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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

Haeckel popularized the alternative approach of “sense and respond”, whereby organizations were constantly scanning their environment, and adopting a sufficiently agile approach to enable them to rapidly respond to changes in their environment. Understanding the customer.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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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…. PR – blogs, press releases, Events, demos, conventions.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Catch up on the webinar: Sarah Tam, the Centre’s managing commitment member and PR & media chair, shared insights from UNESCO’s ‘Future of Education’ report, as well as the Peace Centre’s survey.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business Review

In a fragmented media and social landscape, marketers can no longer reach their goals for awareness and reputation just through paid media and PR. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Turn everyone into an advocate. People are the new channel.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Turning IT into an Agile Business Process.

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

Harvard Business Review

Startups with huge burn rates — building leases, staff, PR and advertising — ran out of money. To be fair, in the 20th century there really wasn’t any other model for how to build startups other than write a plan, raise money, and execute — and the bubble put this method on steroids. Then one day it was over.

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