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Guidelines For Hiring the Best Software Developers

The Human Factor

Whatever industrial sector your startup works in, there’s a good likelihood that technology has to be integrated firmly in your fundamental business strategy. This raises the difficulty of finding the top software engineers for a business given that many are bootstrapped and some are sponsored. Establishing requirements.

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

While Sullivan’s original theory spoke to the world of physical construction, the universal truth it captured quickly transcended that initial domain. Decades later, the form-follows-function paradigm became deeply embedded across industrial design, software development, and systems engineering disciplines.

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Kaizen Program Management – The Fundamentals

Kainexus

For many years, the continuous improvement philosophy of Kaizen was most closely associated with industrial manufacturing and high technology. That’s because it was developed by the Japanese auto industry and then later adopted by technology companies like GE and Motorola.

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Data Value Friction Removal

Information Playground

Software development and deployment need to happen as fast as possible to extract new business opportunities from ever-expanding data stores. While the first three categories require innovation in the IT (technology) domain, the fourth category requires creative thinking in the area of people and processes.

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Data Value Friction Removal

Information Playground

Software development and deployment need to happen as fast as possible to extract new business opportunities from ever-expanding data stores. While the first three categories require innovation in the IT (technology) domain, the fourth category requires creative thinking in the area of people and processes.

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Content Strategy — in 3D!

Boxes and Arrows

The church had met a design challenge by constructing a narrative in an environment that advanced its messaging goals and met the goals of its audience. Materials evaluation*: * At the same time, think about the space, technology opportunities, and other material constraints.

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Persona Grata

Boxes and Arrows

How personas were developed. Before I define what a persona is, it helps to know how the construct of a persona came to be. Personas were informally developed by Alan Cooper in the early 1980s as a way to empathize with and internalize the mindset of people who would eventually use the software he was designing.