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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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When Your Company Has a Problem It Can’t Ignore

Harvard Business Review

There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. Why do we do the work we do?

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Nokia's Voyage From Tight-Knit Team to 'Burning Platform'

Harvard Business Review

Magazine profiles of very successful companies are endeavors of dubious value; they often manage to catch an organization just as it peaks and heads into decline, and the strengths they describe soon start looking more like liabilities. Around Nokia, you don't hear so much talk about Jorma this or Jorma that.

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