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Enhancing Software Quality: The Benefits of Continuous Testing

Strategy Driven

The goal of continuous testing is to ensure the development team receives rapid and continuous feedback on the software states. Reduced Time-to-Market In addition to enhanced software quality, the advantages of continuous testing described above also contribute to faster product releases.

Software 101
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The Impact Climate Change Will Have On Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

An expert interviewed for the study stated that sustainable healthcare practices and their alignment with global climate goals pose a challenge, but also present an opportunity for innovative design and operations. The researchers believe that the impact will be split between climate-related migration and low-carbon healthcare.

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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.

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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. We clarify goals.

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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. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As Eric Reiss describes , “The goal of such early contact with customers is not to gain definitive answers. ” (emphasis mine) Compare this with the empathetic approach to design , where the goal is to build an emotional connection with people – to feel what they feel, and to build a human relationship with them.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Relationship management is also vital in successful negotiation, resolving conflicts and working with others toward a shared goal which is especially challenging when a PM is tasked with balancing the needs of customers, resource-constrained engineering teams, and the company’s revenue goals.