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David and Goliath: How Boutique Firms Triumph

Tom Spencer

This trend towards specialization and personal service is reshaping the landscape, offering clients a unique blend of niche expertise, agility, competitive pricing, and strong relationships that big-name consultancies struggle to match. The decisions of the firm are ultimately more specialized, agile, cost-effective, and client-centric.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. ” Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. It’s a familiar story.