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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

By way of example, nations have low tolerance to bank failures because the panic that results from them has knock-on effects in the financial and real economies alike (as exemplified by Lehman in September, 2008). From a certain point of view, a lot of banks were nationalized by governments in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Moving to AWS has enabled us with operational agility to deliver more value to those customers without having to worry about scale and infrastructure maintenance.