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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Rapid-action, agile automation engines have emerged as the only resource for businesses to become fully functional, integrated, robotic enterprises that can adapt with the dynamic economy, consumer demand, internal logistics, business goals, and social landscape. Knowledge workers are businesses’ source of innovations.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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A Platform Strategy Won’t Work Unless You’re Good at Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Platform business models are booming—becoming bigger and more powerful than ever. At OpenMatters, we spend a lot of time studying network orchestration —business models where companies facilitate relationships and interactions, rather than serving up all the products, services, and pieces of content themselves.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business. In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8

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The Existential Question Facing the Auto Industry

Harvard Business Review

If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla.