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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. Follow Paul Herdsman on ThriveGlobal and Medium.

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

With Asia’s share of global research and development forecast to grow to 40% this year, the quest to drive innovation is at the forefront of conversation among business leaders and entrepreneurs in the region. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

Global Integration of Operational Plans. In the past, when we talked about Operational Plans for combatant commands like Central Command , or INDOPACOM , or a European Command , we didn’t think about global integration. But cyber and space alone demand global integration. We refer to this as a “global integration framework.”

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers. Yet while the U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. We came out of Vietnam. — On China. But we’re America, we know how to do this.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role.

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