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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Implementing enterprise apps at the operational level eliminates redundant operations, increase efficiency, and improves employee morale. When combined though, artificial intelligence and automation takes tedious or repetitive tasks out of human hands, leaving employees free for more skilled projects. Automation.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

Moreover, an agile approach frees up management to give more attention to strategy and less to micromanaging employees and projects. This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

I believe that with the rise of technology the productivity of our employees will also increase. It will allow us to avoid paying labor costs along with employee benefits. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- 11- Technologies help the productivity of our business and employees. 9- Speed up everything.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

If you took a random sample of 100 entrepreneurs here in LA, over 50% might not be able to tell you how to technically calculate 90-day cohort retention or how to build a cash flow statement. That number in the Valley might be closer to 10%. While such an experience would be nice, it certainly is not a pre-requisite.

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Episode 13: How to Solve Problems in Your Business, Human Resources, and #Zappos | The Bcast

Up and Running

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | Pocket Casts | PlayerFM | Soundcloud. Essentially, no ideas too stupid.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Online Marketing Suites.