To be sure, it won't be easy for big game companies to switch from traditional business models to a new one that's not yet capable of generating the same level of revenues.

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Efforts to rein in the lionfish seem to be the only initiative generating much interest beyond the local level.

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In another interesting presentation, Alan Shalloway, CEO of Net Objectives, suggested that the reason for this is that Scrum is essentially a bottom-up approach to work, which is highly effective for generating high productivity at the team level.

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Because the system depends on level, transparent markets to work well, whereas the growing power and wealth disparities it is generating pretty much guarantee the opposite.

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