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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. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

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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 ). Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business

Much of the welcome recent innovation in management practice has come from the fringes – new communities and groups developing approaches such as the agile (or Scrum) movement, design thinking, lean-startup methodologies and beyond-budgeting approaches, among others. But collectively we have all we need to do this over time.

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When Top-Down Change Isn’t Working, Hand the Keys to Frontline Staff

BCG

Article Thursday, June 08, 2017 The World Bank turned to agile methodologies, implemented from the bottom up, to improve operational efficiency and employee satisfaction. Operations head Kyle Peters describes the challenges and successes.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups. We mentored and supported them over six months, as they completed their courses.

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Leaner, Faster, and Better with DevOps

BCG

Article Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Agile methodologies have given companies just what they need in the digital era: a collaborative and flexible way to develop software. DevOps calls for some staff from IT operations, which traditionally works apart from developers, to be brought onto cross-functional agile teams.

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