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Enhancing Software Quality: The Benefits of Continuous Testing

Strategy Driven

Reduced Time-to-Market In addition to enhanced software quality, the advantages of continuous testing described above also contribute to faster product releases. This, in turn, makes companies more responsive to market changes and increases their adaptability to newly emerging demands.

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The Principles of Agile Planning

Strategy Driven

The systems are sophisticated and project environments bigger and more distributed than ever before. Some, for example, are more prescriptive than others. After all, your needs and goal are bound to shift down the road, so why not plan ahead of time? The benefits linked to adoption are indeed many, but there’s just one problem.

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The Mindset Your Company Needs to Grow Organically

Harvard Business Review

Companies dedicate vast amounts of time, money, and effort to organic growth. The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. As an example, a consumer packaged goods company was concerned that millennials weren’t buying as much of one product as their parents did.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For example, some may provide a source of competitive differentiation like the investment that German manufacturer Bosch is making in its internet of things (IoT) data platform. A retailer’s point of sale (POS) system falls into that category. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. The system that's changing the way we work. Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. Related Video.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.