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Aligning Your Organization with an Agile Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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Five Ways to Retain Employees Forever

Harvard Business Review

By making the fixed cost of payroll inherently more variable under differing business conditions, you can make your company more resilient and agile, while also treating your employees exceptionally well.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. Programmers, UX/AI, MBA, agile product/project manager, other specialists…. 4) Costs – what is your cost per sale/customer?

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

But a solution could come by following the example of the lean, agile, and India-based company Bharti AirTel Limited. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India.

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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business Review

By cutting the fixed costs of computing — avoiding the need to hire IT staff, servers, and hardware — even the smallest firm can satisfy large and unexpected computing needs. This operational agility can be particularly valuable when facing uncertain demand or a fast-evolving competitive environment.