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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. Social media was just coming into its own.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Recessions in 2001 (when businesses reigned in unrestrained tech spending) and 2008 (when businesses reigned in all spending) tightened belts and increased operational scrutiny. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. They also started asking us to give them access to the technology that powers Alexa, so that they can add a conversational interface (using voice or text) to their mobile apps. Amazon Lex. Amazon Polly.

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