The Agile Manager
MARCH 18, 2013
Soon after the financial crisis began in 2008, companies shifted attention from finance to operations. This limited the financial options companies could use to juice returns, so they focused on investing in operations to create efficiencies or fight for market share. That clears the way for innovators to disrupt and grow quickly.
O'Reilly Software
OCTOBER 23, 2018
In 2008 or so, when data scientist emerged as a job title, it was widely ridiculed as a nonjob: the thought that people who just worked with data could be scientists, or employ the rigors of their time-honored methods, was literally laughable in many circles. To do so, we borrow metaphors from roles in other industries.
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The Agile Manager
JANUARY 31, 2020
There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter.
The Agile Manager
APRIL 30, 2013
Revenues plummeted at the end of 2008. These investments made operations a source of competitiveness by lowering costs, increasing efficiency, and making businesses more responsive to customers. The people who got salary bumps in the boom years from 2006 through 2008 became "high-salary outliers" in 2009. And cut they did.
Alex Russell
AUGUST 30, 2021
From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." This arrangement is, however, maximally efficient in terms of staffing, as it means less expertise is duplicated across teams, requiring fewer engineers.
Highly Scalable
MARCH 10, 2015
More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Schütze, 2008. MA08] Introduction to Information Retrieval, C. Manning, P.
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