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6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Now, these things are crucial to boosting business agility and enabling “citizen developers.” Workers will always look for tools, processes, and approaches to improve efficiency and productivity. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Augmentation.

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 5: Write Your Bio

Johanna Rothman

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. This is what is known in the lean startup world as a minimum viable product.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs. Focusing on one at the expense of the other is no longer a choice. Leadership is changing — fast.

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Business Growth Questions That Must Be Answered – The Top 10

LSA Global

Organic Growth For businesses to grow organically, leaders must emphasize maintaining a loyal customer base, improving products and services through innovation, and executing the current product and service strategies. Are your current and target customers still aligned with your product and service offerings?

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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

No payment for my time or my IP (Intellectual Property). They wanted my intellectual property for their exposure. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) Even though their offer will cost the consultant time, money, and intellectual property.

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Blockchain Startup 101: A blue print for launching a successful blockchain-based startup

Tom Spencer

They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about. Segway is a classic example of such a product. Once a use case has been identified, it should be validated by building a proof of concept (sometimes called a “minimum viable product”). This may be one reason why so many startups fail.