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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. One major type of project we sold, which clients often paid millions for, was the implementation of the newest version of SAP finance software.

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Impact of Crowdsourcing in the Healthcare Industry

IdeaScale

The word “crowdsourcing” was first used in 2006 and in the context of Flickr. Another example is a business that outsources its software needs to a software firm. Outsourcing tends to be cost-efficient by allowing firms to focus on what they do best, while, in this case, allowing the software experts to do what they do best.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

Back in 2006, I encountered Tom Nagle’s work on pricing and read his classic book The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing. Service-led growth occurs when one leads with services, but delivers the service through software. The software is provided as a subscription, so there is a recurring component to the revenue.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. Carey and I had a fascinating discussion on the problems with silos in software development, and I appreciated her interest in discussing the state of the art in academia on the topic. At the time, I was a Ph.D. Go here to learn more.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Whether you’re leading a team of software developers or healthcare professionals, understanding human emotions and motivations remains consistent. Fresh eyes can sometimes spot potential that those deeply entrenched in the industry norms may miss.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). The free flow, in and out, of ideas and IP promotes innovative ecosystems.

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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe who defined it as taking a task traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, sometimes large group of people. Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software.