The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

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. Social media was just coming into its own.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. In the 1980s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a revolution in management.

Education 45

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. By traditional economic measures, things do not appear to be getting much better.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. This created a predictable release cadence, and also delivered significant performance gains and other improvements with each release, especially Tock releases.

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