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

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. Resistance from the Supplier. Resistance from the Customer.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs. Develop personal, habitual agility.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. As Eric Reiss describes , “The goal of such early contact with customers is not to gain definitive answers. But what is lost?

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.