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Exploring the Global Smart Cities Market: Software Opportunities

Tullio Siragusa

Financial Institutions This includes banks, investment companies, and venture capital firms that provide funding for smart city projects. The leading players are: World Bank, International Finance Corporation, European Investment Bank, Asian Development Bank, and BlackRock. Blog Subscrition Here Email*

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

Decades later, the form-follows-function paradigm became deeply embedded across industrial design, software development, and systems engineering disciplines. For example, a traditional industrial manufacturer leveraging emerging digital technologies might establish a new software engineering arm.

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The Rise of Product Management

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I don’t know how technical Ken was back then, but he had the respect of the Software Engineers, which was critical. His primary function was to digest the Founders’ vision, understand the market, illicit requirements from customers, and work with Engineering management to determine what would make it into the next release.