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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Neither strategy paid off. Both companies burned through billions of dollars of investor capital on losing strategies in the handset market. That strategy worked for GE in the 1990s. The executive who understood the sea change taking place would not concoct a strategy to fight the battle on their terms. From everybody.

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All In

The Agile Manager

The open hardware architecture and open-ended software licensing opened the door for inexpensive IBM PC "clones” that created less expensive, equally (and sometimes more) advanced, and equally (if not superior) quality versions of the same product. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today. As the 1990s business strategy sage M.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. However, in some cases, an incident will become known through a support ticket, a phone call, or even social media, which is never good news when issues are posted publicly for all to see. Asset Management. Incident Logging.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

At the same time, if your daily corporate practice doesn't fulfill their expectations regarding a vibrant and flexible working culture and a social media-minded environment, digital natives will simply turn their back on you and go elsewhere. Finding those kind of people is not easy.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.