Interested developers can find a link to submit innovative ideas, and sign up for the latest information and news about the SYNC application programming interface (API) and software development kit (SDK).

ENGADGET: Ford's Sync AppLink bringing in-car voice control to Android, BlackBerry apps

Employees can learn high-demand skills like the Python programming language, software testing, statistics and web development from anywhere in the world, at any time of day.

FORBES: How Alternative Education Can Help Bridge The Skills Gap

Equally important are the engineering practices of Extreme Programming (XP), particularly test-driven development, simplicity of design, pair programming and re-factoring (upgrading and simplifying) software code.

FORBES: Can Complexity Thinking Fix Capitalism?

The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.

FORBES: Can Complexity Thinking Fix Capitalism?