually start small and lean and so don’t have either the requirement or resources to use ERP software. However, a digital transformation...
December 14 2022
Being awarded with a Red Dot is like winning at the Oscars: it’s a seal of approval that a design is (as we like to say) ducking outstanding. After all, it's one of the world's largest design competitions, with around 20,000 entries every year from major brands...
November 10 2022
Did you know that diverse teams are enablers of better business? According to McKinsey, companies whose leaders represent a strong mix of genders and ethnicities are more likely to outperform their less diverse peers on profitability. These companies are also better...
October 18 2022
We set out to create and carry out Vincit’s project lead training without external help. It was a considerable undertaking that not only gave us trained employees, but also allowed us to develop as a learning organization. In this article, I will explain how we...
September 30 2022
Developers often face challenges getting started with Web accessibility due to its perceived complexity and the time involved to ensure full accessibility. But is it necessary to set such a high bar? Why not start with a more attainable goal? For instance, focus on...
September 22 2022
What is a marketplace and how does it enable synergies between companies? There are actually very few, or even zero players in particular industries that take advantage of the marketplace operating model. In this blog, I explain why it would now be a...
September 7 2022
When building a new digital service, attention is often fixed on the development of the first viable version. However, the goals of service are truly achieved only through its use and further development. How should you approach the maintenance phase of a service?...
August 23 2022
According to research, Finns use mobile devices for around 3.5 hours every day and the rise in use this represents has increased universally across different ages groups. And yet, a study conducted by the US-based research institute, the Standish Group, notes that up...
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Different forms of collaboration to boost businesses are quite common in the software industry, but what factors give a deeper meaning to a partnership? In this text, I will share a story about how our paths crossed with Vincit and what are the key elements of a...
June 20 2022
This year, 2022, Vincit is partnering with Pride Helsinki to promote a culture of pride & respect both at and outside of work. These are topics where one can always learn more, but a great first step is to start the discussion and be open-minded. We will never be...
June 16 2022
You probably haven’t been spared from the hype surrounding DevOps. This set of practices seems to hold a lot of promise: DevOps accelerates software development and allows you to reach any business goals set for your digital services in record time. With its use of...
June 7 2022
Companies in trading industries have been flocking towards digital commerce in growing numbers and with increasing haste. No surprise, as cutting out the middlemen, expanding to new markets and employing data and automation offer lucrative opportunities for growth...
May 25 2022
Digitalization will be an increasingly important part of medical related products. Combined with AI and data analytics, cloud and mobile environments offer numerous opportunities for new technical solutions. However, Medical device companies are facing a rapid...
May 17 2022
As a leader today, it is important to understand the value of diverse backgrounds, while recognizing the unconscious biases we all have in our thinking. In this blog, I share my thoughts on how to promote a culture of discussion and respect – especially when bringing...
May 11 2022
Not long ago, Vincit once again rose to the podium as Finland’s Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work listing after several years of not taking part in the survey. This was our first time in the Large Companies category for businesses with over 250 employees, and...
May 10 2022
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When we talk about digital ecosystems, what are we talking about, exactly? Digital ecosystems have come to revolutionize business and set completely new standards for sales and sales management. But how can you get started if you have no prior experience with...
April 7 2022
The rapid expansion of digital sales has had a significant impact on the transformation of customer behavior in recent years. Digital sales are growing around the world across all industries, and its total value was estimated to reach as high as $4.3 trillion during...
March 18 2022
The crises and conflicts we’re faced with today have irreversibly changed the way we work and modified the skillset required of managers and executives. The pandemic, in particular, has acted as a hyper-accelerating catalyst for trends that otherwise would have taken...
March 15 2022
“We don’t have blind users.” “The images on our website have alt texts.” “Accessibility is time consuming with little value to most users.” Comments like these indicate a common misconception that accessibility is only about attending to the needs of people with...
March 8 2022
Despite the circumstances 2020 has presented, our summer has been full of excitement! We welcomed a new SVP of Strategy and Partnerships, kicked off our first ever virtual Vincit Talks, finished a third office expansion, and last, but definitely not least, were...
