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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Capitalizing Tech in a Cloud / SaaS / Continuous Delivery World

The Agile Manager

First, Cloud, SaaS and BYOD change software and infrastructure from capital investments to rent expenses. retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g., But we also know that a lot of firms still license captive ERP systems (no SaaS), operate captive data centers (no Cloud), and issue hardware to employees (no BYOD).

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