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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. An Anticipatory Mindset Helps You Know When Agility Is Necessary.

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

This case study shows how the ComputerWeekly user experience team integrated with an agile development group. The brief In 2008, we were tasked with resurrecting a tired, old, and ineffective site. At this point the development team maintained the site with an agile process. People make or break any project.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. Agility Innovation Specialists. Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation. I thought I’d outline the six here in this post as the sum of the parts that contributes to the whole. Its areas of focus: [link].

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Fintechs: what are they and how to face them?

mjvinnovation

After the global financial crisis of 2008, the innovations around the financial industry have made the concept evolved to create alternatives and reform trade, payments, investments, asset management, insurance, clearing and securities settlement and even money itself with cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.

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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

From the second ten years 1998-2008. Being largely project based, developing diverse, cohesive & collaborative, & hard-core agile teaming skills were the critical success factors for effective project execution & delivery. I also shared details describing my first three learning’s as a serial female entrepreneur.

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Take Smarter Risks through Discovery Driven Planning

KindlingApp

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. Therefore the ability to remain agile and adjust to the current climate and situation becomes paramount.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

When Virgin America had limited marketing budgets, it got creative and partnered with Victoria's Secret and HBO (2007-2008) to redefine customer experience for their flyers. In an Agile system, you could adjust cost, scope, and schedule to impact development positively. Think of beautiful Haiku. Conclusion.