March 4 2022
Managing backlogs (lists of accumulated tasks) is a central feature in the direction of software development. This everyday task may sometimes have a surprisingly significant effect on how successfully the product owner’s main task, maximizing the value yield of the...
February 24 2022
Interest in responsibility and sustainability is constantly growing. Both consumers and B2B partners desire more information about responsible alternatives. There are plenty of opportunities in digital sales for improving the customer experience and deepening...
February 21 2022
Vincit was originally founded as a good place to work. This goal was the single most important motivation that led to the creation of the company, which is why I am particularly interested in learning how we have fared. I couldn’t help but feel enthusiasm mixed with...
January 28 2022
The pandemic is forcing businesses to turn their focus on solving operational problems. At the same time, however, we should look to the future, even as it may appear particularly challenging right now. Futures thinking and foresight by organizations are ways to...
January 19 2022
Digital services do make the world a better place by improving daily lives and creating new sustainable services, but many times the environmental impact of these solutions is overlooked. To further improve the benefits of digitalization we must be mindful of the...
January 19 2022
Accessibility of services is the starting point for digital equality. With the new European Accessibility Act set to enter into force in 2025, web accessibility will be extended to also apply to private sector operators and services such as online stores must meet...
January 11 2022
We have recently had the chance to welcome back many old Vincit employees. This has been a great experience and has naturally aroused curiosity about the reasons for coming back. We decided to sit down with a couple of returnees to discuss work and the importance of...
December 16 2021
Companies often look at digital sales only from the perspective of an online store, but succeeding in a competitive field requires much more. In the first part of the Data Driven Digital Sales -webinarseries (in Finnish), we discussed digital sales. In this article,...
December 2 2021
There are numerous ways to build mobile applications, and this blog post is all about comparing the pros and cons of the different approaches. My former colleague Juha Riippi started a blog post series around eight years ago, and the mobile tech field has been...
November 4 2021
We have recently had the chance to welcome back many old Vincit employees. This has been a great experience and has naturally aroused curiosity about the reasons for coming back. We decided to sit down with a couple of returnees to discuss work and the importance of...
October 19 2021
Last month at Vincit, we had our first ever Arizona Dev Talks event! We welcomed guests from Vincit and the local tech community for an in-person and virtual event. In case you missed it, watch it here.
October 8 2021
Accessibility is important in ensuring digital equality and is a key element of high-quality service, so we have been keen on developing our skills on it here at Vincit. We also believe that study groups are an excellent and effective form of social learning. With...
September 30 2021
The term hybrid work is on everyone’s lips right now. People finally got used to working in sweatpants all day, and now it’s time to transition back to office life. In theory, hybrid work gives us the best of both worlds, but how can such be achieved? That’s exactly...
September 20 2021
When companies digitalize their operations, deploying new technology is just one part of the initiative. Changing the way humans work is another. Success comes when everybody is working together to move things forward, applying the learnings from ongoing experiments...
September 13 2021
This blog kicks off a three-part blog series where our service designer Pirkka discusses design thinking on the basis of his own mentoring process. In part 1, Pirkka talks about his experiences within Vincit’s mentoring program and shares how it shaped his views on...
August 25 2021
The Third Industrial Revolution, also known as the Digital Revolution, began changing the world at an increasingly rapid rate around 50 years ago. In the early ‘90s, Finland became a key player in this revolution, as it developed the digital 2G networks which enabled...
August 18 2021
The era of digitalization has brought about the rapid development of company processes and technologies. Only a decade ago, digitalization concentrated on technological choices, but it wasn’t aligned with the optimization of internal processes or customer experience....
June 28 2021
A product owner’s role is often challenging and misunderstood. The development team may have high expectations towards the PO, and it’s easy for the team to feel disappointed in the PO’s performance. However, the team plays a key role in helping the product owner to...
June 17 2021
The circular economy is the hot topic of the day. It offers solutions to climate change and creates new business and growth opportunities for companies. According to Sitra’s evaluation, a circular economy will offer Finland’s economy an annual growth potential of at...
May 18 2021
Vincit has had an open salary policy for nearly ten years. The model was first implemented to promote a more equitable salary policy and to increase transparency. In this article, I will tell you why an open salary policy is a good thing and explain how it has been...
