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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Meanwhile, agile methodologies continued to evolve. Ironically, that’s where it began — outside of IT.

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Abt Associates Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Some examples include nationwide HIV prevention trials and the “ZdravReform” project of 1994, which was designed to strengthen the health systems of newly independent states such as Russia and Belarus. Information Technology Applications. ABT ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas. Analytical Computing.

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Robots Will Replace Doctors, Lawyers, and Other Professionals

Harvard Business

We conducted around 100 interviews, not with mainstream professionals but with leaders and new providers in eight professional fields: health, law, education, audit, tax, consulting, journalism, architecture, and divinity. Increasingly, doctors are using checklists, lawyers rely on precedents, and consultants work with methodologies.

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