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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). Coordinate with local levels to act on insights ( EY, 2016 ). 2016, July 4).

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Agile Development’s Biggest Failure Point—and How to Fix It

BCG

Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations.

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Leaner, Faster, and Better with DevOps

BCG

Agile methodologies have given companies just what they need in the digital era: a collaborative and flexible way to develop software. See “The End of Two-Speed IT,” BCG article, August 2016.) Article Wednesday, March 22, 2017. In addition, DevOps puts heavy emphasis on automation.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

TOC has fully developed methodologies for determining the right location of buffers in projects as well as in manufacturing. It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change. 2] The TOC contribution to Healthcare , Eli Schragenheim (2016). [3]

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. For instance, recall the global system-wide outage that struck Delta Airlines in August, 2016 resulting in the unprecedented grounding of all flights.

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