Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Read this article to find out how continuous testing can transform the development process and bring value to your team.

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Software Quality Efficiency CRM 111

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Teams are meant to work collaboratively, which means to walk-through, debate, and likely reshape the idea before making a call. Resistance from the Supplier. Resistance from the Customer.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. They are about achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvements through automation or meeting government requirements.

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Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Drawing on a conference he organized on how the US legal system could be changed to better promote entrepreneurship, Litan points out that the scholarship of law and economics "has been largely about what economists call 'static efficiency' rather than 'dynamic efficiency' or growth."

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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