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Enhancing Software Quality: The Benefits of Continuous Testing

Strategy Driven

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reports that nearly 80% of development costs are generated by the process of identifying and correcting software defects during the development process. This, in turn, makes companies more responsive to market changes and increases their adaptability to newly emerging demands.

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

Harvard Business Review

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. It requires new modes of operation.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Every startup is in a race against time. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.