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

Strategy Driven

Similarly, poor practices that allow a business to incur technical debt open the door to cybersecurity exploits that can bankrupt a business financially or through loss of trust and reputation in the eyes of its customers. Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts.

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

Harvard Business Review

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

” The authors identified organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

” The authors identified organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”