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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

It isn't difficult to imagine the DIY retailers lobbying congress to create legislation that allows employees to set aside up to x-thousand-dollars of annual income as tax exempt for use on home improvement.

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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

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). We know that this echoes the supercycle of businesses separating into asset-light operating companies (e.g.,

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