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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

Back in 2001, what we know today as the Agile Manifesto was born , by the hand of several American CEOs of the technology sector (software) and they decided to combine various ideas to propose an alternative to the slow working methods that were not responding to the current ones needs, before your organization and your customers.

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The Rise Of The On-Demand Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers. This has been especially so in digital domains, where the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation efforts across the economy.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Strategic planning. Strategic thinking. Creative thinking. Risk taking.

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Good to Great. Are you ‘good’ or maybe slightly below?

Strategy Driven

Many companies try to maximize profit by cutting costs, or worse, cutting quality, or way worse, cutting service offerings. Good to Great was published in 2001 way before social media dominated the scene. Practices for Professionals business management buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer strategydriven' I’ll take the latter.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. The camera was as big as a toaster, took 20 seconds to take an image, had low quality, and required complicated connections to a television to view, but it clearly had massive disruptive potential. No strategy is static. It was so close.

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Big Data's Management Revolution

Harvard Business Review

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. In 2001 PASSUR began offering its own arrival estimates as a service called RightETA.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.