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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". and business transformation.

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What Can Your Company Learn from Fast-Growing Startups?

ReadWriteStart

They spend a great deal of time and effort researching innovative techniques, finding and testing the best management methods, and implementing the right tools for their teams. The number of people working remotely in the United States has risen by nearly 80 percent between 2005 and 2012. Build an Agile Culture.

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Do Your Employees Think Like Owners? 10 Tips For Building An Entrepreneurial Culture.

YoungUpstarts

But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes. That’s why we turned down opportunities to cut costs and labor many times. Thinking Aloud Bonnie Harvey employee management Entrepreneurship leadership managing employees Michael Houlihan work culture' Never waste a perfectly good mistake.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities.

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Enterprise IT in 2014: Follow the Money

VC Cafe

As the Bull Market on Wall Street marks its fifth anniversary and the US economy is projected to grow at its fastest pace since 2005, Enterprise IT budgets are soaring. Vendors that can enable IT Managers to assess risk, manage large data sets and analyze processes will be rewarded handsomely.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

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Epic Waste

SVPG

I started writing about this as far back as 2005 (see Startup Product Management ), and this concept is at the core of the Lean Startup movement. But of course the opportunity cost is even higher if you believe as I do that the country needed this marketplace. Much has been written about waste at startups.