April 12 2021
It’s getting close to the end of 2020, and I thought it was an excellent time to take a look back at what we’ve accomplished. This year, of course, was very unique and introduced unprecedented challenges to everyone all over the globe. Like several businesses, Vincit...
December 29 2020
Service design and UX design are often understood to involve research and design methods that focus on people’s interactions, such as interviews, observations and usability testing. These methods provide information on the behavior and motives of users but should not...
December 7 2020
Part 2: In my previous blog post on human-centered information security management (ISM) I expressed the idea that design thinking and service design methods could be used to develop information security management. In the world of service and product development,...
November 26 2020
Chakra UI is an up and coming library of React JS consulting components that is super easy to use, while also taking care of accessibility for you. They’re very easy to compose and style, and I feel that my code has become cleaner and more modular as a result. The...
November 17 2020
As most organizations pivot operations to long-term remote work, leaders are posed with the question: “What can we do to maintain our company culture?” With physical workspaces and office environment previously playing a crucial role in how we develop cultural...
November 11 2020
Two of the most common mistakes of cloud service implementation include the incorporation of all environments under the same account and the manual provisioning of cloud resources. Paying attention to these things when setting up your cloud service will save you a...
November 10 2020
Vincit Talks is a monthly tech meetup held in Southern California. It’s designed to bring directors down from their towers and tech professionals out from their cubicles. We feature speeches on a variety of topics ranging from marketing and business development to...
October 30 2020
Part 1: Due to the recent data breach of the Finnish Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo, information security is once again a hot topic. Last spring, I got to be involved in helping our client develop the information security management system of Finnpark’s Moovy service,...
October 30 2020
In this blog post, I will tell you why building an accessible service is not only the right but also the business-savvy thing to do. I will introduce five ways in which accessibility will improve your business online.
October 21 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on our consumer habits, and not just in the way we use digital services. Walmart, the biggest retailer in the U.S., recently announced that their online sales surged an incredible 74% in the last quarter compared to a...
October 13 2020
Mobile operating systems are developing at a breakneck pace. With new and exciting features being launched every year, app developers need to constantly be on their toes in order to keep up. Even a company that has managed to launch the leading mobile app on the...
October 8 2020
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you’ve felt that the challenges of digitalization only present one wicked problem after another? The organization has silos whose walls can’t be penetrated with solutions, you don’t know how to tackle a problem that...
September 28 2020
Vincit Talks is a monthly tech meetup held in Southern California. It’s designed to bring directors down from their towers and tech professionals out from their cubicles. We feature speeches on a variety of topics ranging from marketing and business development to...
September 25 2020
Every collaboration and project is different but we often hear the same questions about design: Who needs design? How much should we invest in design? Is the purpose of design just to make things pretty? And so on... In this article we have collected top ten...
September 21 2020
Healthcare applications, depending on their features, are under much more scrutiny than most other categories of applications because they must follow regulations like HIPAA that many other businesses are not typically required to comply with. Healthcare apps will...
September 1 2020
Vincit Talks is a monthly tech meetup held in Southern California. It’s designed to bring directors down from their towers and tech professionals out from their cubicles. We feature speeches on a variety of topics ranging from marketing and business development to...
August 28 2020
The health and welfare industry is the largest industry in the world, and it continues to grow by more than 5% every year. When designing an app for the health and welfare industry, it’s important to think about how the different user groups, such as patients and...
August 19 2020
Competence development can be challenging when done in parallel with a hectic specialist job. To help combat this problem, Vincit has a training organization called Univincity, whose objective is to enable the individual development of each Vincitizen. Sometimes help...
August 3 2020
Data provides some undeniable benefits when it comes to running a business: it will not only gain you insights on the state of the business environment and help you prepare for any oncoming changes but it can also be used to develop new business and strengthen...
June 29 2020
In the previous blog series by Vincit’s recruitment and people team, we discussed the building of the candidate experience and explained our recruitment process from first contact all the way to preparation of the employment contract. Once the work really starts, a...
June 29 2020
There are several ways to enable mobile payments in your app, and each of them is suitable for slightly different situations. When planning the development of your mobile app, it’s good to be aware of the different options and their pros and cons. In the best-case...
