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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized. They drive innovation and speed up time to market. And, they align the KPIs of each function to common goals.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Incorporating rapid programming practices (“ Agile ” and “ Extreme Programming ”) to bring significant time-to-market and productivity benefits also required new and different skill sets than what were traditionally found within GE.