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How Can Digital Suppliers Accelerate Customers’ Transformations?

BCG

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. Companies “get it.”

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When is “Agile Scaling” the Answer?

Johanna Rothman

My very first job out of school was a development role on a very large telecommunications system for the Department of Defense. I didn't have the words for the ideas of Cost of Delay , nor of flow efficiency. We probably could not have developed that telecommunications system with 12 people. No, none of them had. Back in 1977.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply. The productivity gain from ICT in Africa is unprecedented, and unlike other transformative technologies, like the steam engine and aircrafts, ICT remains a low-hanging application that the locals could participate in on the creative side.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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Feelings of Nostalgia Can Make Us More Patient

Harvard Business

We wait for dishes to be served at a restaurant, for products to be delivered to our homes, for web pages to load, and so on. blue) may lead consumers to think that web pages load more quickly, and another study found that seeing a fast-food logo can make people value time efficiency and instant gratification in different situations.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Fun fact: the project’s installation of energy-efficient lighting was one of New York City’s largest lighting retrofits ever.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services).