June 23 2020
Unlike other applications, healthcare apps have extra layers of complexity and variables that make their builds more tedious and detailed but when done right can yield a great user experience. Here's how to design and develop a mobile health app.
June 12 2020
In this talk from our May 2020 event, Lead Designer Cameron Sagey and Senior Developer Viet Le from Vincit discuss strategies and decisions made during the design and launch of Urban Armor Gear's completely revamped website.
May 22 2020
Data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning – you’ve more than likely already come across these terms and may even be sick of hearing them. Despite this, I’d like you to resist the urge to stop reading any further. The aim of this blog article is to...
May 12 2020
Once the recruitment process has progressed to a point where we’re convinced with the candidate’s skills and personality, we get to send them an employment contract and pass the torch from the recruitment team to the people team. In the third installment of the blog...
April 21 2020
A retrospective, retro for short, is a tool used by software development teams for continuous improvement of team operations. In this blog post, I will shed light on how you can organize a retro in a situation that involves a lot of people but only a little time. The...
March 26 2020
Accessibility does not only maximize the number of potential users in web and mobile applications, but it also supports equality and social inclusion by making sure that the internet is for everyone. After reading this blog post, you’ll know what accessibility means...
March 3 2020
In this Vincit Dev Talks from our February 2020 event, Hamid Badiozamani and Di Le from BrainCorp discuss how their company designs and build robots that have to deal with the complexity that comes with interacting with humans while performing their designated tasks.
March 2 2020
In this Vincit Dev Talks from our February 2020 event, developers Himaja Suman and Anika Corpus from Cox Automotive take us through Kelly Blue Book's decision to implement microservices and how it improved the development process for their engineers.
March 2 2020
December 20 2019
Stress, sweaty palms, and extreme anxiety. Merely hearing the words ‘job interview’ can trigger all these reactions in a person. Luckily interviews don’t have to stick to some pre-set format but can just as well be replaced by a chat whilst jogging or having an...
December 18 2019
It was a dark, rainy day in Helsinki. A group of CEOs, CIOs, senior research experts, lead service designers, and sustainability managers gathered to Vincit’s office to figure out ways to accelerate the sustainability transition. Although it may have looked gloomy...
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My first impression of the Tesla Cybertruck at the unveiling was similar to many people’s reactions, something like “Uh, what?”. I thought it looked half-baked and awkward, and was actually mad about it. I believe in Tesla’s mission and have been continuously...
November 27 2019
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Candidate communications is one of the most important parts of the candidate experience, and it also has an undeniable effect on employer image and branding. Investing in candidate communications gives the company a monthly opportunity to influence how hundreds or...
November 19 2019
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Businesses need to rethink their design strategy to build sustainable products and services that resonate positively with the modern consumer. The strategy needs to be based on a mindset of responsibility, transparency and systemic thinking.
November 13 2019
A mobile app can be a great tool for boosting sales, enhancing brand equity, and prompting customers to engage with your business. But how can you tell if an app is going to create added value for your business instead of gathering dust and one-star reviews in an app...
November 6 2019
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Analytics is worth a thousand educated guesses. But why is analytics often superior to experience and intuition? Why does this buzzword keep popping up everywhere, and why is it sometimes better to trust a machine over a human when it comes to data handling? Change...
October 16 2019
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Do you feel like you’re spending too much of your time with cloud service management? Is your relationship with your management console getting too serious? Or have you accidentally caused a service interruption when updating a cloud environment? The solution to your...
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PubNub is an easy to use, well documented and well-supported platform for enabling real-time capabilities for web, mobile, IoT and backend applications through their selection of over 70 SDKs. In addition to its Pub/Sub messaging, PubNub lets the user add additional...
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User Experience (UX) is vital for successful products. It has gone from being a differentiator to being an expectation, at least for most industries. It can be hard to get a grasp on the value of UX work, especially for those who aren’t familiar with the process....
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Components are a big part of modern frontend development and making them reusable, accessible, documented, polished and styled properly is important. Clients and their products should have unified design and standardised components that follow certain patterns for...
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