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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

And, sadly, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reports that 60 percent of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. Please follow the steps below to turn off Remote Management immediately. has grown stealthier and more sinister.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

For a quick idea of what that might be in your organization, take the following quiz. On a 1-5 scale (where 1=Strongly Agree; 2=Agree; 3=Neither Agree nor Disagree; 4=Disagree; and 5= Strongly Disagree), rate the thinking of your company's key decision-makers on the following statements, then add up the total of all 10 items.

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

Harvard Business Review

Their product development teams followed a traditional software development method – called “ Waterfall ” – in which they spent months defining customer requirements and functional specifications, coding the software, and testing it for quality and reliability. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Is Your Organization Ready for Total Digitization?

Harvard Business Review

What do the following items have in common: credit cards and streaming or recorded music, robots for production, CAD systems, telephone networks, digital games, computers in products like cars and vacuum cleaners, sensors, and video consoles used in remote mining? Answer: They are all digital and connectable.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Responding to change over following a plan. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on.