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The Innovator's Cunundrum

The Agile Manager

Plenty of people bet and lost - in many cases quite tragically - during the 1918 Russian revolution, the great depression that began in 1929, the 2008 financial crisis, as well as in many other transitions in between. The macro strategy risks are almost too obvious to point out. The successful strategy will be one of muddling through.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100
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A Day in the Life of a Content Analytics Engineer

The Netflix TechBlog

My team focuses on innovating and maintaining the metrics Netflix uses to understand performance of our shows and films on the service. We partner closely with the business strategy team to provide as much information as we can to our content executives, so that?—?combined combined with their industry experience? I loved grad school.

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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. It was much different in 2008.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades. The pandemic affects everyone. Many are gearing up right now to hire your best staff.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

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.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

Consider healthcare: although medical costs are much higher today in nominal terms than they were in 1970, they are much lower in real terms when adjusted both for monetary inflation and medical-technological innovation. a dearth of innovative new technologies). It is difficult to fathom the logic of this.

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