With our expansive and resilient network infrastructure, inexpensive green energy, and agile and prosperous business environment, we should be excelling in the field of cloud computing.
In addition, according to recent McKinsey research, 63 percent of business leaders who responded agreed that the cloud can make their entire organization more business agile and responsive.
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Sure, the CIO will need to become more agile, innovative and business savvy to keep the company competitive, but having someone with a holistic view of IT is essential.
But despite the sophistication of agile principles in the development space and numerous examples of their successful application in organizations of all shapes and sizes the broader community of business leaders is just starting to understand the value of agile development in solving more general business challenges, including issues around market forces, competitive pressures, company culture and values, technology, process improvement, and others.
The modern small business owner is smart, tech-savvy and agile, but in spite of their business prowess, they or their IT department may very likely neglect a key aspect of their growth plan: beefing up their cybersecurity.
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How do we create agile goals that reflect changing business reality rather than reality as it existed six months ago?
However, I believe none have embraced the ride so close to their hearts like brave entrepreneurs and small business owners, agile startups, and the driven freelancers.
The combination of business model design and customer and agile development is the first wave of tools that help founders search for a business model.
Unfortunately, intercepted communications can mean a significant loss of revenue for corporations that have unknowingly revealed trade secrets or business information that an agile competitor can exploit.
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Thus, if Scrum and Agile are focused on the traditional business goal of making money for shareholders, rather than delighting the customer, then there is a risk that the huge gains in productivity that Scrum and Agile generate will be used to downsize the software development staff, thereby killing the very creativity and innovation that are responsible for the gains.
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Is he a closet indexer, a crapshooter or an agile player trying to dope out the business cycle?
We are going through quite a major program at the moment, saying, how we can adapt this business, make it more agile, make it more able to survive whatever may happen in Europe, whatever may happen with oil prices, whatever we see from our competitors?
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Today he runs a lean and distributed team that is driving the charge for the shape of business to come: lean, agile, and quickly evolving with the ability, when needed, to turn on a dime.
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Although there are specific disciplines that follow trained approaches to working in Lean or Agile environments, the average worker or small business owner still needs to be able to show evidence of their ability to respond quickly and effectively to changes or unforeseen events.
Smart, agile organizations know how to work with such fluid business information to gain significant tactical strategic value by working with digitally eminent influencers.
Simply put, General Motors, or any company that wishes to remain agile and competitive in the global marketplace should consider use of a business aircraft one of the most vital efficiency and productivity tools available without concern for unwarranted stigmatization.
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The two IT companies said that as a result of the transaction, customers will be able to better harness todays explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers, making customers more productive, fast, and agile.
In fact, an agile infrastructure that is disconnected from the applications it supports simply does not serve the business.
The main principle of agile programming is that developers must talk to each other often, and that they must talk to the business people setting requirements equally often.
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